Senior Design Engineer | Deel
Job description
Senior individual contributor role in Product Design at Deel, building the design system, AI generation workflows and quality guardrails that let AI build production-ready UI, while staying hands-on as a designer and front-end prototyper.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Architect the design system, tokens and components as the substrate AI generates against.
- Design prompt libraries, patterns and agent workflows that turn design intent into production-ready UI with minimal human assembly.
- Stay a practising designer: explore concepts quickly and design real interfaces.
- Prototype in production front-end code and act as the first and toughest test of whether the system produces excellent, shippable work.
- Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI.
- Set design-to-code fidelity benchmarks, regression safeguards and evaluation methods that keep AI output honest.
- Work with design leadership to maintain, evolve and roll out the AI-native workflow across the whole design organisation.
- Drive adoption, keep standards current as tools change, and embed the workflow across teams.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product and design-system contributors.
- Keep the system round-tripping to shared surfaces such as Figma so AI-accelerated output stays visible and open to feedback.
- Prototype and evaluate adaptive, AI-generated interfaces as a product capability and help decide where they belong on the roadmap.
- Turn what works into playbooks, prompt libraries and enablement so the wider design org builds on the system.
What we're looking for
- You move fluidly between design and code; you can design something well, build it yourself, and use AI to move quickly between the two.
- Real taste for layout, typography, interaction and motion, with care about polish.
- Comfortable writing TypeScript and React, including HTML, CSS and animation.
- Prototype fast and get from idea to working interface in hours rather than days, moving between Figma and code.
- Have built or extended design systems that others rely on.
- Already use AI design and coding tools in real work and want to help shape new ones.
- 7+ years in product design and front-end engineering on complex products.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and set standards others follow.
Your team
Product Design
Senior individual contributor role in Product Design, sitting in a cross-functional team with Engineering and Product and working directly with design leadership.
Benefits
- Stock grant opportunities, depending on your role, employment status and location.
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
- Optional flexible working office membership with IWG.
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About Deel
The all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams
Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance and equipment management sit in one product. It supports every worker type in 150+ countries. In 2024, Deel paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits in 109 countries.
Key facts
- About 7,000 people
- Payroll and HR platform
- $17.3 billion valuation
- Reached $1 billion in ARR in just over five years
- Paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies in 2024
- Provided healthcare and benefits in 109 countries
- Supports every worker type in 150+ countries
- About 7,000 people across more than 100 countries and 74 languages
- Rated 4.83 on average from 15,000 reviews on G2, Trustpilot, Capterra, Apple and Google