Design Engineer (UI, Frontend)

Overview

In this role you will build and polish web experiences for Octopus Fleet and Electroverse, bridging design and engineering to deliver accessible, on-brand interfaces. You’ll evolve a shared component library into a mature design system and contribute high-quality UI across marketing pages and core apps. You’ll refine micro-interactions and translate rough ideas from Figma into production-ready code, collaborating with designers, PMs, and engineers. This is an opportunity to shape the frontend across B2B and B2C touchpoints in a fast-growing EV platform.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work
• autonomy
• employee benefits

Responsibilities

• Concept, prototype, and build web experiences for Octopus Fleet and Electroverse (marketing pages, landing pages, core app UI)
• Evolve shared component library into a mature design system with robust components and conventions
• Refine micro-interactions, motion, and visual polish in web apps
• Translate rough inputs (Figma sketches/prototypes) into clean, accessible code
• Collaborate directly with designers, product managers, and engineers to bridge design intent and shipped code

Key requirements

• 2+ years of front-end development, design engineering, or creative tech
• AI-native workflow with AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot or equivalent)
• Production React fluency with contribution to shared repositories
• Design system experience and willingness to elevate a component library
• Portfolio demonstrating visual craft, motion/animation, or design system work
• UI design fundamentals (composition, layout, typography, easing)
• Accessibility knowledge up to WCAG 2.1 AA

• collaboration
• communication
• React
• Next.js
• design system
• Storybook (or equivalent)

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