Senior Design Engineer, GitHub

Senior Design Engineer, GitHub

Company GitHub
Job title Senior Design Engineer
Job location Spain – Remote
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Define and Plan: Translate design concepts into robust, accessible experiences that work across multiple platforms.
  • Design Quality: Bridge the gap and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to build high-quality, scalable, and interactive components.
  • Prototyping: Research and develop prototypes/proof-of-concepts to validate and refine design ideas and interactions.
  • Collaboration: Seek out opportunities to connect with people and teams working on related projects.
  • Foster meaningful relationships with product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners.
  • Shaping: Defining great products and developer experiences with a point of view, where good defaults and what not to include is as intentional as essential as what makes it into the final solution.
  • Systems thinking: This role requires a person who can think systematically when it comes to information architecture as well as existing and emerging UI patterns.
  • Progress and tempo: it’s easy to get caught up in the meta-design details, so our team must be mindful that we keep making decisions and move forward quickly. We prioritize progress over correctness.
  • Curiosity: In a fast-paced environment like AI and LLMs, our designers remain curious and comfortable learning about existing and upcoming new capabilities to identify opportunities.

Requirements & Skills:

  • Many years of experience in product or service design
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience in product or service design
    • OR Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience in product or service design
    • OR Doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field AND experience in product or service design
    • OR equivalent experience
  • Experience as a Designer, working with other Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers applying UX principles, and a user-centric approach to product design
  • Experience working in React, CSS, HTML, and Vanilla JavaScript
  • Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices
  • Portfolio showcasing your involvement in projects, highlighting your hands-on experience as a design engineer
  • Experience building products for developer tools
  • Experience contributing to or using an established design system
  • Experience working with Rails
  • Experience working with TypeScript, Jest, Storybook, and ESLint

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