Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 220 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve: - Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders - Earned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects - Been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100) - Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register http://app.n8n.cloud/register. We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. 🎯 Your main goal will be to elevate n8n's product quality and consistency by ensuring design excellence across all features while building and scaling a world-class design system that bridges design with technical implementation. To do so, here are your responsibilities: DESIGN SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & GOVERNANCE - Lead the rollout and evolution of n8n's design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js. - Establish governance policies for the design system and ensure its consistent adoption across the product. - Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components. FEATURE DESIGN QUALITY & REFINEMENT - Review and refine features before release, ensuring they meet our high-quality standards for user experience. - Make visual adjustments and improvements to features in alignment with design system standards. - Collaborate with front-end engineers to optimize performance and ensure technical feasibility. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION - Partner closely with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency. - Collaborate with front-end engineers to implement components and improve the developer experience. - Regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met. MUST-HAVES - 🎨 Design excellence: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces. - 💻 Technical implementation: You have proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components. - ⚙️ Design systems experience: You have a proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance. - 🤝 Collaborative mindset: You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to work effectively across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints. NICE-TO-HAVES - 🖥️ Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices would accelerate your impact. - 🎞️ Animation & interaction: Skills in creating micro-interactions, transitions, and animations that enhance user experience. - 🌍 Open-source contribution: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, understanding community dynamics and feedback loops. - 🔧 Performance Optimization: Knowledge of front-end performance best practices and o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)