Design Engineer

Build polished, fast screens with our designers, from the first prototype to the shipped product.

About the role

Worker should feel simple and quick for every owner and team who uses it. As a design engineer, you turn designs into polished screens that look right, move right and load fast.

You’ll work with product designers and engineers, and with our US teams in the afternoon. You own our component library and design system in code, and you help designers test ideas with real prototypes.

What you’ll do

• Build polished screens with designers, from prototype to production.
• Own our component library and design system in code.
• Build quick prototypes so designers can test ideas with real users.
• Get the details right: spacing, motion and speed.
• Make every screen work well on phones, tablets and computers.
• Keep our screens accessible to everyone.
• Work with the US teams in the afternoon.

What you bring

• Strong front-end or design engineering experience with a modern web framework.
• A portfolio or code samples that show polished work.
• A good eye for design, type and motion.
• Experience building and keeping up a component library.
• Clear written and spoken English.

Meet most of these? Please apply. We care more about what you can do than a perfect match.

Nice to have

• Design skills of your own, in Figma or similar tools.
• Experience with animation and performance tuning in the browser.

We design in Figma and build on Python, PostgreSQL, AWS and Kubernetes.

Your first 90 days

1. Month 1Learn the product and our design system, and ship your first polished fixes.
2. Month 2Own a part of the component library and improve it with designers.
3. Month 3Lead the build of a new screen, from prototype to production.

How you’ll live our values

• See it. Own it.If a button is off by a few pixels or a page feels slow, you fix it, even if no one else noticed.
• Learn. Improve. Repeat.You build prototypes fast, watch real users try them, and use what you see to make the next version better.
• Say the hard thing.When a design will be slow or hard to build, you tell the designer early and bring another way to get there.
• Stay until they win.A screen isn’t done when it matches the design. It’s done when owners can use it with ease.

Read our values and the story behind each one

Pay and benefits

€70K to €120K a year.

• Where you land in the range depends on your skills and experience.
• We share the full benefits package before your first interview.
• We never ask about your current or past pay.

Where you’ll work

Based in our Prague office, most days in person. Our Prague team works together in person.

How we hire

1. A 30-minute call with our team.
2. A skills interview or a short work sample.
3. Meet the founders.
4. References and an offer.

We reply to every applicant within 5 working days. Your application goes straight to our team. No agencies and no automated screening.

About Worker

Worker is a company operating system for small businesses. Owners and their teams can see the plan, who owns each task and which numbers need attention. Goals, to-dos, issues and the weekly leadership meeting stay in one place.

Our teams in Raleigh, San Francisco, New York and Prague build the system that helps owners grow without running everything themselves.

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