Design Engineer (100)

About rready

At rreadyAI we build AI-native software that makes corporate innovation measurable manageable and truly impactful. Were a Series A B2B SaaS startup (30 people) working with global brands like Tetra Pak BMW and Swisscom to help their employees turn ideas into real outcomes.

Our platform combines automation personalization and data-driven insights to scale idea and innovation management across large organizations. And we dont just build AI-native products - we also use AI to run smarter internally applying modern tooling and automation across how we work collaborate and ship.

Tasks

The Role

Join us as a Design Engineer and help shape how rready looks feels and behaves as we scale our AI-native B2B SaaS platform. Youll work at the intersection of design and frontend engineering owning user-facing experiences from early concept to polished production-ready interfaces.

You dont just hand off designs. You design in code build real UI components and ship them into production so users experience interfaces that are intuitive accessible and delightful.

Perfect for people who care deeply about craft enjoy strong ownership and love removing friction between design and engineering while still spending most of their time building real product UI.

In this hands-on role youll:

• Design and implement user-facing interfaces end-to-end from idea to production
• Ship production frontend code not just prototypes or experiments
• Build scalable UI foundations through reusable components design systems and continuous refinement

Were looking for someone who is:

• Craft- and quality-driven with a bias for finishing things properly
• Comfortable collaborating across Design Product and Engineering without heavy handoffs
• Pragmatic: balances visual quality usability and technical constraints without over-engineering

Your Responsibilities

• UI & Experience Ownership (Core Focus): Own the end-to-end creation and evolution of user-facing experiences: interaction design layout responsiveness accessibility and implementation in production. Ensure consistency usability and high visual and interaction quality across the product.
• Design Engineering (Production Frontend): Design and build production-ready frontend components and interfaces. You are expected to ship real frontend code regularly translate design intent directly into implementation and improve existing UI through refactoring iteration and polish.
• Design Systems & Reusable Components: Contribute to and evolve our design system and component library. Build reusable well-structured UI primitives that scale across products and teams balancing flexibility with consistency.
• UX Accessibility & Performance: Ensure interfaces are usable accessible and performant. Pay attention to details like states motion loading behavior responsiveness and edge cases. Continuously improve them over time.
• Prototyping & Exploration: Prototype interactions flows and ideas in the medium that makes most sense (Figma code or both). Use prototypes to validate ideas early align stakeholders and reduce friction before full implementation.
• Frontend Architecture & Quality: Help maintain clean scalable frontend architecture. Make thoughtful decisions about component structure state management styling and maintainability to support long-term product growth.
• Documentation & UI Standards: Create and maintain documentation for UI patterns components and usage guidelines so design and engineering decisions are easy to understand repeat and evolve. Especially in a distributed team.
• Tooling & Continuous Improvement: Identify friction in design-to-code workflows improve tooling and processes and help the team ship higher-quality UI faster. Continuously refine how we design and build interfaces.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers Designers Backend Engineers and other stakeholders to shape features early align on intent and ensure what ships matches the original vision from concept to production.

Requirements

Who You Are

• User- and experience-driven: You care deeply about great user experience. You know that clarity usability accessibility and performance are just as important as visual polish.
• End-to-end ownership mindset: You take responsibility for what ships from early ideas and interaction design to production-ready frontend code. You dont throw designs over the fence; you build refine and ship them.
• Design frontend hybrid: Youre comfortable both designing interfaces and implementing them in code. Whether you lean more design or more engineering you enjoy working in the overlap.
• Frontend-capable (not design-only): You confidently write and ship production frontend code review PRs debug UI issues and improve existing components and interfaces over time.
• Structured & detail-strong: You pay attention to the details that make products feel right: Spacing states edge cases responsiveness accessibility and consistency across the system.
• Proactive & accountable: You drive topics forward independently identify UX or UI issues early and follow through until things are done properly.
• Iteration-first mindset: You enjoy experimenting refining and improving designs and implementations over time. You value progress and learning over chasing perfection.
• Calm in ambiguity: When requirements are fuzzy or problems are not fully defined you help create clarity through sketches prototypes and incremental implementation.
• Tool-savvy & craft-oriented: Youre comfortable working with design and frontend tooling (e.g. Figma component libraries frontend frameworks) and you care about clean maintainable UI code.
• Strong communicator: You communicate clearly with Designers Product Managers and Engineers and help align intent constraints and outcomes through transparent collaboration.
• Language: Fluent in English (German is a plus).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working as a Design Engineer Frontend Engineer with strong design skills or Product Designer who codes.
• Strong experience with modern frontend development (e.g. TypeScript or similar frameworks)
• Solid understanding of UI/UX principles interaction design and accessibility
• Experience building or contributing to design systems and reusable component libraries
• Comfort translating product and design intent directly into production-ready UI
• Experience collaborating closely with Product and Engineering in cross-functional teams
• Experience in fast-paced environments (startup scale-up or product-driven teams) is a plus
• Strong interest in continuous improvement. You enjoy making interfaces clearer more usable and easier to build over time

Benefits

What We Offer

• A high-impact role in an AI-native B2B SaaS startup where your work directly improves how users experience rready from clarity and usability to visual polish and interaction quality.
• Real ownership of user-facing experiences: from early concepts and interaction design to production-ready frontend implementation with the mandate to continuously raise the quality of our UI and UX.
• A role at the intersection of Design and Frontend Engineering: youll design interfaces and ship production frontend code ideal if you enjoy end-to-end responsibility from idea to shipped experience.
• The opportunity to build scalable UI foundations: design systems reusable components patterns documentation and tooling that reduce friction and improve quality across product teams.
• A truly international team with colleagues from Switzerland Germany Namibia Greece Brazil the Netherlands and more.
• Enterprise exposure through close collaboration with our product and customer-facing teams supporting accounts such as BMW Tetra Pak Swisscom Implenia or LGT with real-world requirements around usability accessibility and consistency at scale.
• A flexible work setup with the autonomy and trust needed to do focused high-quality work and iterate thoughtfully on real user problems.
• Memorable team events from ski trips to our annual offsite abroad. Work hard grow fast and celebrate success together!