Junior UX Design Engineer

A junior design and engineering role suitable for recent Design or IT graduates

A UX designer with burgeoning coding skills who is able to consistently deliver quality solutions within a software engineering team.

Position Summary

Primary responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Development of user experience solution designs
  • Creation of designs and high-fidelity UX prototypes for product features
  • Assist in establishing design patterns for the company
  • Use and contribute to design systems and component libraries
  • Use and contribute to user journeys, personas and story maps

Secondary responsibilities may include:

  • Research and development of emerging UX patterns
  • Attending professional events such as conferences to learn industry best practices and new technologies

Expected Behaviours

  • Work proactively to determine the requirements of new product goals
  • Integrate deeply with engineering team to deliver product goals
  • Develop your knowledge with training courses and learning materials
  • Perpetually research emerging patterns in UX, especially within SaaS industry

Technical Capabilities

Development:

  • Build UX mockups using online prototyping tools (eg. Figma)
  • Able to contribute to UX code assets and repositories
  • Able to contribute to React component libraries
  • Understand and adhere to design systems and patterns
  • Able to triage front-end bugs, and perform debugging

Architecture:

  • Have an understanding of how different front-end services fit into the overall system