Frontend Design Engineer

Front End Design Engineer – React / TypeScript / Design Systems / AI

• Salary: £100,000 – £150,000 + Equity
• Location: London (in-person)
• Company: Early-stage AI startup

We’re partnered with an exciting early-stage AI startup modernising a huge, heavily regulated global industry that still runs largely on manual, legacy processes.

Their platform uses AI to automate complex, high-stakes expert workflows. It gives specialist professionals software that surfaces insights, flags issues and lets them work through large volumes of dense, detailed information much faster.

They’re now hiring a Front End Design Engineer to own the interface those experts rely on every day. This person will design it and build it, with no hand-off between the two.

The Role

As Front End Design Engineer, you’ll own the core user-facing product end to end, from the first sketch to the React that ships it.

You’ll be:

• Owning the core product interface end to end: layout, typography, interaction, motion, the design system and the React code behind it
• Designing how expert users review AI outputs, correct the model when it’s wrong, and make sense of large amounts of complex information
• Designing for information density, complex workflows and data-rich screens
• Sketching it, building it and shipping it, then sitting with real users to fix what was wrong
• Owning design, frontend, and the state and data underneath, with no hand-offs between design and code
• Spending time with users as they work, and designing for what they actually do

What They’re Looking For

The ideal Front End Design Engineer will bring:

• A strong pedigree from high-calibre product or engineering teams
• Experience shipping interfaces that people use every day as a core part of their work
• Defensible visual taste: you can explain why every detail is the way it is
• An end-to-end builder mindset, comfortable owning design, React frontend and the data layer
• Comfort designing dense, data-heavy interfaces and complex workflows
• A portfolio of shipped, real-world work

Why Join?

• Real ownership: You’ll own the core product interface outright, from concept and design through to production code.
• A huge, underserved market: It’s a vast global industry where AI has barely made an impact yet.
• Close to users: You’ll work directly with the specialists who use the product and see your work’s impact first-hand.
• Visa sponsorship: Sponsorship and relocation support are available.
• Meaningful equity: £100,000–£150,000 base salary plus equity.

If you’re a design-minded frontend engineer with great taste who wants to own an AI product from pixel to production, this is an exceptional opportunity.

We’re particularly interested in speaking with people who have shipped dense, daily-use interfaces and want to design and build without hand-offs.

Front End Design Engineer / Design Engineer / React / TypeScript / Design Systems / AI / London

Apply now or send your CV directly to callum@acquiredtalent.co.uk