Senior Design Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Design Engineer at n8n GmbH, you will play a pivotal role in elevating 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. Your work will directly impact how users interact with n8n’s AI-powered workflow orchestration platform, contributing to a seamless, intuitive experience that empowers technical teams to automate faster and smarter.
• • You will lead the rollout and evolution of n8n's design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js, establishing governance policies for consistent adoption, and collaborating closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve reviewing and refining features before release to ensure they meet high-quality UX standards, making visual adjustments aligned with design system guidelines, and partnering with front-end engineers to optimize performance and technical feasibility. You will also partner with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency, collaborate with front-end engineers to improve developer experience, and regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met.
• • n8n is a rapidly growing, open-source workflow orchestration platform built for the AI era, backed by a fiercely inventive community and over 500 builder-approved integrations. Since its founding in 2019, the company has grown to over 220 team members across Europe and the US, cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders, earned 145k+ GitHub stars (ranking among the world’s Top 40 most popular projects), been recognized as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100), and raised $240m to date, including a recent $180m Series C, bringing its valuation to $2.5bn. The company operates with a remote-first mindset, centers its culture in Berlin, and values transparency, inclusion, and builder spirit.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in design system governance, front-end implementation at scale, and cross-functional collaboration between design and engineering. You will have the opportunity to shape the visual and interactive foundation of a platform used by hundreds of thousands of developers, contribute to open-source principles through your work, and grow alongside a mission-driven team that values both technical excellence and human-centered design. Your contributions will help n8n maintain its reputation for design-led innovation while scaling to meet the demands of enterprise and individual users alike.