Design Engineer
We are recruiting a Design Engineer who owns sungod.co end to end, from Figma through to production, using design and code to move our key commercial metrics.
At a glance:
Full-time starting December, with hybrid working
Mid Weight, ready to step to to a leadership role.
Experienced-based salary between £60-75k
London (minimum 3 office days/week)
⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor
Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
Leading benefits package & competitive salary
Work for a Certified B Corporation™
Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven , fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth!
What is the job role?
Design Engineer
Key Responsibilities:
✔ Storefront: our headed Shopify theme, built with Liquid, Vite, Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js (TypeScript), deployed through a CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions
✔ Shopify apps: maintaining and extending our internal app, which runs Shopify Functions for cart transforms and discount logic
✔ Design system: maintaining and extending our Figma design system and keeping it in step with the coded components
✔ Product design: taking UI/UX improvements from concept to production, measured against conversion, AOV and other key metrics
✔ Commercial enablement: partnering with commercial and marketing teams on promotions, campaigns, launches and strategic offers, and advising on how the site can best support them
✔ Tooling and microsites: scope to propose and build custom tools and microsites for wider business needs, with ownership of the technology and architecture choices.
✔ Design and build new functionality to support competitions, promotional mechanisms, advanced customer data capture, accounts and loyalty.
Who are we looking for?
The ideal person must have the following skills, experiences and competencies:
✔ Strong HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
✔ Experience building Shopify themes in Liquid (sections, blocks, metafields, metaobjects)
✔ Tailwind CSS or another utility-first approach, plus component-based thinking
✔ Experience with a lightweight JS framework such as Alpine.js (Vue or React experience transfers well)
✔ Git, PR-based workflows and confidence working within an existing CI/CD setup
✔ A strong Figma-to-production workflow, including design systems and tokens
✔ Solid grasp of performance, accessibility (WCAG) and responsive design
✔ A portfolio showing both design and shipped code
Nice to haves
✔ Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Storefront/Admin APIs
✔ Vite or other modern build tooling
✔ Motion and interaction design in code
✔ Shopify app development (Node, React Router/Remix)
✔ Multi-market and multi-currency ecommerce
✔ AI-assisted development workflows
What to expect from this application…
This application will ask a few questions about you and your experience.
You will be required to upload a CV at this stage, so it is ready for a future stage.
Based on your application, you may then be invited to complete a skills-based task followed by a final interview.
Blind Applications
In the first stages of our process, your name and other details will be hidden from your CV and application to remove potential unconscious bias in our hiring processes, and to ensure we hire the best candidate for the role.
A tip before you start...
Before you begin, we recommend you take a moment to ask yourself these questions: Why me? Why this role? Why SunGod?
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