Design Engineer

Methodfi; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm specializing in hardware engineering is looking for a design-minded engineer to join its team in London. The role involves building innovative solutions, rapidly prototyping designs in Figma, and working closely with users to enhance product features. Candidates should have experience with Javascript and React, as well as a passion for solving real-world problems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong understanding of Javascript, React, and browser interactions.
• Skilled in designing and building products.

Responsibilities

• Build features that solve engineering problems.
• Rapidly sketch product ideas in Figma.
• Take customer ideas to production quickly.

Skills

Javascript

React

Figma

CSS

Communication

Tools

Golang

Typescript

NextJS

Terraform

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Job description

About Flow:

Flow is “Github for hardware”. We’re building a core design/test collaboration platform for the hardware engineering industry. Flow helps Rockets, Cars, Aeroplanes and Nuclear reactors get to market years ahead of schedule and save billions in R&D costs.

Our mission is to bring agile software development philosophies (CI/CD, pull/push, branching) to an industry that is desperate for a better solution.

Flow is loved by some of the fastest-moving hardware teams in the world. They are solving fundamental problems in space travel, energy, and air transportation. You will get to learn about how these things are designed as well as help build the modern playbook for the entire industry.

Flow has recently raised a Series A from one of the top VC funds in the world. Our angel investors including leadership from Stripe, Figma and Unity.

We’ve found some strong, early market traction and are looking for a design-minded engineer to help us scale up.

About Engineering at Flow:

• We care deeply about our users, their pains, and their experience

• We’re a small team of generalists, constantly picking up new challenges

• We’re united by our passion for our mission, deep focus, and fast execution

• We deploy to production multiple times a day

How we think

• How to Build an MVP (Michael Seibel)

• Code-first vs Product-first (Zach Lloyd)

• Ideas of Don Norman

  • Observe, Test, Iterate, and Learn

  • Design for how people think

️ What you’ll do

• Build features that help solve the hardest (hardware) engineering problems in the world

• Rapidly sketch product ideas in Figma, to test on users

• Take an idea from a customer call you had to production, in hours

• Create beautiful features using a library you’ve been excited to use

• Spot simpler, quicker solutions to user problems in team brainstorms

• Jump on a call with a user who’s having trouble with the feature you shipped for them

️ About you

• Passionate about solving human problems

• Love the feeling of getting something done

  • Perfect is the enemy of Good

• Not afraid to develop strong opinions

  • Even less afraid to change them when presented with opposing evidence

• Skilled at both designing and building products. Strong Figma and CSS are essential.

  • Demonstrating this with a personal website, or portfolio (e.g. Dribble page)

• Believe your responsibility is to learn from users, not “educate” them

• Comfortable with compromising on what you think is best for the sake of solving a user’s pain sooner than had you not compromised

• Always able to understand the bigger picture/”Why”

  • If/when you don’t, you’re not afraid to say so - others probably don’t either

• Good communicator

  • Clear, concise internally

  • Empathetic, courteous externally

• 2+ years experience as a Software Engineer

• Strong understanding of Javascript, React - including how they interact with browsers, and affect their performance

️ Our Tech Stack

• Golang (Backend)

• Typescript / React / NextJS (Frontend)

• Figma for Design

• Terraform for managing infrastructure

• AWS for cloud

• Docker

• PostgreSQL database

• GraphQL, Hasura, Apollo Client