Senior Design Engineer

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 220 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
• Earned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
• Been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)
• Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

🎯 Your main goal will be to elevate n8n's 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.

To do so, here are your responsibilities:

Design System Development & Governance

• Lead the rollout and evolution of n8n's design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js.

• Establish governance policies for the design system and ensure its consistent adoption across the product.

• Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components.

Feature Design Quality & Refinement

• Review and refine features before release, ensuring they meet our high-quality standards for user experience.

• Make visual adjustments and improvements to features in alignment with design system standards.

• Collaborate with front-end engineers to optimize performance and ensure technical feasibility.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency.

• Collaborate with front-end engineers to implement components and improve the developer experience.

• Regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met.

Must-haves

• 🎨 Design excellence: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces.

• 💻 Technical implementation: You have proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components.

• ⚙️ Design systems experience: You have a proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance.

• 🤝 Collaborative mindset: You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to work effectively across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints.

Nice-to-haves

• 🖥️ Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices would accelerate your impact.

• 🎞️ Animation & interaction: Skills in creating micro-interactions, transitions, and animations that enhance user experience.

• 🌍 Open-source contribution: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, understanding community dynamics and feedback loops.

• 🔧 Performance Optimization: Knowledge of front-end performance best practices and optimization techniques.

• ♿ Accessibility Standards: Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) and creating inclusive design experiences.

• 🔄 Workflow automation domain: Familiarity with workflow automation, iPaaS, or business process automation tools.

• 🏡 Remote collaboration: Proven success working in distributed teams across time zones.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35_).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:

  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.

  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.

• Health & wellness 🩺 –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.

• Future planning 💰 –

  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.

• Financial security 🛡️ –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.

• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.

• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!

• Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.

• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.

• AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.

• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.

• An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!

* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.