OxiWorks
Design Engineer (Design Systems)
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Design Engineer (Design Systems) @ OxiWorks
Location: Stourbridge, West Midlands (Hybrid)
Type: Full-time - Permanent
Salary: Competitive & Benefits
Reports to: Design Manager / Design Systems Lead
Role Summary
You’ll sit between design and code, building design systems that work across web and native platforms - and that AI agents can read and use as well as people.
This is our most AI-forward role: you’ll set up the tooling that connects Figma, tokens, code and AI assistants so our designers and our clients’ engineers ship faster and stay consistent.
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain design systems for OxiWorks and our clients, from Figma libraries and variables to coded component libraries
- Own the design token pipeline: define tokens in Figma, transform them (e.g. Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio) and ship them to web, iOS and Android
- Make our design systems AI-ready: set up Figma’s MCP server and Code Connect, structure components and docs so AI coding assistants generate on-system code, and write the rules, prompts and context files those tools rely on
- Build AI-assisted workflows for the company and our clients - for example design-to-code handoff, automated component docs, accessibility and consistency checks, and rapid coded prototyping with tools like Claude Code or Cursor
- Build and document components in React and Storybook, with accessibility built in
- Audit client products and systems, find inconsistencies and plan migrations onto a shared system
- Pair with product designers, run workshops on new tools and keep the team up to date on what’s worth adopting
- Be an approachable, trusted partner to client engineering and design teams, guiding them on governance, versioning and contribution models
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What you’ll bring
- 2-3 years working on design systems, front-end engineering or design engineering
- Hands-on, daily use of AI coding and design tools - e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Figma MCP - with examples of workflows you’ve set up and not just used
- Deep Figma knowledge: variables, modes, components, properties and library management
- Experience with design tokens and multi-platform theming, including how they map to native iOS and Android
- A solid grasp of accessibility standards and how to bake them into components
- A friendly, approachable style and clear writing: you explain technical ideas to clients and designers without jargon and your documentation is something people actually use
Nice to have
- A design background or portfolio
- Hands-on native experience in iOS and Android design language
- Experience building MCP servers, Figma plugins or internal developer tooling
- Experience setting up multi-brand or white-label systems (common across our sports, betting and eCommerce clients)
- Experience with CI/CD, visual regression testing (e.g. Chromatic) and package publishing
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About OxiWorks
OxiWorks is an independent experience design studio for digital products across sport and sports media, betting and gaming, eCommerce, tech and healthcare & fitness.
We design for moments where users are distracted, emotional or on the move - live sport and betting, media and streaming, eCommerce, health and fitness apps, kiosks and large-scale systems - often inside the realities of regulation, legacy tech and commercial pressure.
We work side-by-side with start-ups, scale-ups and enterprise teams as an extension of their product and innovation functions, from sprints and early concepts through to production design systems and long-term delivery.
We’ve partnered with brands including Nuffield Health, Flutter Entertainment (Paddy Power, Skybet & Betfair), SABC, South Africa Rugby, Caesars Sportsbook, William Hill US, Planet Sport Group and Pitchero. Our work has won six industry awards for our clients.
We have offices in the West Midlands & North Yorkshire, UK but work globally and have a hybrid approach to working.
What We Offer
- Salary: Competitive & Benefits
- Hybrid working from our Stourbridge studio - typically 2-3 days a week
- Holiday Allowance (25 Days), Pension, Private Health Cover (BUPA), L&D Budget, Wellbeing Benefits - Unplugged Digital Detox
- Work with well-known brands across sport, media, betting, tech and health in the UK and internationally
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