UX Engineer - Design System (6-Month FTC)

JOB TITLE: UX Engineer - Design System (6-Month FTC)

LOCATION:London / Edinburgh / Manchester / Chester / Halifax

HOURS:Full-Time
DURATION: 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.

About the opportunity

Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we value customer centric experiences. Within the Commercial Banking design team, we are transforming how users experience their products and services. We're on the lookout for a senior UX Engineer to join our creative team.

You'll be leading the charge in transforming our experiences for business and commercial banking customers, ensuring production grade quality delivery coupled with delightful and accessible experiences.

Working in a multi-disciplinary design, product, and engineering team, you'll be at the forefront of developing out the code libraries for the design system - for a key area of our business. You'll also be supported by our wider Experience Design and Engineering communities.

A hybrid role operating between a developer and UX designer, you'll be responsible for:

• Planning and codifying components, templates or design patterns for our design and engineering communities. Working with user experience designers within the team, you'll work cohesively to integrate your best-in-class engineering principles while adhering to latest design best practices. This will require taking prototypes and design within Figma and identifying common components and patterns that codify these in our design system for software engineers to access and use in their everyday work.

• Program the front-end: use React, styled-components, or similar, to create interactive layouts, features, or execute other design ideas.

• Collaborate with UX and engineering teams: As a professional with both design and programming abilities, act as the bridge between the two teams. Working with designers, back-end engineers, and writers to develop products and services.

Experience / Skills

This role is an intersection between a front-end software engineer and a web/UI designer and engineers. Experience/ skills required:

• A solid understanding of programming fundamentals - Experience of coding in various such as HTML, CSS, Javascript.

• A strong advocacy for UX, mastery at UI implementation - Experience of both working with UX designers and implementation of UX principles & practices in your work.

• Bi-lingual in pixels and pointers.

• Prior experience of working on design systems - Developing tokens and theming to enable designs to be translated to variables, ensuring a seamless transition from design language to code.

• Has worked in teams that use tooling such as Figma or Adobe Creative Suite.

• Significant, proven experience as a UX Engineer or similar role (e.g. front-end software engineer), with proficiency in React, CSS and Figma libraries.

• Excellent attention to detail, implementing and maintaining user interfaces with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible designs.

• Write production-quality code with a strong focus on performance, maintainability and performance. Staying abreast of technology, elevating our design benchmarks.

What you'll be doing

• Work collaboratively with designers, engineers and Product owners to iterate designs and prototypes identifying and raising issues as early in the lifecycle as possible.

• Acting as a bridge that ties design and engineering teams together.

• Implementing UIs and writing production code.

• Integrating prototypes and design components/ design patterns into the software development life cycle.

• Building tools to improve the UX process.

• Building inclusive products that delight users.

• Communicating the value provided to cross-functional partners.

• Staying current on tooling trends and disruptive technologies being deployed.

• Advocating for content strategy, creative directions, and raising engineering complexities.

No week is likely to be the same, with opportunities to develop the discipline across wider Business Units in the future.

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready to start growing with purpose?Apply today and let's create something extraordinary together!