The Role
The Frontend team is in charge of making sure that the visual elements of a website or mobile app are functional. To create an exceptional user experience, we think from the client's perspective and incorporate UI/UX design. Our expertise helps us come up with world-leading solutions.
We are seeking a passionate and skilled Design Engineer to join our dedicated Design System team. You will play a crucial role in evolving and maintaining NordVPN’s Aurora design system, directly impacting the consistency, performance, and user experience across our web products. If you thrive at the intersection of design and code and are excited about building scalable UI solutions, this role is for you.
About the Aurora Design System Team:
We are the central bridge connecting design, engineering, and product teams at NordVPN. Our mission is to streamline collaboration and accelerate product delivery by providing a robust and user-friendly design system. We operate on principles of:
User-Focus & Transparency: Decisions driven by user needs and open communication.
Collaboration & Trust: Fostering strong partnerships across disciplines.
Flexibility & Adaptability: Evolving the system to meet changing needs.
Accessibility & Inclusivity: Ensuring our products are usable by everyone.
Main Responsibilities
- Develop & Maintain: Spearhead the development, maintenance, and evolution of our React-based design system branch.
- Technical Ownership: Own the technical implementation and architecture of the web design system components, ensuring high standards for code quality, performance, and design fidelity.
- Evangelize & Innovate: Champion best practices and drive the adoption of design automation, tooling (like Storybook), and testing strategies within the design system context.
- Enable Teams: Guide, train, and support product development teams in effectively adopting and utilizing the Aurora design system.
- Collaborate: Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers across various product teams, acting as a key technical partner.
- Bridge Design & Code: Actively participate in the design process, providing technical input, prototyping interactions, and translating design concepts into polished, interactive, and performant UI components (the "front-of-the-frontend").
- Craft Interactions: Implement engaging CSS animations and micro-interactions to enhance user experience, especially for key user-facing elements.
- Ensure Accessibility: Build and maintain accessible components, ensuring compliance with relevant standards (e.g., WCAG AA) to create inclusive experiences.
Core Requirements
- Design System Expertise: Proven experience building, maintaining, and scaling design systems. Deep understanding of design system principles, component architecture, and token strategies.
- Front-End Proficiency: Strong command of TypeScript, React, modern CSS (including TailwindCSS), and semantic HTML.
- Technical Expertise: Solid understanding of front-end performance optimization techniques and web accessibility standards (WCAG).
- UI Polish: Demonstrable skills in CSS animations, transitions, and creating high-fidelity, polished user interfaces.
- Tooling: Advanced knowledge and practical experience with Storybook.js for component development, documentation, and testing.
- Collaboration Skills: Excellent ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines (design, engineering, product) and drive adoption of best practices.
- Design Tool Familiarity: Experience working with design tools like Figma, translating designs accurately into code.
Tools You Will Use
- TypeScript
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- Storybook
- Figma
Salary Range
- Gross Salary 3200-7000 EUR/Month.
About Us
Nord Security is a global leader in internet privacy and security solutions and Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. Established in 2012, Nord Security now has more than 1400 employees and serves millions of users worldwide. Our team has a global mission to shape a more secure and peaceful online future for people everywhere. With that in mind, we built several advanced cybersecurity solutions: NordVPN, NordLayer, NordLocker, NordPass, NordProtect, NordStellar, and Saily.
NordVPN is the world’s most advanced VPN service provider, used by millions of internet users worldwide. NordVPN provides double VPN encryption and Onion Over VPN and guarantees privacy with zero tracking. One of the key features of the product is Threat Protection, which blocks malicious websites, malware, trackers, and ads. NordVPN is very user friendly, offers one of the best prices on the market, and has over 5,000 servers in 59 countries worldwide.
And we’re always looking to expand our team of:
• Future shapers
• Restless achievers
• Self-movers
• Honest communicators
• Team players
What We Offer
• Access to Nord Security products. We build solutions used by millions of users worldwide, and you’ll get to experience our products firsthand;
• Professional growth. Internal and external events, online training, conferences, books - everything you need to reach full potential;
• Health benefits. Private health insurance, online and on-site workouts, consultations to feel and be your best;
• Mental wellbeing. Access to mental health tools like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic. Options for therapy to keep your emotional wellbeing in check;
• Team spirit. Team buildings and parties with games, shows, tastings, food coupons, gifts, and it’s on us;
• More free time. Stay with us and additional vacation days will be added to your calendar;
• Additional paid leave. Additional days are covered by us in cases of illness or special occasions;
• Flexibility. Flexible working time arrangement.
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The Company
What We Do
Nord Security is one of the world’s leading providers of digital security and privacy solutions for businesses and individuals. We are a home for advanced security solutions that share the Nord brand and values. Today, our products are used by millions of customers worldwide and praised by all the major cybersecurity experts and top media outlets. Since 2012, we have been creating and building award-winning products: NordVPN - the fastest VPN on the planet, built to protect your online traffic and privacy with next-generation encryption. NordLayer - an adaptive network access security solution for modern businesses, helping organizations to fulfill scaling and integration challenges. NordPass - a password manager designed with the user in mind, from simplicity to security. Built using zero-knowledge encryption. NordLocker - a powerful end-to-end encryption tool for safely storing and sharing files. Comes with secure cloud storage. Our community of cybersecurity experts, software developers, engineers, data analysts, and other tech professionals share one common goal – create a safe cyber future for everyone. Explore our open positions here: https://nordsecurity.com/careers Or refer a friend or colleague: https://nordsecurity.com/referrals Learn about our Privacy notice for recruitment candidates here: https://bit.ly/3mJFoAy
