Design Engineer | Mid-Senior| Saily

At Saily, we’re removing the hassle from getting secure data plans while traveling.

No roaming charges, no plastic SIM cards. Just fast, secure mobile data in 200+ countries. Join the team behind Lonely Planet’s #1 eSIM—built for explorers, powered by NordVPN.

Your impact? Helping people stay securely connected, wherever they go.

The Saily Design Team is a tight, multidisciplinary group of Product designers, Web designers, UX writers, and Graphic designers. We're building Saily, the eSIM for travelers, from the people behind NordVPN, into the simplest way to stay connected anywhere in the world. We aim to take the complexity out of mobile connectivity for everyone who travels. We thrive on honest feedback to help each other grow and believe in the freedom to take initiative, be bold, and run with new ideas.

The Role

We are looking for a builder. You'll join the Saily design team as its Design Engineer: someone who takes an idea from a sketch to something running on a device, who is as at home in a pull request as in a design review, and who would rather change how a team works than hand it another spec. You'll sit between design and engineering, shape the workflows that let designers ship, and evolve our design system into something people actually build and prototype with.

• If you thrive at the intersection of design and code, treat the last 10% of polish as your actual job, and are excited about rebuilding design workflows around AI rather than bolting AI onto old ones, this role is for you.

How we work

You'll work across the Saily app and the web, close to the designers and to the engineers who build what they design, as the central bridge between design, engineering, and product: the system, the tooling around it, and the workflows that let product teams ship faster with higher quality.

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.

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"), and own the technical link between our design system and the codebases that consume it, on web and native platforms.

Strong Pluses

• A portfolio that mixes shipped product work and things you built yourself.
• Experience shipping in more than one technology already. Web plus any native platform.
• Shipped Figma plugins or REST API integrations.
• Experience on a platform team where other designers and engineers are your users.
• SQL / BigQuery, or another habit of answering design questions with data.
• Style Dictionary (especially v4) or comparable token pipeline experience; DTCG format familiarity.
• Creative-dev range for brand work: GSAP, Three.js/WebGL.

We expect all candidates to provide accurate and complete information during the recruitment process. While limited use of AI tools to refine application materials is acceptable, candidates remain fully responsible for ensuring that their submissions reflect their own qualifications, skills, and experience. Any failure to do so may negatively affect participation in the recruitment process. If broader AI assistance is allowed for a particular role or stage, we’ll let you know in advance.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that it may be processed using automated tools for evaluation purposes. As part of our recruitment process, we may use an AI-based application review tool to help assess applications based on skills and experience relevant to the role. This technology is used to support - not replace - human decision-making, and every application is ultimately reviewed by a recruiter.

If you would like more information about how AI is used in this process or wish to exercise your rights under applicable data privacy laws, please contact us at privacy@nordaccount.com. Should you prefer to opt out of the automated evaluation, please submit your application directly to career@nordsec.com.