Senior UI Design Engineer

About Us 
Automic Group brings together modern purpose-built technology with a dynamic and experienced team to tailor solutions for companies and funds to understand, engage and manage their investors. We provide a cloud-native single registry, employee share plan and board management platform, and professional services including company secretarial, ESG, accounting and finance, and investor and media relations. 

Today, over 1,400 ASX listed and unlisted clients trust Automic’s 250 employees to manage their registry, investor and board requirements – and Automic is ranked number one on the ASX by number of companies serviced, with 750 listed clients. In the past two financial years, Automic has won 50%of IPOs and 70% of listed companies who have switched registries. 

Our culture is innately entrepreneurial, comprising people who thrive in an atmosphere where ideas, actions and initiative are encouraged. Our core values, Customer Success, Ambition, Equality and Team are at the foundation of who we are and how we operate.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior UI Design Engineer who sits at the intersection of design systems, front-end engineering, and UX quality - someone who can both make strong design decisions and build them in code.

This is not a pure engineering role and it is not a pure design role. It is for someone who has evolved through both, understands how design decisions become component APIs, and has strong instincts about what great UI looks and feels like at scale.

You will co-own the front-end architecture of our design system, build the component library that powers our entire product suite, and help define how design is expressed, governed, and adopted across the platform. You will also play a key role in shaping how AI-assisted workflows integrate with our system - making AI output reliable, consistent, and system-safe.

What you'll be doing

• Build and maintain reusable UI components using Angular/React, with strong attention to UX quality and visual consistency
• Make independent design decisions - layout, hierarchy, spacing, interaction - when working ahead of or alongside designers
• Define and implement design tokens, theming systems, and visual standards from token definition through to component-level application
• Ensure strong fidelity between Figma designs, Storybook, and production code
• Co-own and evolve the design system across design and engineering, including governance, contribution models, and documentation
• Extend and customise components in a controlled, scalable way
• Integrate AI-assisted development tools into your workflow in a system-compliant and repeatable way
• Contribute to the team's agentic design system infrastructure - agent skill files, context and constraint definitions, linting rules, and MCP integrations
• Improve developer experience through clear APIs, sensible defaults, and good documentation
• Partner closely with designers to shape interaction patterns, validate feasibility, and maintain design intent
• Drive adoption by educating and supporting developers to self-serve within the system
• Convert static UX to solid design system UI using agentic workflows

What success looks like

• You make confident design decisions independently - not just implement what others define
• Developers reuse components instead of re-implementing UI
• Visual regressions and redlining decrease over time
• Design changes move through the system predictably
• AI-assisted workflows are reliable, system-safe, and genuinely speed up delivery
• UI quality is consistent and intentional, regardless of who contributed it

About you:

• Strong background in both UI design and front-end engineering - comfortable and credible in both worlds
• Proven ability to make independent design decisions: layout, typography, spacing, colour, hierarchy
• Deep front-end engineering experience, Angular preferred
• Excellent CSS skills - modern layout, theming, custom properties, responsive patterns
• Experience building or owning a component library, not just contributing to one
• Experience with design token architecture - primitive, semantic, and component layers
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in a real development workflow - active use, not just awareness
• Strong Figma skills and experience maintaining parity between design and production
• Systems-thinking mindset with a pragmatic approach to abstraction and reuse
• Strong collaboration skills with designers and engineers

Good to have

• Experience with agentic or code-first design system workflows
• Familiarity with MCP integrations or AI-assisted component generation pipelines
• Experience with token management tooling
• Storybook experience - ideally beyond component showcase, toward manifest and documentation use cases
• Accessibility knowledge (WCAG)

Why join Automic

You will be part of a team where operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement are genuinely valued. This is an opportunity to deepen your expertise across design and engineering, work at the frontier of AI-assisted delivery, and help shape how a market-leading fintech platform looks and works at scale.

Key benefits

• Hybrid working
• Professional career growth and development
• Supportive, fast-paced environment
• Opportunity to grow with the business

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.