Hours:

35 hours - Monday to Friday
Hybrid working

Closing Date:

Sun, 27 Apr 2025

We are seeking a talented and versatile Senior UI Designer and Engineer who thrives at the intersection of creativity and technical expertise. This dynamic role is a true blend of UI Design and Development, with responsibilities evenly split 50% focusing on crafting visually stunning and intuitive user interfaces, and 50% dedicated to bringing these designs to life through robust, high-quality code. This differs day to day with some projects being more engineering focused and some more design.

As a Senior UI Designer and Engineer, you'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration between design vision and functional implementation. Your keen eye for detail and passion for creating exceptional user experiences will be matched by your proficiency in front-end development technologies.

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job.

We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.

Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will be joining an experienced team of 2 UI Design and Engineers where you will be collaborating daily with our Experience (UX Designers and User Researchers), Engineering (Engineers across the stack) and Marketing Teams as well stakeholders throughout the wider business areas. Your role will be to deliver user-centric inclusive experiences across multiple digital channels and applications, deciding best fit solutions against requirements.

You’ll be joining us at an exciting time in our development as a UI Team as we are establishing our Design System and working on key strategic projects.

What’s In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days.
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups.
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Responsible for designing User Interface assets/artifacts that follow best practice and aligned to design principles, brand guidelines, technology principles and best practice.
• Create and develop UI assets using a variety of code, for example: HTML, CSS, Sass, React, JavaScript. 
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the business, to deliver a variety of changes. This will include attending, and contributing to, agile ceremonies such as refinements, sprint planning and retrospectives, representing the UI Design and Engineering function and managing own workloads appropriately.
• You will need to be ‘hands on’ to support cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team by providing expertise and advice on your specialist area and contributing to the development and maintenance of our design system. 

What Do We Need From You?

Being customer focused and wanting to deliver engaging and inclusive customer experiences online is key to this role. An eye for detail and being flexible in your approach is also key for success as your role will be varied.

Proficiency In tools such as Adobe Creative Suite or something similar, Figma (or equivalent) including UI kit creation and maintenance.

Strong technical skills including JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Sass and working knowledge of React for UI engineering.

Design system creation and maintenance including:

• Manage and evolve the design tokens library.
• Drive the creation of new design system features, exploring innovative enhancements with the team.

Own and develop clear, accessible, and up-to-date documentation to support seamless onboarding and system understanding.

Working, collaborating, and communicating clearly with a variety of technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders, including presenting design output to these audiences. 

Working in a fast-paced agile environment, managing multiple deadlines, you will need to be able to work collaboratively as part of a team and on your own initiative.