Senior Design Engineer

Designer Engineer

Seqera exists to advance science for everyone through software. We provide software for scientists solving today's most complex and important challenges from pioneering innovative therapeutics to unveiling the secrets of our universe. The journey began a decade ago with Nextflow — open software that helps over 100,000 global scientists analyze and process data, with more power and flexibility than ever before.

Today, Seqera consolidates fragmented data and diverse computing resources into a unified platform. Our modern biotech stack is trusted by over 150 leading life sciences organizations. Empowered with modern software engineering, organizations conduct science faster, on larger datasets, and with more confidence. Seqera accelerates discoveries in an open world.

Would you like to be a part of a company with a bigger purpose and make it successful with your own ideas? If yes, keep reading!

About The Role

Seqera is a company full of people who know the value of good design. We're looking for a Designer Engineer with a proven track record of designing and developing delightful experiences for technical users. You'll work across Seqera Platform and Co-Scientist — identifying new opportunities, designing concepts, defining and communicating a vision, developing prototypes, and directly contributing code that.

While this position reports to the VP of Product, you'll collaborate across the company with colleagues in Design, Product, and Engineering. You'll join a growing design team with the opportunity to shape our design system, influence product strategy, and grow your career alongside a team that's tackling some of the most complex UX challenges in enterprise bioinformatics.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving hard problems for technical users, operates well in ambiguity, and is hungry to build great products in a fast-paced startup environment.

What You'll Do

• Craft beautiful, polished, and delightful interfaces that build trust, enable bioinformaticians, and showcase the power of Seqera and Nextflow
• Work across modern design tools and code while collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders
• Contribute to our design system and broader design strategy through visual design as well as building and deploying components
• Find creative ways to ship high-quality work in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Define feature areas with excellent attention to detail and polish, identifying opportunities to improve quality and consistency of broader flows.
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Identify and ship targeted improvements UX fully independently. Enabling us to continually improve the look and feel of Seqera Platform.

About You

• 4+ years of professional experience as a technical Product Designer, Frontend Engineer, Design Engineer, or equivalent role.
• 1+ years of development experience, either prototyping design with code or directly contributing to a production codebase
• Comfort with Javascript frameworks like React/Angular as well as a modern design and development tool stack
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking and polished UI craftsmanship for technical or developer-facing products.
• Proven track record of exploring and executing end-to-end on large, complex products.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills — you work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority.
• Intellectual curiosity — you enjoy solving hard problems and understanding the "why" behind the right answer.

Nice To Have

• An eye for high-quality, well-crafted visual and interaction design, and a passion for UI details.
• A knack for figuring out ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear goals.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions and prioritize work effectively.
• Experience with Scientific Research beyond a high school level

Don't meet every single requirement? At Seqera, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role and your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What will you find working at Seqera?

• Flexible working hours.
• International working environment with more than 25 nationalities.
• Passionate & talented team.
• Continuous skills development.
• Team retreats and bonding activities.
• A culture where your opinion is valued and your decisions have a real impact on the industry.
• Excitement of a fast-growing startup in a constantly changing environment.

Great Benefits

• Time off: 23 days for vacations per year, 3 days given by Seqera in December, and the national/public holidays according to your location.
• Equity.
• Private health insurance.
• Private life insurance.
• Ticket Restaurant, with Cobee.
• Home office bonus (valued over 1,000 USD).
• Subscription to Oliva, Mental Health App.
• Learning and development budget per year (1,000 USD).