Design Engineer

At SunGod, we're driven by our mission to See Better: better products, with a better customer experience, that are better for the planet. Our mission & who we are... SunGod was born in 2013 with a vision to create the world's best performance eyewear. We see a better world; through our lenses, through our actions, and through doing business better. Our planet is our playground, so we're a community-built brand, that's sustainable to our core. With you, our mission is multiplied and together we can See Better. We're a dynamic and expanding team, being results-driven we see high-quality output from all team members.  We're unlike any company you've ever worked for before. At a glance 🕑 Full-time starting December, with hybrid working 😎 Mid Weight, ready to step to to a leadership role. 💰 Experienced-based salary between £60-75k 📍 London (minimum 3 office days/week) ⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor 🌴 Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays 🏆 Leading benefits package & competitive salary 🅱 Work for a Certified B Corporation™ 💹 Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven, fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth! What is the job role? A Design Engineer who owns sungod.co end to end, from Figma through to production, using design and code to move our key commercial metrics.  Core Responsibilities

• Storefront: our headed Shopify theme, built with Liquid, Vite, Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js (TypeScript), deployed through a CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions
• Shopify apps: maintaining and extending our internal app, which runs Shopify Functions for cart transforms and discount logic
• Design system: maintaining and extending our Figma design system and keeping it in step with the coded components
• Product design: taking UI/UX improvements from concept to production, measured against conversion, AOV and other key metrics
• Commercial enablement: partnering with commercial and marketing teams on promotions, campaigns, launches and strategic offers, and advising on how the site can best support them
• Tooling and microsites: scope to propose and build custom tools and microsites for wider business needs, with ownership of the technology and architecture choices.
• Design and build new functionality to support competitions, promotional mechanisms, advanced customer data capture, accounts and loyalty.  Must Have
• Strong HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building Shopify themes in Liquid (sections, blocks, metafields, metaobjects)
• Tailwind CSS or another utility-first approach, plus component-based thinking
• Experience with a lightweight JS framework such as Alpine.js (Vue or React experience transfers well)
• Git, PR-based workflows and confidence working within an existing CI/CD setup
• A strong Figma-to-production workflow, including design systems and tokens
• Solid grasp of performance, accessibility (WCAG) and responsive design
• A portfolio showing both design and shipped code Nice to have
• Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Storefront/Admin APIs
• Vite or other modern build tooling
•  Motion and interaction design in code
• Shopify app development (Node, React Router/Remix)
• Multi-market and multi-currency ecommerce
• AI-assisted development workflows