UX/UI + Frontend Developer

UX/UI + Frontend Developer

Thursday

Salary: £40-£50K

Thursday is a singles IRL events company that organises singles events, trips, dinners, activities, education and media. We're building technology to scale our operations and enhance the experience for our members.

We value equality and inclusion as core principles - our diverse audience deserves technology that serves everyone well, and we're committed to building a team that reflects and respects that diversity.

We're seeking a UX/UI Designer with strong opinionated design skills paired with front-end development ability to shape how our products look, feel, and work. You'll establish best practices for front-end design across the company and help implement them - building design systems, component libraries, and patterns that scale across our internal platform, customer-facing websites, mobile apps, and new products.

Experience Level: Mid-level (2+ years experience in design and development)

Location: Primarily remote, with regular in-office meetups and attendance at company events expected

Technical Skills:

Design

• Strong UI/UX fundamentals (layout, typography, colour, spacing)
• Experience designing for web and mobile
• Proficiency in Figma (or similar)
• Portfolio showing end-to-end product design work
• Experience building and maintaining design systems

Development

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
• React (our stack is React + TypeScript + Tailwind)
• Comfortable turning designs into responsive, accessible interfaces
• Experience creating reusable component libraries
• Mobile development (React Native, iOS, Android) - nice to have

AI & Tools

• Uses AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc.) effectively to accelerate work
• Keeps up with AI developments in design and applies them practically
• Can critically evaluate AI-generated output
• Views AI as a tool to augment creativity, not replace it

Key Responsibilities:
Design & Development

• Establish and document front-end design best practices
• Build and maintain design systems and component libraries
• Create consistent, accessible interfaces that serve our diverse user base
• Own features from concept through to shipped code
• Balance aesthetics with usability and performance

Driving Adoption & Impact

• Focus on growing engagement with our tools (internal and external)
• Remove friction and improve user experience
• Gather feedback and iterate based on user needs
• Champion design consistency and quality across all products

Business Leadership

• Work with different parts of the company (marketing, operations, partnerships) to gather requirements and feedback
• Collaborate with external partners and stakeholders to understand their needs
• Turn feedback into actionable improvements
• Identify opportunities where better design can solve business problems
• Market your work and champion good UX across the company

What We Value

• Entrepreneurial & business-minded - sees opportunities, takes initiative
• Delivery-focused - ships work regularly and iterates based on feedback
• Independent & proactive - works autonomously and solves problems
• Collaborative - comfortable working across teams and with external partners
• Inclusive & user-focused - builds for diverse audiences
• Adaptable - comfortable across design and code, eager to learn

What Success Looks Like

• Design system enables faster development and better consistency across products
• Best practices are documented and adopted across the team
• Products are intuitive, consistent, and loved by users
• User feedback drives measurable improvements in engagement
• Strong relationships with stakeholders across the business

Working Style

• Remote with async communication
• Feature ownership with autonomy
• Attendance at Thursday events to see your work in action
• Occasional flexibility for deadlines balanced with managing your own time