Design Engineer for our Design System team, K Group
- Application Deadline: Feb. 13, 2026
- Helsinki
- Hybrid
Design Engineer, Kesko Design System - Common Development Platform
We’re looking for an experienced Design Engineer to join our newly founded team. A software developer who has hybrid designer/developer experience, is kind, empathetic, and has a service mindset.
In this role, you will work together with our product teams to design and develop the fundamental building blocks of Kesko’s products to accelerate development and elevate the quality and consistency of product team work. You will also find yourself talking to the system’s users and hosting monthly design system sessions.
Our frontend stack is primarily web standards based and consists of components that are written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. They ship as standards based Custom Elements making them compatible with current and future JavaScript based frameworks like React, Vue, or Next.js.
In addition to frontend, you will also spend majority of your time in Figma to maintain and collaborate on Kesko’s Figma Toolkit including defining and standardizing reusable components. You will obviously also receive all the support you need from your colleagues.
Work location: Hybrid (Remote / K-Kampus, Helsinki)
What you will be doing
- Serve as the primary owner of Kesko’s Figma Toolkit including defining and standardizing reusable design components.
- Rapidly prototype and test new components to find solutions.
- Help develop and maintain Kesko’s frontend tooling and the design system infrastructure.
- Collaborate with product, design and engineering to create design components that evolve and improve the design system.
- Advocate for accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
- Help teams across Kesko onboard the design system and provide support for the users.
- Write clear and detailed documentation for multiple audiences.
- Help make it possible for great user experiences to happen across all Kesko's services.
- Help maintain a culture of empathy, safety and belonging where all voices are heard.
To succeed in this role, we believe that you have...
- 5+ years of experience working in cross-functional product teams, and with accessibility.
- 2+ years of experience building design systems in Figma.
- 3+ years of experience with React, Next.js and TypeScript.
- Understanding of the approaches to the creation, evolution and distribution of design systems and/or living style guides.
- Familiarity of platform conventions for responsive web as well as iOS and Android.
- Good understanding of web standards based development using semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more.
- Strong JavaScript skills. Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, and debugging JavaScript issues.
- Experience writing maintainable and scalable CSS.
- Experience nurturing a work environment that allows everyone to bring their whole selves to work, and values diversity and inclusion.
- Bonus points for experience with Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, Lit, Stencil, Custom Elements Manifest, or similar.
Why join us?
- You’ll be working on business-critical platforms and your work really matters: the input you provide can affect the daily shopping experience of our customers (and there are millions of them, by the way!).
- You have a great chance to work with the pioneer of modern grocery and wholesale trade.
- You get a broad view of the rapidly developing commerce and trade sector.
- Become part of community of expert colleagues – we are a community of 300+ IT Colleagues, who are ready to support each other when you need it.
What else we offer
- For office days - modern office with several accommodations (e.g., collaboration and break areas throughout the office, gym, health care services, restaurant and cafeteria…) along good connections in Kalasatama, Helsinki.
- Modern work tools and numerous opportunities to learn and network as a future professional.
- Extensive employee benefits unique to the K group. These include, among others: Culture & sport benefit (ePassi), shopping benefits that apply in K-Group stores and staff shops (K-Citymarket, K-Supermarket & K-Market, K-Rauta, Intersport, Budget Sport), own occupational health care services and leisure time accident insurance. You are also entitled to a car benefit according to our company policy.
At K Group we have a dynamic work community that focuses on well-being at work. For example, we provide several opportunities for growth: training, e-learning courses, and other opportunities for professional development and career growth. We also Support work-life balance and encourage a positive work culture that promotes open communication, teamwork, and collaboration.
Piqued your interest?
The application period ends on 13.2.2026, but we will process applicants already during the application period - so don't be late. The work on the task starts as soon as a suitable person is found. All candidates will be informed within couple weeks after the application period has ended. The chosen candidate is required to take a drug test as part of their pre-employment health-check.
For more information about the task, please contact your future supervisor Common Development Platform Lead, Heino Sirviö. Best way to reach him is by phone +358 105322794 on Mondays and Fridays, between 15-17.
Please submit your application via the Submit Application -link - we'd love to hear your salary expectations as well.
We at K Group value diversity and believe that different backgrounds and perspectives are key to success. We strive to create a work environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow. Equality, non-discrimination, and fairness are our core principles in recruitment, compensation, and career development.
Work with great people
Great Place to Work
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A community of 39 000 employees
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5000 knowledge workers in Finland
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1800 experts at the K Kampus
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400 experts at the Tampere office
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1100 K-ruoka-, K-rauta- and Intersport retailers
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Almost 2 million customer encounters every day
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Operations in 8 countries
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Finland's largest retailer
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Retails sales 14 Billion €
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3 trades: Grocery, Building & technical and Car
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22 000 store employees around Finland
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One of the world's most responsible stores
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1800 asiantuntijaa K-Kampuksella
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400 asiantuntijaa Tampereen toimipisteessä
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1100 K-ruoka-, K-rauta- ja Intersport-kauppiasta
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Lähes 2 miljoonaa asiakaskohtaamista joka päivä
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Toimintaa 8 maassa
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Suomen suurin vähittäiskauppa
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Vähittäismyynti 14 mrd. euroa
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3 toimialaa: Ruokaa, rakentamista ja autoja
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22 000 työntekijää kaupoissa Suomessa
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Yksi maailman vastuullisimmista kaupoista
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39 000 K:laisen yhteisö
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5000 tietotyöläistä Suomessa
About the company
We are more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and 39,000 K-team members with an endless belief in building better commerce, over and over again. We believe in commerce and the strong spirit of entrepreneurship as the cornerstone of a thriving and prosperous society.
Whether your passion lies in cars, construction, customer service, or technology, we constantly have new opportunities for those ready to shape better commerce. Your work leaves a mark on the everyday lives of Finns—how we move, eat, and build. This house never stands still, and you can shape your own career path, moving across industries and companies.
We are the House of Doers, united by an authentic spirit of action. With teamwork and a customer-first mindset, we create better commerce every single day. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get things moving again – LET’S K!
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