Design Engineer

Overview

Design Engineer at Ashby is a hybrid role that combines hands‑on design and engineering to build a high‑quality, scalable talent‑acquisition platform. The role focuses on delivering cohesive, beautiful, and functional UI/UX while simultaneously shipping code to hundreds of thousands of users.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to solve the toughest design problems on the platform.
• Expand and maintain the company’s design system, creating flexible, composable components that enable consistent experiences across the product.
• Consult with product engineers on bespoke design work required for new features.
• Build core UI features such as the mobile web app, candidate assessment views, and interactive wizards that drive user productivity.
• Iterate on designs rapidly, shipping to a subset of users, and refine based on real‑time feedback.

• Junior Design Engineer – Up to 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer, with a portfolio of visual design work that demonstrates taste and growing product design skill.
• Design Engineer (Mid/Senior) – 2+ years of continuous experience, proficient in both design and engineering, with a proven record of shipping complete features to user base.
• Staff Design Engineer – Professional experience leading design‑engineering initiatives, significant contributions to a design system, and a history of iterating on features based on user feedback.

Type Script (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis. Minimum proficiency in Type Script, React, and CSS is required; backend knowledge is a plus.

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• 10‑year option exercise window.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (longer for non‑US locations).
• Generous equipment, software, and workspace budget.
• $100 per month education budget; conference expenses covered with manager approval.
• Top‑tier health insurance fully covered for US employees; high‑quality supplemental insurance for non‑US employees.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Ashby is committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. This advertisement is for an active, existing vacancy within our organization. Artificial intelligence‑driven tools may be used to assist in the recruitment process.