Engineer Design - Americas

This is a staff-level role, so we require at least 5 years of experience as a full-time frontend engineer or an even split between frontend and design for this role, and significant contributions to (or leading) design systems.

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. As someone who could design and build software, this position is close to my heart. I always felt I had a unique perspective because I could play with design ideas and iterate in code. My ideas could start in Figma but then be grounded (or sometimes more creative) in code. My prototypes used actual logic and data.

My changes cascaded throughout the app for comprehensive critique (thanks, React component system!). But, every company made me pick one — I couldn’t design and build. At Ashby, you can.

While Every Engineer Can Design And Build, You’ll Tackle Our Most Challenging Design Problems And Help Others Improve Their Designs By Expanding And Enhancing Our In‑house Design System And Consulting On Bespoke Work. To Ground It With Examples, Engineers Who Can Design At Ashby Have:

• Redesigned our mobile web app by talking with customers who use it often, wireframing new flows, implementing its design system, and using it to make the wireframes a reality.
• Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build custom autocompletes. These autocompletes can contain filters, options to create new records, etc.
• Helped another engineer improve their design's information hierarchy and scannability for viewing a candidate’s assessments. Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies.

These projects reflect what we’re accomplishing at Ashby: improving the productivity of working professionals (starting with talent teams) with intelligent and powerful software. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered & extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here.

We have many customers, great revenue growth, years of runway, and amazing investors like YCombinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom. I’ll share more once we meet.

At Ashby, Our Team And Interview Process Want To Help You Show Your Best Self. We’ll Dive Into Past Projects And Simulate Working Together Via Pair Programming, Writing Tech Specs Collaboratively, And Talking Through Decisions (no Leetcode Or Whiteboard Exercises). Our Interview Process Is Three Rounds With Some Casual Zoom (or In‑person) Coffee In Between To Get To Know Each Other.

• 30‑minute introduction call to discuss Ashby and your past work (we demo Ashby!)
• A technical screen (take home or, for more experienced folks who want it, a 90‑minute live session)
• A virtual on‑site of 3 hours and 45 minutes (can be split across two days)

Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact and prepare you for interviews. You’ll meet other engineering leaders and 4 to 6 engineers (with 15 minutes in each interview to ask them questions). If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback!

We want an exceptional onboarding experience for every new hire. At Ashby, your dev environment sets up with a single script, you push your first change on day one, and we spend the rest of the time building your confidence in our codebase and practices culminating in delivering a prominent, impactful feature. We’ll pair you with a peer who’ll guide you through your first tasks and be someone you rely on, from answering questions to pair programming.

Our tech stack is Type Script (frontend & backend), React, a mix of SASS modules and Stitches, Apollo Graph

QL, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis. We're looking for folks with deep React, CSS, and HTML knowledge for this role.

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby — do it when you feel financially comfortable.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year. Expect “Vacation?” in our one‑on‑one agenda until you start taking it 😅.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US.…