Staff Design Engineer - Americas

Job Overview

Hi I’m Abhik , Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. This role is close to my heart because, as someone who can both design and code, it’s where I’ve always done my best work, but also where I was seen as a rebel and an outsider.

I want folks like me to feel at home at Ashby, and so I made Design Engineering a formal role and department that works closely with me. Our first hire was over five years ago, and we’re doubling the team from five to over ten in the next year.

Job Description

This role truly expects you to design and code. Design Engineer at Ashby isn’t just a Frontend Engineer with new branding, nor is it a Designer vibe coding prototypes. Combining excellence in both is where magic happens.

I found that when I put my best effort into both the design and technical implementation of a feature, I had a nimbleness and creativity that was hard to achieve when I did only one or the other.

For instance, the UX and UI I envisioned often influenced the data model's design and flexibility, while the understanding of technology's capabilities often simplified or improved the design. This role embraces that.

You’ll work on our most challenging design problems, help others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing our in-house design system, and consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.

To ground it with examples, Design Engineers 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 that system to turn the wireframes into a polished UI.

Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments. Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies.

Key Responsibilities

• Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product easily.
• You’ll get to test out ideas with our own recruiting team and hiring managers who use Ashby every day (like me), and often hear customer feedback as early as the day you release.
• This role has always had the commitment of both Benji (CEO & Co-Founder) and me: I’ve held the role, steadfastly championed it since we started hiring in 2020, and haven’t diluted its responsibilities as we’ve grown (in fact, we’ve doubled down).
• While improving our design system is one of many responsibilities, you won’t be able to work on it exclusively.
• The beauty of being part-Engineer is that you can build conviction by shipping to a subset of users (including our own team) and gathering feedback!
• Sprint planning and well-defined project management processes are things you need or look to others to lead.
• We’re building a team of kind, collaborative folks.
• What We’re Building As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• The higher the level, the more experience and alignment with the role we expect when reviewing your application and while interviewing.
• Junior Design Engineer - You should have no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer.
• You have 2+ years of continuous experience (e.g., internships don’t count) as an Engineer or a Designer.
• Regardless of which discipline you’re coming from, we expect experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects).
• They must do this while considering the interview load on each individual and whether interviewers need to be trained and shadowing others.
• Their purpose is to create consistent outcomes regardless of the engineer’s skill.
• It’s a new level of ownership for many engineers, but we’d rather an engineer fail a bit and coach up their skills than use process as a crutch.
• Everyone on the team has contributed to our developer experience .

Benefits and Perks

• We offer unlimited PTO, and you actually get to use it.
• Some of our most exceptional engineers take almost 30 days of vacation per year.
• Benefits Competitive salary and equity.
• Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
• If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.
• In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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