Staff Design Engineer, Americas

About the Role

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.

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.

What You Will Do

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.
• 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.
• Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate's assessments.

Why Ashby

• Work at Scale: Your work will touch over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week.
• Leadership Commitment: This role has always had the commitment of both the CEO and me.
• Shape the Product: You get to shape the UI and UX of a powerful and complex product that needs to feel approachable yet customizable.

Why You Shouldn't Apply

Design Engineers come in many flavors, not all of which fit our model. You might not enjoy this role if:

• You only want to work on design systems.
• You like to do extensive research and user testing before implementation.
• You want everything to be perfect before it gets into a user's hands.
• You don't have excellent taste and execution in visual design.
• You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
• You only want to do exciting work.

What We Are Building

As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. Software that's intelligent and powerful.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast.

• Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership: Every Engineer runs their project.
• Collaboration & Communication: We combine research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners.
• Increase Leverage: We invest in great developer tooling, building blocks, and AI-powered tooling.

Interview Process

Our interview process is three rounds:

1. Introduction call (30m, live).
2. Technical screen (1h, live) OR a design take-home (~3h async, 30m live).
3. Three interviews: deep dive into a past project, design system interview, and the remaining screen from round two (3h, live).

Technology Stack

Our tech stack is TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($190K - $275K) and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents.

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.