The Design Engineer will play a key role at Ashby by combining design and engineering expertise to solve complex product challenges. You'll own projects from research to implementation, improve the user experience, and help scale a high-quality design system used across the company.
What You'll Do
- Tackle Ashby's most challenging design problems
- Expand and enhance the in-house design system
- Consult on bespoke design work across the company
- Redesign mobile web app based on customer feedback and usage patterns
- Wireframe new user flows and implement them using the design system
- Build flexible, composable components in the design system (e.g., autocompletes with filters and record creation)
- Improve other engineers' designs in terms of information hierarchy and scannability
- Research customer problems and drive solutions from concept to implementation
- Write product specs and build wireframes for new features
- Implement end-to-end solutions in code
- Communicate progress and pull in support from designers, product managers, or infrastructure teams as needed
- Ship product changes during onboarding that increase in scope and ambiguity
- Deliver a prominent, impactful feature within the first three months
What We're Looking For
- Ability to design and build software simultaneously
- Experience solving customer problems through end-to-end product development
- Strong design skills with ability to create wireframes and prototypes
- Proficiency in implementing UI with modern component-based frameworks
- Experience working with or contributing to a design system
- Ability to work with minimal process and high ownership
- Strong communication skills to collaborate across time zones and functions
- Comfort with pair programming and collaborative technical work
- Ability to write product and technical specifications
- Experience working in a fast-paced, autonomous engineering environment
Nice to Have
- Experience with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, or Redis
- Background in typed languages
- Prior experience switching programming languages or platforms
- Familiarity with developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building analytics modeling, policy engines, or workflow engines
Technical Stack
- TypeScript
- React
- GraphQL API
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Redis
Team & Environment
- Work within a small, talented team
- Engineers run their own projects; Product Managers and Designers provide strategy and problem briefs
- Reporting to the Hiring Manager (Engineering Lead)
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary
- Equity included; 10-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO, with encouragement to take it
- Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (may be longer outside the US)
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget
- More expensive education items (e.g., conferences) covered with manager approval
- Top-tier health insurance for US employees and dependents with 100% premiums covered
- High-quality supplemental health insurance for non-US employees and dependents, fully covered
- Small budget to meet up with team members in your city/region
- At least two in-person team meetings per year (department and company-wide)
Work Mode
- Remote-first with asynchronous collaboration
- Engineers work regular hours with <2 hours of meetings per week; focus time is sacred
- Position based in the EU; company operates globally
Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants 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.
