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Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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.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.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. Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies.The Design Engineer role is more common today than five years ago, but I believe Ashby offers a unique opportunity that few can match:You work on a product at scale, not at an early-stage startup struggling to find users and get feedback on what you’ve designed and built. At Ashby, your work will touch over 100,000 weekly active users, millions of candidates per week, and notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.This role has always had the commitment of both Benji (CEO & Co-Founder) and me.You get to shape the UI and UX of a powerful and complex product.Why You Shouldn’t ApplyYou only want to work on design systems. While improving our design system is one of many responsibilities, you won’t be able to work on it exclusively.You like to do extensive research and user testing before implementation. You can build conviction by shipping to a subset of users (including our own team) and gathering feedback!You want everything to be perfect before it gets into a user’s hands. We ship fast and iterate over time.You don’t have excellent taste and execution in visual design. Design Engineers set the bar for visual design in our app and continually improve it.You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line. You’d rather focus on the design and technical details.You only want to do exciting work. Customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team.What Seniority/Level To Apply ForStaff Design Engineer (This Posting) - We’re looking for folks who’ve practiced our flavor of Design Engineering professionally. It may not be through a formal title, but you’ve made major contributions to a design system and designed and implemented features for hundreds of users and iterated on them through user feedback.What We’re BuildingAs engineers, we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling.Engineering CultureOur engineering culture is motivated by Benji’s and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!).Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and designNatural collaboration and deliberate communicationInvesting in tools and abstractions that give us leveragePutting effort into building a diverse teamMinimal Process & Lots of OwnershipProduct Managers (and Designers) build strategy, do customer research, and hand off problem briefs to Engineers. Engineers take on the rest: they research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end.Collaboration is Natural & Communication is DeliberateWe combine research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners and get feedback from the team across time zones. Engineers are in <2h meetings per week.Increase Leverage, not Team SizeWe built Ashby through investment in developer tooling, building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast, and AI-powered tooling.Interview ProcessWe’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together through pair programming, designing, writing design system specs collaboratively, and discussing decisions. There are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.Our interview process is three rounds (and sometimes an additional recruiter screen):Introduction call with me (30m, live). Be prepared to screen-share examples of your work.A second round where we either do a technical screen (1h, live) or a design take-home (~3h async, 30m live)Three interviews including a deep dive into a past design system or design project, a design system interview, and the interview we didn’t do in the second round (3h, live)Your First Three Months at AshbyYour dev environment is set up with a single script, you push your first product change on day one, and you spend the rest of your time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices.Technology StackTypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis. Depending on the level, we expect, at a minimum, good proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS. Proficiency with backend technologies is a plus.BenefitsCompetitive salary and equity.10-year exercise window for stock options.Unlimited PTO.A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby (may be longer outside the US).Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.$100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.If you’re in the US, top-tier health insurance with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby; otherwise, high-quality supplemental health insurance for dependents also fully covered by us.Compensation Range: £151K - £246K
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