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OverviewHi 👋🏾 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.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. 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. 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).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 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 only want to do exciting work. We’re building a team of kind, collaborative folks.What Seniority/Level To Apply ForWe’ve posted levels from Junior to Staff. The higher the level, the more experience and alignment with the role we expect when reviewing your application and while interviewing.Staff 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 are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. Scheduling a final round is an excellent example...We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. Software that’s intelligent and powerful. Software that provides insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with.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!). We do it through: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 OwnershipAt Ashby, every Engineer runs their project. Product Managers (and Designers) build strategy... Engineers take on the rest.Collaboration is Natural & Communication is DeliberateFocus time is something that we hold sacred, and engineers are in <2h meetings per week.Increase Leverage, not Team SizeWe built Ashby through investment in great developer tooling, building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast, and AI-powered tooling.Put Effort into DiversityDiverse teams drive innovation and better outcomes. Today, 25% of engineers and 50% of our engineering leaders at Ashby are from underrepresented groups.Interview ProcessThere are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.Our interview process is three rounds: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, 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: technical screen or design take-home. (3h, live)Your First Three Months at Ashby...you push your first product change on day one... and your manager will do a 30, 60, and 90-day review...Technology StackOur tech stack is TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis. Depending on the level you’re applying for and your past experience, 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, and we will encourage you to take it.A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance... In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance...
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