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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.The Design Engineer role is more common today than five years ago, but I believe Ashby offers a unique opportunity that few can match:First, this role has always had the commitment of both Benji (CEO & Co-Founder) and me.Second, 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.In this role, 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 it to make the wireframes a reality.Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to easily build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product.Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments.Why You Shouldn’t ApplyYou only want to work on design systems (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.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 ForJunior Design Engineer - You should have no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer.Design Engineer (This Posting) - This posting covers both Mid and Senior levels. You have 2+ years of continuous experience (e.g., internships don’t count) as an Engineer or a Designer. You have good proficiency in both Design and Engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline you practice full-time. Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users is expected.Staff Design Engineer - 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.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 teamCollaboration is Natural & Communication is DeliberateWe combine research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners and get feedback from the team across time zones. Focus time is sacred, and engineers are in <2h meetings per week.Increase Leverage, not Team SizeWe invest in great developer tooling, building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast, and AI-powered tooling.Interview ProcessOur interview process is three rounds:Introduction call with me (30m, live).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)Depending on our leadership team’s bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter.Your First Three Months at AshbyWe want an exceptional onboarding experience. Your 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. 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, 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 (for folks outside the US, it may be longer).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 for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby; in other countries, high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.
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