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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.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.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 ApplyDesign Engineers come in many flavors, not all of which fit our model. Here are some reasons you might not enjoy the role: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 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.Junior Design Engineer - You should have no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer. We want to see projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users that showcase great visual taste and burgeoning talent in both UI/UX and Engineering.Design Engineer - 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. Regardless of which discipline you’re coming from, we expect experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects).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 BuildingScheduling a final round is an excellent example. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount.So, 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, 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 this with research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners and get feedback from the team across time zones. Focus time is something that we hold sacred, and, with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in <2h meetings per week.We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company. You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.Increase Leverage, not Team SizeGreat developer tooling. CI/CD takes ~10m, and we deploy at least 15x a day.Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast. Common components (analytics modeling and query language, policy engine, workflow engine, design system).AI-powered tooling. Auto-triage customer issues, suggest fixes, prototype ideas, generate production-ready code, and conduct code reviews.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 ProcessAt Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’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: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)Depending on our leadership team’s bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter.Your First Three Months at AshbyAt Ashby, 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 to give feedback and calibrate on how we work together. You’ll have a peer paired with you to answer questions, pair program, and check in often.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 for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.Please read Engineering Levels and Compensation to learn how we level Engineers and approach compensation across different locations. The posted range represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation we review the market rate of each candidate.
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