Design Engineer

About the role

Ashby, a talent acquisition platform used by recruiters and hiring managers, is hiring a Design Engineer in Canada. The role combines design and engineering: you design the UI and UX of a product used by over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates, and you code it. The team is growing from five to over ten people.

Key responsibilities

• Solve the most challenging design problems on the product.
• Expand and enhance the in-house design system so other engineers can build consistent features.
• Consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.
• Examples include redesigning a mobile web app with wireframes and a design system, building reusable composable components, and improving the information hierarchy of a candidate assessment view.

Required profile

• This posting covers mid and senior levels: 2+ years of continuous experience (internships do not count) as an engineer or designer, with good proficiency in both and exceptional proficiency in one.
• Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users, even through side projects.
• Staff level: major contributions to a design system and features shipped to hundreds of users.
• Junior level (not this posting): no more than 2 years of experience.

Required skills

• Proficiency in both design and engineering.
• Experience shipping code to users.

What we offer

• Remote work with flexible hours and unlimited PTO.
• Low-meeting, high-ownership culture with a 30, 60 and 90-day review.
• Onboarding with a single-setup dev environment, a peer buddy and training sessions.

The interview process has three rounds: an introduction call, a technical screen or design take-home, and a deep dive into a past design system or project. No leetcode or whiteboard exercises.