Staff Design Engineer, EU

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and code at the same time: shape the product's UI and UX and carry the design through to technical implementation
• ▹Work on the most challenging design problems in a complex product at scale
• ▹Expand and improve the in-house design system so other engineers can build beautiful, consistent interfaces
• ▹Consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers, for example improving information hierarchy and scannability
• ▹Test ideas with Ashby's own recruiting team and hiring managers and iterate on user feedback
• ▹Set the bar for visual design in the app and push its boundaries with each new feature or redesign
• ▹Share customer issues and investigations with the rest of the team

Requirements

• ▹Professional practice in Ashby's flavor of Design Engineering, with major contributions to a design system
• ▹Designed and implemented features for hundreds of users and iterated on them through user feedback
• ▹Excellent taste and execution in visual design
• ▹Strong proficiency in both design and engineering
• ▹Able to get projects across the finish line without company-driven process and structure
• ▹Interest in design and technical details, and willingness to handle customer issues and investigations as part of the role

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹A remote, low-meeting, high-ownership culture where you keep your own hours
• ▹Unlimited PTO that people actually use
• ▹Great developer tooling: CI/CD of about 10 minutes, at least 15 deploys a day, a debugger that works out of the box
• ▹Unlimited token budget for AI tools
• ▹Generous paid family leave
• ▹In-person meetups at least twice a year, plus a small budget to meet colleagues in your city or region
• ▹Minimal process and lots of ownership: every engineer runs their own project
• ▹An interview process without leetcode

About the company

Ashby builds talent acquisition software that gives recruiting teams intelligent, powerful tooling. The product has over 100,000 weekly active users, and customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify and Snowflake. The design engineering team is growing from five to more than ten people over the next year.