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Staff Design Engineer, UK

Other • Principal • Remote • Full-time United Kingdom United Kingdom

A Staff Design Engineer role at Ashby, combining hands-on UI/UX design with hands-on coding — not a rebranded Frontend Engineer role, nor a designer who just prototypes.

Responsibilities

  • Work on the company's most challenging design problems
  • Expand and enhance the in-house design system
  • Consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers
  • Example past work: redesigning the mobile web app based on customer interviews and wireframes, building flexible composable design-system components, improving the information hierarchy of a candidate assessment view

Requirements

  • Proven professional experience combining design and engineering (not necessarily under this exact title)
  • Major contributions to a design system
  • Designed and implemented features for hundreds of users, iterated based on user feedback
  • Excellent taste and execution in visual design
  • Ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight

Soft skills

Ownership and independent decision-makingCollaborative, kind team playerComfortable shipping fast and iterating from user feedbackStrong communication to align with stakeholders

About the company

Ashby builds Talent Acquisition software that helps recruiting teams run fast, transparent, high-quality hiring processes. Notable customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify and Snowflake; the company has tens of millions in ARR, is growing over 100% year over year, and serves 2500+ customers with very low churn.

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