Design Engineer

Summary

Join Ashby as a Staff-Level Frontend Engineer and contribute to a fast-growing company with a unique design-focused engineering culture. You will tackle challenging design problems, enhance the in-house design system, and collaborate with other engineers. This role requires at least 5 years of experience in frontend engineering or a balanced mix of frontend and design, with a proven track record of contributing to or leading design systems. Ashby offers a competitive salary and equity, unlimited PTO, generous family leave, and a comprehensive benefits package. The company prioritizes a collaborative and supportive work environment, fostering innovation and growth. The interview process involves a technical screen, a virtual on-site, and casual conversations to ensure a good fit.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a full-time frontend engineer or evenly split between frontend and design
• Significant contributions to (or leading) design systems
• Deep React, CSS, and HTML knowledge

Responsibilities

• Tackle our most challenging design problems
• Help others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing our in-house design system and consulting on bespoke work
• 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 build custom autocompletes. These autocompletes can contain filters, options to create new records, etc
• Helped another engineer improve their design's information hierarchy and scannability for viewing a candidate’s assessments. Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies
• Own projects end-to-end, from speaking with users to writing product specs to UX design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript (frontend & backend), Apollo GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis
• Experience with SASS modules and Stitches

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• Top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us (If you’re in the US)