Ashby

Staff Design Engineer - Canada

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12 months ago
Remote, Canada +3 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and code polished product features end to end.
  • Solve complex UI and UX problems across Ashby’s recruiting and HR software.
  • Expand and enhance the in-house design system with flexible, composable components.
  • Consult with Product Engineers on bespoke design work, information hierarchy, and usability.
  • Research problems, write product specifications, build wireframes, and independently drive projects.
  • Ship quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on designs and implementations.
  • Participate in customer issue investigations and collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

  • Professional experience practicing design engineering, whether or not under a formal Design Engineer title.
  • Major contributions to a design system and experience designing and implementing features for hundreds of users.
  • Demonstrated excellence in both visual design and engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline practiced full-time.
  • Good proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS.
  • Experience shipping product changes and iterating based on user feedback.
  • Strong visual design taste, execution, ownership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Remote work with flexible self-managed hours and fewer than two hours of meetings per week for engineers.
  • Unlimited PTO with encouragement to use it.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US according to regional requirements.
  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
  • $100/month education budget, with conferences and more expensive items covered with manager approval.
  • $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
  • Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents in the US and supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • 10-year stock-option exercise window and equity.
  • In-person department and company meetings at least twice per year, plus a small local meetup budget.
  • Structured onboarding with a peer partner, day-one product changes, training sessions, and 30-, 60-, and 90-day reviews.

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About Ashby

501-1,000 employees

Ashby builds an all-in-one recruiting platform—applicant tracking, scheduling, sourcing, and analytics—for talent acquisition teams at scaling companies. It sells the software as a SaaS subscription with integrations across common HR systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company lists customers such as Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, and Deel.

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