Ashby

Design Engineer, UK

Ashby
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10 months ago
London, United Kingdom or Cambridge, MA, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement product experiences from customer research and wireframes through production code.
  • Expand and enhance Ashby’s in-house design system with flexible, composable components.
  • Consult with engineers on bespoke work, information hierarchy, scannability, and other design concerns.
  • Own projects end to end, including researching problems, writing product specifications, building wireframes, and implementing solutions.
  • Build approachable products that support both beginners and power users.
  • Collaborate deliberately with product managers, designers, infrastructure engineers, and teammates across time zones.
  • Contribute to developer tooling, shared building blocks, and the quality of Ashby’s software.

Requirements

  • Ability to design and build software, combining design ideas with implementation in code.
  • Ability to tackle challenging product-design problems and improve other engineers’ designs.
  • Ability to work autonomously with end-to-end ownership of research, specifications, wireframes, and implementation.
  • Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including debugging, abstractions, and learning quickly.
  • Previous experience with Ashby’s exact technology stack is not required; an interest in typed languages is helpful.
  • Willingness to participate in pair programming and interviews covering product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity are offered.
  • 10-year stock-option exercise window.
  • Unlimited PTO with encouragement to take 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 per month education budget, with higher-cost items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents in the US, or fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • The team meets in person at least twice a year, with a small budget for regional or city meetups.

Tech Stack

Ashby

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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