Ashby

Staff Design Engineer - EU

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12 months ago
Tallinn, Estonia +4 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement polished product features across Ashby’s recruiting and HR software.
  • Expand and enhance Ashby’s in-house design system with flexible, composable components.
  • Consult with Product Engineers on bespoke design work, information hierarchy, scannability, and user experience.
  • Research customer problems, write product specifications, create wireframes, and own projects through implementation and iteration.
  • Ship features quickly, gather feedback from customers and internal users, and improve designs over time.
  • Set a high bar for visual design and contribute to the design and technical direction of the Design Engineering function.
  • Participate in customer issue investigations and collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Infrastructure, and other engineers.

Requirements

  • Professional experience practicing Ashby’s form of Design Engineering, whether or not under a formal Design Engineer title.
  • Major contributions to a design system and experience designing, implementing, shipping, and iterating on features used by hundreds of users.
  • Good proficiency in both design and engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline practiced full-time.
  • Excellent visual-design taste and execution, along with strong UI/UX and frontend engineering ability.
  • At minimum, good proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS; backend proficiency is a plus.
  • Ability to independently research problems, define solutions, communicate deliberately, and own projects end to end.
  • Ability to share examples of past design, design-system, and engineering work during the interview process.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity, including a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • 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 per month education budget, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • $250 per month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
  • Fully covered health insurance premiums for US employees and dependents, and fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • Remote, low-meeting, high-ownership work with flexible hours and at least two in-person team or company meetings per year.
  • Small budget for meeting colleagues in the employee’s city or region.
  • Three-month onboarding with a peer partner, 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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