engineering
Posted Nov 14, 2025Staff Design Engineer, Americas
at Ashbyhq
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Design Engineer at Ashby isn’t just a Frontend Engineer with new branding, nor is it a Designer vibe coding prototypes.
- Design Engineers set the bar for visual design in our app and continually improve it, pushing its boundaries with each new feature or redesign. - You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
Requirements
- For instance, the UX and UI I envisioned often influenced the data model's design and flexibility, while the understanding of technology's capabilities often simplified or improved the design.
- responsibilities as we’ve grown (in fact, we’ve doubled down). - You get to shape the UI and UX of a powerful and complex product.
- As a result, our UI isn’t a simple chatbox, but it can’t rely on a sea of knobs and dials either.
- You have good proficiency in both Design and Engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline you practice full-time.
- experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects). - Staff Design Engineer (This Posting) - We’re looking for folks who’ve practiced our flavor of Design Engineering professionally.
- A recruiter needed to manually collect availability from the candidate, identify qualified interviewers, perform “Calendar Tetris” to find who is available to interview the candidate, schedule on the earliest date possible, and make any last-minute adjustments as availability changed.
- So, we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling.
- Software that provides insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with.
- At the core of Ashby is a set of common components (analytics modeling and query language, policy engine, workflow engine, design system) that we constantly improve.
- Each improvement to a common component cascades throughout our app (short video below). - AI-powered tooling.
- We think of AI as a way to automate the mundane parts of building and maintaining high-quality software.
- We write in detail about our philosophy, current use of AI, and future plans for AI in Engineering here https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineering-and-the-future.
- There are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.
- At Ashby, your dev environment is set up with a single script, you push your first product change on day one, and you spend the rest of your time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices.
- TECHNOLOGY STACK Our tech stack is TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis.
- Depending on the level you’re applying for and your past experience, we expect, at a minimum, good proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS.
- Proficiency with backend technologies is a plus, as it allows you to work without coordinating with Product Engineers.
- Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence-driven tools to assist our recruitment team in screening, assessing, and selecting candidates for this position.
Experience
- You have 2+ years of continuous
Benefits
- Internally, we do not use these titles, but Engineers are leveled based on proficiency (which you can read about here https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compensation).
- We are taking conscious steps to improve, like sourcing diverse candidates, providing generous paid family leave, no leetcode interviews, and more.
- BENEFITS - Competitive salary and equity. - 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable. - Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it. - A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.
- For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements. - Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- Get what you need to be happy and productive! - $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval. - If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.
- In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us. Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.
Contact
- Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhikpramanik/, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering.
- COLLABORATION IS NATURAL & COMMUNICATION IS DELIBERATE Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind (meet them here https://www.ashbyhq.com/team!).
- Focus time is something that we hold sacred, and, with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in <2h meetings per week (I wrote about it here https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/company/thoughtful-communication).
- We are taking conscious steps to improve, like sourcing diverse candidates, providing generous paid family leave, no leetcode interviews, and more. [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/4ea5f68e-c33e-4ac9-831a-e732bee4a303/d4679311-9dba-4031-bf5e-19ce78597ab1/calendar.png] We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company.
- Here’s an impromptu quote from Arjun in our company Slack of what it’s like to build a feature at Ashby: [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/4ea5f68e-c33e-4ac9-831a-e732bee4a303/8d94727a-46d8-42a2-9627-ddcd7f822f95/arjun.png] And a demo of one of these building blocks: PUT EFFORT INTO DIVERSITY Diverse teams drive innovation and better outcomes.
Additional details
- This role is close to my heart because, as someone who can both design and code, it’s where I’ve always done my best work, but also where I was seen as a rebel and an outsider.
- I want folks like me to feel at home at Ashby, and so I made Design Engineering a formal role and department that works closely with me.
- Our first hire was over five years ago, and we’re doubling the team from five to over ten in the next year.
- Combining excellence in both is where magic happens.
- I found that when I put my best effort into both the design and technical implementation of a feature, I had a nimbleness and creativity that was hard to achieve when I did only one or the other.
- You’ll work on our most challenging design problems, help others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing our in-house design system, and consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.
- To ground it with examples, Design Engineers at Ashby have: - Redesigned our mobile web app by talking with customers who use it often, wireframing new flows, implementing its design system, and using that system to turn the wireframes into a polished UI.
- - Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product easily.
- - Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments.
- Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies.