Design Engineer, EU

Ashby; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Unlimited PTO

Stock options: 10-year exercise window

Parental leave: 12 weeks

Generous equipment budget

Education budget: $100/month

Health insurance (US) or international

Meetups and team events

Resumo da oferta

Ashby seeks a Design Engineer to blend UX/UI with engineering, contributing to a growing team and a scalable Design System. You will ship product changes from day one, pairing with peers to learn, contribute, and implement design-driven features for our Talent Acquisition software.

You will collaborate with Product Engineers to enhance information hierarchy, wireframe new flows, and deliver reusable components across the Design System, enabling rapid, consistent UI across hundreds of users.

Qualificações

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres and Redis.
• Proficiency with backend technologies is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Work on challenging design problems.
• Expand and enhance the in-house Design System.
• Consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.
• Redesign the mobile web app by talking with customers, wireframing new flows, and implementing the Design System to make wireframes a reality.
• Build flexible, composable components in the Design System to allow engineers to build consistent setup wizards.
• Help Product Engineers improve information hierarchy and scannability for features like candidate assessments.

Conhecimentos

TypeScript

React

CSS

GraphQL

Node.js

Postgres

Redis

Backend knowledge

Ferramentas

CI/CD

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

This role combines both design and engineering. The role embraces the intersection of both, where the UX and UI envisioned can influence the data model's design and flexibility, and an understanding of technology's capabilities can simplify or improve the design.

The role works closely with the VP of Engineering and is part of a department that is doubling from five to over ten members in the next year.

At Ashby, your work will touch over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week, serving notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

What We’re Building

Ashby is building Talent Acquisition software designed to provide the highest standard of tooling The goal is to build intelligent, powerful software that provides insights and automates or simplifies tasks for recruiting teams, such as scheduling, tracking interviewer preparation, and managing interview loads.

Your First Three Months at Ashby

• Your dev environment is set up with a single script.
• You will push your first product change on day one.
• You will spend your time shipping product changes that provide a tour of the codebase and best practices, with the scope increasing from simple copy changes to the delivery of impactful features.
• Your manager will conduct 30, 60, and 90-day reviews to provide feedback and calibrate.
• You will be paired with a peer to answer questions, pair program, and check in often.
• The team will run training sessions on culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working on challenging design problems.
• Expanding and enhancing the in-house Design System.
• Consulting on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.
• Redesigning the mobile web app by talking with customers, wireframing new flows, and implementing the Design System to make wireframes a reality.
• Building flexible, composable components in the Design System to allow engineers to build consistent setup wizards.
• Helping Product Engineers improve information hierarchy and scannability for features like candidate assessments.

Seniority Levels

• Junior Design Engineer: No more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer, with personal or professional projects involving at least a couple of users that showcase visual taste and talent in both UI/UX and engineering.
• Design Engineer (Mid and Senior): 2+ years of continuous experience (internships do not count) as an Engineer or a Designer, with good proficiency in both Design and Engineering and exceptional proficiency in your full-time discipline. Includes experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users.
• Staff Design Engineer: Professional experience in Design Engineering, including major contributions to a Design System and the design and implementation of features for hundreds of users iterated on through user feedback.

Technical Stack & Skills

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis.
• Proficiency with backend technologies is a plus.

Workflow & Mindset

• Ability to work on various responsibilities beyond just Design Systems.
• Ability to build conviction by shipping to a subset of users and gathering feedback rather than relying solely on extensive research and user testing.
• Comfort with fast shipping and iterating over time based on user feedback and business needs rather than seeking perfection before release.
• Excellent taste and execution in visual design.
• Ability to work with minimal process and high ownership, running projects end-to-end by researching problems, writing product specs, building wireframes, and implementing solutions.
• Willingness to handle customer issues and investigations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (may be longer for those outside the US to meet regional requirements).
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget, with more expensive items like conferences covered with manager approval.
• Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby (in the US), or high-quality supplemental health insurance fully covered (internationally).
• Small budget to meet up with folks in your city or region.

Interview Process

There are no Leetcode or whiteboard exercises. The process consists of three rounds:

1. Introduction call with the VP of Engineering (30m, live). Be prepared to screen-share examples of your work.
2. A second round consisting of either a technical screen (1h, live) or a design take-home (~3h async, 30m live).
3. Three interviews (3h, live) including a deep dive into a past Design System or design project, a Design System interview, and the remaining component from the second round (technical screen or design take-home).

Engineering Culture

• Small, talented team focused on building high-quality software fast while working regular hours.
• Minimal process with high ownership over decisions typically made by product and design.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
• Investment in tools and abstractions that provide leverage.
• Focus time is held sacred; engineers are typically in <2h of meetings per week.
• In-person meetings at least twice a year (once as a department and once as a company).

Leverage and Tooling

• High-leverage developer tooling, including CI/CD that takes ~10m and deployments at least 15x a day.
• Use of AI-powered tooling (with an unlimited token budget) to automate mundane tasks, suggest fixes, prototype ideas, and conduct code reviews.
• A core set of building blocks, including analytics modeling, query language, policy engine, workflow engine, and Design Systems.

Diversity

• Commitment to building a diverse team to drive innovation.
• Currently, 25% of engineers and 50% of engineering leaders at Ashby are from underrepresented groups.