Design Engineer - Canada

About the Role

At Ashby, Design Engineering is a formal department that combines excellence in both design and code. We are doubling our team from five to over ten in the next year. This role truly expects you to design and code—combining UX/UI vision with technical implementation to achieve high nimbleness and creativity.

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.

Examples of What You'll Do

• Redesign our mobile web app by talking with customers, wireframing new flows, implementing its design system, and turning wireframes into a polished UI.
• Build flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards.
• Help Product Engineers improve information hierarchy and scannability for complex views.

Why Ashby?

• Product Scale: Work on software that touches over 100,000 weekly active users and notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.
• Strong Leadership Buy-In: Founded and championed by leadership who have held the role.
• Complex & Powerful Product: Shape UI/UX that balances approachability with advanced automation and customization.

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Why You Might Not Enjoy This Role

• You only want to work on design systems exclusively.
• You like to do extensive research and user testing before implementation rather than shipping fast and gathering feedback.
• You need everything to be perfect before it gets into users' hands.
• You don’t have excellent taste and execution in visual design.
• You need company-driven process and structure to get projects across the finish line rather than running your own projects end-to-end.
• You only want to work on greenfield feature work and prefer to avoid customer issues or investigations.

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What We’re Building

We are building talent acquisition and HR software that provides the highest standard of tooling—intelligent, powerful software that automates and simplifies complex workflows.

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Engineering Culture

• Minimal Process & Ownership: Engineers run their projects end-to-end, writing product specs, building wireframes, and implementing solutions.
• Thoughtful Communication: Focus time is sacred; engineers spend less than 2 hours per week in meetings.
• High Leverage: Fast CI/CD, 15+ deployments a day, and continuous investment in developer tooling and core abstractions.
• In-Person Connection: At least two in-person company and department meetups per year, plus a regional meetup budget.