Design Engineer - UK

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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. We are looking for Design Engineers who truly expect to both design and code.

At Ashby, a Design Engineer isn’t just a Frontend Engineer with new branding, nor is it a Designer vibe coding prototypes. Combining excellence in both is where magic happens.

What You'll Do

• Work on our most challenging design problems, helping others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing our in-house design system.
• Consult on bespoke design work needed by Product Engineers.
• 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.
• Build a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product easily.
• Help Product Engineers improve information hierarchy and scannability.

Why Ashby?

• Product at Scale: Your work will touch over 100,000 weekly active users, millions of candidates per week, and notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.
• Leadership Commitment: Our founders have steadfastly championed this role since 2020 and continue to double down on it.
• Shape Complex UX: Build powerful, approachable software that balances speed with deep workflow customization.

Why You Shouldn’t Apply

• You only want to work on design systems.
• You like to do extensive research and user testing before implementation.
• You want everything to be perfect before it gets into a user’s hands.
• You don’t have excellent taste and execution in visual design.
• You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
• You only want to do exciting work (customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team).

Engineering Culture

• Minimal Process & Ownership: Engineers run their own projects, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement solutions end-to-end.
• Deliberate Communication: Focus time is held sacred, and engineers spend less than 2 hours per week in meetings.
• High Leverage: Deploy at least 15x a day with a ~10-minute CI/CD pipeline and continuous investment in developer tooling.
• In-Person Gatherings: Meet in person at least twice a year as a department and company, with a local meetup budget.