Design Engineer, Canada
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About the Role
Ashby is hiring a Junior Design Engineer to work on challenging design problems, enhance the design system, and consult on bespoke design work. The role requires no more than 2 years of industry experience and strong visual design and coding skills.
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Responsibilities
- Work on the most challenging design problems at Ashby
- Help others improve their designs by expanding and enhancing the in house design system
- Consult on bespoke design work needed by product engineers
- Redesign mobile web app by talking with customers, wireframing new flows, implementing design system, and turning wireframes into polished UI
- Build flexible, composable components in the design system for other engineers
- Help product engineers improve information hierarchy and scannability of designs
Requirements
- No more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer
- Projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users that showcase great visual taste and burgeoning talent in both UI/UX and Engineering
- Good proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS
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Role Overview
- Design Engineer role at Ashby, a formal role and department that works closely with the VP of Engineering
- Expects you to design and code; not just frontend engineering or design prototyping
- Work on the most challenging design problems, help others improve designs, and consult on bespoke design work
Examples of Design Engineer Work at Ashby
- Redesigned mobile web app by talking with customers, wireframing new flows, implementing design system, and turning wireframes into polished UI
- Built a set of flexible, composable components in the design system for other engineers to build beautiful setup wizards
- Helped a Product Engineer improve information hierarchy and scannability of a candidate assessment view
What Seniority/Level To Apply For
- Junior Design Engineer: no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer
- Design Engineer: 2+ years of continuous experience as an Engineer or Designer, good proficiency in both Design and Engineering
- Staff Design Engineer: practiced Design Engineering professionally, made major contributions to a design system and designed/implemented features for hundreds of users
Why You Shouldn’t Apply
- You only want to work on design systems
- You like extensive research and user testing before implementation
- You want everything perfect before release
- You don’t have excellent taste and execution in visual design
- You need company driven process and structure
- You only want to do exciting work
Engineering Culture
- Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Investing in tools and abstractions for leverage
- Putting effort into building a diverse team
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- 10 year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget
- Top tier health insurance (US) or high quality supplemental health insurance (other countries)
Interview Process
- Introduction call with VP of Engineering (30m live)
- Second round: technical screen (1h live) or design take home (~3h async + 30m live)
- Three interviews: deep dive into past design system or design project, design system interview, and the interview not done in second round (3h live)
Technology Stack
- TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis
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