Junior Design Engineer, Americas

Ashby Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - US

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design and implement end-to-end features for Ashby’s talent acquisition platform, combining visual UI/UX design with full-stack engineering to deliver high-impact product improvements.
• Redesign and enhance the in-house design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and reusability across the product, enabling other engineers to build beautiful interfaces with minimal friction.
• Collaborate directly with Product Engineers to improve information hierarchy, scannability, and usability of existing features, such as candidate assessment views and setup wizards.
• Conduct user research by engaging with Ashby’s own recruiting team and customers (including Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake) to identify pain points and validate design solutions.
• Ship iterative product changes rapidly, often releasing to subsets of users within days to gather real-time feedback and refine designs without waiting for perfect conditions.
• Own the full lifecycle of features—from problem definition and wireframing to implementation and post-launch iteration—without relying on traditional product management processes.
• Contribute to the development of AI-powered tooling that automates code reviews, suggests fixes, and prototypes features, leveraging an unlimited token budget for internal AI tools.
• Improve developer experience by enhancing CI/CD pipelines, debugging tools, and internal abstractions that enable the team to deploy 15+ times per day with minimal friction.
• Consult on bespoke design requests from Product Engineers, providing both visual and technical guidance to elevate the quality of UI across the platform.
• Work on a product with over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidate interactions per week, directly influencing the experience of recruiters and hiring managers at top tech companies.
• Participate in pair programming sessions, design system spec reviews, and collaborative design take-homes as part of the interview and onboarding process.
• Onboard quickly: set up your dev environment with a single script, push your first product change on day one, and progressively take on more complex features with peer support.
• Attend two company-wide in-person gatherings annually and receive a budget to meet with teammates in your region.
• Write detailed documentation and proposals to communicate design decisions and technical trade-offs across time zones, prioritizing deliberate written communication over meetings.
• Maintain a balance between creative design exploration and technical execution, ensuring that visual aesthetics and engineering constraints inform each other throughout development.
• Contribute to a culture of minimal process, high ownership, and natural collaboration, where engineers lead projects from concept to delivery without rigid gatekeeping.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS for frontend development and UI implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to design and ship user-facing features with strong visual taste and attention to detail.
• Experience working in both design and engineering capacities, with projects that showcase proficiency in both disciplines.
• Comfort with rapid iteration and shipping features to real users without waiting for perfection.
• Ability to work autonomously, own end-to-end projects, and communicate progress without heavy process or oversight.
• Experience or strong interest in contributing to and improving a design system used by multiple engineers.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO with encouragement to take time off.
• 12+ weeks of fully paid parental leave, with regional adjustments for non-US employees.
• 100% covered top-tier health insurance for employees and dependents (US) or equivalent high-quality supplemental coverage internationally.
• $100/month education budget and manager-approved funding for conferences or training.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget to ensure a productive and comfortable workspace.

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js

PostgreSQL

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About Ashby Inc.

Ashby provides recruiting software that combines applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, and analytics in a single platform. It enables recruiting teams to manage pipelines, schedule interviews, communicate with candidates, and generate reports using customizable workflows and automation. The platform integrates with email, calendars, and other recruiting tools to consolidate data and streamline hiring processes. Founded in 2018, Ashby serves high-growth technology companies and enterprises seeking to improve hiring efficiency and make data-driven recruiting decisions.

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