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AshbyStaff Design Engineer - Canada
Ashby is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to join its growing design engineering department. The employer builds talent acquisition and HR software that serves over 100,000…
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Ashby is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to join its growing design engineering department. The employer builds talent acquisition and HR software that serves over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates each week, including notable clients like Notion, Shopify, Linear, and Snowflake. This position requires someone who can seamlessly combine software engineering and visual design to tackle complex UI and UX challenges. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating…
Job Description
Ashby is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to join its growing design engineering department. The employer builds talent acquisition and HR software that serves over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates each week, including notable clients like Notion, Shopify, Linear, and Snowflake. This position requires someone who can seamlessly combine software engineering and visual design to tackle complex UI and UX challenges.
The ideal candidate is comfortable operating with minimal process and high ownership, taking on problem research, wireframing, specification writing, and end-to-end implementation. Team members at Ashby value fast iteration based on user feedback over extensive upfront research or absolute perfectionism. The role suits professionals with a strong background in both coding and design who enjoy creating scalable components, expanding an internal design system, and consulting on bespoke product features.
Ashby operates with an engineering culture focused on natural collaboration, deliberate communication, and developer leverage through modern tooling and AI. Staff in this position will help scale the design engineering department from five to over ten team members.
Responsibilities
- Work on challenging design problems across the software product
- Expand and enhance the in-house design system to help other engineers improve their designs
- Consult on bespoke design work needed by product engineers
- Handle customer issues and investigations distributed across the team
- Research problems, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement solutions end-to-end
Requirements
- Professional experience practicing this specific combination of design and engineering
- Major contributions to a design system
- Experience designing and implementing features for hundreds of users and iterating on them through user feedback
Core Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the salary for the Staff Design Engineer role?
The salary ranges from USD 256,000 to 300,000 per year.
What is the location or remote status of this job?
The exact location is not stated in the job posting, and the remote status is listed as on-site.
What is the employment type?
The position is full-time.
What experience is expected for the Staff level?
Staff applicants should have professional experience practicing this specific blend of design and engineering, including major contributions to a design system and experience designing, implementing, and iterating on features for hundreds of users.
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