Ashby
Junior Design Engineer - Americas
Remote - US · Junior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago
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About the role
- 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.
- One of the drivers of our success is that we ship fast.
Responsibilities
- 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, but also where I was seen as a rebel and an outsider.
- I want folks like me to feel at home at Ashby, and so I made Design Engineering a formal role and department that works closely with me.
- This role truly expects you to design and code.
- Design Engineer at Ashby isn't just a Frontend Engineer with new branding, nor is it a Designer vibe coding prototypes.
- I found that when I put my best effort into both the design and technical implementation of a feature, I had a nimbleness and creativity that was hard to achieve when I did only one or the other.
- For instance, the UX and UI I envisioned often influenced the data model's design and flexibility, while the understanding of technology's capabilities often simplified or improved the design.
- 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.
- Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate's assessments. Recruiters can quickly parse information and pick out anomalies.
Requirements
- You have 2+ years of continuous experience (e.g., internships don't count) as an Engineer or a Designer.
- You have good proficiency in both Design and Engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline you practice full-time.
Skills
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage
- Putting effort into building a diverse team
- Today, 25% of engineers and 50% of our engineering leaders at Ashby are from underrepresented groups.
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Compensation
- Internally, we do not use these titles, but Engineers are leveled based on proficiency (which you can read about here https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compensation).
Benefits
- Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build beautiful, consistent setup wizards across our product easily.
Company info
- We built Ashby with the quality, breadth, and depth that many customers would expect from much larger teams over larger time scales.
- 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.
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