Design Engineer - Canada

Role

Ashby is hiring a Design Engineer (Canada) who both designs and implements product UI/UX. This role combines visual and interaction design with frontend engineering to solve challenging design problems, expand the company design system, and ship production-quality features to a large user base.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement polished UI/UX and flows from wireframes to production.
• Expand and maintain a flexible, composable design system used across the product.
• Consult with Product Engineers on bespoke designs and information hierarchy.
• Conduct lightweight user conversations and ship prototypes to gather feedback quickly.
• Ship end-to-end features, including design, spec-writing, implementation, and iteration.
• Contribute to developer experience and tooling improvements.

Requirements

• 2+ years of continuous experience as an Engineer or a Designer for the level this posting targets (Design Engineer). Junior and Staff levels are also described in the posting.
• Strong proficiency in both design and engineering; exceptional proficiency in the discipline you practice full-time.
• Excellent visual design taste and execution; experience building components and design systems.
• Experience shipping code used by hundreds to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Ability to work with minimal prescribed process, exercise ownership, and collaborate deliberately.

Levels and Who Should Apply

• Junior Design Engineer: <=2 years industry experience; portfolio/projects showing visual taste and growing technical capability.
• Design Engineer (this posting): 2+ years continuous experience; balanced proficiency in design and engineering.
• Staff Design Engineer: substantial professional experience contributing major design systems and shipped features iterated via user feedback.

Technology Stack

Ashby’s stack includes TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, and CSS. Engineers are expected to be proficient with TypeScript, React, and CSS at minimum; backend familiarity is a plus.

Interview Process

• Intro call with the hiring leader (30m, live) with screen-share of work samples.
• Second round: either a technical screen (1h, live) or a design take-home (~3h asynchronous + 30m live).
• Final stage: three interviews including a deep dive into past design system/project work and either design system interview or the technical screen/take-home.
• No leetcode or whiteboard exercises; emphasis on past work, pair programming, and collaborative design/spec writing.

Culture & Workstyle

• Remote, low-meeting, high-ownership engineering culture with minimal prescribed process.
• Engineers run projects end-to-end: research, specs, wireframes, and implementation.
• Team meets in person at least twice a year; small local meetup budget provided.
• Emphasis on work-life balance, unlimited PTO, and inclusive hiring practices.

Compensation

• Compensation Range listed for this posting: CA$121K - CA$248K.

Benefits (summary)

• Competitive salary and equity; 10-year option exercise window.
• Unlimited PTO and at least 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (varies by region).
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget (larger items covered with manager approval).
• $250/month tool budget and access to AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Codex) with generous token budgets.
• US: top-tier health insurance with 100% premiums covered for employees and dependents; other countries: high-quality supplemental health insurance fully covered.