Staff Design Engineer, EU

Role

Ashby is hiring a Staff Design Engineer (EU) who both designs and codes. The role owns UI/UX and visual execution for complex product surfaces, expands and improves the in-house design system, and implements production-ready features while iterating quickly based on user and customer feedback.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement UI/UX features end-to-end, from wireframes and visual design to production code.
• Expand, maintain, and improve the company design system and a library of flexible, composable components.
• Collaborate with Product Engineers, Designers, and PMs to influence information hierarchy, scannability, and interaction design.
• Talk with customers and internal stakeholders to gather feedback, validate designs, and iterate rapidly.
• Ship high-quality changes frequently and use data/feedback to prioritize incremental improvements.
• Contribute to team practices: pair programming, design system specs, and cross-functional problem solving.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience practicing design engineering: making major contributions to a design system and designing and implementing features used by hundreds or more users.
• Staff-level experience in this posting: history of end-to-end ownership and delivering impactful UI/UX at scale.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS; backend familiarity is a plus to reduce coordination overhead.
• Excellent visual design taste and the ability to execute high-fidelity UI work.
• Comfortable working with minimal process, owning project delivery, and iterating quickly with user feedback.
• Experience with customer-facing product work, wireframing, and turning designs into polished interfaces.

Tech stack

TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, CSS. Familiarity with modern CI/CD and AI-assisted developer tooling is part of the engineering environment.

Interview process

• Intro call (30m) with the hiring lead; be prepared to screen-share work.
• Second round: either a 1h technical screen or a ~3h design take-home plus a short live review.
• Final round: three interviews (deep dive into a past design system/project, a design system interview, and a technical/design exercise) totaling ~3h live.
• Process focuses on past projects, pair programming, and collaborative spec-writing; no leetcode/whiteboard exercises.

What to expect in your first three months

• Fast onboarding with a scripted dev environment setup and a day-one product change. Progressive project scope with 30/60/90-day reviews and close pairing support.

Culture

• Minimal process with high ownership: engineers research problems, write specs, build wireframes, and implement solutions end-to-end.
• Deliberate communication, infrequent meetings, and regular in-person meetups (at least twice a year) with local meetup budgets.
• Investment in developer experience, fast CI/CD, and AI-powered tools to increase leverage.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO (actively encouraged)
• Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (may be longer outside the US)
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget (with manager approval for larger items like conferences)
• Top-tier health insurance for US employees with 100% of premiums covered; high-quality supplemental health coverage for other countries, fully covered

Compensation

• Reported range: €141K - €226K