# Design Engineer

**Company:** [Ashby](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ashby)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** CA$121k – CA$248k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** UI/UX Design, Visual Design, Design Systems, Wireframing, Frontend Engineering, User Research, User Testing, Product Design, Software Engineering, Information Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Designs and implements polished product experiences while contributing to Ashby’s design system and collaborating with Product Engineers. The junior role is intended for candidates with up to two years of industry experience and demonstrated ability in both visual design and engineering.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and code user-facing product features, combining UI/UX design with technical implementation.
- Work on challenging product design problems and improve the in-house design system.
- Consult with Product Engineers on bespoke design work.
- Conduct customer conversations, create wireframes, implement design systems, and turn wireframes into polished interfaces.
- Build flexible, composable components for consistent product experiences.
- Improve information hierarchy and scannability in product designs.
- Ship quickly, gather feedback from users and internal teams, and iterate over time.
- Contribute to customer issue investigation and support across the team.

## Requirements
- For this junior posting, have no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer.
- Demonstrate strong visual design taste and growing ability in both UI/UX and engineering.
- Show personal or professional projects with at least some real users.
- Be able to design products and ship code to users.
- Work independently with minimal process and take ownership of decisions.
- Collaborate deliberately and communicate effectively.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience contributing to a design system.
- Experience designing and implementing features and iterating based on user feedback.
- Experience with recruiting or talent acquisition software.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $121,000–$248,000.
- Work on a product serving more than 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week.
- Collaborate with a small, talented engineering team that values high-quality software, fast execution, regular working hours, ownership, and investment in tools and abstractions.

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