# Junior Design Engineer

**Company:** [Ashby](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ashby)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $98k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** UI/UX Design, Frontend Engineering, Design Systems, React, TypeScript, Figma, Visual Design, Wireframing, Component Architecture, User Research
**Posted:** 2026-06-15

> Design Engineer building and shipping complex UI/UX features and design system components for a recruiting platform at scale. Requires up to 2 years of experience with demonstrated projects showing visual taste in both design and engineering.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement complex UI/UX features for a recruiting platform used by 100,000+ weekly active users
- Build and enhance an in-house design system with flexible, composable components
- Consult on bespoke design work for Product Engineers
- Redesign mobile web app flows based on customer conversations and wireframes
- Improve information hierarchy and scannability of candidate assessment views
- Ship features quickly and iterate based on user feedback from internal team and customers

## Requirements
- No more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer
- Demonstrated projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users showcasing great visual taste
- Burgeoning talent in both UI/UX design and engineering
- Excellent taste and execution in visual design
- Ability to work independently without extensive company-driven process
- Willingness to handle customer issues and investigations alongside high-level work

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even through side projects)
- Proficiency in both design and engineering with exceptional proficiency in one discipline

## Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $98,000 - $165,000

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