Staff Design Engineer - CanadaAshby256k-300k CADFull-timeremote· leadCanadaListed via Jobicy · posted 3 Oct 2026. Apply on Jobicy## DescriptionHi I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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. To ground it with examples, Design Engineers at Ashby have:-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.-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.-Helped a Product Engineer improve the information hierarchy and scannability of their design for viewing a candidate’s assessments.

The Design

Engineer role is more common today than five years ago, but I believe Ashby offers a unique opportunity that few can match:-You work on a product at scale, not at an early-stage startup struggling to find users and get feedback on what you’ve designed and built. At Ashby,



your work will touch over 100,000 weekly active users, millions of candidates per week, and notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. You’ll get to test out ideas with our own recruiting team and hiring managers who use Ashby every day (like me), and often hear customer feedback as early as the day you release.-You get to shape the UI and UX of a powerful and complex product.

Our users need software that helps them move quickly while adapting to their unique workflows and preferences. Here are some reasons you might not enjoy the role:-You only want to work on design systems. While improving our design system is one of many responsibilities, you won’t be able to work on it exclusively.-You like to do extensive research and user testing before implementation.

The beauty of being part-Engineer is that you can build conviction by shipping to a subset of users (including our own team) and gathering feedback!-One of the drivers of our success is that we ship fast. You don’t have excellent taste and execution in visual design.

Design

Engineers set the bar for visual design in our app and continually improve it, pushing its boundaries with each new feature or redesign.-You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line. Sprint planning and well-defined project management processes are things you need or look to others to lead. You’d rather focus on the design and technical details.-We’re building a team of kind, collaborative folks.

Customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team, including our high-level ICs.Junior Design Engineer - You should have no more than 2 years of industry experience as a designer or engineer.



We want to see projects (personal or professional) with at least a couple of users that showcase great visual taste and burgeoning talent in both UI/UX and Engineering.-Design Engineer - This posting covers both Mid and Senior levels. 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.

Regardless of which discipline you’re coming from, we expect experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users (even if through side projects).-Staff Design Engineer (This Posting) - We’re looking for folks who’ve practiced our flavor of Design Engineering professionally. It may not be through a formal title, but you’ve made major contributions to a design system and designed and implemented features for hundreds of users and iterated on them through user feedback.Internally, we do not use these titles, but Engineers are leveled based on proficiency (which you can read about here).When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. Recruiting teams were leveling up how they did their work, but instead of software meeting this new standard, it held them back.Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount.

TA software didn’t help.As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better. Software that’s intelligent and powerful. Software that provides insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with.

As we’ve set the standard for excellence in TA software, HR teams have pulled us into solving their problems in areas like onboarding and performance management.Engineering CultureOur engineering culture is motivated by Benji’s (my Co-founder and CEO) and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right workplace, can b

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📌 Staff Design Engineer - Canada (Winnipeg)
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