Design Engineer, UK

Design Engineer at Ashby who both designs and codes, shaping UI/UX and data model design within a design-system-enabled product. Responsibilities include redesigning the mobile web app, building flexible, composable components in the design system for consistent setup wizards, and helping Product Engineers improve information hierarchy for quicker candidate assessment review. The role involves shaping the UI/UX of a powerful, scalable product used by notables like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake, collaborating with the in-house recruiting team, and delivering features to hundreds of users while iterating based on customer feedback. Seniority options include Junior to Staff, with explicit pathways for mid and senior levels. The position emphasizes fast shipping, ownership, minimal process, collaboration, and ongoing design-system improvements, and includes a three-round interview process without leetcode. You’ll work in a UK-based setup with multiple offices (Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, London) or remote options, and you’ll contribute to a product used by tens of thousands of users weekly, with an ownership culture and a focus on practical, shipped design and engineering work.