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DesignOn-siteMid senior

Staff Design Engineer - UK

Ashby · Manchester

Ashby makes recruiting software used by more than 100,000 people a week at companies such as Notion, Linear and Shopify. This Staff Design Engineer sets the bar for visual design across a complex product, designing and building its hardest features and leading work on the in-house design system.

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Company
Ashby
Where
Manchester
Function
Design
Posted
52 weeks ago
Team
Engineering
Seniority
Mid senior
Work mode
On-site
Categories
DesignSaaS

The role

What you’ll do

  • Take on Ashby's toughest design problems and build the solutions yourself
  • Shape and expand the design system that other engineers rely on
  • Advise Product Engineers on bespoke design work
  • Ship to small groups of users first and refine from what they say

What you’ll need

  • Professional experience of combined design and engineering work, whatever the title
  • Major contributions to a design system
  • Features you designed and built for hundreds of users, improved through feedback
  • Good working knowledge of TypeScript, React and CSS

Good to know: Remote in the UK. Pay ranges from £151K to £246K, plus equity. Unlimited holiday, at least 12 weeks' paid parental leave, and in-person meet-ups at least twice a year.

Events for people in this role

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Wed18NovProlific North Live 2026 Sister - Renold BuildingDesign eventSaaS event
Wed25NovProductTank Manchester — November 2026Design eventSaaS event
Thu26NovWinter 2026 Android & Kotlin Meetup Auto TraderDesign eventSaaS event
Tue24NovService Design Lightning Talks Colony King StreetDesign event
Tue17NovDMLab North-West: Accessible Music Technology School of Digital Arts (SODA)Design event

About Ashby

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