Design Engineer (Remote UK) - Ashby
4 days ago⚠️ Before applying, please carefully review all the job requirements
- Location:
- United Kingdom (London, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford)
- Work Arrangement:
- Remote
- Experience:
- 2+ Years
- Job Type:
- Full-time
- Company:
- Ashby
- Salary:
- £56,000 – £149,000 per year (varies by level and location) + Equity
- Posted:
- 2026-09-29
- Department:
- Engineering / EMEA Engineering
Job Overview
- Ashby is seeking a Design Engineer to join its EMEA Engineering team in a full-time, remote position within the United Kingdom. This specialized role bridges the gap between high-level UI/UX design and frontend software engineering, requiring candidates to both design polished interface flows and write production code. Working directly alongside engineering leadership, Design Engineers at Ashby solve complex interaction challenges, expand the internal design system, and consult with product engineers to elevate application usability and aesthetics.
- The position directly impacts an enterprise recruiting and HR management platform serving over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of job candidates worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- ★ Conceptualize, design, and implement end-to-end user interfaces and interactive feature flows at scale.
- ★ Build, maintain, and expand flexible component libraries within the internal design system.
- ★ Collaborate with Product Engineers to refine information hierarchy, usability, and visual presentation across application modules.
- ★ Engage directly with end users and internal teams to gather feedback and continuously refine deployed UI/UX workflows.
- ★ Investigate and resolve customer-reported visual and technical issues as part of shared engineering responsibilities.
- ★ Balance design refinement with rapid software delivery, shipping incremental UI improvements to production.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- ★ 2 or more years of continuous professional experience as a Software Engineer or Product Designer.
- ★ Demonstrated proficiency in both UI/UX visual design and frontend engineering, with high expertise in at least one domain.
- ★ Proven track record of designing software interfaces and deploying production code to active user bases.
- ★ Exceptional taste and execution capability in visual design, layout, typography, and interaction aesthetics.
- ★ Hands-on experience building modular UI components and contributing to enterprise design systems.
- ★ Ability to operate autonomously in a low-bureaucracy environment without rigid sprint management.
- ★ Strong familiarity with modern frontend web architecture and component-driven design principles.
Compensation Breakdown
- ★ Mid-Level (London): £72,000 – £88,000 per year + Equity
- ★ Mid-Level (UK Other): £56,000 – £69,000 per year + Equity
- ★ Senior Level (London): £123,000 – £149,000 per year + Equity
- ★ Senior Level (UK Other): £114,000 – £138,000 per year + Equity
What the Company Offers
- ★ Competitive base salary structured by location and experience level.
- ★ Company equity grant package.
- ★ Flexible remote work setup across any location in the United Kingdom.
- ★ Opportunity to work on high-scale software used by top global technology companies.
- ★ Collaborative and sustainable work culture prioritizing regular hours and low bureaucracy.
Prepare for Your Interview
- These suggested questions can help you prepare for an interview by focusing on the skills, responsibilities, and technical areas relevant to this role.
Suggested Interview Questions
- Q: How do you balance visual design quality and UI aesthetics with technical implementation constraints?
- Q: Can you walk through a project where you designed the user interface and wrote the production frontend code?
- Q: How do you approach building and maintaining reusable component libraries within a shared design system?
- Q: How do you structure complex workflows and information architecture to make dense software interfaces approachable?
- Q: What strategies do you use to gather user feedback on shipped designs and iterate rapidly in production?
- Q: How do you collaborate with product engineers who need assistance refining the UI/UX of their feature builds?
- Q: How do you manage your workflow and prioritize tasks in an engineering environment with minimal formal process?
- Q: Can you describe your process for taking an initial wireframe or design concept through to deployed frontend code?
Application Tips
- Applicants may want to highlight portfolio projects or production applications that clearly showcase both visual UI/UX design taste and technical coding capability. On your resume or personal website, detail your contributions to design systems, component architecture, and user-centered feature development. Demonstrating past experience shipping code to active user bases and iterating based on real-world feedback will help align with Ashby's fast-paced engineering model.
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