Hi I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for an ambitious full-stack engineer who is laser-focused on solving customer problems and making the right long-term investments to solve them not only today but in our future features and products.
What Ashby gives you in return is the best of both early and growth-stage environments. The agency and no-nonsense of a seed startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost-no-meeting culture. While also the product-market fit and scale of a growth-stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users who depend on your software and eagerly await your next feature.
We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.
You’ve probably seen this role posted before, and it’s because we’re always expanding the team. We’re on track to double this year. We’re bubbling with ideas on how to support Talent Acquisition through software, and we’ve started the journey of building products beyond Talent Acquisition.
About The Role And How We Work
Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as individual contributors – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software.
As a Product Engineer, you’ll take ownership over a large portion of one of our products and own projects end-to-end – wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design. You’ll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more.
Examples of Product Engineers at Ashby
- Designed and built automated interview scheduling. This feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, and then presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app.
- Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compile it to SQL in our backend. Many user-facing features use it.
- Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This project involved working with customers to understand their requirements, deciding what technologies to use, building a prototype, and integrating the final implementation into additional features.
What We’re Building
As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. 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.
We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. Software that is intelligent and powerful, provides insights, automates, or simplifies many of the tasks they are overwhelmed with.
Why You Should or Should Not Apply
Software Engineers come in many flavors, not all of which fit our model. Here are some things to help you decide if this fits you:
- You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack. You do what’s necessary to deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and thrive at the intersection.
- You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality. Ashby wasn’t built quickly; we launched after four years, but we still move with urgency.
- You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills. The role will give you more freedom and responsibilities than most engineers have seen.
- You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, vetting decisions with stakeholders and working with other engineers to get projects across the finish line.
- You seek to create leverage in your work, automating or abstracting tedious work.
Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If
- You need a company-driven process and structure to complete projects. Sprint planning and well-defined project management processes are required for you.
- You only want to do exciting work and not collaborate on customer issues and investigations.
- You get lost in details and prefer everything planned upfront.
- You have never led or taken ownership of projects before.
- Mentoring early-career engineers is a key part of your role, but at Ashby most engineers are senior or above and mentorship isn’t a major focus.
- You view a technical lead or principal engineer as someone spending most of their time project managing or architecture reviewing.
Engineering Culture
Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team given the right environment can build high-quality software fast and with regular hours. We do it through minimal process, natural collaboration, deliberate communication, investing in tools and abstractions, and building a diverse team.
Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership
The best engineers we’ve worked with deliver remarkably creative outcomes. They take customer problems, drive them to solutions, and operate with minimal oversight while keeping stakeholders informed.
Collaboration and Communication
Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented, humble, and kind. We hold focus time sacred, with deliberate communication that keeps meeting load to about two hours per week.
Increasing Leverage, Not Team Size
We built Ashby with the depth many customers expect from larger teams. Our investments include:
- Great developer tooling. Our CI/CD takes about ten minutes, and we deploy at least fifteen times a day.
- Common components such as analytics modeling, query language, policy engine, workflow engine, and design system that cascade improvements throughout the app.
- AI-powered tooling that automates mundane parts of building and maintaining software.
Interview Process
Our interview process focuses on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure over coding tests. The process includes:
- Introduction call with hiring manager.
- A technical screen with pair programming in our actual codebase.
- Three non-coding interviews focusing on product, design, and infrastructure.
Your First Three Months at Ashby
We aim for an exceptional onboarding experience. Your environment will be set up with a single script, and you’ll push your first product change on day one. As you grow, tasks will increase in scope and ambiguity. Your manager will conduct 30‑, 60‑, and 90‑day reviews.
Technology Stack
TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Previous experience is not required, but a love of typed languages is helpful.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO, encouraged to take it.
- Minimum 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget.
- Top-tier health insurance for U.S. employees, and high-quality supplemental insurance for employees abroad, fully covered.
Ashby provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Compensation Range: £138K – £224K
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