Senior Product Engineer - Americas

About the Role and How We Work

We’re looking for a versatile, persistent Product Engineer who’s not afraid to set up reusable building blocks across the stack and advocate for the time and space to do so. At Ashby, engineers ship features end-to-end at a high pace. If that speaks to you, read on.

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: tens of millions in ARR, growing 100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet.

You’ve probably seen this role posted before, and it’s because we’re always expanding the team. 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. We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3-4 days (often sooner).

Responsibilities

• As a Product Engineer, 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). Research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more.

• Design and implement features such as automated interview scheduling, generalized declarative filter architecture, and workflows to improve how customers interact with Ashby.

What We’re Building

We aim to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling: software that’s intelligent and powerful, provides insights, and automates or simplifies tasks they’re underwater with.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Software engineers come in many flavors. Here are indicators 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 frontend or infrastructure. We provide a design system and SRE support.

• You’ve tackled projects with ambiguity at the intersection of product and tech. You’ll build powerful abstractions and flexibility.

• You balance speed and quality. We launched publicly after years of work, but startup tempo requires urgency.

• You’re ambitious, open to feedback, and eager to improve your skills.

• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, vet decisions with stakeholders, and work with other engineers to deliver.

• You seek to create leverage by automating or abstracting tedious work.

Put another way, you shouldn’t apply if:

• You expect heavy architecture reviews or project-managing focus from leaders rather than hands-on building.

• You need company-wide process to move projects forward; you prefer to focus on technical details.

• You only want exciting work and prefer not to engage with customer issues.

• You get lost in the details and prefer upfront planning for everything.

• You haven’t led or owned projects before.

• You want to mentor early-career engineers; the team is largely senior and mentorship opportunities are limited.

Engineering Culture

Our culture aims to empower a small, talented team to build high-quality software fast and with regular hours. We focus on minimal process with ownership, natural collaboration and deliberate communication, leverage through tooling, and building a diverse team.

Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership

Engineers run their own projects end-to-end with PMs and Designers building strategy and problem briefs. We favor ownership over process and encourage engineers to own outcomes, even if that means some risk and learning along the way.

Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate

We value collaboration, research, prototyping, and written proposals. Focus time is sacred and meetings are kept under 2 hours per week.

We meet in person at least twice a year and provide a budget to meet with people in your city/region.

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