Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering, EU

Location: Germany

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 today and in future features and products.

About

The Role And How We Work

Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software. No daily stand‑ups, no t‑shirt sizing, no planning meetings. We give engineers the freedom to own projects end‑to‑end, research competitors, write specs, build wireframes, and deliver features.

At Ashby, we’re building an environment that is optimistic about what engineers can own and achieve. An environment that embraces innovative engineers, and frankly often stays out of their way. 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).

Product Engineer Responsibilities

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling. This feature schedules by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, presenting these times to the candidate through 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 compiles 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. The project involved talking to customers, making technology choices, building a prototype, and integrating the final implementation into additional features.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Software Engineers Come In Many Flavors. Here Are Some Things To Help You Decide If This Fits You And What You’re Looking For.

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of the stack, from frontend to infrastructure.
• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and thrive at the intersection of the two.
• You know how to balance speed and quality. Ashby takes time to ship high‑quality products but moves with urgency.
• You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills; owner‑ship and feedback are key to thriving.
• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, working with stakeholders and other engineers to deliver projects.
• You seek to create leverage in your work, building abstractions, tools, linters, etc., to reduce repetitive toil.

Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If

• You need company‑driven process and structure to get projects finished.
• You only want to do exciting work without the broader impact of a growth‑stage product.
• You can get lost in the details and prefer rigid upfront planning.
• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
• You want to mentor early‑career engineers in a team where most members are senior.
• To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer spends most of their time on project management or architecture reviews; we trust engineers to build and own.

Engineering Culture

• Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
• Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
• Putting effort into building a diverse team.

Collaboration Is Natural & Communication Is Deliberate

Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind. Focus time is something we hold sacred, and with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in 2h meetings per week
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Increase Leverage, Not Team Size

• Great developer tooling. Our CI/CD takes ~10 m, and we deploy at least 15x a day. A debugger that works out of the box.
• Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast. At the core of Ashby is a set of common components (analytics modeling and query language, policy engine, workflow engine, design system) that we constantly improve.

Put Effort Into Diversity

Diverse teams drive innovation, and we’re taking conscious steps to improve. Today, 21% of…