Software Engineer, Product Engineering

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

• You need a company-driven process and structure to complete projects. Sprint planning and well-defined project management…