Engineering Manager

Overview

I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for a skilled engineer who has built impressive products and now builds great engineering teams. Ashby’s ambition means we’re doubling the Engineering team in the next year, and we need your experience and leadership to do it thoughtfully.

Our product and growth are exceptional. Ashby All‑in‑One is powerful, easy to use, and replaces several venture‑backed products (often with a better experience). We have notable customers such as 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 over 100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.

A big part of our secret sauce is how we run Engineering. We achieve incredible speed and quality by discarding many industry norms and being optimistic about our engineers. We consider what makes exceptional engineers exceptional, figure out how to hire them, and build an environment that gives them the freedom and agency to actually be exceptional. If engineers writing product specs, making product decisions, and not breaking down projects into individual tickets excite you, you’ve found the right place.

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make final decisions, but you influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention.
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience.
• Propose and lead department and company‑wide initiatives, such as:
  • Re‑think pull request reviews to speed them up while giving reviewers time to give useful feedback.
  • Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback.
  • Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts.

• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up‑to‑date on technology.
• You follow the rules and accept the hand you’ve been dealt.
• You went into management because it was the only growth path available.
• You’re happy with a team of early‑career or mid‑career engineers who don’t thrive with ownership or autonomy.
• To you, a Staff or Principal Engineer spends most of their time project managing or conducting reviews rather than coding.
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo.

• 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.

• Introduction call with me and Ben (30 min, live).
• A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1 h, live).
• An interview to explore your past experience as a leader (1 h, live).
• Interview with Ben, Director of Engineering AMER (45 min, live).
• Interview with Colin, Head of Engineering EMEA (30 min, live).
• Final round where you meet Engineers, other Engineering Managers, and Benji, our CEO (90 min, live).

Your first three months will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership by being an IC. Don’t worry if you don’t know our technologies. The team is helpful, and our dev environment is set up in a single script, so you can push your first product change on day one.

You and I will conduct 30‑day, 60‑day, 90‑day, and 6‑month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture and how we will work together.

This role will initially report to me, but may report to Ben, our Director of Engineering, over time.

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options. You should feel comfortable purchasing options when ready.
• Unlimited PTO.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to comply with regional requirements.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
• In the US, top‑tier health insurance for you and dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, high‑quality supplemental health insurance fully covered.

Compensation Range: CA $190K — CA $280K

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) 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.