Principal Product Engineer, Americas

Base Pay Range

$ / yr - $ / yr

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering. 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, all engineers ship features end‑to‑end at a high pace. We’ll give you the room to do your best work and you’ll guide the team.

If that speaks to you, read on.

What Ashby gives you is the best of early and growth‑stage environments. We write product specs, make design decisions, and build with an almost‑no‑meeting culture. We also have the product‑market fit and scale of a growth‑stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users, low churn, and >100% year‑over‑year growth. We’ll share more details once we meet.

We have customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among peers. We’re on track to double this year. We read every application and respond within 3‑4 days.

We strive to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs—ownership, agency, and the freedom to impact users with creative, innovative software. I built products for visual‑effects artists, handled product management and design, and learned to be the kind of engineer that thrives in minimal process environments. I value engineers who own their projects end‑to‑end.

• Design, build, and ship product features end-to-end, taking ownership of the entire lifecycle (from research to production).
• Research and understand customer pain points, write product specs, create wireframes, and iterate through prototypes.
• Maintain and extend reusable building blocks (e.g., declarative filter architecture, automated interview scheduling, signing‑off flows).
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers, collaborating on decisions, balancing speed and quality.
• Drive implementation, but also mentor less experienced engineers, guide architectural decisions, and influence technical direction.

We’re building high‑quality TA software that helps recruiters schedule candidates quickly, track interview load, and automate tasks. For example, our automated interview scheduling feature calculates possible interview times and presents candidates with options—all within a responsive web app.

• Comfort with the entire tech stack; you can write frontend or choose new infrastructure.
• Experience tackling product and technical ambiguity; you thrive where there is no simple CRUD app.
• Balance speed and quality; we’re built with high standards but move with urgency.
• Ambitious, open to feedback, and continually improving.
• Great at collaboration and communication; you vet decisions with stakeholders and keep them informed.
• Can create abstractions or tooling to reduce repetition and support others’ debugging.

• You expect heavy process, sprint planning, or project‑management support; we prefer minimal process.
• You only want high‑level, non‑technical roles; we seek engineers who build.
• You’re easily lost in details; we value the big picture.
• You have no prior ownership experience; we need senior or above talent.
• You want to mentor early‑career engineers; we provide limited mentorship opportunities.

• Minimal process, ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
• Investing in tools and abstractions.
• Building a diverse team.

Our process focuses on problem solving, product thinking, and technical design. We avoid Leet Code or whiteboard exercises.

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15‑30 min).
• Technical screen—pair programming in the real codebase (1 h).
• Three non‑coding interviews focusing on product, design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 min total; can span multiple days).

We want an exceptional onboarding experience. Your dev environment is ready with a single script; you push your first product change on day one and ship incremental features. We provide peer pairing, regular check‑ins, and…