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.

Increase Leverage, not Team Size We've built Ashby with the quality and depth to meet customer expectations through :

Great developer tooling. CI / CD ~10 minutes, and multiple deployments daily.

Building blocks that enable fast, customizable products (analytics modeling, query language, policy engine, workflow engine, design system).

Put Effort into Diversity Diverse teams drive innovation. Today, 21% of engineers at Ashby are from underrepresented groups. We're taking steps to improve, such as sourcing diverse candidates, generous paid family leave, no leetcode interviews, and more.

Interview Process Our interview process focuses on showing your best self. We'll review past projects, pair programming, writing product and tech specs collaboratively, and discussing decisions. There are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises. The process is three rounds :

Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30m, live)

A technical screen where we pair on our codebase (1h, live)

Three non-coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3h 15m, live across days)

Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact and will prep you for interviews. Each round includes guidance. You'll meet 4 to 6 people in engineering. If we don't offer, we'll provide feedback.

Your First Three Months at Ashby Onboarding is designed for an exceptional start : a single script sets up your dev environment, you push your first product change on day one, and you ship progressively impactful features. A 30 / 60 / 90-day review calibrates on how we work together. You'll have a peer to pair with and a team-led onboarding that covers culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture.

Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Prior experience isn't required; a love of typed languages helps. Engineers joining Ashby have transitioned from languages like Swift / Kotlin and platforms like iOS / Windows. We value fundamentals and fast learning.

Benefits Competitive salary and equity.

10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn't feel pressured to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby.

Unlimited PTO, with encouragement to use it.

Minimum of 12 weeks fully paid parental leave, with regional variations as needed.

Generous equipment and software budget for you to be productive.

$100 / month education budget with manager approval for higher-cost items.

Health insurance for you and dependents (US : fully covered premiums; outside US : high-quality supplemental coverage).

Ashby's success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, challenged, and do our best work. We're building that environment from the ground up. We hope this excites you to apply.

EEO statement : Ashby provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants 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 and abilities.

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