Senior Product Engineer - Americas

Overview

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 our engineers ship features end-to-end at a high pace. Example is the best leadership. We’ll give you the room to do your best work, and you'll be our guide! 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: we have 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 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. We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3-4 days (often sooner).

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.

I started my career building software for artists in the Visual Effects industry. It was a formative experience for me as a software engineer because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs. I came up with ideas. I did industry research, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle in the next iteration. No daily stand-ups, no t-shirt sizing, no planning meetings.

I studied computer science to solve problems, not tickets, and this felt exactly like that. I not only felt creative and fulfilled but the agency and ownership we were given as engineers powered an incredible amount of innovation.

Innovation came differently (or not at all) at technology startups beyond the seed stage, often through an engineer’s force of will and ability to push back against culture (rather than any encouragement from it). Engineering was narrowed to implementation and delivery, partly due to the influence of other departments and partly due to the influx of "Agile" processes like sprint planning. In those companies, I felt like a JIRA jockey.

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). You’ll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more.

Examples of Product Engineer Work

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling.

• Built a generalized declarative filter architecture.

• Specced, designed, and implemented a feature for signing offers entirely within Ashby.

What We’re Building

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.

Scheduling a final round is an excellent example. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount. A recruiter needed to manually collect availability, identify qualified interviewers, perform “Calendar Tetris,” and manage last-minute adjustments. TA software didn’t help.

As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better. So, we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

You Should Apply If:

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack.

• You’ve tackled projects with product and technical ambiguity.

• You know how to balance speed and quality.

• You are ambitious and open to feedback.

• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.

• You seek to create leverage in your work.

You Shouldn’t Apply If:

• You expect tech leads to spend most of their time project managing.

• You need company-driven process and structure.

• You only want to do exciting work.

• You get lost in details and struggle to step back.

• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.

• You want to mentor earlier-career engineers.

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.

Interview Process

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15–30m).

• Technical screen (1h, live).

• Three non-coding interviews (3h 15m, live).

• Possible additional recruiter screen (30m).

Your First Three Months at Ashby

• Day one: dev environment setup and first product change.

• 30, 60, 90-day reviews with feedback.

• Peer pairing and team-led training sessions.

Technology Stack

TypeScript, React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• 10-year exercise window for stock options.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave.

• Generous equipment and education budgets.

• Top-tier health insurance (100% covered).

Equal Opportunity

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.