Senior Product Engineer, EU

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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. 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.

Role Highlights

• Ownership: Take ownership over large portions of one of our products and own projects end‑to‑end, wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design.
• Product Management: Research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more.
• Core Features: Designed and built automated interview scheduling, built a generalized declarative filter architecture, specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete 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.

We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling – intelligent, powerful software that provides insights and automates tasks.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Software Engineers Come In Many Flavors. Here are some things to help you decide if this fits you and what you’re looking for.

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack.
• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity.
• You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
• You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.
• You seek to create leverage in your work.

Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If

• You need company‑driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
• You only want to do exciting work in a team focused on customer issues.
• You can get lost in the details.
• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
• You want to mentor earlier‑career engineers.
• You expect a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer to spend most time on project management or architecture reviews.

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.

Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate

Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind. We hold focus time sacred and keep meetings to less than 2 hours per week.

Increase Leverage, not Team Size

• Great developer tooling: our CI/CD takes ~10 mins, and we deploy at least 15× a day.
• Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast.

Diversity Focus

We have 21% of engineers from underrepresented groups and are taking conscious steps to improve, such as sourcing diverse candidates, providing generous paid family leave, no Leetcode interviews, and more.

Interview Process

We have three rounds: Introduction call, technical screen, and three non‑coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure. There is no Leetcode or whiteboard exercises.

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30 min, live).
• A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1 h, live).
• Three non‑coding interviews that focus on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 min, live – can be split across multiple days).

Your First Three Months at Ashby

We get you up and running quickly. On day one you push your first product change and spend the rest of your time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices. Your manager will do a 30‑day, 60‑day, and 90‑day review.

Technology Stack

Type
Script (frontend & backend), React, Graph
QL API, Node. js, Postgres, Redis. We look for people who love typed languages and can learn fast.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO, and we encourage you to take it.
• Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (longer outside the US).
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget and additional coverage for conferences with manager approval.
• Top‑tier health insurance for US employees (100% premiums covered); supplemental health insurance for employees outside the US.

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

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.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development