Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering - EU

About the Position

Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering - EU

Remote - European Union

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: 100,000+ weekly active 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 Engineering this year). We’re bubbling with ideas for how to support Talent Acquisition with software, and we recently launched Talent Management products to expand our total addressable market and become a company worth $60B+.

We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3-4 days (often sooner).

Responsibilities

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. To ground it with examples, product engineers at Ashby have:

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling. This feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, and then presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app. This solves the “Calendar Tetris” problem I talk about in "What We’re Building."
• Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compile it to SQL in our backend. Many user-facing features use it.
• Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This project involved talking to customers to understand their requirements, deciding what technologies to use, building a prototype, and working with other team members to integrate the final implementation into additional features.

Requirements

• Software Development: You do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
• Product Engineering: You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two.
• Engineering Culture: You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Nice to Have

• AI-powered Tooling: Experience with AI tools to automate mundane parts of building and maintaining high-quality software.
• Collaboration: Excellent collaborator and communicator.
• Communication: Clear and concise communication helps a lot here!

We Offer

• Ownership and Agency: You’ll take ownership over a large portion of one of our products and own projects end-to-end.
• Innovation: An environment that embraces innovative engineers and often stays out of their way.
• Work-Life Balance: The intensity of work at Ashby should feel like a marathon, not a sprint.

About the Company

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. We’re on track to double Engineering this year and 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.