5 months ago
Remote, United States +10 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$190k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a large portion of one of Ashby’s products and lead projects end-to-end.
- Research customer problems and competitors, write product specifications, make product and design decisions, build wireframes, prototype ideas, and implement solutions.
- Build frontend, backend, and infrastructure components as needed to deliver complete features.
- Create reusable building blocks, abstractions, tools, and automations that increase engineering leverage.
- Ship high-quality product changes at a high pace and contribute to complex user-facing capabilities.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure specialists, support, and other engineers while communicating decisions and progress deliberately.
- Investigate customer issues and help solve challenging product and technical problems.
- Participate in practical interviews involving pair programming, product and technical specifications, technical design, and infrastructure discussions.
- Complete structured onboarding that includes shipping a first product change on day one and progressively larger product changes during the first three months.
Requirements
- Experience leading or taking ownership of projects is required; the role is intended for reasonably tenured engineers.
- Ability to work across the technology stack, including frontend, backend, and infrastructure when necessary.
- Experience handling substantial product and technical ambiguity and building flexible abstractions for complex problems.
- Ability to balance speed and quality while delivering high-quality software with urgency.
- Ambition to improve skills, openness to frequent feedback, and willingness to take on significant freedom and responsibility.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including keeping stakeholders informed and working with other engineers.
- Ability to create leverage through automation, abstractions, debugging tools, lint rules, and similar improvements.
- Previous experience with Ashby’s technology stack is not required; strong fundamentals such as debugging and abstractions and the ability to learn quickly are valued.
- A love of typed languages is helpful.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity are offered.
- Stock options have a 10-year exercise window.
- Unlimited paid time off is offered and encouraged.
- At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave is provided, with potentially longer leave outside the US according to regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budgets are provided.
- A $100/month education budget is provided, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
- US employees receive fully covered health insurance for themselves and dependents; employees in other countries receive fully covered supplemental health insurance.
- Employees meet in person at least twice a year, with a small budget for regional meetups.
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About Ashby
Ashby builds an all-in-one recruiting platform—applicant tracking, scheduling, sourcing, and analytics—for talent acquisition teams at scaling companies. It sells the software as a SaaS subscription with integrations across common HR systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company lists customers such as Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, and Deel.