Ashby

Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering - UK

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6 months ago
London, United Kingdom or Cambridge, MA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own a large portion of a product and deliver projects end-to-end.
  • Research customer problems and competitors, write product specifications, make wireframes, and make product and design decisions.
  • Build frontend and backend product features and reusable abstractions across the technology stack.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver projects.
  • Investigate customer issues and contribute to tools, abstractions, and developer productivity improvements.
  • Lead product and technical areas while remaining primarily hands-on in software development.
  • Communicate decisions, progress, setbacks, and proposals clearly across the team.

Requirements

  • Experience leading or taking ownership of projects from conception through delivery.
  • Ability to work across the technology stack and handle frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product challenges as needed.
  • Experience working through substantial product and technical ambiguity.
  • Strong product thinking, technical judgment, collaboration, and communication skills.
  • Ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term leverage through reusable abstractions and tooling.
  • Comfort working with minimal process and independently driving projects to completion.
  • Ambition to continue improving technical and product skills and openness to feedback.
  • A love of typed languages is helpful, but previous experience with Ashby's specific stack is not required.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • Ten-year stock-option exercise window.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US to meet regional requirements.
  • Generous equipment, software, and office-furniture budget.
  • $100/month education budget, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
  • Fully covered health insurance for US employees and dependents, and fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • Remote work with flexible hours and a low-meeting culture.
  • In-person department and company gatherings at least twice per year, plus a budget for local or regional team meetups.

Tech Stack

Categories

Product Engineering
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About Ashby

501-1,000 employees

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.

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