5 months ago
Remote, Canada +3 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own a large portion of an Ashby product and run projects from problem research through implementation.
- Research customer problems and competitors, write product specifications, make wireframes, and make product and design decisions.
- Build features end-to-end across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure as needed.
- Create reusable abstractions, tools, and building blocks that support powerful and customizable products.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure engineers, and other stakeholders while keeping them informed.
- Investigate customer issues and contribute to debugging and support-enablement tools.
- Deliver software for talent acquisition and other emerging product areas.
- Mentor through technical leadership and help other engineers plan challenging work, without functioning primarily as a project manager or architecture reviewer.
Requirements
- Experience tackling projects with significant product and technical ambiguity is expected.
- Applicants should be comfortable working across the technology stack, including frontend, backend, and infrastructure work.
- Applicants should have led or taken ownership of projects end-to-end.
- The role requires balancing delivery speed with software quality.
- Strong product judgment, technical problem-solving, collaboration, and communication are required.
- Applicants should be ambitious, receptive to feedback, and motivated to improve their skills.
- Applicants should be comfortable creating reusable abstractions, tools, and building blocks that increase leverage.
- Previous experience with Ashby's exact technology stack is not required, but an affinity for typed languages is helpful.
- The interview process includes discussion of past projects, pair programming in the actual codebase, collaborative product and technical specifications, and conversations about product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity are offered.
- Stock options have a 10-year exercise window.
- Unlimited PTO is provided and employees are encouraged to take it.
- At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave is provided, with potentially longer regional requirements outside the US.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budgets are provided.
- A $100/month education budget is offered, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
- Health insurance for employees and dependents is fully covered, with supplemental coverage outside the US.
- The team meets in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company, and provides a small regional meetup budget.
- Engineers typically have fewer than two hours of meetings per week and substantial focus time.
- The onboarding process includes a peer partner, training sessions, and 30-, 60-, and 90-day reviews.
Tech Stack
Categories
Full StackProduct Engineering
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.