Ashby

Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering - UK

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6 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own a large portion of an Ashby product and drive projects end-to-end from problem research through delivery.
  • Research customer and competitor needs, write product specifications, create wireframes and prototypes, and make product and design decisions.
  • Build features across the technology stack, including frontend, backend, and infrastructure work as needed.
  • Create reusable building blocks, abstractions, tools, and developer-experience improvements.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, and other engineers while communicating decisions and progress.
  • Investigate customer issues and contribute to code quality, debugging, and technical design.

Requirements

  • Senior-level software engineering experience with prior ownership or leadership of projects.
  • Experience working through substantial product and technical ambiguity.
  • Ability to work across the technology stack and deliver features end-to-end.
  • Strong judgment in balancing development speed with software quality.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal process while communicating clearly with stakeholders and collaborators.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, product thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Fundamental engineering skills such as debugging, abstraction design, and learning new technologies; prior experience with Ashby's specific stack is not required.
  • Willingness to participate in pair programming and interviews covering product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity, with a 10-year stock-option exercise window.
  • Remote work with flexible self-managed hours and fewer than two hours of meetings per week in typical practice.
  • Unlimited paid time off with encouragement to use it.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US based on regional requirements.
  • Generous equipment, software, and office-furniture budget.
  • $100 per month education budget, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • $250 per month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
  • Fully covered health insurance premiums for US employees and dependents, and fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • In-person department and company meetings at least twice per year, plus a small budget for regional team meetups.
  • Structured onboarding with a single-script development-environment setup, a peer partner, training sessions, and 30-, 60-, and 90-day reviews.

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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