Ashby
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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.
About The Role And How We Work Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software.
About 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. 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.
What We’re Building As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. Recruiting teams were leveling up how they did their work, but instead of software meeting this new standard, it held them back.
Achievements of Product Engineers
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.
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.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.
Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply
You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack. You do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two.
You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.
You seek to create leverage in your work.
Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If
To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
You only want to do exciting work.
You can get lost in the details.
You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
You want to mentor earlier-career engineers.
Engineering Culture
Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
Putting effort into building a diverse team.
Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership Traditional product‑development processes aren’t meant for the best engineers. Their purpose is to create consistent outcomes regardless of the engineer’s skill. In those environments, consistency comes at the expense of an engineer’s time and freedom. At Ashby, we empower engineers to own projects end‑to‑end while keeping stakeholders informed.
Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind. Focus time is sacred, and with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in less than two hours of meetings per week.
Increase Leverage, not Team Size
Great developer tooling. Our CI/CD takes ~10m, and we deploy at least 15x a day.
Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast. At the core of Ashby is a set of common components that we constantly improve.
Interview Process
Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30m, live)
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)
Three non‑coding interviews that focus on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3h 15m, live can be split across multiple days)
Your First Three Months at Ashby On day one, your dev environment is set up with a single script and you push your first product change. Your manager will conduct 30, 60, and 90‑day reviews to give feedback and calibrate how we work together.
Technology Stack
TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10-year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget.
Top‑tier health insurance for U.S. workers, with 100% premium coverage.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
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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.
About The Role And How We Work Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software.
About 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. 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.
What We’re Building As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. Recruiting teams were leveling up how they did their work, but instead of software meeting this new standard, it held them back.
Achievements of Product Engineers
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.
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.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.
Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply
You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack. You do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two.
You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.
You seek to create leverage in your work.
Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If
To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
You only want to do exciting work.
You can get lost in the details.
You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
You want to mentor earlier-career engineers.
Engineering Culture
Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
Putting effort into building a diverse team.
Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership Traditional product‑development processes aren’t meant for the best engineers. Their purpose is to create consistent outcomes regardless of the engineer’s skill. In those environments, consistency comes at the expense of an engineer’s time and freedom. At Ashby, we empower engineers to own projects end‑to‑end while keeping stakeholders informed.
Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind. Focus time is sacred, and with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in less than two hours of meetings per week.
Increase Leverage, not Team Size
Great developer tooling. Our CI/CD takes ~10m, and we deploy at least 15x a day.
Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast. At the core of Ashby is a set of common components that we constantly improve.
Interview Process
Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30m, live)
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)
Three non‑coding interviews that focus on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3h 15m, live can be split across multiple days)
Your First Three Months at Ashby On day one, your dev environment is set up with a single script and you push your first product change. Your manager will conduct 30, 60, and 90‑day reviews to give feedback and calibrate how we work together.
Technology Stack
TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10-year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget.
Top‑tier health insurance for U.S. workers, with 100% premium coverage.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
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