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Staff Product Engineer, Americas
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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.
What Ashby gives you in return is the best of both early and growth‑stage environments. The agency and no‑nonsense of a seed startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost‑no‑meeting culture. While also the product‑market fit and scale of a growth‑stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users who depend on your software and eagerly await your next feature.
We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet.
Base pay range $190,000.00/yr - $275,000.00/yr
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. I started my career building software for artists in the Visual Effects industry. It was a formative experience for me as a software engineer because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs. I came up with ideas. I did industry research, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle in the next iteration. No daily stand‑ups, no t‑shirt sizing, no planning meetings. I studied computer science to solve problems, not tickets, and this felt exactly like that. I not only felt creative and fulfilled but the agency and ownership we were given as engineers powered an incredible amount of innovation.
Innovation came differently (or not at all) at technology startups beyond the seed stage, often through an engineer’s force of will and ability to push back against culture (rather than any encouragement from it). Engineering was narrowed to implementation and delivery, partly due to the influence of other departments and partly due to the influx of "Agile" processes like sprint planning. In those companies, I felt like a JIRA jockey.
Key Projects
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. This solves the “Calendar Tetris” problem I talk about in "What We're Building."
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. Many user‑facing features use it.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This project involved talking to customers to understand their requirements, deciding what technologies to use, building a prototype, and working with other team members to integrate the final implementation into additional features.
Qualifications
Versatility across any part of a technology stack; able to write frontend or choose new infrastructure.
Experience tackling projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity.
Ability to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Ambitious and always looking to improve skills.
Excellent collaborator and communicator; vet decisions with stakeholders.
Seeks to create leverage in work, automating or abstracting tedious tasks.
We're Not For
Those who want a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer role focused on project managing or architecture reviews.
Those who need company‑driven process and structure to get projects across the finish line.
Those who only want exciting work and avoid customer issues and investigations.
Those who get lost in the details and prefer everything planned upfront.
Those who have not led or taken ownership of projects before.
Those who want to mentor early‑career engineers. We rely on engineers owning their projects, so mentorship opportunities are limited.
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 with additional items covered with manager approval.
Health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental insurance covered abroad.
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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Staff Product Engineer, Americas
role at
Ashby
Hi
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.
What Ashby gives you in return is the best of both early and growth‑stage environments. The agency and no‑nonsense of a seed startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost‑no‑meeting culture. While also the product‑market fit and scale of a growth‑stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users who depend on your software and eagerly await your next feature.
We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet.
Base pay range $190,000.00/yr - $275,000.00/yr
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. I started my career building software for artists in the Visual Effects industry. It was a formative experience for me as a software engineer because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs. I came up with ideas. I did industry research, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle in the next iteration. No daily stand‑ups, no t‑shirt sizing, no planning meetings. I studied computer science to solve problems, not tickets, and this felt exactly like that. I not only felt creative and fulfilled but the agency and ownership we were given as engineers powered an incredible amount of innovation.
Innovation came differently (or not at all) at technology startups beyond the seed stage, often through an engineer’s force of will and ability to push back against culture (rather than any encouragement from it). Engineering was narrowed to implementation and delivery, partly due to the influence of other departments and partly due to the influx of "Agile" processes like sprint planning. In those companies, I felt like a JIRA jockey.
Key Projects
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. This solves the “Calendar Tetris” problem I talk about in "What We're Building."
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. Many user‑facing features use it.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This project involved talking to customers to understand their requirements, deciding what technologies to use, building a prototype, and working with other team members to integrate the final implementation into additional features.
Qualifications
Versatility across any part of a technology stack; able to write frontend or choose new infrastructure.
Experience tackling projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity.
Ability to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Ambitious and always looking to improve skills.
Excellent collaborator and communicator; vet decisions with stakeholders.
Seeks to create leverage in work, automating or abstracting tedious tasks.
We're Not For
Those who want a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer role focused on project managing or architecture reviews.
Those who need company‑driven process and structure to get projects across the finish line.
Those who only want exciting work and avoid customer issues and investigations.
Those who get lost in the details and prefer everything planned upfront.
Those who have not led or taken ownership of projects before.
Those who want to mentor early‑career engineers. We rely on engineers owning their projects, so mentorship opportunities are limited.
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 with additional items covered with manager approval.
Health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental insurance covered abroad.
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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