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Principal Product Engineer, Americas
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Ashby
Base pay range $202,000.00/yr - $330,000.00/yr
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. We’ll give you the room to do your best work, and you’ll be our guide! If that speaks to you, read on.
We offer the best of 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 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 – tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.
We’re always expanding the team. We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3–4 days (often sooner).
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 because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs, came up with ideas, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle next.
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.
In larger companies, engineering is narrowed to implementation and delivery, often through “Agile” processes. At Ashby, we give freedom to our engineers.
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.
Designed and built automated interview scheduling – this feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, 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. Many user‑facing features use it.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This involved talking to customers to understand requirements, choosing technologies, building a prototype, and integrating into additional features.
What We’re Building We are building TA software that meets the new standard. For example, scheduling a final round: recruiters gather availability, identify qualified interviewers, perform “Calendar Tetris”, schedule on the earliest date, and handle last‑minute adjustments, all while considering interview load and training needs. Ashby’s intelligent, powerful tooling provides insights and automation to simplify these tasks.
Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply Software Engineers come in many flavors. Here are some things to help you decide if this fits you.
You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack, writing frontend or new infrastructure as needed.
You’ve tackled projects with product and technical ambiguity and thrive at the intersection.
You balance speed and quality, delivering with urgency on a small team.
You are ambitious and open to feedback, ready to level up.
You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, vetting decisions with stakeholders and working with other engineers.
You seek to create leverage by automating or abstracting tedious work, building tools, lint rules, etc.
Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If
You expect a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer to spend most time project‑managing or architectural reviews.
You need company‑driven process and structure to finish projects; sprint planning and well‑defined project management processes.
You want only exciting work; you’ll be involved in customer issues and investigations.
You get lost in the details; you like everything planned upfront.
You haven’t owned projects before; you prefer to take tasks distributed by a lead.
You want to mentor earlier‑career engineers; at Ashby we rely on engineers owning their projects, so mentorship is limited.
Engineering Culture Our culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team can build high‑quality software fast and work regular hours. We achieve this through minimal process with ownership, natural collaboration, deliberate communication, investing in tools that give us leverage, and building a diverse team.
Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership Our best engineers deliver reliably magical outcomes by driving solutions with minimal oversight. Stakeholders are never in the dark; no setbacks surprise.
Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate Engineers collaborate naturally and communicate deliberately. Focus time is sacred, and we keep meetings under two hours per week.
Increase Leverage, not Team Size We build Ashby with quality, breadth, and depth across many customers. We invest in:
Great developer tooling – CI/CD takes ~10 m, 15+ deployments per day, debugger that works out of the box.
Building blocks that create powerful, customizable products fast: common components (analytics, policy engine, workflow engine, design system) constantly improved.
Interview Process Our team and interview process help you show your best self. We dive into past projects and simulate collaboration via pair programming, product/tech specs, and decision discussions. No leetcode or whiteboard exercises.
Our Interview Process Is Three Rounds
Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15–30 m, live)
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1 h, live)
Three non‑coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 m, live, may be split across days)
We may add an additional 30 m screen with a recruiter if bandwidth allows.
Your First Three Months at Ashby We provide an exceptional onboarding experience. Your dev environment is set up with a single script; you push your first product change on day one, and spend subsequent time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices. Your manager will review 30, 60, and 90 days to calibrate how we work together.
The rest of the team will run training sessions on our culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture. A peer will pair program, check in often, and answer questions.
Technology Stack We use TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Prior experience not required – a love of typed languages helps.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO, encouraged to take.
At least 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (longer outside the US).
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget (conference expenses covered with manager approval).
Top‑tier health insurance for US employees and dependents, 100 % premium covered by Ashby. Outside the US, high‑quality supplemental insurance fully covered.
We’re committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. 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.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Software Development
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Principal Product Engineer, Americas
role at
Ashby
Base pay range $202,000.00/yr - $330,000.00/yr
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. We’ll give you the room to do your best work, and you’ll be our guide! If that speaks to you, read on.
We offer the best of 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 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 – tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.
We’re always expanding the team. We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3–4 days (often sooner).
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 because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs, came up with ideas, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle next.
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.
In larger companies, engineering is narrowed to implementation and delivery, often through “Agile” processes. At Ashby, we give freedom to our engineers.
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.
Designed and built automated interview scheduling – this feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, 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. Many user‑facing features use it.
Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. This involved talking to customers to understand requirements, choosing technologies, building a prototype, and integrating into additional features.
What We’re Building We are building TA software that meets the new standard. For example, scheduling a final round: recruiters gather availability, identify qualified interviewers, perform “Calendar Tetris”, schedule on the earliest date, and handle last‑minute adjustments, all while considering interview load and training needs. Ashby’s intelligent, powerful tooling provides insights and automation to simplify these tasks.
Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply Software Engineers come in many flavors. Here are some things to help you decide if this fits you.
You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack, writing frontend or new infrastructure as needed.
You’ve tackled projects with product and technical ambiguity and thrive at the intersection.
You balance speed and quality, delivering with urgency on a small team.
You are ambitious and open to feedback, ready to level up.
You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, vetting decisions with stakeholders and working with other engineers.
You seek to create leverage by automating or abstracting tedious work, building tools, lint rules, etc.
Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If
You expect a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer to spend most time project‑managing or architectural reviews.
You need company‑driven process and structure to finish projects; sprint planning and well‑defined project management processes.
You want only exciting work; you’ll be involved in customer issues and investigations.
You get lost in the details; you like everything planned upfront.
You haven’t owned projects before; you prefer to take tasks distributed by a lead.
You want to mentor earlier‑career engineers; at Ashby we rely on engineers owning their projects, so mentorship is limited.
Engineering Culture Our culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team can build high‑quality software fast and work regular hours. We achieve this through minimal process with ownership, natural collaboration, deliberate communication, investing in tools that give us leverage, and building a diverse team.
Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership Our best engineers deliver reliably magical outcomes by driving solutions with minimal oversight. Stakeholders are never in the dark; no setbacks surprise.
Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate Engineers collaborate naturally and communicate deliberately. Focus time is sacred, and we keep meetings under two hours per week.
Increase Leverage, not Team Size We build Ashby with quality, breadth, and depth across many customers. We invest in:
Great developer tooling – CI/CD takes ~10 m, 15+ deployments per day, debugger that works out of the box.
Building blocks that create powerful, customizable products fast: common components (analytics, policy engine, workflow engine, design system) constantly improved.
Interview Process Our team and interview process help you show your best self. We dive into past projects and simulate collaboration via pair programming, product/tech specs, and decision discussions. No leetcode or whiteboard exercises.
Our Interview Process Is Three Rounds
Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15–30 m, live)
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1 h, live)
Three non‑coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 m, live, may be split across days)
We may add an additional 30 m screen with a recruiter if bandwidth allows.
Your First Three Months at Ashby We provide an exceptional onboarding experience. Your dev environment is set up with a single script; you push your first product change on day one, and spend subsequent time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices. Your manager will review 30, 60, and 90 days to calibrate how we work together.
The rest of the team will run training sessions on our culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture. A peer will pair program, check in often, and answer questions.
Technology Stack We use TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Prior experience not required – a love of typed languages helps.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO, encouraged to take.
At least 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (longer outside the US).
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget (conference expenses covered with manager approval).
Top‑tier health insurance for US employees and dependents, 100 % premium covered by Ashby. Outside the US, high‑quality supplemental insurance fully covered.
We’re committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. 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.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Software Development
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