Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering, UK in Leeds

Hi I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for an ambitious full-stack engineer who is laser-focused on solving customer problems and making the right long-term investments to solve them not only today but in our future features and products.

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.

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.

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.

To ground it with examples, product engineers at Ashby have:

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling.
• 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.

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.

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:

• 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.

Interview Process

At Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together via pair programming, writing product and tech specs collaboratively, and talking through decisions.

Your First Three Months at Ashby

We want an exceptional onboarding experience for every new hire. At Ashby, your dev environment is set up with a single script, you push your first product change on day one, and you spend the rest of your time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices.

Technology Stack

I’m sharing our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it: TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents.

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.