Responsibilities
- Build a different type of engineering team and culture at Ashby.
- Focus on building your team, their skills to thrive with the ownership they’re given, and an environment that empowers them to do their best work consistently, with little distraction.
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality.
- Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention.
- Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience.
- Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts.
Requirements
- You love being technical and can hold in-depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend.
- You enjoy management problems.
- You hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team.
- You are an excellent and empathetic communicator.
- You know what exceptional engineers look like.
- You’ve thought deeply about what makes them tick, how to recruit them, and how to grow folks into them.
- You’re good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design, but you’re not interested in calling the shots and are more interested in building a team that can make the best decisions without you.
- You thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments.
Nice to Have
- You are passionate about both management and being technical.
- You spot a pattern amongst your team, figures out a better way for us to operate, and then builds the automation that powers it.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
Team
Team size: 25. Structure: 25+ engineers
Additional Information
- Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it 😅.
- 26% of engineers at Ashby are from underrepresented groups.
- We are taking conscious steps to improve, like sourcing diverse candidates, providing generous paid family leave, no leetcode interviews, and more.
