Ashby is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Product Engineering team in the EU. You will take full ownership of major product areas, blending engineering, product, and design responsibilities to build innovative solutions for real customer challenges.
What You'll Do
- Take ownership over a large portion of one of Ashby's products
- Own projects end-to-end, including product and design decisions
- Research competitors and customer needs
- Write product specifications
- Create wireframes and prototypes
- Implement frontend and backend components
- Design and build automated interview scheduling features
- Develop a generalized declarative filter architecture
- Speccing, designing, and implementing features like in-app offer signing
- Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers to deliver projects
- Vet technical and product decisions with appropriate stakeholders
- Communicate progress and setbacks proactively
- Participate in customer issue investigations and support
What We're Looking For
- Not afraid to tackle any part of the technology stack
- Comfortable with high levels of product and technical ambiguity
- Able to balance speed and quality in development
- Ambitious and committed to continuous skill improvement
- Excellent collaborator and communicator
- Seeks to create leverage through automation and abstraction
- Has led or taken ownership of projects independently
- Capable of stepping back from implementation to assess the broader project context
- Experienced in making product and design decisions without heavy process
Nice to Have
- Experience in full-stack engineering with a focus on customer-driven product development
- Background in building scalable, high-quality software products
- Familiarity with working in low-process, high-agency engineering environments
- Proven track record of delivering complex features from concept to production
Technical Stack
- Frontend development
- Backend development
- SQL
- Web application development
- Responsive web design
- Declarative filtering systems
- Interview scheduling algorithms
- Offer signing and e-signature integration
Team & Environment
- Small, highly tenured team with over 90% at Senior level or above
- Engineers own projects end-to-end; minimal role separation between product, design, and engineering
- Reporting to VP of Engineering (Abhik, Co-Founder)
- Minimal process with high ownership
- Engineers run their own projects
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Investment in tools and abstractions for leverage
- Diverse and inclusive team
- Focus on high-quality, innovative software
- Trust in engineers to make product and technical decisions
- No daily stand-ups, t-shirt sizing, or sprint planning
- Supportive environment for tackling ambiguous problems
- Engineers spend most of their time building, not managing
Benefits & Compensation
- Agency and ownership typical of a seed-stage startup
- Product-market fit and scale of a growth-stage startup
- Tens of thousands of daily users depending on your software
- Opportunity to work on products beyond Talent Acquisition
- Minimal meeting culture (engineers in <2h of meetings per week)
- Focus time is sacred
- In-person team gatherings at least twice a year (department and company-wide)
- Small budget for personal development or team-related expenses
- Tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, with many years of runway; specific compensation details to be shared during interview
Work Mode
- Remote-first with in-person meetups twice a year
- Engineers work regular hours with high autonomy
- Location: EU
Ashby is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
