Ashby is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its Product Engineering team in the Americas. You will take full ownership of critical product areas, drive innovation, and deliver high-quality software that solves real problems for Talent Acquisition teams at companies with tens of thousands of daily active users.
What You'll Do
- Take ownership over a large portion of one of Ashby's products
- Own projects end-to-end, including responsibilities traditionally held by product and design roles
- Research competitors and customer needs to inform product development
- Write product specifications for new features
- Create wireframes and design interfaces
- Build and ship features across the full technology stack
- Design and implement reusable building blocks and abstractions
- Collaborate with stakeholders to vet decisions and keep them informed
- Work with other engineers to deliver projects successfully
- Participate in customer issue investigations and support
- Contribute to technical and product strategy within their domain
- Prototype ideas and validate solutions with users
- Make technology choices and evaluate new infrastructure when necessary
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience tackling projects with significant product and technical ambiguity
- Ability to work across the entire technology stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure)
- Strong product sense and ability to make product decisions independently
- Experience writing product specs and creating wireframes
- Demonstrated ability to balance speed and quality in software delivery
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- History of taking ownership of complex projects from conception to delivery
- Comfort operating in a low-process, high-agency environment
- Ability to create leverage through automation, abstractions, and tooling
- Ambitious mindset with a drive to continuously improve skills
- Openness to receiving frequent feedback and using it to grow
Nice to Have
- Experience building software for Talent Acquisition or HR tech domains
- Background in building systems that require complex business logic and user workflows
- Experience with declarative architectures or rule-based systems
- Familiarity with building scheduling or workflow automation systems
- Prior work in early-stage or growth-stage startups with high ownership cultures
Technical Stack
- Full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- SQL
- Responsive web application development
- Declarative filter architectures
- Automated interview scheduling systems
- Offer signing and document workflows
- Design systems
- SRE infrastructure
Team & Environment
- Small engineering team, less than 50 engineers (implied by 'very small team' and doubling plans)
- Flat, IC-driven engineering team with minimal hierarchy; senior engineers lead by doing, not managing
- Reporting to VP of Engineering (Abhik, Co-Founder)
- Ownership and agency over product and technical decisions
- Minimal process and no daily stand-ups, sprint planning, or JIRA-heavy workflows
- Engineers run their own projects
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Focus on building high-quality, innovative software
- Trust in engineers to drive outcomes without managerial oversight
- Investment in tools and abstractions for leverage
- Humble, kind, and talented team members
- Lifelong learning and continuous improvement
- Optimistic about what engineers can achieve
- Protects focus time and minimizes meetings
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 active users depending on your software
- Opportunity to work on products beyond Talent Acquisition
- Minimal meeting culture (<2 hours of meetings per week)
- Focus time is sacred and protected
- Supportive environment with design system and SRE team
- High-impact work with direct customer visibility
- Freedom to define how to solve problems
- Opportunity to build reusable abstractions and tools
- Work regular hours while delivering high-quality software
- Diverse and inclusive team
- Collaborative and kind team culture
- Lifelong learning environment
- Tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, with many years of runway (implies strong financial health and potential for equity value)
Work Mode
- Role is focused on the Americas region
- Implied flexibility within the Americas region; no mention of strict office requirements, but not explicitly remote/global
Ashby is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and respectful workplace.
