Principal Product Engineer

Overview 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. 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. We’ll share more details once we meet. You’ve probably seen this role posted before, and it’s because we’re always expanding the team (we’re on track to double this year). We’re bubbling with ideas on how to support Talent Acquisition through software, and we’ve started the journey of building products beyond Talent Acquisition. 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 individual contributors—where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software. We believe in ownership and autonomy, with engineers taking end-to-end responsibility for projects. You’ll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more. Examples of how product engineers at Ashby contribute include: Designed and built automated interview scheduling. This feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, and then 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. Spec’d, 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. Scheduling a final round is an excellent example. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount. TA software didn’t help. So, we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. We want other functions and departments to be jealous of what TA teams can do with Ashby, and today they often are Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply Software engineers come in many flavors, not all of which fit our model. Here are some things to help you decide if this fits you and what you’re looking for: 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 thrive at the intersection of the two. You know how to balance speed and quality. We moved with urgency, while delivering a high-quality product that encouraged customer adoption. You’re ambitious and open to feedback to level up. You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator and can work with stakeholders to ship products. You seek to create leverage in your work through automation and abstractions. Put another way, you shouldn’t apply if: You view tech leads or principals as project managers and require sign-offs. You need company-wide processes to drive your projects. You only want exciting work and dislike customer issues and investigations being distributed across the team. You get lost in details and prefer everything planned upfront. You haven’t led or owned projects before. You want to mentor many junior engineers; our team is largely senior and mentorship opportunities are limited. Engineering Culture Our culture is grounded in ownership and collaboration. We aim for a small, talented team that can ship high-quality software fast and maintain reasonable work hours. We focus on: 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 Building a diverse team Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership The best engineers deliver magical outcomes with minimal oversight while keeping stakeholders informed. We prefer engineers who own their problems end-to-end rather than rely on heavy processes. Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Experience with these is not required, but a love of typed languages helps. Engineers who have switched from other languages are welcome; what matters is fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly. Benefits Competitive salary and equity 10-year exercise window for stock options Unlimited PTO Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget $100/month education budget Health insurance for you and dependents (fully covered by Ashby in the US; in other countries, high-quality supplemental insurance is provided) 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. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr