Software Engineering Manager, Ashby
Product Engineering
$160-250k
$152,500-$230,000 CAD. + Bonus and equity, 0.04%-0.15% for the US and 0.03%-0.15% for Canada
More information about location
All-in-one recruiting software
Open for applications
All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-250k
$152,500-$230,000 CAD. + Bonus and equity, 0.04%-0.15% for the US and 0.03%-0.15% for Canada
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine the applicant tracking system (ATS) category, providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation.
Role
Who you are
- You are technical and can hold in-depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend. Ideally, you have experience shipping products and user-facing experiences, to complement our current leadership team
- 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. I want to see principled thinking here, the industry often regurgitates a vanilla description, but the reality is more nuanced
- 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 seek out feedback for yourself
- 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 think engineering culture and process could use improvement, and you’ve tried or successfully implemented something that sheds the status quo in pursuit of something better
- You are an excellent and empathetic communicator. Facilitating change at both an individual and organization level requires understanding how to navigate the beliefs, opinions, and past experiences of engineers and figuring out how to both convince them of a new way of doing things while also leaving yourself open to feedback
- You've worked on successful products in great environments. You know that going against the current will never achieve the same results as choosing to work in a context where your team is ambitious, the business is supportive, and product has found market fit
What the job involves
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones
- Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention. They still ask for help when needed - the difference is that they’re driving
- Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback
- Design and improve interview tracks based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on having thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us!
- Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up-to-date (while staying off the critical path)
- Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up-to-date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales
Application 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. Our interview process is six interviews in the following order:
- Intro Call (30m) - Discuss your application questions, align on the responsibilities of the role, and answer questions about Ashby
- Past Experience Deep Dive (1h) - Discuss your past experience as an engineering leader
- Technical Screen (1h) - Add a feature back to Ashby. You'll spend most of your time understanding a specific part of our codebase and write less than 15 lines of code
- Coffee Chat with VP of Engineering (1h) - Spend time with our VP of Engineering and get to know each other
- Writing Take Home (2h + 30m meeting) - Understand how you think about organizational problems, approach solutions, and communicate
- Meet the Team (2h) - At this point, the engineering leadership team is excited about you and you'll meet our CEO, Engineers, Product Managers, and some other folks on the team
Our take
Reportedly, 50% of employers don’t use applicant tracking systems, largely because of blockers with implementation or insufficient buy-in from top management. Ashby's co-founder and CEO, Benji Encz, experienced first-hand how existing solutions failed to support hyper-growth hiring needs whilst working at PlanGrid, which is in part what led to the creation of the company.
Ashby is looking to redefine the ATS category - providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation - and intends to replace solutions from well-established vendors like Greenhouse and Lever with algorithms. The company's AI can schedule interviews and infer demographic data, which clients use for aggregate analyses of DEI hiring metrics.
The market for recruitment software could potentially reach $3.5 billion by 2030. Unsurprisingly, there is now a growing number of startups emerging to compete for a slice of it. Despite the crowded market and having only emerged from stealth in 2022, Ashby has already secured over 500 clients (including high-profile customers like Notion and Figma). The company has also attracted impressive funding which will be used to expand its product offering beyond what is typically expected from an ATS.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$21.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
- 10-year exercise window for stock options - you shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby, do it when you feel financially comfortable
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave 🇺🇸
Company values
- Apply Principled Thinking Over Experience
- Reflect On And Optimize How You And Your Team Use Your Time
- Apply Thoughtful Communication
- Prioritize Ownership
- Be Frustratingly Patient About Hiring
- Optimize For The Long Term, But, Move With Urgency
- Aim High
- Push For Continuous Improvement
- Care Deeply About Our Customers
- Foster Constructive Debate And Feedback
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Benjamin Encz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Director of Engineering and Part-Time Recruitment Operations at PlanGrid. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Make School and was a Lecturer at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).
Abhik Pramanik
(Co-Founder)VP of Engineer at Ashby. Previously a Senior Product Manager at Lob and a Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid.
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