Principal Product Engineer, Ashby
Americas
$160-260k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, dependent on location. Salary for candidates based in Canada, dependent on location: $152,500 - $335,000 CAD + Equity
All-in-one recruiting software
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All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-260k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, dependent on location. Salary for candidates based in Canada, dependent on location: $152,500 - $335,000 CAD + Equity
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’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and the intersection of the two is where you thrive
- You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality
- Ashby wasn’t built quickly, we took four years to launch publicly because convincing customers to switch required a high-quality product
- However, time isn’t infinite, especially for a startup, so we still move with urgency – we’ve built the equivalent of 3+ VC-backed startups with a very small team
- You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills
- For most engineers, this role will give you more freedom and responsibilities than you’ve experienced in the past
- To thrive (and level up), you’ll need to be open to feedback (and we give lots of it)
- You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator
- You seek to create leverage in your work
- Your impatience usually leads to new abstractions, tools to allow Support to debug before Engineering, new lint rules to prevent common bugs, etc
What the job involves
- 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. Example is the best leadership. We’ll give you the room to do your best work!
- As a Product Engineer, you’ll take ownership over a large portion of one of our products and own projects end-to-end (wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design)
- You’ll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more
- We’re not building a simple CRUD app, and much of the challenges we tackle require using your knowledge of our customers to build powerful abstractions and flexibility in the system to solve a class of problems
- You’ll need to vet your decisions with the appropriate stakeholders, keep them up to date when necessary, and work with other engineers to get your projects across the finish line. Clear and concise communication helps a lot here!
- Our engineering team (and the team at large) consists of lifelong learners who are humble and kind (meet them here!)
- These attributes create an environment where collaboration happens naturally (we filter for it in interviews)
- We combine this with research, prototyping, and written proposals to see around corners and get feedback from the team across time zones
- Focus time is something that we hold sacred, and, with thoughtful and deliberate communication, engineers are in <2h meetings per week
- At Ashby, your dev environment sets up with a single script, you push your first change on day one, and we spend the rest of the time building your confidence in our codebase and practices culminating in the delivery of a prominent, impactful feature
- We’ll pair you with a peer who’ll guide you through your first tasks and be someone you rely on, from answering questions to pair programming
- You do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure
- We’ll provide a supportive environment to do it successfully (e.g. , design system, SRE team)
Application process
- 30-minute introduction call
- A technical screen (take home or 75-minute in-person)
- A virtual on-site of 4 hours and 15 minutes (can be split across two days)
- Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact and prep you for interviews
- You’ll meet 4 to 6 people in engineering (with 15 minutes in each interview to ask them questions)
- If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback!
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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