Staff Software Engineer, Ashby
Product
£110-130k
+ Stock options
All-in-one recruiting software
Be an early applicant
All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£110-130k
+ Stock options
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 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)
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two
- We’re not building a simple CRUD app, and many of the challenges we tackle require you to use your knowledge of our customers to build powerful abstractions and flexibility in the system to solve a class of problems
- 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 three or more 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. Ownership and freedom don’t mean you work in a vacuum
- You seek to create leverage in your work. The nature of software is that you can often automate or abstract what would be tedious, time-consuming work
- Your impatience usually leads to new abstractions, tools to allow Support to debug before Engineering, new lint rules to prevent common bugs, etc
- You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line
- Sprint planning and well-defined project management processes are things you need or look to others to lead. You’d rather focus on the technical details and challenges
- You only want to do exciting work. We’re building a team of kind, collaborative folks. Customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team, including our high-level ICs
- You can get lost in the details. Once you start implementation, it can be hard to take a step back and think about the project as a whole. You like everything to be planned upfront
- You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before. You’re used to working with tech leads and taking on tasks distributed by them
- You want to mentor earlier-career engineers. We rely on engineers owning their projects, so we need engineers with that experience.
- This requires the team to be reasonably tenured. More than 90% of the team would be considered Senior or above in the industry today, so mentorship opportunities are very limited
- To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture review
What the job involves
- 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!
- We want an exceptional onboarding experience for every new hire
- 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
- I’m sharing our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of typed languages is helpful ): TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis
Application process
- 15 to 30-minute introduction call
- A technical screen (60-minute in-person)
- A remote final round of 3 hours and 15 minutes (can be split across multiple 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
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
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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