Software Developer In Test , Ashby
$110-140k
+ Equity
All-in-one recruiting software
Job no longer available
All-in-one recruiting software
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$110-140k
+ 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’ve written and maintained test automation frameworks from scratch. You know what makes a test helpful, what makes it flaky, and what makes it someone else’s problem
- You think like a user. You know how to spot edge cases, understand how someone might use a feature, and turn that into meaningful test coverage
- You enjoy working on test infrastructure that supports engineers and removes friction from their workflow
- You get excited about shipping less brittle tests, faster. You don’t treat test automation like a checklist. You care if it’s usable
- You don’t need to be told what “done” looks like. You can scope, build, test, and maintain your own tools and systems
- We're looking for folks with TypeScript and Playwright experience
What the job involves
- This is not a test executor role. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role
- Being technical here means knowing how to design a system others want to use and how to debug and simplify what already exists
- You’ll write and maintain end-to-end tests, contribute to our test infrastructure, and work closely with engineers to build fast, confident feedback loops, especially in areas where the product is powerful and evolving quickly
- Most of your work will focus on building systems, but we're a small team, so when things get busy, you might help out with manual testing too
- You’ll be the first dedicated automation hire, reporting to me
- We don’t silo quality, everyone at Ashby owns it but your job is to make it easier for the whole team to do that well
- You’ll be writing code most days
- That might mean building a test framework, extending a test setup to make it 10x faster, or debugging flaky tests that slow the team down
- You’ll bring product intuition into how you build test systems, understanding what users rely on, where edge cases live, and how to steer engineers to the right tests, not just more of them
- You’ll focus on building systems that unlock leverage but also ensure we’re covering what matters
- If the tools are fast but miss real issues, or catch every issue but slow us down, they’re not doing their job
- You’ll ship code in your first week. We’ll pair you with someone who can help you get familiar with our product, systems, and tooling
- By the end of month one, you’ll have shipped something that made our test suite more reliable or faster
- By the end of month two, you’ll have made something that didn’t exist before (a new test tool, framework, or visibility layer) and taught someone else how to use it
- Our tech stack is TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, a mix of SASS modules and Stitches, Apollo GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 17 June 2025 at 00:00 BST
- Intro Call (30 mins)
- Past experience deep dive (45 mins)
- Tech Assessment (System Design) (45 mins)
- Take Home Presentation (45 mins)
- Virtual Onsite + Meet the team (2hrs 15 mins)
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
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave 🇺🇸
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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