Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering - UK

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.

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: 100,000+ weekly active users who depend on your software and eagerly await your next feature.

About the Role and How We Work

Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software.

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.

Examples of projects product engineers at Ashby have tackled:

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling, solving the “Calendar Tetris” problem.
• 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.
• Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.

What We’re Building

We built and continue to build Ashby to give Talent Acquisition (TA) teams the highest standard of tooling. Software that’s intelligent, powerful, and provides insights into where they’re failing while automating or simplifying manual tasks. As we’ve set the standard for excellence in TA software, HR teams have also pulled us into solving their problems in areas like onboarding and performance management.

Why You Should Apply

• 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 you thrive at the intersection of the two.
• You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
• You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.
• You seek to create leverage in your work by automating or abstracting tedious, time-consuming work.

Why You Should NOT Apply

• You expect a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer to spend most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
• You need company-driven process and structure (like sprint planning) to get projects across the finish line.
• You only want to do exciting work; customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team.
• You can get lost in the details and like everything to be planned upfront.
• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before and are used to taking tasks distributed by tech leads.
• You want to mentor earlier-career engineers (more than 90% of the team are Senior or above).

Engineering Culture

• 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
• Putting effort into building a diverse team