Staff Product Engineer - Americas

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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, and you'll be our guide!

What We Offer

• The agency and no-nonsense of a seed startup: write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost-no-meeting culture.
• The product-market fit and scale of a growth-stage startup: 100,000+ weekly active users and tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year with very low churn.
• Customers include industry leaders like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

About the Role

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 Past Projects

• Automated interview scheduling: Calculates possible times from a pool of interviewers and constraints, presenting these via our responsive web app.
• Declarative filter architecture: Allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compiles it to SQL in the backend.
• Offer signing: Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.

What We’re Looking For

• Full-stack capability: Not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
• Ambiguity navigation: Thrives at the intersection of product and technical ambiguity, building powerful abstractions and system flexibility.
• Balance of speed and quality: Moves with urgency while maintaining high product standards.
• Ambition & growth mindset: Open to feedback and looking to continuously improve skills.
• Strong communication: Excellent collaborator who vets decisions with stakeholders and keeps everyone updated.
• Leverage creation: Impatient about tedious work, leading to new abstractions, tools, and internal efficiencies.

What This Role is NOT

• Not a project management or architecture review role (our tenured engineers spend most of their time building).
• Not reliant on company-driven process or sprint planning.
• Not focused solely on exciting work; customer issues and investigations are distributed across the team.

Engineering Culture

• Minimal Process: Engineers run their projects end-to-end, writing specs and wireframes without traditional agile overhead.
• Natural Collaboration: A humble, kind, and talented team of senior peers where 90%+ of engineers would be considered Senior or above.