Staff Product Engineer - Americas
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.
What you’ll do
- Design and build automated interview scheduling that automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, and then presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app.
- Build 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.
- Spec, design, and implement features that allow users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby, including talking to customers, deciding technologies, building prototypes, and integrating final implementations.
Why this role might be for you
- You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack and do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity and 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 who can work in a high-ownership environment.
- You seek to create leverage in your work through automation, abstractions, and tooling.
Why this role might not be for you
- To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews; at Ashby, our most tenured engineers spend most of their time building.
- You need company-driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line; you’d rather focus on the technical details and challenges.
- You only want to do exciting work and prefer not to handle customer issues or investigations.
- You can get lost in the details and find it hard to step back to think about the project as a whole.
- You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before and are used to working with tech leads who distribute tasks.
- You want to mentor earlier-career engineers; mentorship opportunities are limited due to the team’s tenure.
Engineering culture
Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!). We do it through:
- 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
At Ashby, every Engineer runs their project. Product Managers and Designers build strategy, do customer research, and hand off problem briefs to Engineers. Engineers take on the rest: they research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end.