Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering, Canada

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. All our engineers ship features end‑to‑end at a high pace. If that speaks to you, read on.

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, and the product‑market fit and scale of a growth‑stage startup. We write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost‑no‑meeting culture while serving tens of thousands of daily users who depend on our software.

We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers : tens of millions in ARR, >

100% year‑over‑year growth, very low churn, and many years of runway.

You’ve probably seen this role posted before, and it’s because we’re always expanding the team. We’re building products beyond Talent Acquisition and aim to respond to every application within 3‑4 days.

About the Role and How We Work

Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs—owning decisions normally made by product and design. 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.

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling
• Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record and compiles it to SQL in the backend
• Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby

What We’re Building

We see the opposite of what’s needed in Talent Acquisition software. We build platform‑level tools that automate the “Calendar Tetris” and provide insights into where recruiters are struggling. By improving scheduling, interview load balancing, and onboarding, we help TA teams work more efficiently and give other functions a taste of high‑standard tooling.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Software engineers come in many flavors, not all of which fit our model. Below we outline the fit criteria and warning signs.

Put another way, you shouldn’t apply if :

Engineering Culture

Interview Process

Our team and interview process help you show your best self. We focus on past projects and simulate working together via pair programming, writing product and tech specs, and discussing decisions. There are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.

Depending on leadership bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m recruiter screen. Your hiring manager will guide you through the process and provide written guidance for each round.

Your First Three Months at Ashby

We provide an exceptional onboarding experience. Your dev environment is set up with a single script; you push your first product change on day one and work with a peer pair. Training sessions cover our culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture. 30, 60, and 90‑day reviews calibrate performance.

Technology Stack

TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Previous experience is not required; a love of typed languages is helpful.

Benefits

Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and building an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

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