Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering - EU

About the Role

Ashby seeks a skilled and adaptable product engineer who thrives on building reusable components across the technology stack and champions the space and time to do so. Engineers here ship end-to-end features rapidly, working with significant autonomy and leadership responsibilities, empowering you to shape the product and lead by example.

Company and Product Environment

Ashby combines the agility of an early-stage startup—with minimal meetings, product specification ownership, and design decision involvement—with the stability and scale of a growth-stage company boasting over 100,000 weekly active users including clients like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. The company exhibits strong growth metrics including over 100% annual revenue expansion and years of financial runway.

Key Responsibilities

• Assume ownership of large product areas and manage end-to-end projects, including writing specs, designing wireframes, and implementing features.
• Engage with customers to understand needs and translate them into software solutions.
• Develop innovative features such as automated interview scheduling systems and flexible declarative filter architectures for backend data querying.
• Drive feature design from conception through prototyping to deployment and integration.

Engineering Culture and Approach

Ashby fosters an environment prioritizing ownership, agency, and creative problem-solving over rigid processes. Engineers lead projects with minimal oversight from product or management, focusing on customer impact. Collaboration is natural and communication is concise, enabling under two hours of meetings weekly with substantial focus time. The company nurtures a diverse team and invests heavily in developer tooling that supports rapid deployment and high-quality output.

Who This Role Is Ideal For

• Engineers comfortable working across the full technology stack, willing to tackle frontend and backend tasks.
• Individuals who excel in ambiguous product and technical challenges, building powerful abstractions and flexible systems.
• Those skilled at balancing speed and product quality in a startup environment.
• Ambitious professionals eager to continuously improve and open to frequent feedback.
• Excellent collaborators and communicators able to coordinate with stakeholders and engineering peers.
• Problem solvers focused on creating leverage through automation, tooling, and abstractions to reduce tedious work.

Who Should Reconsider Applying

• Those who view senior engineering primarily as project management or architecture review roles rather than hands-on building.
• Engineers reliant on heavy process and planning frameworks like sprint planning to deliver work.
• Candidates seeking exclusively exciting or novel projects without routine customer support activities.
• Individuals preferring detailed upfront planning over iterative, flexible development.
• Engineers without prior ownership of projects or used to working under tech leads assigning tasks.
• Those looking for mentoring opportunities with early-career developers, as the team is predominantly senior-level.

Additional Information

We offer a high-leverage environment with minimal structural constraints, extensive freedom, and expect engineers to embrace both product and technical ownership. Regular in-person meetings are held biannually along with small budgets for local meetups. The deployment pipeline is highly efficient, with multiple daily releases and comprehensive developer tooling.