Company Name: Ashby
Location: Remote – North to South America (Specifically lists Denver, Austin, Ann Arbor, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boulder, Edmonton, Salt Lake City, Raleigh, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Mexico, Montreal, Waterloo, Argentina, Rio de Janeiro, Colombia)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary Range: USA: Level 5: $200K – $230K yearly Level 6: $200K – $260K yearly
CAN (Canada): Level 5: CA$205K – CA$235K yearly Level 6: CA$235K – CA$335K yearly
Industry: B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) / Recruiting Technology
Job Overview
Ashby is a leading B2B SaaS company that’s revolutionizing Recruiting Technology, empowering businesses across the globe to optimize their hiring processes. We’re seeking a highly versatile and ambitious Principal Product Engineer – Americas to join our fully remote team, spanning from North to South America. This full-time, Principal-Level role offers a unique opportunity to own a large portion of Ashby’s product, driving innovation and shipping features end-to-end at a high pace.
As a Principal Product Engineer, you’ll thrive at the intersection of product and technology, wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design, from researching competitors and writing product specs to making wireframes. You’ll leverage your deep proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and other modern web technologies to build reusable building blocks across the stack and tackle any part of our technology stack. If you’re a persistent problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity, and passionate about creating leverage in your work, Ashby invites you to join our groundbreaking team.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ship features end-to-end at a high pace, taking ownership over a large portion of one of Ashby’s products.
- Own projects end-to-end, embracing responsibilities traditionally handled by product and design, including researching competitors, writing product specs, and making wireframes.
- Tackle any part of our technology stack, demonstrating versatility across front-end and back-end systems.
- Apply Proficiency in TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis.
- Leverage a love of typed languages to build robust and maintainable code (helpful).
- Act as a versatile, persistent engineer, able to set up reusable building blocks across the stack.
- Advocate for the time and space to do foundational work, ensuring long-term system health.
- Demonstrate experience with projects involving significant product and technical ambiguity, navigating uncertainty effectively.
- Thrive at the intersection of product and technology, blending both disciplines seamlessly.
- Strike the right balance between speed and quality in all development efforts.
- Be ambitious and always look to improve your skills, fostering continuous learning.
- Be open to feedback (and actively give it) to foster a collaborative environment.
- Exhibit excellent collaboration and communication skills, vetting decisions and keeping stakeholders updated.
- Work effectively with other engineers, sharing knowledge and contributing to team success.
- Seek to create leverage in your work through automation, new abstractions, tools for debugging, and lint rules.
- Be comfortable diving into technical details, including SQL and Typescript traces.
- Demonstrate proven ability to lead or take ownership of projects.
- Benefit from working in a reasonably tenured team where 90% of engineers are Senior or above.
- Specifically contribute to building automated interview scheduling, declarative filter architectures, and offer signing features.
Qualifications
- Experience Level: Principal-Level (explicitly stated, and responsibilities align with high-level individual contributor roles that drive significant impact and innovation).
- Education Requirement: Relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is typically preferred.
- Required Skills:
- Proficiency in TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis.
- A love of typed languages (helpful).
- Versatile, persistent, and able to set up reusable building blocks across the stack.
- Advocating for the time and space to do foundational work.
- Ability to ship features end-to-end at a high pace.
- Ownership over a large portion of one of Ashby’s products.
- Ownership of projects end-to-end (wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design).
- Experience researching competitors, writing product specs, making wireframes.
- Experience with building automated interview scheduling, declarative filter architectures, and offer signing features.
- Ability to tackle any part of a technology stack.
- Experience with projects involving significant product and technical ambiguity.
- Thrives at the intersection of product and technology.
- Ability to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
- Ambitious and always looking to improve skills.
- Open to feedback (and gives it).
- Excellent collaborator and communicator (vetting decisions, keeping stakeholders updated, working with other engineers).
- Seeking to create leverage in work (automation, new abstractions, tools for debugging, lint rules).
- Comfortable diving into technical details (e.g., SQL, Typescript traces).
- Proven ability to lead or take ownership of projects.
- Experience in a reasonably tenured team (90% of team Senior or above).
Salary and Benefits
Ashby offers a highly competitive annual salary for this Full-time Principal Product Engineer – Americas position. The salary ranges vary by level and region: USA: Level 5: $200K – $230K yearly Level 6: $200K – $260K yearly
CAN (Canada): Level 5: CA$205K – CA$235K yearly Level 6: CA$235K – CA$335K yearly
All levels also include Equity. We believe in investing in our employees and offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your overall well-being and professional growth. While specific benefits vary by region, they typically include robust health insurance options, generous paid time off, and opportunities for continuous learning and career development in a high-growth SaaS environment, complemented by company equity.
Working Conditions
This is a Full-time, Remote position, spanning across North to South America. You’ll work from your home office, utilizing various development tools and collaboration platforms. The role demands exceptional technical proficiency, strong product acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while contributing to a globally distributed team. You’ll be expected to own projects end-to-end, thrive in ambiguity, and continuously seek ways to create leverage in your work. Some flexibility in work hours may be required to accommodate team meetings across diverse time zones.
Why Work with Us
At Ashby, we’re building the future of Recruiting Technology, and we’re looking for visionary Principal Product Engineers to join us on this exciting journey. We’re a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company with a culture that values versatility, persistence, and a deep commitment to solving complex problems at the intersection of product and technology.
As a Principal Product Engineer, you’ll have the unique opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of significant product areas, influence design, and build foundational components that empower our entire engineering team and enhance our customer experience. You’ll work in a highly autonomous remote environment where your technical depth, product intuition, and ability to create leverage will be celebrated. If you’re ready to make a significant impact on core systems, drive innovation in Recruiting Technology, and thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven culture, Ashby offers an unparalleled opportunity for your career.
