Principal Product Engineer

Summary

Join Ashby as a versatile Product Engineer and build impactful features end-to-end. You'll own projects from research and design to implementation, working across the technology stack. Ashby fosters a culture of ownership, agency, and collaboration, encouraging innovation and creative problem-solving. The role requires tackling ambiguity, balancing speed and quality, and collaborating effectively. You'll have the freedom to build reusable components and improve the overall developer experience. Ashby offers competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a supportive environment for growth.

Requirements

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack
• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and the intersection of the two is where you thrive
• 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
• You seek to create leverage in your work
• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before

Responsibilities

• 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)
• Research competitors
• Write product specs
• Make wireframes
• Tackle any part of a technology stack
• Do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure
• Tackle projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity
• Strike the right balance between speed and quality
• Be open to feedback
• Be an excellent collaborator and communicator
• Vet your decisions with the appropriate stakeholders
• Keep stakeholders up to date when necessary
• Work with other engineers to get your projects across the finish line
• Create leverage in your work

Preferred Qualifications

A love of typed languages is helpful

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us