Software Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Summary

Join Ashby as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of exceptional engineers. You will manage 3-5 engineers initially, hiring 3-5 more to expand the team across various specializations. Your responsibilities include providing feedback on product and technical specifications, growing engineers to handle large projects independently, and contributing to codebase improvements. You will also lead initiatives such as improving pull request reviews, interview processes, and data generation for demo accounts. Ashby offers a unique engineering culture emphasizing minimal process, ownership, collaboration, and investment in tools and diversity. The company is experiencing rapid growth and offers a competitive salary, equity, and excellent benefits.

Requirements

• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology
• You follow the rules and accept the hand you’ve been dealt
• You went into management because it was the only growth path available
• You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy
• You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done
• To you, a Staff or Principal Engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or conducting architecture reviews
• You don’t believe staff and principal engineers could lead by the example they set or the leverage they create through their work
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo
• You think, at some size, common processes need to be implemented to ensure consistent product delivery (e.g., sprint planning, product managers writing in-depth specifications)
• You might not say it out loud, but you think, at some size, compromises have to be made for the sake of hiring numbers or consistency

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up-to-date (while staying off the critical path)
• Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback
• Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us!
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up-to-date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby
• 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, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby
• In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us