Principal Product Engineer, EU

About The Role And How We Work HiI’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for an ambitious full‑stack engineer who is laser‑focused on solving customer problems and making the right long‑term investments to solve them not only today but in our future features and products. What Ashby gives you 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 also having tens of thousands of daily users who depend on our software and eagerly await your next feature.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% YoY growth, low churn, and many years of runway.Designed and built automated interview scheduling—a feature that calculates possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app.Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compiles it to SQL in our backend.Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.What We’re Building As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. Recruiting teams wanted faster scheduling, better tracking, and more automation—something our software now provides, giving TA teams thehigheststandard of tooling.Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply Software Engineers come in many flavors. Below are key traits that help you decide if this role fits you.You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack and thrive at the intersection of product and technical ambiguity.You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.You’re ambitious, eager to improve your skills, and open to feedback.You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, vetting decisions with stakeholders while keeping them informed.You seek to create leverage in your work by automating or abstracting tedious tasks.Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply IfYou need company‑driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.You only want to do exciting work and dislike distributed ownership.You can get lost in the details and prefer strict upfront planning.You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.You want to mentor earlier‑career engineers; our team is highly tenured with limited mentorship opportunities.Engineering CultureMinimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.Building a diverse team.Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented, humble, and kind. Focus time is sacred. We holdIncrease Leverage, not Team SizeGreat developer tooling—CI/CD, debuggers, rapid deployments.Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products quickly.Put Effort into Diversity 21% of engineers at Ashby are from underrepresented groups. We take conscious steps to improve this, including diverse sourcing, generous paid family leave, and no leetcode interviews.Interview Process Our interview process focuses on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure. No leetcode or whiteboard exercises.Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15–30 min).Technical screen with pair programming in our codebase (1 hr).Three non‑coding interviews that focus on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 min, can be split).Depending on bandwidth, we may add a 30‑min recruiter screen.Your First Three Months at Ashby We provide a single‑script dev environment and expect you to push a product change on day one. You’ll ship product changes ranging from simple copy edits to a prominent feature, with 30‑, 60‑, and 90‑day reviews.Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.BenefitsCompetitive salary and equity.10‑year exercise window for stock options.Unlimited PTO; encouraged to take it.Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave.Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.$100/month education budget.Top‑tier health insurance for U.S. employees; supplemental health insurance for others.We’re being deliberate about building an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.Ashby provides 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. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.Seniority level Mid‑Senior levelEmployment type Full‑timeJob function Engineering and Information Technology / Software DevelopmentIndustries Software Development#J-18808-Ljbffr