Senior Product Engineer, UK

Ashby, Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in the UK seeks a Senior Product Engineer to design and implement features that solve user problems in a collaborative environment. Applicants should be skilled in full-stack development, familiar with technologies like TypeScript and React, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced setting. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, aligned with the company's growth philosophy.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited PTO

12 weeks fully paid parental leave

Generous equipment and education budget

Top-tier health insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with full-stack development.
• Ability to work with technical ambiguity.
• Strong coding skills with a focus on delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the interview scheduling system.
• Build complex filter architecture for user needs.
• Implement features from requirement gathering to deployment.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Communication

Technical ambiguity handling

Speed and quality balance

Tools

TypeScript

React

GraphQL API

Node.js

Postgres

Redis

Job description

Senior Product Engineer, UK

Base pay range

Hi 👋🏾 I’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 a class of problems not only today but in our future features and products. What Ashby gives you in return is the best of both early and growth‑stage environments. The agency and no‑nonsense of a seed startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost‑no‑meeting culture. While also the product‑market fit and scale of a growth‑stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users who depend on your 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: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet. You’ve probably seen this role posted before, and it’s because we’re always expanding the team (we’re on track to double this year). We’re bubbling with ideas on how to support Talent Acquisition through software, and we’ve started the journey of building products beyond Talent Acquisition. We read every application and aim to respond to yours within 3‑4 days (often sooner). About The Role And How We Work: Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we did our best work as ICs – where we had the ownership and agency to impact our users with creative and innovative software.

I started my career building software for artists in the Visual Effects industry. It was a formative experience for me as a software engineer because success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. I talked to artists to understand their needs, came up with ideas, did industry research, designed interfaces, and prototyped ideas. I watched artists use what I built and decided what to tackle in the next iteration. No daily stand‑ups, no t‑shirt sizing, no planning meetings.

Responsibilities

• Designed, built, and maintained the interview scheduling system, handling “Calendar Tetris” to find optimal interview slots.
• Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI, compiling to SQL in the backend.
• Implemented a feature that lets users complete signing offers entirely within Ashby, from requirement gathering to deployment.

Qualifications

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack; you do what’s necessary to deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, thriving at the intersection of the two.
• You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality, delivering high‑quality code with urgency.
• You’re ambitious and always looking to improve your skills; you’ll have more freedom and responsibilities than in most senior roles.
• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator, keeping stakeholders updated and working with other engineers to finish projects.
• You seek to create leverage in your work, automating tedious tasks and building reusable abstractions.

We’re Not Looking For

• Someone who needs company‑driven process and structure to get projects finished.
• Someone who only wants to do exciting work and disregards routine needs.
• A person who can’t see the bigger picture beyond details and prefers upfront planning.
• A junior engineer who has never taken ownership of projects.
• Someone who must mentor large teams; we rarely have extensive mentorship opportunities.
• Atypical focus on tech‑lead or staff roles; we trust engineers with seniority to build and solve problems.

Engineering Culture

• Minimal 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 with effort into diversity and inclusion.

Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership

• A pragmatic approach to product-development processes that allow talented engineers to deliver outcomes.
• Empowering engineers to take ownership and ownership of projects end‑to‑end.

Increase Leverage, not Team Size

• Great developer tooling: CI/CD takes ~10m, frequent deployments, robust debugging.
• Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast; common components like analytics, policy engine, workflow engine, design system.

Put Effort into Diversity

Today, 21% of engineers at Ashby are from underrepresented groups. We are taking conscious steps to improve, such as no leetcode interviews and generous paid family leave.

Interview Process

We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together via pair programming, writing product and tech specs collaboratively, and talking through decisions. There are no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.

Our Interview Process Is Three Rounds

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15‑30 min, live)
• A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1 h, live)
• Three non‑coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 h 15 min, live; can be split across days)

Your First Three Months at Ashby

You’ll onboard into a single‑scripted dev environment, ship product changes from day one, and progress from simple copy changes to impactful features. Your manager will provide 30‑, 60‑, and 90‑day reviews.

Technology Stack

TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top‑tier health insurance for U.S. employees; supplemental insurance for others.

Senior Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants 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.