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, and more.
Requirements
- You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack.
- You do what’s necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether writing frontend or choosing new infrastructure.
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity, and you thrive at the intersection of the two.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- $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.
Additional Information
- You’ll need to vet your decisions with the appropriate stakeholders, keep them up to date when necessary, and work with other engineers to get your projects across the finish line.
- Clear and concise communication helps a lot here!
- You can get lost in the details. Once you start implementation, it can be hard to take a step back and think about the project as a whole.
- You like everything to be planned upfront.
- You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
- You’re used to working with tech leads and taking on tasks distributed by them.
- You want to mentor earlier-career engineers.
- We rely on engineers owning their projects, so we need engineers with that experience.
- This requires the team to be reasonably tenured. More than 90% of the team would be considered Senior or above in the industry today, so mentorship opportunities are very limited.
- To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
- Our most tenured engineers spend most of their time building, and we often trust them with our most challenging problems.
- While they lead product and technical areas and help other engineers plan their most challenging work, it’s not a requirement, nor do engineers need their sign-off.
