Staff Product Engineer, EU

Staff Product Engineer, EU

Location: Berlin, Germany – Remote (Germany Only)

Join Ashby as a Staff Product Engineer and help build AI‑driven talent‑acquisition software used by companies such as Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Ashby is growing rapidly and seeking a full‑stack engineer who thrives on creating product impact, owns projects end‑to‑end, and collaborates across teams.

Overview

Abhik, Ashby’s Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering, is looking for an ambitious engineer focused on solving customer problems with a long‑term vision. As a Staff Product Engineer you’ll own a significant portion of our product, write specs, design wireframes, build features, and hand off polished releases to our product and design teams.

Key attributes: ownership, minimal process, high impact, strong communication, and a willingness to take the initiative. Ashby’s culture values engineers who can run projects independently while collaborating effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship end‑to‑end product features for the Ashby platform.
• Write product specifications, create wireframes, and design prototypes.
• Lead research into market and customer needs to guide feature direction.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor peers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Own URLs, APIs, and the overall feature architecture, ensuring the platform can scale.

What We’re Building

Ashby is building intelligent recruiting technology that automates tasks like interview scheduling, offer signing, and candidate‑finder tooling. We focus on reducing friction for recruiters, providing real‑time analytics, and creating a seamless candidate experience.

Examples of Previous Success

• Built automated interview scheduling that calculates intersecting times and presents options to candidates.
• Created a declarative filter architecture that compiles user‑defined filters into SQL queries.
• Designed a feature that allows users to sign offers within the app, integrating with multiple downstream services.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

• Adapts across the full stack—frontend, backend, or infrastructure.
• Thrives with ambiguity and intersection of product & technical challenges.
• Balances speed with quality and accepts craft improvement.
• Communicates with stakeholders and leads initiatives without micromanagement.
• Creates automation and tooling for efficiencies.
• If you need rigid processes, prefer well‑defined task allocation, or expect extensive mentorship, this role may not fit.

Engineering Culture

• Minimal process—ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
• Invest in tools that give leverage.
• Commitment to building a diverse, inclusive team.

Collaboration & Communication

Engineering pairs run projects independently but regularly update stakeholders. We keep meetings concise (<2 hrs per week) and value focused, intentional communication.

Leverage Over Team Size

Our small, highly skilled team achieves what larger teams do over longer timescales by investing in developer tooling (CI/CD, debugger), reusable component libraries, and a design system.

Diversity Commitment

21 % of our engineers come from under‑represented groups. We actively source diverse candidates, provide generous paid family leave, and avoid LeetCode interviews.

Interview Process

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15‑30 min, live)
• Technical screen: pair‑programming in the real codebase (1 h, live)
• Three non‑coding interviews focused on product, design, and infrastructure (≈ 3 h 15 min, live)

Additional 30‑minute recruiter screen may be scheduled. We provide written guidance for each round and offer feedback if no offer is extended.

Your First Three Months

Onboarding is built around shipping a first product change on Day 1. Scope grows from simple updates to full‑feature delivery. Managers conduct 30‑, 60‑, and 90‑day reviews to calibrate performance and progress.

Technology Stack

TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Prior experience is not required; a love of typed languages is helpful.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10‑year stock option exercise window
• Unlimited PTO, encouraging you to take time off
• A minimum of 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (longer in some regions)
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with manager approval for larger purchases
• Health insurance covering 100 % of premiums (US) and high‑quality supplemental health insurance elsewhere

Ashby’s success depends on hiring great people and fostering an environment of happiness, challenge, and high‑quality work. We hope this excites you enough to apply.

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.