Principal Product Engineer, EU

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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. This role is a product‑engineering position with ownership over a large portion of one of our products and end‑to‑end project delivery, wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design.

We blend the best of early‑stage agency with the scale of a growth‑stage startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in a culture that values ownership and has no unnecessary meetings, while also being part of a company with tens of thousands of daily users and tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year with very low churn.

We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our talent acquisition technology is built to solve the “Calendar Tetris” problem and automate scheduling, offer management, and other core TA tasks.

As a Product Engineer, you’ll 1️⃣ own end‑to‑end projects, 2️⃣ research competitors, write specs, build wireframes, and implement solutions. 3️⃣ Work alongside product managers and designers but handle the majority of the ownership of a feature. 4️⃣ Collaborate across cross‑functional teams and keep stakeholders informed.

• Designed and built automated interview scheduling: calculates possible times from a pool of interviewers and presents them 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 and compiles to SQL in our backend.
• Specced, designed, and implemented an offer signing feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.

• You’re comfortable tackling any part of the stack, from frontend to infrastructure.
• You thrive on product and technical ambiguity, bridging the two as a unique problem‑solver.
• You balance speed and quality: fast execution with a high‑quality production mindset.
• You seek continuous improvement and are open to feedback.
• You collaborate, communicate, and steer projects with cross‑team stakeholders.
• You create weight and automation so engineers can focus on more impactful tasks.

Minimal process, ownership of decisions, deliberate communication, tool investment, and building a diverse team.

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• 12+ weeks fully paid parental leave (longer for non‑US).
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget; conference covering with manager approval.
• Top‑tier health insurance for US employees; high‑quality supplemental insurance elsewhere.

• Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15‑30 min).
• A technical screen with pair programming on our codebase (1 hr).
• Three non‑coding interviews focusing on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3 hr 15 min, can be split across multiple days).
• Optional additional 30 min screen with a recruiter.

Each interview has written guidance so you know what to expect and how much preparation is required.

Onboarding with a single script to set up your dev environment, push your first product change on day 1, and grow through increasingly complex, ambiguous features. 30‑, 60‑, and 90‑day reviews provide feedback and roadmap alignment.

Type Script (frontend & backend), React, Graph

QL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. Experience in typed languages preferred but not required.

Mid‑Senior level.

Full‑time.

Engineering and Information Technology.

Software Development.

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