Senior Product Engineer - Americas (Neuquén)

Senior Product Engineer - Americas (Neuquén)

OverviewHi I'm Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering.
We're looking for a versatile, persistent product engineer who's not afraid to set up reusable building blocks across the stack and advocate for the time and space to do so.
At Ashby, all our engineers ship features end-to-end at a high pace.
Example is the best leadership.
We'll give you the room to do your best work, and you'll be our guide!
If that speaks to you, read on.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 WorkOur 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.
I came up with ideas.
I 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.I studied computer science to solve problems, not tickets, and this felt exactly like that.
I not only felt creative and fulfilled but the agency and ownership we were given as engineers powered an incredible amount of innovation.Innovation came differently (or not at all) at technology startups beyond the seed stage,



often through an engineer's force of will and ability to push back against culture (rather than any encouragement from it).
Engineering was narrowed to implementation and delivery, partly due to the influence of other departments and partly due to the influx of Agile processes like sprint planning.
In those companies, I felt like a JIRA jockey.At Ashby, we're building an environment that is optimistic about what engineers can own and achieve.
An environment that embraces innovative engineers, and, frankly, often stays out of their way.
As a Product Engineer, you'll 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).
You'll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more.
To ground it with examples, product engineers at Ashby have:Designed and built automated interview scheduling.




This feature automates scheduling by calculating possible times from a pool of interviewers and other constraints, and then presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app.
This solves the "Calendar Tetris" problem I talk about in What We're Building.Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compile it to SQL in our backend.
Many user-facing features use it.Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.
This project involved talking to customers to understand their requirements, deciding what technologies to use, building a prototype,



and working with other team members to integrate the final implementation into additional features.What We're BuildingAs 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 were leveling up how they did their work, but instead of software meeting this new standard, it held them back.Scheduling a final round is an excellent example.
Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount.
A recruiter needed to manually collect availability from the candidate, identify qualified interviewers, perform Calendar Tetris to find who is available to interview the candidate, schedule on the earliest date possible, and make any last-minute adjustments as availability changed.




They must do this while considering the interview load on each individual and whether interviewers need to be trained and shadowing others.
TA software didn't help.As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better.
So, we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling.
Software that's intelligent and powerful.
Software that provides insights into where they're failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they're underwater with.
We want other functions and departments to be jealous of what TA teams can do with Ashby, and today they often are!
ResponsibilitiesAs a Product Engineer, you'll 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).
You'll research competitors, write product specs,



make wireframes, and more.Design and build features with end-to-end ownership across the stack.Develop reusable building blocks and advocate for time to invest in them.Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship high-quality software at pace.Why You Should or Shouldn't ApplyYou're not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack.
You do what's necessary to successfully deliver a feature, whether frontend or infrastructure.
We'll provide a supportive environment to do it successfully.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.
We took four years to launch publicly because convincing customers to switch required a high-quality product,



but we still move with urgency.You are ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
You'll need to be open to feedback.You're an excellent collaborator and communicator.
Ownership and freedom require vetting decisions with stakeholders and working with others to finish projects.You seek to create leverage in your work.
You'll automate or abstract tedious tasks and build reusable components.Put another way, you shouldn't apply if:You view senior roles as primarily project management or architecture reviews.
We prioritize engineers who build and own their work.You need company-driven process to move projects forward.You only want exciting work and expect customer issues to be handled by others.You get lost in details and prefer exhaustive upfront planning.You haven't led or taken ownership of projects before.You want to mentor earlier-career engineers; mentorship opportunities are limited.Engineering CultureOur engineering culture is motivated by Benji's and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast.
We do it through:Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and designNatural collaboration and deliberate communicationInvesting in tools and abstractions that give us leverageBuilding a diverse teamMinimal Process & Lots of OwnershipThe best engineers deliver magical outcomes with minimal oversight while stakeholders are never in the dark.
We favor ownership over strict processes.Collaboration is Natural & Communication is DeliberateOur team values collaboration, research, prototyping, and written proposals.
Focus time is sacred, and we aim for

📌 Senior Product Engineer - Americas (Neuquén)
🏢 Ashby
📍 Neuquén