Ashby

Software Engineering Manager, Product Engineering - Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CA$190,000 – CA$280,000Compensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Software, Biotechnology, SaaSIndustries

About Ashby

Hi 👋🏾, I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for a great (former) engineer who built impressive products and now builds teams of great engineers. Ashby’s success and ambition mean we’re doubling the Engineering team in the next year, and we need your experience and leadership to do it thoughtfully.

Our product and growth are exceptional. Ashby All-in-One is powerful, easy to use, and replaces several venture-backed companies' worth of products (often with a better experience). 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.

A big part of our secret sauce is how we run Engineering. We achieve incredible speed and quality by discarding many industry norms and being optimistic about Engineers. We consider what makes exceptional Engineers exceptional, figure out how to hire them, and build an environment that gives them the freedom and agency to actually be exceptional. In other words, if engineers writing product specs, making product decisions, and not breaking down projects into individual tickets excites you, you’ve found the right place.

Role Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with me, Colin, and your peers to build out the team and continue scaling this unique culture.

Responsibilities

You’ll first do that through grassroots leadership. You’ll manage three to five Engineers and hire three to five more. They’ll cover multiple teams and a variety of specializations, from Product Engineers to Site Reliability Engineers to Design Engineers. Your day-to-day will include:

  • Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
  • Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention.
  • Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up-to-date (while staying off the critical path).

You’ll also propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives. Some examples:

  • Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback.
  • Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us!
  • Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up-to-date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales.

I’ll share more details once we meet.

What We're Building

As 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.

Job Details

  • Salary: CA$190K - CA$280K
  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: FullTime

Skills

Software Engineering
Product Engineering
Team Leadership
Hiring
Mentoring
Product Development
Technical Specifications
Feedback
Agile Methodologies

Ashby

Hiring solutions for scaling companies

About Ashby

Ashby provides hiring solutions that help companies grow by streamlining their recruitment processes. The platform includes features like applicant tracking, interview scheduling, and analytics, which allow teams to manage their hiring efficiently. Unlike many competitors, Ashby focuses on serving scaling companies and offers a subscription-based service model. The goal of Ashby is to enable organizations to meet their recruitment targets quickly and effectively, ensuring they can hire the right talent to support their growth.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2018Year Founded
$62.7MTotal Funding
SERIES_CCompany Stage
Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
51-200Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Company Equity
Stock Options
401(k) Company Match

Risks

Emerging startups with innovative features at lower costs threaten Ashby's market share.
Rapid AI advancements may outpace Ashby's current technology, reducing platform attractiveness.
Economic downturns could lead to reduced hiring budgets, impacting Ashby's revenue.

Differentiation

Ashby offers enterprise-grade recruitment software tailored for high-growth companies.
The platform includes applicant tracking, interview scheduling, and analytics for efficient hiring.
Ashby serves notable clients like Opendoor, Reddit, and Notion, enhancing its market credibility.

Upsides

Ashby raised $30M in Series C funding, boosting its growth potential.
The rise of remote work increases demand for Ashby's virtual hiring capabilities.
Growing use of data analytics in recruitment aligns with Ashby's focus on analytics.

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