Senior Product Engineer, Stuttgart (m/f/d)

Ashby; Stuttgart; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A technology company focusing on Talent Acquisition software is seeking an ambitious full-stack engineer to innovate and take ownership of projects. This fully remote role is based in Stuttgart, Germany, offering a creative, no‑nonsense environment for engineers. Ideal candidates are collaborators who can navigate product ambiguities and own their work. Competitive salary and various benefits are included.

Leistungen

Competitive salary

Unlimited PTO

10-year exercise window for stock options

Education budget $100/month

12 weeks fully paid parental leave

Qualifikationen

• Ability to tackle any part of a technology stack.
• Experience with product and technical ambiguity.
• Ambition to continually improve skills.

Aufgaben

• Take ownership of projects end-to-end.
• Research competitors and write product specs.
• Design user interfaces and prototype ideas.

Kenntnisse

Full-stack development

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Effective communication

Ownership

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Postgres

GraphQL

Jobbeschreibung

Hi 👋🏾 I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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 them not only today but in our future features and products.

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).

This is a fully remote role, with Stuttgart as the official location. We welcome applicants based in Germany or nearby time zones.

About the Role and How We Work

Our 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. Engineering was narrowed to implementation and delivery, partly due to the influence of other departments.

At Ashby, we’re building an environment that is optimistic about what engineers can own and achieve. 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that allows users to complete signing offers entirely within Ashby.

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. 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.

We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. Software that’s intelligent and powerful, provides insights, and automates many tasks. We want other functions to be jealous of what TA teams can do with Ashby.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

Software engineers come in many flavors. Here are things to help you decide if this fits you and what you’re looking for:

• You’re not afraid to tackle any part of a technology stack.
• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of product and technical ambiguity.
• You know how to strike the right balance between speed and quality.
• You’re ambitious and always looking to improve your skills.
• You’re an excellent collaborator and communicator.
• You seek to create leverage in your work.

Put another way, you shouldn’t apply if:

• You need company‑driven process and structure to get your projects across the finish line.
• You only want to do exciting work.
• You can get lost in the details.
• You haven’t led or taken ownership of projects before.
• You want to mentor earlier‑career engineers.
• To you, a tech lead, staff, or principal engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by 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 design.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
• Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
• Putting effort into building a diverse team.

Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership

The best engineers we’ve worked with delivered reliable outcomes. They took customer problems and relentlessly drove them to solutions that were not only successful but often brilliant and creative.

Traditional product‑development processes are not meant for the best engineers. Their purpose is to create consistent outcomes regardless of the engineer’s skill. Process stifles the best engineers and doesn’t give others the opportunity to practice behaviors that make them the best.

Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate

Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind. We combine research, prototyping, and written proposals to get feedback from the team across time zones.

Increase Leverage, not Team Size

We built Ashby with quality, breadth, and depth. We’ve built great developer tooling and building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast.

Here’s an impromptu quote from Arjun in our company Slack of what it’s like to build a feature at Ashby.

Put Effort into Diversity

Diverse teams drive innovation and better outcomes. Today, 21% of engineers at Ashby are from underrepresented groups. We’re taking conscious steps to improve.

Interview Process

Our interview process doesn’t include leetcode or whiteboard exercises.

Our interview process is three rounds:

1. Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30m, live)
2. A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)
3. Three non‑coding interviews that focus on product thinking, technical design, and infrastructure (3h 15m, live can be split across multiple days)

Depending on our leadership team’s bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter.

Your hiring manager will be your main point of contact and prep you for interviews. Each round will have written guidance so you know what to expect.

Your First Three Months at Ashby

We want an exceptional onboarding experience for every new hire. At Ashby, your dev environment is set up with a single script, you push your first product change on day one, and you spend the rest of your time shipping product changes that give you a tour of our codebase and best practices. Your manager will do a 30, 60, and 90‑day review to give feedback and calibrate on how we work together.

Technology Stack

TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO, and we encourage you to take it.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top‑tier health insurance for those in the US, and supplemental health for others.

Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.

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.