The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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).
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.
What they're looking for
- You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology.: We believe great leaders are folks who were great engineers themselves. That starts with loving the craft and never giving it up.
- You follow the rules and accept the hand you’ve been dealt. We want folks: with the ambition, courage, and follow-through to change things, whether it’s within their own team or across departments.
- You went into management because it was the only growth path available. We: want folks who could have been Principal engineers (or were one!).
- You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or: mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy. You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done.
