The opportunity
Hi 👋 I’m Colin , Director of Engineering, Europe. How do you feel about software engineers writing product specs, making product decisions, and not breaking down projects into individual tickets?
What you'll do
Provide 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. They still ask for help when needed - the difference is that they’re driving.
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).
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.
You love being technical and can hold in-depth conversations with direct: reports from infra to backend to frontend.
You enjoy management problems . We want people who get excited about driving: people to be their best, giving difficult feedback, and building systems that make this easier
What they're looking for
- You hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into: the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team.
- You are an excellent and empathetic communicator. Facilitating change at both: an individual and organization level requires understanding how to navigate the beliefs, opinions, and past experiences of engineers and figuring out how to both convince them of a new way of doing things while also leaving yourself open to feedback.
- You know what exceptional engineers look like. You’ve thought deeply about: what makes them tick, how to recruit them, and how to grow folks into them. I want to see depth here, the industry often regurgitates a vanilla description, but the reality is more nuanced.
- You’re good at thinking about product, business , and maybe even design, but: you’re not interested in calling the shots and are more interested in building a team that can make the best decisions without you.
