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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.As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with me, Ben, Colin, and your peers to build out the team and continue scaling this unique culture.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 BuildingAs engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do... We want other functions and departments to be jealous of what TA teams can do with Ashby, and today they often are!Why You Shouldn’t ApplyYou 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.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.You went into management because it was the only growth path available.You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy.To you, a Staff or Principal Engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or conducting architecture reviews.You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo.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 (and work regular hours!). 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.You’ll be an important part of figuring out how to scale these methods from 50 engineers to 100 and beyond.Minimal Process & Lots of OwnershipAt Ashby, every Engineer runs their project... Engineers take on the rest: they research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end.Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate...engineers are in <2h meetings per week... We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company. You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.Increase Leverage, not Team SizeWe built Ashby with the quality, breadth, and depth that many customers would expect from much larger teams over larger time scales...Put Effort into DiversityToday, 25% of engineers and 50% of our engineering leaders at Ashby are from underrepresented groups...Interview ProcessThis is an important role and our interview process reflects that both in challenge and length (5h 15m):Introduction call with Ben (30m, live)A technical screen where you and Ben pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)An interview with Ben to explore your past experience as a leader (1h, live)Interview with Abhik, VP of Engineering (45m, live)Interview with Colin, Head of Engineering EMEA (30m, live)Final round where you meet Engineers and other Engineering Managers (90m, live)Depending on my bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter. Near the end of the process, we’ll do reference checks.Your First Six Months at AshbyYour first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership by being an IC... You and I will do 30-day, 60-day, 90-day, and 6-month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture...BenefitsCompetitive salary and equity.10-year exercise window for stock options.Unlimited PTO.A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.
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