Hi , I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. 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. We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

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. 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.

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. They’ll cover multiple teams and a variety of specializations, from Product Engineers to Site Reliability Engineers to Design Engineers. Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality.

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 helpful feedback. 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 We’re Building 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. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality,



and do it with half the headcount.

TA software didn’t help. As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better. Software that’s intelligent and powerful. Software that provides insights into where they’re failing and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they’re underwater with.

You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology. 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. sprint planning, product managers writing in-depth specifications).

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by Benji’s (my Co-founder and CEO) and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!). 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. They took customer problems and relentlessly drove them to solutions that were not only successful but often brilliant and creative.

So, at Ashby, every Engineer runs their project.

Product

Managers (and Designers) build strategy, do customer research, and hand off problem briefs to Engineers.

Product

Managers) and pull folks in to help (e.g., Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind (meet them here!). These attributes create an setting where collaboration happens naturally. We built Ashby with the quality, breadth,



and depth that many customers would expect from much larger teams over larger time scales.

Building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast. At the core of Ashby is a set of common components (analytics modeling and query language, policy engine, workflow engine, design system) that we constantly improve. Each improvement to a common component cascades throughout our app (short video below).

And a demo of one of these building blocks: Put Effort into Diversity Having seen my mother and partner build their careers as minority women in non‑diverse fields, I want to make sure Ashby creates opportunities for the next generation of engineers from underrepresented groups. It’s not great, and we are taking conscious steps to improve, like sourcing diverse candidates, providing generous paid family leave, no leetcode interviews, and more. A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live) # Interview with Colin, our Head of EMEA Engineering (45m, live) # Final round where you meet Engineers and other Engineering Managers (90m, live) This is also an important decision for you, so I’m always happy to have coffee chats in person or over Zoom to get to know each other.

Your first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership. While most of your onboarding will be driven by a 6‑month plan you put together (and refine over time), you’ll also ship some product changes and features. Competitive salary and equity. ~A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.

Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. 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.

We’re being deliberate about building that setting from the ground up. 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.

📌 Engineering Manager F/H - Immediate Start (Vancouver)
🏢 Ashby
📍 Vancouver