Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering - EU
Ashby · Remote · Remote - European Union · Spain · Italy · Switzerland · Croatia · Ireland · Stockholm · Romania · Barcelona · Portugal · Berlin · Sweden · Estonia ·
COMPENSATION
€154k – €188k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote (EU)
- TypeScript + React
- <2h meetings/week
- No Leetcode interviews
Join Ashby as a Staff Product Engineer, where you will own projects from concept to deployment. You will write product specs, design interfaces, and implement solutions using TypeScript and React, operating with significant autonomy in a low-process environment.
The team serves over 100,000 weekly active users at companies like Notion and Shopify. You will tackle complex technical challenges while maintaining a sustainable work-life balance, with less than two hours of meetings per week.
What you'll do
- Own product features end-to-end, including research, spec writing, and implementation
- Design wireframes and make product decisions alongside engineering tasks
- Build reusable abstractions and internal tools to increase team leverage
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define problems and deliver creative solutions
- Maintain high code quality while moving with urgency and independence
What you'll need
- Proven experience leading and owning complex projects without heavy process
- Comfortable working across the full stack, from frontend to infrastructure
- Strong ability to navigate product and technical ambiguity independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for remote collaboration
- Track record of creating leverage through automation or better abstractions
Nice to have
- Experience with typed languages and rapid learning of new tech stacks
- Background in building developer tooling or internal platforms
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding workflows and tools
Stack
- TypeScript
- React
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Redis
How you'll work
- Fully remote position restricted to EU time zones
- Flexible hours with a focus on deep work and minimal meetings
- In-person meetups twice a year for team and company bonding
- On-call duties are distributed across the team including senior staff
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window
- Unlimited PTO with strong encouragement to take time off
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous budgets for equipment, software, and home office setup
- $250 monthly tool budget plus unlimited AI token access
- Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents
Hiring process
- Initial introduction call with the Hiring Manager (15-30 minutes)
- Technical screen involving pair programming in the actual codebase (1 hour)
- Three non-coding interviews focusing on product, design, and infra (3 hours)
- No algorithmic puzzles or whiteboard exercises required
- Written guidance provided for each stage to minimize preparation stress