About the role

Role Overview

Join Ashby as an Engineering Manager (full remote). You’ll build and develop your engineering team, create an empowering environment, and work closely with engineers to improve product and technical outcomes—while staying hands-on with coding and debugging when needed.

Responsibilities

Build and develop the engineering team: hire, coach, and grow engineers in Europe
Create high-trust, high-autonomy team dynamics and strong feedback loops
Manage and lead a growing team of engineers in Europe
Provide feedback on product and technical specs and influence decision-making
Stay hands-on: debug customer issues, ship small fixes, and improve developer experience

Requirements

Thrives in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and can set up an on-ramp through effective feedback
Excellent, empathetic communicator; can facilitate change by understanding engineers’ beliefs, opinions, and past experiences
Sets a high bar and provides detailed feedback (including to top performers)
Can think across product, business, and possibly design, but focuses on enabling others to make decisions
Deep understanding of what makes exceptional engineers (recruiting and growth)
Enjoys being technical and can discuss in depth across infra, backend, and frontend
Motivated by management challenges: coaching, difficult feedback, and building systems that make these easier

Nice-to-haves

Not explicitly stated, but strong cross-functional technical depth across infra/backend/frontend is emphasized

About Ashby

Ashby is a fast-growing startup building a product in the recruiting/talent management space. The company focuses on empowering teams, high-trust execution, and continuous improvement through feedback and ownership.