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Own people, hiring bar, and technical judgment to raise engineering team impact

As an Engineering Leader at Ashby, you will own people management, hiring standards, and technical judgment while focusing on coaching independent engineers and managing ambiguity. You will also act as an organizational advocate for org-wide areas like CI/CD health, developer productivity, and on-call sustainability. The role emphasizes high autonomy, technical credibility, and raising team impact in a 100% remote async culture with engineers ...

Why This Role?

Direct impact on org-wide engineering health and metrics with full transparency on levels and comp

Key Responsibilities

  • Own people management and hiring bar for engineering teams
  • Provide technical judgment and challenge assumptions on engineering proposals
  • Coach independent senior engineers and manage ambiguity rather than day-to-day task coordination
  • Advocate for org-wide engineering health including CI/CD, developer productivity, and on-call sustainability
  • Stay technically credible by reviewing code, debugging alongside engineers, and understanding system maintainability

Requirements

  • Deep technical understanding of TypeScript, React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis systems
  • Experience engineering leadership with people management and hiring responsibility
  • Ability to coach senior-level engineers and operate in high-autonomy environments
  • Experience advocating for and improving org-wide engineering systems and metrics
  • Comfort with 100% remote async work across global time zones

Required Skills

leadershiptypescriptreactnode.jsgraphqlpostgresredisengineering leadershiptechnical judgmentpeople managementhiring barorganizational advocacysystems thinking

Indonesia Context

Working Hours Overlap:
Flexible — work your own hours
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Keywords

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View Original Description from HN Who is Hiring

Original description from HN Who is Hiring

Ashby | YC 19 | REMOTE | Hiring Engineering Leaders | $200k–$275k Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform powering hiring at the world's most innovative companies. If you cmd+f "Ashby" you'll see that we're powering many of the job postings in this thread! We’re looking to scale our engineering leadership team with technical leaders who want to raise the impact of a high-performing organization. * Not Your Traditional "Jira-Manager": Our EMs are not classic delivery coordinators who shuffle meetings or build heavy processes. Instead, you will own people, hiring bar, technical judgment, and the health of our engineering systems. * High-Autonomy Team: Because 80%+ of our engineering team is Senior–Staff+ level, our engineers already possess a high degree of ownership. Your focus is less on day-to-day task coordination and more on coaching independent owners, managing ambiguity, and raising team impact. * Technically Credible Leaders: You will stay close enough to the work to challenge assumptions, review proposals, spot maintainability issues, and jump into the code to debug alongside engineers when needed. * Organizational Advocates: Beyond your immediate team, you will act as an advocate owning the health and metrics of org-wide areas—ranging from CI/CD health and developer productivity to customer success collaboration and on-call sustainability. * 100% Remote Async Culture: We maintain an even distribution of engineers across North America and Europe, optimizing for minimal process and maximum focus. * Here's how we're thinking about AI at Ashby: https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineerin ... * Full transparency on engineering levels + comp: https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compen ... Stack: TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. (While you won't always be shipping code, you are expected to hold a deep technical understanding of the system). Full list of open roles: https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?utm_source=HNwhoshiring

Salary Context

Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $160k/yr (range $11.194k–999.999k/yr, n=523 active listings).

Hiring at Ashby

Ashby has 23 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since Mar 16, 2026 — across Engineering, Operations.

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Company
Ashby
Source
HN Who is Hiring
Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · Open worldwide
Category
Seniority
lead
PostedNew
Aug 3, 2026

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