# Ashby Expands Into Onboarding as Platform Engineering Scales Across Three Continents **Author:** Zero G Talent **Published:** 2026-10-23 **Category:** aerospace-engineering **Tags:** yc-hiring [Read on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/blog/ashby-expands-into-onboarding-as-platform-engineering-scales-across-three-continents) --- [Ashby](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/ashby) is moving beyond core applicant tracking. In May 2026, the San Francisco-based recruiting software company launched People Workflows, an expansion into employee onboarding that triggers automated handoffs across recruiting, human resources, IT, and hiring managers once candidate offers are signed, according to [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ashby-launches-people-workflows-extending-its-platform-into-employee-onboarding-302765982.html). The product launch follows a $50 million Series D funding round led by Alkeon Capital and Lachy Groom, reported by [Crunchbase News](https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/). That round brought Ashby's total equity raised to $120 million. The company reported 135% year-over-year revenue growth, a customer base exceeding 2,700 organizations, and daily platform usage by enterprise and growth-stage teams including OpenAI, Shopify, Snowflake, Ramp, Linear, and Notion. ## Building an All-in-One Hiring Architecture Ashby builds software designed to consolidate fragmented talent operations. Instead of running separate point solutions for candidate sourcing, scheduling, pipeline analytics, and application tracking, the platform unifies these workflows into a single system. Architecturally, the product is built on TypeScript across both frontend and backend services, paired with Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis. Rather than creating isolated features for different hiring tasks, the engineering team relies on shared platform components. These include a centralized analytics modeling and query engine, an internal policy engine, an extensible workflow engine, and a unified design system. Improvements made to these shared primitives cascade through the entire platform. Developer velocity is supported by continuous deployment infrastructure. Ashby maintains an automated CI/CD pipeline that completes in approximately 10 minutes, allowing the team to deploy updates at least 10 times per day. The organization operates on a low-meeting model and emphasizes regular working hours despite high product output. ## Leadership Roots at PlanGrid Ashby was co-founded in 2018 by [Benjamin Encz](https://zerogtalent.com/people/benjamin-encz) and [Abhik Pramanik](https://zerogtalent.com/people/abhik-pramanik), who previously worked together at construction software company PlanGrid. Encz, who serves as Chief Executive Officer, was previously Director of Engineering at PlanGrid, where his team scaling responsibilities exposed the operational bottlenecks of legacy applicant tracking software. Pramanik, who serves as Vice President of Engineering, worked as a Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid and Lob. Earlier in his career, Pramanik earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and developed physics engines as an engineer at DreamWorks Animation and Industrial Light & Magic. The co-founders spent Ashby’s first two years building the underlying architecture before releasing the product commercially in 2020. That unified foundation was constructed so that broader workflow products could be layered on without rewriting core infrastructure. ## Where Engineering Headcount Is Growing Ashby is currently hiring across product engineering, platform infrastructure, design systems, and engineering management. All open roles are fully remote, spanning three regional hubs: the Americas, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. On the product engineering side, senior contributors are needed to expand product lines like People Workflows and candidate discovery tools. Open roles include [Staff Product Engineer - Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-product-engineer-americas-91204) and [Senior Product Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/senior-product-engineer-eu-73246). Platform scalability and performance requirements have driven parallel hiring for foundational infrastructure. Ashby is looking for systems specialists through roles such as [Staff Platform Engineer, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-platform-engineer-uk-91211) and [Staff Platform Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-platform-engineer-eu-91210). To maintain cross-functional balance across regions, the company is also hiring leadership talent through positions such as [Engineering Manager, Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/engineering-manager-americas-91199) and [Engineering Manager, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/engineering-manager-uk-91202). Front-end execution is supported by dedicated interface engineers, represented by listings like [Design Engineer, Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/design-engineer-americas-73251). ## Open Roles at Ashby Every open technical and engineering role at Ashby is listed below, organized by title, location, work mode, and posted compensation range. | Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary Range | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | [Senior Product Engineer - Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/senior-product-engineer-americas-73248) | US / CA / Remote (US; CA) | Remote | $153,000 – $220,000 USD | | [Staff Product Engineer - Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-product-engineer-americas-91204) | US / CA / Remote (US; CA) | Remote | $190,000 – $275,000 USD | | [Staff Product Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-product-engineer-eu-91205) | DE / BE / FR / NL / ES / IT / FI / SE / CH / PT / NO / PL / Remote | Remote | €141,000 – €226,000 EUR | | [Staff Product Engineer, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-product-engineer-uk-91207) | GB / Remote (GB) | Remote | £138,000 – £224,000 GBP | | [Senior Product Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/senior-product-engineer-eu-73246) | DE / BE / FR / NL / ES / IT / FI / SE / CH / PT / NO / PL / Remote | Remote | €98,000 – €133,000 EUR | | [Design Engineer, Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/design-engineer-americas-73251) | US / CA / MX / BR / Remote (US; CA; MX; BR) | Remote | $153,000 – $275,000 USD | | [Design Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/design-engineer-eu-73252) | DK / BE / FR / NL / ES / FI / CH / PT / RO / IT / SE / Remote | Remote | €98,000 – €226,000 EUR | | [Senior Product Engineer, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/senior-product-engineer-uk-91206) | GB / Remote (GB) | Remote | £103,000 – £137,000 GBP | | [Engineering Manager, Americas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/engineering-manager-americas-91199) | CA / US / Remote (CA; US) | Remote | $200,000 – $275,000 USD | | [Engineering Manager, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/engineering-manager-eu-91200) | FR / DE / IT / NL / PL / PT / ES / RO / SE / CH / HR / DK / Remote | Remote | €76,000 – €185,000 EUR | | [Staff Platform Engineer, EU](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-platform-engineer-eu-91210) | FR / DE / HR / DK / SE / IT / PT / NL / PL / RO / CH / Remote | Remote | €141,000 – €226,000 EUR | | [Engineering Manager, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/engineering-manager-uk-91202) | GB / Remote (GB) | Remote | £91,000 – £200,000 GBP | | [Staff Platform Engineer, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/staff-platform-engineer-uk-91211) | GB / Remote (GB) | Remote | £138,000 – £224,000 GBP | | [Design Engineer, UK](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/ashby/design-engineer-uk-91208) | GB / Remote (GB) | Remote | £103,000 – £224,000 GBP | [See all open roles at Ashby](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/ashby) --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*