Senior Backend Engineer (EST Timezone)
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you’ll have a key role in developing our Payroll product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team. You are passionate about software engineering and building a product end-to-end. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring. We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.
Job requirements
* 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, strongly emphasizing backend development
* Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Scala
* Experience owning features end-to-end
* Experience collaborating with product managers, exercising sound judgment on when to advocate strongly, and confidently navigating trade-offs and negotiations
* Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc
* Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture
* Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc
* Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform
* Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies
* Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers
The following is a big plus
* Experience developing a payroll/payments/HR product
Job responsibilities
* Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable back-end systems for our Payroll product using a modern microservices architecture
* Collaborate with product managers, front-end engineers, and other stakeholders to implement new features and ensure alignment with the overall product roadmap
* Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Kotlin, Scala, or Java (or be eager to learn Kotlin)
* Build and optimize APIs to support seamless integrations across our platform
* Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
* Take ownership of the full development cycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
* Work in a continuous delivery environment with automated QA processes to ensure robust and reliable releases
Job benefits
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobb
* Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
* 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
* 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
* Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
* Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
* Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
* Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
* Two social impact days per year for volunteering
* Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
* Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
* Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
* We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift
* Dog-friendly office
If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!