Senior Backend Engineer (EST Timezone)

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Senior Backend Engineer (EST Timezone)

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote or Hybrid
170K-220K Annually
Senior level
HR Tech • Information Technology • Professional Services • Sales • Software
Our mission is to create a modern work experience that empowers organizations to be remarkable.
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment in a microservices architecture.
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Job Description
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.
Base salary for this role ranges from $170000 - $220000 per year.
There is a strong preference to fill this role in NYC with a hybrid schedule out of our office but we will consider exceptional candidates who are based in the EST time zone and open to working remotely.
Location Eligibility: While this can be a remote position HiBob is currently authorized to hire in the following states: CA. CO CT DC FL GA IL IN KS MA MD MN NC NH NJ NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC TN TX UT VA WA. Candidates must reside in one of these states to be considered for employment.
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.

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 Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation benefits and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:
  • 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 - $2500 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!

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The Company
HQ: Tel Aviv
1350 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

HiBob helps modern mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people giving HR and managers all they need to connect engage develop and retain top talent. Since 2015 we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe making us the choice HRIS of over 4000 midsize and multinational companies. Our HR platform is intuitive data-driven and built for the way people work today: globally remotely and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Huel What3words Fiverr and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.

Why Work With Us

Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly shy precise funny bold kind honest brilliant or anything in between we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.

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