Full-Stack Software Engineer, People Intelligence

Applied Intuition • Sunnyvale, CA

8d • $138,000 - $208,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The People Intelligence team builds internal software that Applied Intuition’s leaders use to manage and scale the company. Its products support performance management, team planning, headcount and budgeting, organizational insight, and employees’ everyday experience. The team works with leaders and internal partners to understand operational needs and turn people, financial, and operational data into reliable measures and analyses.

This role owns products end to end, from understanding ambiguous problems with internal customers to shipping and operating reliable software. The engineer will build services and frontends, data pipelines and system integrations, metrics and visualizations, and secure tools for sensitive people and financial data. The role also includes migrating legacy systems and deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production software. Applied Intuition expects full-time employees to work primarily from an office five days a week, with some flexibility for occasional remote work and schedule adjustments.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience building software products with a large user base.
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP and/or AWS) and relational databases.
• Comfort building with AI coding tools.
• Strong SQL skills and experience analyzing data, defining metrics, distinguishing signal from noise, and explaining findings to non-technical audiences.
• Interest in business and operational problems as well as technical challenges, with communication skills to work directly with senior stakeholders.
• Track record of owning products end to end, from an ambiguous problem to a shipped solution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Go, React/TypeScript, and Postgres.
• Background in data science or statistics, such as survey analysis, forecasting, or experimentation.
• Experience with HR, finance, or other enterprise data systems.
• Experience at product companies in HR technology or fintech.
• Experience using software to solve logistical and operational problems, such as internal tooling or process automation.
• Combined business and engineering background.

Responsibilities

• Own products end to end, from ambiguous problems through development, deployment, and reliable production operation.
• Build Go services and React/TypeScript frontends backed by Postgres.
• Use AI coding agents and LLM APIs while maintaining quality through tests, code review, safe migrations, and careful deployments.
• Build data pipelines and integrations with company systems of record, including Workday, Slack, and Jira, using versioned schema migrations.
• Deploy and operate software on GCP and AWS, using tools such as ECS, RDS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, and establish monitoring and alerting.
• Migrate data and APIs from legacy Python/Flask systems to the modern service platform without disrupting users.
• Use SQL and Python to turn people, financial, and operational data into metrics, analyses, and visualizations for leadership decisions.
• Protect sensitive people and financial data through identity-aware access, authorization enforced in code, and regression-preventing tests.
• Work directly with company leaders and partner teams, including People, Finance, and IT, to decide what to build.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior