Senior Backend Engineer - Payroll - EST

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$170,000 - $220,000Hybrid

About The Position

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.

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.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience developing a payroll/payments/HR product.

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

  • 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
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