Senior Backend Engineer (EST Timezone)

HiBob

7h•Hybrid

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

Competitive compensation
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)
Birthday off and a special gift
Dog-friendly office