Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead - Planning)

ChartHop•New York, NY

1d•$180,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

ChartHop is an AI-native HR & Organizational Intelligence platform, connecting your people and business data in one technology to deliver performance, engagement, HRIS, compensation, org planning and analytics. Our product brings transparency to organizations through analytics, connected business data, and highly configurable HR workflows. Our clients include Sweetgreen, 1Password, Zapier, and Headspace. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) to help evolve one of ChartHop's most business-critical product areas. This role will initially focus on our Planning product, where you'll build, scale, and modernize complex planning workflows used by our largest customers. You'll tackle challenges like scenario modeling across large organizational hierarchies, performance optimization at scale, and building UX that works for non-technical HR leaders. You'll work alongside two senior engineers and a dedicated Product Manager, with direct partnership with Ian White, our CEO/CTO, on technical direction. We expect you to grow into full architectural ownership of this domain. That starts with collaboration and building shared context, then expands into increasing autonomy as trust develops. As a small, agile team, you should expect your scope to evolve as business priorities shift; we're looking for someone who's energized by that, not frustrated by it.

Requirements

7+ years building and scaling backend systems in production environments
Comfort working in monolithic or legacy systems and improving them incrementally
Strong judgment around tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
Experience collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders
Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions for diverse audiences
Comfortable contributing across the stack, including frontend

Nice To Haves

Experience with any part of our stack is a strong plus, including Kotlin, TypeScript/React, MongoDB, and AWS. We value engineers who are curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn. Prior experience in the HR, compensation, or planning domain is helpful but not required. It’s more important that you can learn quickly and apply sound engineering principles.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend-heavy features in a large, long-lived codebase
Own the technical health of a core product area, including performance, reliability, and scalability
Partner with the CEO/CTO to align on architectural direction and translate ideas into shippable solutions
Break down product initiatives into clear technical plans and guide day-to-day execution
Improve data models and system behavior to better support growth and larger customers
Balance new feature development with targeted refactors and operational improvements
Participate in the on-call rotation and help improve observability, monitoring, and incident response; incidents are infrequent but require timely response when they occur
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and other technical leads to keep the broader platform cohesive