Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience

Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring — with light oversight.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface; Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack; Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros; Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions; Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features; Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems; Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work; Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight; Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django) and one modern frontend framework (e.g., React, TypeScript); Solid understanding of relational databases (schema design, migrations, and query performance); Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring; Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing, CI/CD; Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers; Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs

Nice to have

Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains; Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs; Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices

Benefits

Competitive base pay; benefits; equity (RSUs)