Backend Engineer - US (East)

Job Description
About Us
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we've achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 3500 midsize and multinational companies.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Fiverr , Airtasker, Go Cardless , HiPages and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that's bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we're waiting with open arms. Come join us.
As a 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.
Job Requirements
Requirements
Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren't the only factor. If you don't have nearly enough experience or not all the skills, we'd still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, strongly emphasising backend development.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with Java / Kotlin / Scala experience.
• Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.

The following is a big plus

• Experience developing a payroll / payments / HR related product.

Job Responsibilities
What will you do?

• 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.

**Note: We will consider both candidates located in the New York Metro Area who are willing to work in our NYC office 2-3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday) OR Remote based EST Timezone**
Base salaries for this role range from $150,000 - $230,000 per year.
Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• 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

If this sounds like something you've been looking for, we'd love to have you. Come on, join our village!