Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience

About the role

Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and

production monitoring — with light oversight.

What you'll do

• 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

What we're looking for

• 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

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $197,000–$247,000 for New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.