Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack features for the HR Experience product surface.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-functional technical planning.
• Own projects end to end, including scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features.
• Participate in the 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.
• Ability to independently design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language or framework, such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Python/Django.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern frontend framework, such as React or TypeScript.
• Understanding of relational database schema design, migrations, and query performance.
• Experience owning projects from scoping and technical design through deployment and monitoring.
• Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Experience partnering with product managers, designers, and engineers, with clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred experience in HR technology, payroll, or fintech.
• Preferred experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Preferred exposure to accessibility best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity in the form of RSUs.
• Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York are expected to work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
• Remote or non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection and regular predictable attendance.