Staff Software Engineer (HR Experience)

About this role

• 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

### Benefits

- Gender-affirming care and support
- Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
- A variety of mental health resources
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)
- Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work
- Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing,
deployment, and monitoring
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with
minimal oversight
- Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing,
CI/CD
- 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)
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers
- Solid understanding of relational databases — schema design, migrations, and query performance
- Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs
- Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices
- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
- Experience in HR tech, payroll, o...