The Senior Backend Engineer will develop core mechanisms for financial planning, lead backend development, mentor peers, and manage the full development cycle.
Job Description
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 Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you'll be a key leader in developing the core mechanisms that drive our financial planning and analysis product, including our query language. You will be responsible for owning and leading backend development, including architecting, maintaining, and evolving our complex, rich metrics mechanism used to create and manage all collected metrics for data analysis. In this role, you will also mentor and guide other backend engineers on the team. You are passionate about software engineering and building a robust, high-performance product end-to-end. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from technical design through coding and testing to deployment and monitoring.
Base salary for this role ranges from $170,000 - $230,000 per year.
Job 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 all the skills, we'd still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.
The following is a big plus:
Job Responsibilities
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:
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 Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you'll be a key leader in developing the core mechanisms that drive our financial planning and analysis product, including our query language. You will be responsible for owning and leading backend development, including architecting, maintaining, and evolving our complex, rich metrics mechanism used to create and manage all collected metrics for data analysis. In this role, you will also mentor and guide other backend engineers on the team. You are passionate about software engineering and building a robust, high-performance product end-to-end. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from technical design through coding and testing to deployment and monitoring.
Base salary for this role ranges from $170,000 - $230,000 per year.
Job 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 all the skills, we'd still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.
- 9+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, strongly emphasizing backend development.
- Experience with C#, Java, or Scala development.
- Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
- Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
- Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
- Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
- Experience with distributed databases like SingleStore.
- 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 financial planning application / HR related product.
- Experience with data pipelines, PySpark and AWS Glue.
- Technical leadership experience and/or experience mentoring junior developers.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable back-end systems for our Financial Planning product.
- 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 C#, Java, or Scala.
- Integrate with external data providers, such as Snowflake, NetSuite, and Stripe
- 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.
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
Top Skills
AWS
Aws Glue
C#
Java
MySQL
Postgres
Pyspark
Scala
Singlestore
HiBob London, England Office
Space House, 1 Kemble Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2B 4AN
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