Senior Backend Engineer, HiBob
Payroll
$170-220k
Offers stock options
More information about location
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
Posted today
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
1001+ employees
Posted today
$170-220k
Offers stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a modern work experience that empowers organisations to be remarkable.
Role
Who you are
- Physically located in the Eastern Time Zone---we cannot consider applicants outside EDT at this time
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools to develop, test, and debug backend software, with the judgment to validate generated code for quality, security, and maintainability
- 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, strongly emphasizing backend development
- Experience building customer-facing SaaS products from inception to launch with thousands of users
- Experience collaborating with product managers, exercising sound judgment on when to advocate strongly, and confidently navigating trade-offs and negotiations
- 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
- Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies
- Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers
Desirable
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Scala
- Experience developing a payroll/payments/HR product
What the job involves
- As a Senior 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
- As an agentic AI company, we’re building intelligent software that takes action to help customers get work done—and embracing AI in how we build it
- 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
Our take
Developing and maintaining talent is a big challenge for companies that are scaling quickly. Hibob are trying to be one of the solutions.
There are an increasing number of startups attracting huge amounts of investment and being pushed to scale their business fast, meaning the customer base for Hibob's services, whilst already large, is growing.
Hibob has attracted high-profile customers like Fulham FC, eToro, and Receipt Bank, which gives them great credibility for selling to other companies.
Hibob's acquisition of Cassiopeia - a Workplace Relationships Analytics Startup, will afford companies better insights to improve team communications and support flexible work models. Together, they wish to offer thousands of companies the tools they need to maximize the employee experience in our increasingly digital world.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $715m
Company benefits
- Company share options plan
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Work from home allowance: to get your home office set up how you like it
- Volunteering days: Two days each year to support your community
- Employee referral program paying up to $2,500 for each successful referral
- Work from anywhere: Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to two months (after six months of employment)
- Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
- Bob Balance Days: A company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter (four additional days of leave)
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Pension scheme or savings plan
- Birthday day off: Take the day off and receive a special gift
- Headspace subscription to help look after your mental health
- Private health coverage
Company values
- Bring me, win as we: When we come together as a global team, we can build something trailblazing. Every Bobber can show up as their authentic self, strengthening the connections in our village and having an exponential impact.
- Build the exceptional: Everyone contributes to building the exceptional at HiBob. We are leading the way in what a functional, flexible, and fun HR platform and mindset looks like.
- We do what we say: We are intentional and take pride in aligning our actions with our words. We deliver today on the promises we made yesterday. We actively use our product and seek to drive best practices.
- Trust and empower each other: Bobbers shine when those around them shine, too. We hire smart people who have the freedom to do their jobs in the best possible way.
- Interact with transparency and openness: Information is a resource to be shared, not a resource to be guarded.
- Grow through what we go through: We need to be agile and adapt. With every challenge and experience we go through, we learn, improve, and remain resilient.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Israel David
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously SVP of Technology at Kenshoo, VP of IT Business Management at VMware, and VP/GM at 48Upper.
Ronni Zehavi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Team8 and Cotendo. He also spent two years at Akamai Technologies as a Senior VP and GM of the Security Division.
People progressing
Joined HiBob in 2021 as SMB Customer Success Manager and grown to lead the Global SMB Account Manager team in the Customer Growth division, driving scalable growth and success with global customers.
Joined the CX team in 2018 and helped build the SMB CSM team as one of its first members. Has progressed through leadership roles and is now Head of SMB Customer Success, driving adoption & retention.
Joined as a Customer Success Manager in 2022 before moving to our Sales Engineering team after 18 months. Has since been promoted to Senior Sales Engineer, supporting our Partnerships team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at HiBob
- Our success depends on our people, and we want HiBob to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive. To achieve this, we are committed to being proactive at all levels, ensuring that our workforce reflects the communities in which we live, work, and hire. We are open to all talent. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class* (*US only).
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