Senior Backend Engineer

About Us
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 ~5500 midsize and multinational companies and over 1.5 Milion users.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.
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.

Responsibilities

What will you do?
As a Backend Engineer on the team you will

• Develop our product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team.
• Own the development cycle end-to-end: product grooming, technical design, implementation, vibe-engineering and testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Operate in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes, deploying to production dozens of times every day.

Requirements

You’ll join a team fully onboarded to build and ship AI products with strong judgment and guardrails.
We own the full feature lifecycle, from grooming and design through rollout and GA.
We value collaboration and welcome candidates who are still growing into every requirement.

• 6 years of experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on backend development.
• A collaborative, proactive team player. We expect a strong desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.
• High motivation and an innovation mindset — someone who brings great energy (“innovation vibes”) and is excited to drive new ideas forward.
• Ability to lead AI initiatives within the team and collaborate across development teams to scale adoption.
• Strong critical thinking and good judgment: comfortable working with AI tools, but always re-checking, challenging, and improving AI-generated solutions.
• Experience with AI and vibe engineering, including usage as well as creation of context concepts such as skills, agents, rules, etc.
• Independent, fast and continuous learner, and eager to learn new concepts.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.

Benefits