Staff Software Engineer (HR Experience)

Job summary
Permanent contract
New York
Salary: $197K to 247K
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
HRIS software
Teaching and mentoring
Written and verbal communication
GraphQL
React
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The position

Job description

  • Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring — with light oversight
  • 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

Preferred experience

  • Solid understanding of relational databases — schema design, migrations, and query performance
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers
  • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight
  • 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)
  • Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
  • Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing, CI/CD
  • Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains
  • Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
  • Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices

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