Senior Backend Engineer - Payroll - EST

It’s an exciting time to join HiBob. Salesforce is leading a $166 million investment in the company, supporting our vision to bring trusted people context into the AI-powered enterprise. As we accelerate our product, technology, AI, and innovation roadmap, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape what comes next.

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.

Base salary for this role ranges from $170,000 - $220,000 per year plus benefits and stock options (ISOs).

Candidates must be physically located in the Eastern Time Zone to ensure sufficient working-hour overlap with our team in Europe and Israel. Job Responsibilities

• 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.

Job Requirements

• 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.

The following is a big plus:

• Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
• Experience developing a payroll/payments/HR product.

Job Benefits At HiBob, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re building a global village of ambitious, thoughtful, and talented Bobbers who want to do the best work of their careers. With a vibrant NYC office and remote teammates across the country, we’ve created an environment where people can be themselves, grow quickly, and make a real impact. Joining HiBob means working alongside exceptional people while being supported with competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and pre-IPO equity, including the perks below.

Ownership & Financial

• Equity in a global, high-growth HR tech SaaS leader
• 401(k) with a 3% company match effective the month following your start date
• $2,500 employee referral bonus

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• $1,920 annual wellness stipend to support your physical and mental wellbeing
• Annual Headspace membership and expanded wellness benefits

Workplace Flexibility

• Hybrid working model for Bobbers in the NY metro area
• Temporary work from anywhere for up to 2 months per year (after 6 months)

Work-Life Balance

• Generous paid time off and company holidays to rest, recharge, and enjoy
• Bob Balance Days – 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• Your birthday off - plus a special gift from us

Work From Home

• Home office allowance to set up your ideal workspace

Community & Culture

• Two paid Social Impact days each year to give back to causes you care about
• Frequent team and company social events, both in-person and virtual
• Dog friendly office

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!