Staff Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Partnering with engineering and product leaders to align technical initiatives with long-term business objectives.
• - Identifying and executing key initiatives to improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.
• - Enhancing developer experience by improving tooling, workflows, and way of working.
• - Role model on quality and efficiency by actively contributing to codebases, driving best practices, and demonstrating excellence through hands-on work.
• - Providing coaching and mentorship to engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and professional growth.
• - Supporting teams in making well-informed technical decisions by balancing trade-offs, risk, and business impact.
• - Leading architectural decisions to build a high-quality, maintainable, and extensible platform.
• - Driving proactive measures to minimize technical debt and ensure structured execution of platform initiatives.
• - Embedding AI technologies in our stack to enable new AI-driven capabilities in our product.

Required Skills

• - You are inspired by our mission to put one billion people in dream jobs
• - You are fully aligned with our behaviors
• - You are a fast learner and always eager to have a direct impact on our stack and platform.
• - You have a strong background in architecting scalable systems and defining technical standards.
• - You excel at mentoring and coaching engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• - You have a proven ability to anticipate potential risks, align technical initiatives with business priorities, and deliver impactful results.
• - You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of validating and clearly articulating decisions.
• - You have strong time management skills, including the ability to prioritize effectively.
• - You thrive in ambiguity and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
• - You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.

Benefits

• - Helping shape a fast-growing HR tech startup as an early employee
• - Fully remote position with bright, motivated, and friendly colleagues around the world
• - Compensation range between €80,000 to €115,000 per annum + Share Appreciation Rights
• - Flexible hours and vacation
• - Paid parental leave
• - Remote working budget: €1,000 per year (pro-rata based on your start date)
• - Learning & development budget: 3.5% of base compensation