Lead and mentor a diverse team of Frontend and Backend Engineers to build a Payroll product, ensuring collaborative execution and technical excellence across teams.
Job Description
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.
You are passionate about hiring and leading a diverse team of Frontend and Backend Engineers to build an end-to-end product from scratch. You will partner closely with the Product team to shape and execute the roadmap for our new Payroll Offering that GA'd in January.
This is a fully remote role, however, you must be physically located in EST and be willing and able to work EST hours Monday-Friday given the location of other members on your team.
Base salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $230,000 per year.
Job Requirements
The following are a big plus:
Job Responsibilities
Benefits
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:
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.
You are passionate about hiring and leading a diverse team of Frontend and Backend Engineers to build an end-to-end product from scratch. You will partner closely with the Product team to shape and execute the roadmap for our new Payroll Offering that GA'd in January.
This is a fully remote role, however, you must be physically located in EST and be willing and able to work EST hours Monday-Friday given the location of other members on your team.
Base salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $230,000 per year.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering with a strong backend background. All candidates must pass the same live coding interview given to Senior Backend Engineering candidates.
- 3+ years of experience leading, growing and mentoring Engineering Teams, preferably in dynamic, fast-paced companies.
- Experience developing products in one of the following domains or similar: Payroll, Benefits, HR, Payments.
- Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable web architecture.
- Experience developing SaaS products hosted in a cloud platform like AWS or equivalent.
- People-person with strong leadership skills who can build a winning team.
- Independent, resourceful, and proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.
The following are a big plus:
- Experience developing a product from scratch.
- Experience with Kotlin / Scala / Java.
- Both Backend and Frontend development experience.
Job Responsibilities
- Hire, lead, and develop a high performing Engineering team to build our Payroll Product in alignment with overall product vision and business goals.
- Partner with Product to build and execute on a roadmap of exciting features for Payroll.
- Drive technical excellence by building a product end-to-end: owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring.
- Manage a continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.
- Foster a collaborative work environment across multiple teams globally, including CX, UX, Infrastructure teams and other dev teams.
- Foster a strong feedback culture, where all team members are encouraged to challenge and be challenged on their opinions and beliefs in order to always optimize for the best possible outcome.
Benefits
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:
- Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
- 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
- Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
- Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
- Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
- Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
- Two social impact days per year for volunteering
- Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
- Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
- Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
- We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift
- Dog-friendly office
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