Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Engage in data engineering, backend infrastructure, and comprehensive full-stack integration.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Decision Science to integrate engineering insights into product development.

• Serve as a technical guide, mentor individual contributors, and ensure alignment among Engineering Managers on technical execution.

• Design and execute data-driven strategies to evaluate the success of user-facing features.

• Architect the presentation of ZipRecruiter within AI assistants and agentic systems, including measurement and safety protocols.

• Provide support to engineering leadership and promote systems thinking alongside end-to-end development.

• Develop essential systems that connect job seeker information and intent to ZipRecruiter's marketplace.

• Work in collaboration with Product and Decision Science teams on user-facing features and AI-driven workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience.

• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.

• Proven history of creating user-facing products with measurable outcomes.

• Experience partnering with Product Managers to transform user challenges into engineering solutions.

• A strong curiosity about the product and the issues it addresses.

• Experience in client-side development using ReactJS, TypeScript, or other contemporary languages and frameworks is a plus.

• Familiarity with data lake technologies such as Parquet, object storage, AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, or Flink is advantageous.

• Background in product development for consumer-facing marketplaces is a plus.

• A BS/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Flexible vacation and paid time off.

• Employer-matched 401(k) plan.

• Medical, financial, and various other benefits.

• Potential for equity, bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation as part of the overall package.