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HiBob

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $150M Series D - HiBob on 2023-09

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

HiBob is a cloud-based people platform designed to connect HR, payroll, and finance data into a single system to manage the entire employee lifecycle. It provides a core HR system of record, payroll (US and UK), benefits administration, time and attendance, talent management (hiring, onboarding, performance, learning), workforce and compensation planning, people analytics, and embedded AI features to automate workflows and generate insights. HiBob targets HR, Finance, IT, payroll teams and business leaders with a configurable, enterprise-capable SaaS product focused on automation, employee self-service, and actionable people analytics.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Physically located in the Toronto metropolitan area. • 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, strongly emphasizing backend development for SaaS applications. • Experience building and owning customer-facing features that have shipped to production. • Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture. • Experience with Java and/or Kotlin. • Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc. • Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform. • Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. • Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies. • Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers. • Experience developing a payroll / payments / HR related product is a big plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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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