Senior Backend Engineer

Join HiBob, a rapidly growing HR platform that helps modern, mid-size businesses transform their people management. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be part of a collaborative team that values innovation and impact. You will lead AI initiatives, work with AI tools, and have a strong emphasis on backend development.

Participate in the full feature lifecycle, from grooming and design through rollout and GA, for AI products.

About HiBob

• You’ll join a team fully onboarded to build and ship AI products with strong judgment and guardrails.
• We own the full feature lifecycle, from grooming and design through rollout and GA.
• We value collaboration and welcome candidates who are still growing into every requirement.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI initiatives within the team and collaborate across development teams to scale adoption.
• Utilize strong critical thinking and good judgment to work with AI tools, re-checking, challenging, and improving AI-generated solutions.

Requirements

• 6 years of experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on backend development.
• A collaborative, proactive team player. We expect a strong desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.
• High motivation and an innovation mindset — someone who brings great energy (“innovation vibes”) and is excited to drive new ideas forward.
• Ability to lead AI initiatives within the team and collaborate across development teams to scale adoption.
• Strong critical thinking and good judgment: comfortable working with AI tools, but always re-checking, challenging, and improving AI-generated solutions.
• Experience with AI and vibe engineering, including usage as well as creation of context concepts such as skills, agents, rules, etc.
• Independent, fast and continuous learner, and eager to learn new concepts.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.