Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps

Role overview Lead engineering across the systems that help people express what they want from their next job and navigate a personalized job search. The work spans user-facing experiences, backend and data systems, and integrations with AI assistants and agentic tools. You’ll partner with product and decision science colleagues to shape features, guide technical execution, and measure whether shipped changes help users.

Responsibilities - Design and deliver systems across data engineering, backend infrastructure, and full-stack product integration. - Work with product managers and decision science partners early to turn user needs into technical plans. - Guide engineers through complex implementation choices and help keep engineering leadership aligned on execution. - Build ways to measure the real-world outcomes of new user-facing features. - Develop integrations that make job seeker information and intent usable in AI assistants and agentic systems, with appropriate measurement and safeguards. - Contribute to experiences such as job seeker profiles, application flows, personalized recommendations, and logged-in guidance.

Requirements - At least eight years of professional software development experience. - Strong computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms. - A record of building user-facing products and measuring their impact. - Experience working with product managers to translate user problems into engineering solutions. - Curiosity about the product and the problems it addresses.

Nice to have - Experience with React, TypeScript, or other modern client-side technologies. - Experience with consumer marketplaces or data lake technologies such as object storage, table formats, and distributed processing frameworks. - A degree in a technical or quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits and work setup The position offers a hybrid environment, with most U.S.-based roles also available remotely. Listed compensation includes a U.S. base salary range of $195,000–$255,000, plus a competitive benefits package, flexible vacation and paid time off, and an employer-matched retirement plan.