Software Engineer

Hipeople
Berlin, Germany
27 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Pair Programming Software Engineering Playwright

Job description

  • Ship multiple times a day, in 1-week sprints
  • Talk to users whenever needed to uncover core problems
  • Engage with other teams to quickly solve impactful problems
  • Break down complex topics clearly in writing and in person
  • Collaborate closely with product and design
  • Work in a CI-driven environment; we optimize for cycle time, PRs merged per week, and planning accuracy
  • Raise the bar for the codebase, standards, and quality
  • Extend our automated end-to-end test suite with Playwright

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional Go experience
  • Enjoyment of live collaboration (e.g. pair programming & huddles)
  • High ownership mindset and strong attention to detail
  • Strong interest in quality, not just shipping features
  • Clear communication and documentation skills
  • Growth mindset (e.g. learning and sharing new technologies with the team)

Benefits & conditions

Strong candidates often come from:

  • Software engineering roles at top tech companies
  • Other paths that demonstrate building high-quality products at high velocity, * Direct ownership of AI products used by ambitious hiring teams in the US and EMEA
  • Work closely with founders on core product
  • Competitive salary and meaningful stock options
  • Educational stipend to support ongoing learning and development
  • The best team to work with (true story!)

About the company

HiPeople is the AI Hiring Platform that takes care of screening, interviews, assessments, and references. So recruiting teams can focus on what matters most. People.

We work with some of the world’s leading brands, including the NFL, Zapier, Celonis, and DAZN. and are backed by leading investors and operators such as: Moonfire founder Mattias Ljungman, Capnamic, Cherry, André Christ (LeanIX, an SAP company), Mirko Novakovic (Founder Instana/Dash0), Micha Hernandez (Fiberplane), and others.

We’re hiring an Software Engineer to accelerate our velocity in shipping differentiating AI for recruiting teams as we scale toward $10M ARR and beyond.

You’ll work in in a highly collaborative, high-impact team team where everybody strives to make a dent every day with the software we ship. This role is for people who care deeply about quality, enjoy working on difficult backend problems.

We are an extremely lean team and plan to reach $10M ARR with fewer than 20 people. Every hire materially changes the company. This role has direct exposure to founders and real responsibility from day one.

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