Top Benefits
About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you’ll have a key role in developing our Payroll product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team. You are passionate about software engineering and building a product end-to-end. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring. We are an agentic-first company. We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.
Base salary for this role ranges from $148,000 - $189,000 CAD per year.
- 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.
The following is a big plus:
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Experience developing a payroll / payments / HR related product.
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Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable back-end systems for our Payroll product using a modern microservices architecture.
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Collaborate with product managers, front-end engineers, and other stakeholders to implement new features and ensure alignment with the overall product roadmap.
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Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Kotlin, Scala, or Java (or be eager to learn Kotlin).
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Build and optimize APIs to support seamless integrations across our platform.
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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.
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:
- 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
If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!
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Top Benefits
About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you’ll have a key role in developing our Payroll product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team. You are passionate about software engineering and building a product end-to-end. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring. We are an agentic-first company. We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.
Base salary for this role ranges from $148,000 - $189,000 CAD per year.
- 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.
The following is a big plus:
-
Experience developing a payroll / payments / HR related product.
-
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.
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:
- 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
If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!