Hybrid Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Job Seeker Apps

ZipRecruiter; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Flexible PTO

401(k) match

Job summary

ZipRecruiter in Chicago, IL is seeking a highly autonomous Staff/Senior Software Engineer for the Job Seeker Apps team. You’ll drive end-to-end development across data, backend, and frontend, collaborating with product and science teams to shape user-facing features and AI-driven workflows.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional partnership with product and decision science.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals: OOP, data structures, algorithms.
• Track record building user-facing products with measurable impact.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers to translate problems into engineering solutions.
• Curiosity about the product and its problems.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Systems Engineering across data, backend, and frontend spaces.
• Cross-functional product strategy with PM and Decision Science.
• Technical leadership and mentoring of engineers and managers.
• Design and implement data-driven measures of feature success.
• Architect AI integration and safe, scalable agentic workflows.

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

AI/ML basics

Data Lake

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, related field

Job description

ZipRecruiter in Chicago, IL is seeking a highly autonomous Staff/Senior Software Engineer for the Job Seeker Apps team. You’ll drive end-to-end development across data, backend, and frontend, collaborating with product and science teams to shape user-facing features and AI-driven workflows.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional partnership with product and decision science.