Software Engineer (frontend-biased)

HiPeople GmbH; Berlin; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Educational stipend

Competitive salary with stock options

Direct ownership of AI products

Job summary

HiPeople GmbH is looking for a Software Engineer to enhance their AI hiring platform as they approach $10M ARR. This role involves turning ideas into polished software experiences using technologies like React, TypeScript, and Redux. Candidates should have over 2 years of frontend experience, a strong attention to quality, and an ownership mindset. The role offers direct collaboration with founders and a competitive salary with stock options. Work can be conducted remotely or from the Berlin office.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional frontend experience.
• Strong interest in quality, not just shipping features.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Turn rough ideas into end-to-end, delightful experiences.
• Build using React, TypeScript & Redux.
• Ship multiple times a day in 1-week sprints.

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

Redux

Collaboration

Tools

Playwright

Job description

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 a 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 frontend problems (both UI and performance), and have outstanding taste.

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.

What you’ll do

• Turn rough ideas into end-to-end, delightful experiences

• Build using: React, TypeScript & Redux

• 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

What we are looking for

• 100% alignment with our Ops Principles (if this doesn’t resonate, please do not apply)

• 2+ years of professional frontend 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)

Background

Strong candidates often come from:

• Software engineering roles at top tech companies

• Other paths that demonstrate building high-quality products at high velocity

Logistics

This role is remote or on-site in our Berlin office. We do not offer visa support for Germany or any other country at this time.

Benefits

• 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!)

We proudly believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. Diversity of thought fuels our success which can only be achieved with a diverse team. We welcome people from any race, orientation, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, differently-abled, neurodiverse or identity, we value all uniqueness.