Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Job Seeker Apps

CurationsLA; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Exceptional benefits package

Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off

Employer-matched 401(k) plan

Job summary

ZipRecruiter is seeking a highly autonomous and versatile Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join our Job Seeker Apps team. You’ll drive systems thinking and end-to-end development, working closely with teams behind job seeker profiles and AI experiences to carry intent through our marketplace.

You will partner with Product and Decision Science to shape user-facing features and AI-driven workflows, mentor engineers, and help build scalable systems that guide millions of users toward meaningful

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Systems Engineering across data, backend, and full-stack integration.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Decision Science to inject engineering perspectives early.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and managers.
• Design and implement data-driven methods to measure the impact of new features.
• Architect AI integrations and ensure safe, scalable deployment at scale.

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

OO programming

Data structures

Algorithms

Collaborating with product

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Math/Physics or related

Tools

AWS Glue

Apache Iceberg/Delta Lake

Apache Spark or Flink

Job description

ZipRecruiter is seeking a highly autonomous and versatile Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join our Job Seeker Apps team. You’ll drive systems thinking and end-to-end development, working closely with teams behind job seeker profiles and AI experiences to carry intent through our marketplace.

You will partner with Product and Decision Science to shape user-facing features and AI-driven workflows, mentor engineers, and help build scalable systems that guide millions of users toward meaningful