Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Jobseeker Platform

ziprecruiter

United States

Hybrid

USD 195,000 - 255,000

Full time

4 days ago

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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 Staff/Senior Software Engineer for our Job Seeker Apps team. You’ll support engineering leadership, drive end-to-end development, and collaborate with product and decision science to shape user-facing features and AI workflows.

You’ll guide engineering teams, own core systems carrying job seeker data and intent, and help scale our AI-assisted experiences across the marketplace.

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong CS fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms).
Experience partnering with Product Managers to solve user problems.
Proven track record building user-facing products with impact.
Curious and proactive about product and problems solved.

Responsibilities

End-to-end systems engineering across data, backend, and full-stack.
Work with Product and Decision Science to shape features early.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.
Design data-driven methods to measure feature success.
Architect AI integrations and safe scale in agentic systems.

Skills

8+ years professional software

CS fundamentals

Product collaboration

Technical leadership

Data-driven impact

Education

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

Tools

ReactJS

TypeScript

AWS Glue

Apache Spark

Iceberg/Delta Lake

Job description

You’ll guide engineering teams, own core systems carrying job seeker data and intent, and help scale our AI-assisted experiences across the marketplace.

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