Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps (Fully Remote)

ZipRecruiter; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipRecruiter is seeking a highly autonomous Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join the Job Seeker Apps team, driving systems thinking and end-to-end development.

You'll work across data engineering to backend infrastructure, guiding ICs and partnering with teams behind profiles and AI agent experiences, measuring real-world impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record building user-facing products with measurable impact.
• Strong CS fundamentals and curiosity about product problems.

Responsibilities

• Operate across data engineering to backend infrastructure and full-stack integration.
• Act as a technical anchor, elevate the engineering team and guide contributors.
• Design data-driven methods to measure real-world feature success.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Technical leadership

Data-driven analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

ReactJS

TypeScript

AWS Glue

Apache Iceberg

Apache Spark

Job description

• Seek a highly autonomous and versatile Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join the Job Seeker Apps team.
• Support engineering leadership, driving systems thinking and end-to-end development.
• Work closely with teams behind job seeker profiles and AI agent experiences.

What You’ll Do:

• Operate across multiple problem spaces from data engineering to backend infrastructure and full-stack integration.
• Act as a technical anchor, up-leveling an engineering team and guiding individual contributors.
• Design and implement creative, data-driven methods to measure the real-world success of shipped features.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with strong computer science fundamentals.
• A track record of building user-facing products with measurable impact.
• Deep curiosity about the product and the problems it solves.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with client-side development using ReactJS, TypeScript, or other modern frameworks.
• Familiarity with a data lake stack including AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Spark.

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace that uses AI-driven smart matching technology to connect businesses and job seekers. The company has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android and offers a collaborative, innovative culture with a focus on impact.