Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps

The role

This Staff/Senior Software Engineer will support engineering leadership on the Job Seeker Apps team. The work covers end-to-end systems, job seeker profiles, AI agent experiences, and mentoring other engineers.

What you will do

• Build end-to-end systems across data engineering, backend infrastructure and full-stack integration
• Partner with Product Management and Decision Science early in product development
• Act as technical anchor: up-level an engineering team, guide ICs, keep Engineering Managers aligned on technical execution
• Design and implement data-driven methods to measure the success of user-facing features
• Architect how ZipRecruiter is presented in AI assistants and agentic systems, with measurement and guardrails

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals: object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms
• A track record of building user-facing products with measurable impact
• Experience working with Product Managers to turn user problems into engineering solutions
• Deep curiosity about the product and the problems it solves

Nice to have

• Client-side development with ReactJS, TypeScript or other modern languages and frameworks
• Data lake stack experience: parquet on object storage, AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, Apache Spark or Flink
• Product development in consumer-facing marketplaces
• BS/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, related technical field or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Exceptional benefits package
• Flexible vacation and paid time off
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan
• Full range of medical, financial and other benefits

Before you apply

• Equal opportunity employer

About the company

ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace that connects job seekers and businesses through mobile, web and email services. It uses AI-driven smart matching technology.