Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps

The role

This Staff/Senior Software Engineer will work on the Job Seeker Apps team, building the systems that carry job seekers' information and intent into the marketplace. The role supports engineering leadership, owns end-to-end systems work, and partners with Product and Decision Science on user-facing features and AI-driven workflows.

What you will do

• Operate across multiple problem spaces, from data engineering to backend infrastructure and full-stack integration
• Partner with Product Management and Decision Science to bring engineering perspectives early in product development
• Act as technical anchor, up-leveling an engineering team, guiding ICs, and keeping Engineering Managers aligned on technical execution
• Design and implement data-driven methods to measure the real-world success of shipped user-facing features
• Architect how ZipRecruiter is presented in AI assistants and agentic systems, with measurement and guardrails for safe scale

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and 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 you work on and the problems it solves

Nice to have

• Client-side development using 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; applicants considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetics

About the company

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace that uses AI-driven smart matching to connect millions of businesses and job seekers. It offers a job search app rated #1 on iOS and Android.