Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps

The role

You will support engineering leadership by driving systems thinking and end-to-end development. You will work on job seeker profiles and AI agent experiences to build core systems for the marketplace.

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 inject engineering perspectives into product development.
• Act as a technical anchor to up-level an engineering team and 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 the company is presented in AI assistants and agentic systems.

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
• A data lake stack: parquet on object storage, a data catalog such as AWS Glue, an open table format such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, a data processing framework like 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 & Paid Time Off
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan

About the company

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. It uses AI-driven smart matching technology to connect businesses and job seekers through mobile, web, and email services.