Engineering Team Lead, Payroll

New York | Engineering | Full-time

Job Description

About Us

HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 3500 midsize and multinational companies.

Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.

Come and be you with us 

Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us. 

As an Engineering Team Leader, you’ll play a crucial role as our first Dev Team Lead based in the US for our Payroll Product! You are passionate about hiring and leading a diverse team of Frontend and Backend Engineers to build an end-to-end product from scratch. You will partner closely with the Product team to shape and execute the roadmap for our Payroll Offering. 

What will you do? 

  • Hire, lead, and develop a high performing Engineering team to build our Payroll Product in alignment with overall product vision and business goals
  • Partner with Product to build and execute on a roadmap of exciting features for Payroll
  • Drive technical excellence by building a product end-to-end: owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring
  • Manage a continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day. 
  • Foster a collaborative work environment across multiple teams globally, including CX, UX, Infrastructure teams and other dev teams.
  • Foster a strong feedback culture, where all team members are encouraged to challenge and be challenged on their opinions and beliefs in order to always optimize for the best possible outcome.

 **Note: We will only consider candidates located in the New York Metro Area who are willing to work in our NYC office 2-3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday). We love collaborating and connecting with our team members in-person, and we hope you will too!**

Base salaries for this role range from $180,000 - $240,000 per year. 

As an HR company, HiBob seeks to create a best-in-class employee experience for all Bobbers. We take immense pride in the diversity of our team and in creating an environment that is fair and equitable for all. Ensuring pay equity across race, gender, and all other forms of diversity is pivotal to this mission.

When determining salary ranges for our roles, we look at external market data and the salaries of Bobbers holding the same or similar roles. Our pay bands are wide because great candidates come to us with a broad range of experience and skill sets. When making individual pay rate decisions, we take into account the candidates’ depth of experience, their qualifications relative to incumbent employees, and their location-among other factors.

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Requirements

Requirements 

Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren’t the only factor. If you don’t have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we’d still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

  • 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering with a strong backend background.
  • 3+ years of experience leading, growing and mentoring Engineering Teams, preferably in dynamic, fast-paced companies.
  • Experience developing products in one of the following domains or similar: Payroll, Benefits, HR, Payments.
  • Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable web architecture.
  • Experience developing SaaS products hosted in a cloud platform like AWS or equivalent.
  • People-person with strong leadership skills who can build a winning team.
  • Independent, resourceful, and proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.

The following are a big plus:

  • Experience developing a product from scratch.
  • Experience with Kotlin / Scala / Java.
  • Both Backend and Frontend development experience.

Join our village 

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

  • Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
  • 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
  • Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
  • Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
  • Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
  • Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
  • Two social impact days per year for volunteering
  • Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
  • Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
  • Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
  • We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift 
  • Dog-friendly office

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!

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