Staff Software Engineer

For Israel-based positions, we encourage working from our Saarona, Tel Aviv office a few days a week, meeting your colleagues, and having a flexible work environment.

Our Mission:

To actively connect people to their next great opportunity. 

Who We Are: 

ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects job seekers with millions of businesses of all sizes through innovative mobile app, web, and email services, as well as partnerships with the best job sites on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android. 

Summary of Job

ZipRecruiter is changing the way job seekers get hired and how small businesses manage their HR. Our R&D center in Tel Aviv offers an empowering, fun and collaborative culture where talented individuals who think like business owners and entrepreneurs are invited to join our growing team.  

We use models and algorithms of machine-learning and deep-learning to find candidates for a job, and get the job information to reach the candidate as quickly as possible to allow the employer to reach the best candidates in the least possible time.

As a backend engineer you will be helping us design and build a flexible and scalable system that will allow our business to move fast and innovate. You will be expected to show ownership and responsibility for the code you write, but it doesn’t stop there. at Zip, you are encouraged to think big and help out in other areas as well.

Key focuses:

• Designing and writing code that is critical for business growth
• Mastering scalability and enterprise-grade production services implementation
• Sense of ownership - leading design for new products and initiatives as well as integrating with currently implemented best-practices
• Review your peer's design and code
• Work closely with product managers, peer engineers, and business stakeholders

Minimum Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience as a hands on software engineer (Python, Java, Golang, Scala)
• Hands on experience in managing major clouds vendors’ infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Working with a number of off-the-shelf tools such as Kafka, DynamoDb, SQS, ElasticSearch, but often push them past their limits
• Experience working with Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
• Enjoy communicating and collaborating, sharing your ideas and being open to honest feedback
• The ability to lead new features from design to implementation, taking into consideration topics such as performance, scalability, and impact on the greater system
• Bachelor’s degree or higher - an advantage

As part of our team you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive salary
• A fun environment where work-life balance is valued