Software Engineer

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 ~4500 midsize and multinational companies and over 1 Milion users.

Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. 

What this role is really about

We're building Hibob's internal 

AI Platform

as a foundation that enables safe, scalable, and cost‑effective AI across the company. 

Our mission is to support internal business units in becoming more productive and driving business growth.

As a Software Engineer on 

Business Innovation (Internal)

, you'll develop high‑leverage platform capabilities used by Product, Customer Success, Sales, Operations, Data, and IT. You'll work across the entire stack, from APIs and services to data and UI. transforming business requi

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience building production systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in 

Python

and solid experience with 

React

..
- Deep experience with 

cloud infrastructure

(AWS), 

containers

(Docker, Kubernetes), and distributed systems.
- Professional experience designing 

event‑driven

or 

microservice

architectures (e.g., Kafka/PubSub, queues, webhooks).
- Practical knowledge in 

data stores

(Postgres, Redis, or equivalent) and 

analytics

(SQL, Snowflake/BigQuery).
- Strong grounding of 

LLM/AI application patterns

(RAG, tool use, function calling, guardrails) and vendor APIs (OpenAI or similar).
- Experience with 

vector search

(pgvector, Pinecone, OpenSearch), 

feature/semantic layers

, or retrieval pipelines
- Familiarity with 

LLMOps

: eval frameworks, prompt/version management, offline/online A/B testing, and cost/latency optimization

Excellence in testing (unit/integration), observability, and CI/CD; you instrument before you ship.
- Clear written and verbal communication; able to drive alignment with concise design docs and reviews.

Job Responsibilities

• Build core AI platform services

- Design and implement agent orchestration, prompt management, RAG, Connectors, and evaluation pipelines that power AI experiences across the company.
- Develop complex agentic workflows

- Develop a multi-step workflow that coordinates tools and services with proper observability, guardrails, and cost controls (using OpenAI Agent SDK, LangGraph, or a similar framework).
- Build LLM evaluation and optimization systems 

-Develop evaluation harnesses, offline/online experiments, prompt-testing frameworks, and dashboards to balance quality, latency, and spend across all AI services.
- Ship the internal AI portal 

• Build user-facing products that democratize AI access: prompt directories, agent designers, templates,  approval workflows, and more.
• Ensure security and compliance

- Develop RBAC, data classification, PII redaction, audit logging, and policy enforcement.
- Create robust integrations

- Connect the platform with Salesforce, NetSuite, Slack, Snowflake, HRIS, and other critical business systems.
- Establish operational excellence

- Implement CI/CD, testing strategies, monitoring/tracing, and SLOs for high-reliability services.
- Enable developers

-  build SDKs, CLIs, and templates that help teams create safe, scalable AI workflows. Lead technical discussions and write design documentation.

Nice to have:

• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster) or multi-model routing strategies
• Hands-on experience with model optimization, fine-tuning, or distillation techniques
• Background in SaaS/enterprise environments with compliance requirements (SOC2, GDPR)

Job Benefits
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:

• Company share options plan
• We have a flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance- to get your home office set up
• Payment for sick leave from the first day
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Awesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme
• 10 bis or cibus/wolt- you get to pick
• Transportation allowance
• Dog-friendly
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)
• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter

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