Software Engineer - Go

HiPeople is on a mission to equip recruiting and people teams with AI-powered screening products — talent insights for fast, unbiased, and easy hiring decisions.

HiPeople Resume Screens | HiPeople Assessments | HiPeople Reference Checks

We work with some of the world's leading brands, including the NFL, Kickstarter, Zapier and Rolling Stone Magazine.

We’re backed by leading investors and angels such as:

🌗🔥 Moonfire founder Mattias Ljungman

🧢 Capnamic

🍒 Cherry Ventures

🔷 🔵 LeanIX (an SAP company) founder André Christ

We’re a small team of 5. We solve problems when we see them and leave code in better shape than when we started. As an Engineer, you’re not afraid of ownership; you take on projects with little guidance, make well-informed decisions and drive best-in-class development within the product and for our users.

Role:

• Build using: Go
• Collaborate closely with product, CS and Sales and report directly to a founder
• Estimate, plan and execute. FYI we are adding 2 new products to the platform over the next 12 months!
• Ship multiple times a day, in 1-week sprints —> Managed in Linear
• CI-driven, we push for cycle time, PRs merged / week & planning accuracy
• Bar raise the code base, standards and quality with your architectural designs and hands-on tactics
• Together with the team, extend our automated e2e test suite with Playwright

Sounds like you?

• Ideally, but not mandatory, you will be Berlin-based and want to take advantage of the social and productive aspects of coming to our Maschinenraum office (e.g. collaborating with design & founders in person)
• 2+ years of professional frontend experience
• You enjoy live collaboration with your team, e.g. paired programming & huddles
• Translate ideas into end-to-end delightful experiences
• Engage with other teams to create impactful ways of quickly solving problems
• Break down tricky topics in writing and person
• Growth mindset, e.g. learns and educates the team on new tech to help advance the product
• You will help to build a company-inclusive culture and understand that keeping comms constructive keeps the team productive

The process: What happens after you apply?

• Step 1: Assessment
• Step 2: Initial call
• Step 3: Interview with hiring manager
• Step 4: Technical & Team interview
• Step 5: References + Offer 🎉

Duration: 1 week, end-to-end

🌈 We proudly believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. Diversity of thought fuels our success, which can only be achieved with a diverse team. We welcome people from any race, orientation, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, differently abled, neurodiverse, or identity; we value all uniqueness.