Engineering Lead - EST

Role overview

HiBob is hiring an Engineering Lead (EST) to build and scale a new Payroll product end-to-end. You will lead a diverse team of Frontend and Backend Engineers and partner closely with Product to shape and execute the roadmap for a Payroll Offering that GA’d in January.

This is fully remote, but you must be physically located in EST and able to work EST hours Monday–Friday.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team to deliver the Payroll product aligned with business goals.
• Partner with Product to build and execute the Payroll feature roadmap.
• Drive technical excellence across the full dev lifecycle: technical design → coding → testing → deployment → monitoring.
• Run a continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times daily.
• Collaborate across global teams (e.g., CX, UX, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams).
• Cultivate a strong feedback culture where team members challenge ideas to optimize outcomes.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend background.
• 3+ years experience leading, growing, and mentoring engineering teams (preferably in fast-paced environments).
• Experience building products in domains such as Payroll, Benefits, HR, or Payments (or similar).
• Strong software design and scalable web architecture fundamentals.
• Experience building SaaS products hosted on a cloud platform such as AWS (or equivalent).
• Strong leadership and people skills; ability to build a winning team.
• Independent, proactive, and resourceful team player.
• Must pass the same live coding interview used for Senior Backend Engineering candidates.

Nice to have

• Experience building a product from scratch.
• Experience with Kotlin / Scala / Java.
• Both backend and frontend development experience.

Compensation & benefits highlights

• Base salary: $200,000–$240,000 per year.
• Pre-IPO equity / stock options, full medical/dental/vision coverage (100% subsidized), and 401(k) match.
• Remote-friendly benefits (home office allowance, temporary remote-from-anywhere for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment) plus wellness and social impact benefits.