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About Us

Zero Hiring is building the AI hiring stack for modern recruiting teams. Our product helps employers run faster, more consistent hiring workflows using AI-led interviews, structured candidate evaluation, and automation across the recruiting process. We have paying customers, a small engineering team, and a product already doing real work in production. The surface area is growing quickly, and we're looking for a senior engineer who can help us ship product while making the system more reliable, observable, and scalable.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Zero Hiring, you will work across our backend, AI interview systems, product workflows, and customer-facing features. You'll own important parts of the product infrastructure that customers may never see directly but depend on every day, including reliability, integrations, observability, data consistency, external API boundaries, and LLM-driven scoring quality.

This is not a pure platform role. You will also ship product features alongside the rest of the team, balancing infrastructure improvements with direct customer value delivery.

In your first 90 days, you would likely:

  • Improve observability across backend services, interview flows, and AI scoring pipelines
  • Harden webhook and integration paths for idempotency, retries, race conditions, and partial failure scenarios
  • Build regression tests and evaluation workflows for AI scoring, rubric changes, and prompt updates
  • Add timeouts, retry policies, and cost controls around external API calls
  • Ship several customer-facing features across employer and candidate workflows

Location

This is a fully remote role. For this hire we are sourcing candidates based in Argentina, the Philippines, or Egypt only. As noted in the requirements below, you'll need at least four hours of daily overlap with US Eastern time.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years building production software, with strong backend experience in Python or similar languages, web frameworks, PostgreSQL, and async service design
  • Strong product engineering instincts with the ability to move from a customer problem to a working production feature across API, database, integrations, and UI
  • Experience with webhook-heavy, integration-heavy, or money-adjacent systems, with clear understanding of idempotency, replay safety, retries, race conditions, ordering, and recovery patterns
  • Practical observability experience including structured logs, useful dashboards, tracing, alerting, and debugging production issues from evidence
  • Fluency with LLM-backed product development, including prompt changes, structured outputs, regression tests, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
  • High agency, strong testing judgment, clear communication skills, and at least four hours of overlap with US Eastern time
  • Based in Argentina, the Philippines, or Egypt

Bonus Qualifications:

  • Experience with real-time voice, video, WebRTC, phone, or other latency-sensitive systems
  • Experience with recruiting, HR, ATS, CRM, or workflow automation products
  • Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, credits, usage limits, or other revenue-critical systems
  • Experience building evals, regression harnesses, prompt versioning, or monitoring for LLM-powered features
  • Agentic development workflows: you use Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools as part of your real development loop and know where not to trust them

How We Work

We are remote-first, small, fast-moving, and pragmatic. Engineers at Zero Hiring own production outcomes: shipping features, improving reliability, writing tests, watching the system after release, and making the product simpler where possible. We care about people who can handle ambiguity, communicate clearly, and make good technical decisions without turning every decision into a process.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer competitive salary for a senior engineer in your market. Equity is available for strong contributors who want meaningful ownership in what they help build.

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