Senior Backend Engineer contract Full Time

Website: https://brighthire.com/

BrightHire is a category-creating, Series B software company with a mission to give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.

We deliver on this mission by transforming the way many of the world’s leading companies build exceptional teams. We created the Interview Intelligence category, and our clients include some of the world’s most innovative companies—from Canva and Zapier to Rippling—as well as members of the Fortune 100.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our backend engineering team. This team is pivotal to our growth, focusing on developing and enhancing integrations that solve real-world problems for our clients. You’ll work on a variety of projects, from creating and improving integrations with platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to implementing customized workflows with Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Workday, and other applicant tracking systems.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Product, Design, Engineering, Support, and Customer Success—to deliver seamless and efficient solutions. You’ll need to be quick on your feet, creative, and thoughtful in your approach to complex problems, implementing solutions that exceed customer expectations.

• Innovate: work with product, design, and engineering teams to create new backend and full-stack features that enhance our platform’s capabilities.

• Enhance integrations: develop new integrations with applicant tracking systems, scheduling systems, and video meeting platforms, build specialized features for our customers, and assist with complex implementations for larger enterprise clients.

• Develop workflows: improve our scheduling, calendar, and video integrations, offering new options for gathering scheduling data through calendar templates or ATS integrations.

• Problem solve: Diagnose and triage complex issues, providing quick and effective solutions to ensure platform reliability and robustness.

• Improve reliability: Help improve the performance and reliability of our scheduling, recording, transcription, and AI pipelines.

• Collaborate with customers: Work with our support team to reduce incoming support volume through targeted engineering efforts, enhancing the overall user experience.

• Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, capable of conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Technical expertise: 7+ years of backend development experience with proficiency in Python, and SQL. Ability to make small frontend changes or build simple frontend experiences using React and TypeScript (role is approximately 90% backend, 10% frontend).

• Integration experience: Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and integrating with third-party services. Experience with video meeting platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams or applicant tracking systems such as  Greenhouse and Workday is highly desirable.

• Architecture and software design skills: Proven ability to design and implement solutions to complex technical problems.

• Problem-solving abilities: Meticulous in analyzing issues, identifying root causes, and ensuring thorough testing and quality assurance.

• Adaptability and creativity: Quick on your feet, creative, and thoughtful in your approach to problem-solving and implementation.

• Project management: Demonstrated ability to deliver features and fixes quickly and efficiently.

• Customer focus: Supportive attitude towards customers and team members, with a focus on understanding and addressing user needs.

• Business acumen: Intuitive understanding of what matters to the business and customers, grasping the big picture and the impact of your work.

• 7+ years of professional backend development experience with proficiency in Python and SQL. 

• Some professional front-end experience with React and TypeScript.

• Professional experience integrating 3rd party APIs (examples: Hubspot, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Greenhouse, Workday, or similar).

• Professional experience working with a backend framework like Django or Flask.

• Professional experience working with and designing async task processing services (AWS SQS, GCP Cloud Tasks, Celery, etc).

• Remote flexibility: Our team is fully remote, spanning across North and South American time zones. We crossover our hours for a core chunk of the day but provide everyone flexibility in how and when they get work done.

• Impactful work: Play a critical role in delivering on our mission to give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.

• Learning opportunities: Engage with a wide range of technologies and challenges, offering continuous learning and professional growth.

• Collaborative environment: We’re always working together to brainstorm ideas about product, strategy, etc.

• Use your own product: We use our product daily in our own hiring, which is rewarding and gives us product empathy!

• Customer Connection: We try to make sure everyone stays connected to users and clients, joining sales and client meetings, talking to end users, etc.

• Autonomy: Everyone is self-motivated, autonomous, and seeks ways we can continuously improve as a company

• Fun: We’re generous, self-deprecating, look for reasons to laugh, and enjoy sharing our ideas for band names, posting photos from our walks, and reminiscing about previous travels.

• This is a full-time contractor role for long-term employment

• 15 days PTO

• 12 national holidays

• Healthcare stipend

• Work-from-home, learning, and vacation stipends

• Company provided computer