Senior Backend Engineer - Croatia

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 5500 midsize and multinational companies.

Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Gong, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.

About the Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling our core platform and features in close partnership with Product. You will leverage cutting-edge AI-assisted workflows and agentic development tools to accelerate delivery without sacrificing architectural integrity.

Come and be you with us

HiBob is a vibrant, dynamic, happy place to work. A start-up with an amazing culture, and bright and resourceful people in London, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney, and Tel Aviv. We’re growing fast and looking for talented and passionate Backend Engineers to join us!

Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we are waiting with open arms. Come join us.

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.

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

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end: lead technical design, write high-performance code, drive rigorous peer reviews, and manage deployment and observability.
• Architect resilient, scalable microservices handling high-throughput workloads.
• Champion AI tooling (e.g., agentic IDEs, test generation, workflow automation) to maximize development velocity across the team.
• Ship continuously in a fully automated CI/CD environment deploying to production dozens of times a day.

Requirements

Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren’t the only factor. If you don’t have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we’d still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

• Strong track record in backend system architecture, distributed systems, and database design.
• Familiarity with modern AI developer tools and pragmatic engineering practices.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, observability, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.
• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform is a plus.

Benefits

• Company share options plan
• Meal allowance
• Pension scheme auto-enrolment plus supplementary pension from day 1
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays pro-rata per annum
• 1 day off for your birthday & a birthday gift
• 2 days off per year for volunteering activities
• 4 days total off - 1 day per quarter (Balance day)
• Flexible working
• WFH monthly allowance
• Employee referral program
• Local and global socials/activities
• Happy hours