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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.
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:
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.
Required Qualifications:
Bonus Qualifications:
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.
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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