Senior Software Engineer (Delivery & Developer Experience Team)

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem. At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win. Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

The SmartRecruiters Internal Engineering Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen and expand our Delivery & Developer Experience team. If you are passionate about automation, platforms, and frameworks, we have a spot with your name on it!

We designed our R&D structure based on the empowered product teams model. It means our teams are responsible for business outcomes and have autonomy in solving problems in the way that “customers love yet work for the business” (yes, we are heavily influenced by this, this and this).

Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.

What you’ll deliver

• Contribute to an Internal Developer Platform by building internal products used by other engineers from the organisation
• Cooperate closely with other Platform and Product Engineering teams on strategic initiatives
• Focus on boosting the Engineering Productivity and Delivery Efficiency across the organizstion, and interact directly with engineers to discover opportunities that will drive that impact
• Build & document services/libraries/tools with Java/Python/Node/Go on top of Kubernetes/AWS infrastructure
• Own and evolve our CI/CD platform
• Support our runtimes (e.g. JVM, Node.js) & frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot)
• Establish technical direction for the team and the organisation
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in components owned by the team

• Experience with distributed systems design (design for failure, eventual consistency, asynchronous communication, circuit breaking, timeouts, etc.)
• Experience in supporting the end-to-end product lifecycle
• Strong experience in using CI/CD systems (ideally also in creating them)
• Deep command of the Java programming language 
• Hands-on experience with clean code principles, and effective code reviews
• Good understanding of persistence layer design and RESTful API design
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal 
• Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes/Docker is a must
• Ability to coach and mentor other engineers
• Adequate seniority - ideally demonstrated by professional experience (typically 5+ years for our Senior Engineers)

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.