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title: 'Frontend Engineer at HiPeople'
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type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-14'
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# Frontend Engineer at HiPeople

- **Company:** HiPeople
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-05-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/hipeople/am9icG9zdDr6L5bHfss3A_rjL6P-KTZb

## Job description

[HiPeople](https://www.hipeople.io/) is on a mission to equip recruiting and people teams with AI-powered screening products — talent insights for fast, unbiased, and easy hiring decisions.

[HiPeople Resume Screens](https://www.hipeople.io/resume-screening) | [HiPeople Assessments](https://www.hipeople.io/assessments) | [HiPeople Reference Checks](https://www.hipeople.io/reference-check)

We work with some of the world's leading brands, including the NFL, Kickstarter, Zapier and Rolling Stone Magazine.

We’re backed by leading investors and angels such as: 🌗🔥 [Moonfire](https://www.moonfire.com/) founder Mattias Ljungman 🧢 [Capnamic](https://capnamic.com/) 🍒 [Cherry Ventures](https://cherry.vc/en) 🔷 🔵 [LeanIX](https://www.leanix.net/en/) (an SAP company) founder André Christ

We’re a small team of 5. We solve problems when we see them and leave code in better shape than when we started. As an Engineer, you’re not afraid of ownership; you take on projects with little guidance, make well-informed decisions and drive best-in-class development within the product and for our users.

Role:

- Build using: React, TypeScript & Redux
- Collaborate closely with product & [design](https://www.notion.so/Upcoming-designs-381a443022b54a3b939ce86edb98a57b?pvs=21), and work with founders
- Estimate, plan and execute. FYI, we are adding 2 new products to the platform over the next 12 months!
- Ship multiple times a day, in 1-week sprints —> Managed in [Linear](https://linear.app/)
- CI-driven, we push for cycle time, PRs merged / week & planning accuracy
- Bar raise the code base, standards and quality with your architectural designs and hands-on tactics
- Together with the team, extend our automated e2e test suite with Playwright

Sounds like you?

- Ideally, but not mandatory, you will be Berlin-based and want to take advantage of the social and productive aspects of coming to our [Maschinenraum office](https://maschinenraum.io/en/space/) (e.g. collaborating with design & founders in person)
- 2+ years of professional frontend experience
- You enjoy live collaboration with your team, e.g. paired programming & huddles
- Translate ideas into end-to-end delightful experiences
- Engage with other teams to create impactful ways of quickly solving problems
- Break down tricky topics in writing and person
- Growth mindset, e.g. learns and educates the team on new tech to help advance the product
- You will help to build a company-inclusive culture and understand that keeping comms constructive keeps the team productive

The process: What happens after you apply?

- Step 1: [Assessment](https://app.hipeople.io/roles/kdokntr6ekaqr/public-intro)
- Step 2: Initial call
- Step 3: Interview with hiring manager
- Step 4: Technical & Team interview
- Step 5: References + Offer 🎉

Duration: 1 week, end-to-end

🌈 We proudly believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. Diversity of thought fuels our success, which can only be achieved with a diverse team. We welcome people from any race, orientation, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, differently abled, neurodiverse, or identity; we value all uniqueness.

## About HiPeople

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HiPeople provides an AI-powered hiring platform that automates resume screening, assessments, interviews, and reference checks to help teams make faster, unbiased hiring decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $6.8M total funding across 3 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with offices in New York, USA)
- **Founded**: 2020 (legal entity registered in 2019)
- **Founders**: Sebastian Schüller and Jakob Gillmann

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Human Resources Technology (HR Tech) / Talent Acquisition
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise hiring teams (e.g., Zapier, Grammarly, Superhuman, Douglas, DAZN)
- **Mission/purpose**: “AI for ambitious hiring teams” – compliant, science-backed AI agents that multiply recruiter capacity.

## Products & Services
- **AI Screening**: Real-time resume screening that blocks fraud/spam, moves top candidates forward 2–4 days faster, and saves 12 recruiter hours per week.
- **Skills Assessments**: Bias-free, AI-powered assessments that provide skill and behavior signals within hours, enabling side-by-side candidate comparison.
- **AI Interviews**: Asynchronous video interviews available 24/7 in 113 languages, with consistent evaluation criteria and 8 recruiter hours saved per week.
- **Reference Checks**: Automated reference checks completed in ~25 hours, with fraud detection and peer-backed performance validation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$2.4M (as of latest data); total funding $6.8M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Moonfire (lead investor), Capnamic Ventures, Cherry Ventures, TSC, and operator angel André Christ (SAP LeanIX founder)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 2,000+ teams using the platform
  - Case study with air up®: 55% less screening time, 35% better candidate quality
  - Recent product update: Disqualifier criteria for automated removal of non-qualified candidates
  - Active hiring for a frontend-biased Software Engineer (as of mid-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built AI agents** for hiring, not generic LLM wrappers – compliant by design with GDPR and EU AI Act
- **Deep ATS integrations** (e.g., HiBob, Ashby) and a modular product suite (standalone or combined)
- **Proprietary science + verification algorithms** for fraud detection and bias reduction
- Strong European investor backing and a reference customer base of high-growth tech companies

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling AI adoption in hiring while maintaining compliance and auditability
- Expanding product depth (e.g., disqualifying criteria, multilingual interviews)
- Targeting volume hiring and skills-based hiring use cases across industries (tech, healthcare, BPO)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ambitious hiring teams” – small, agile team (13–16 employees) with a high-impact mission; backed by top European VCs
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly – offices in Berlin (HQ) and New York; distributed team across Germany, Brazil, US, and Hong Kong
- **Engineering culture**: Tech stack includes React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Redis, Docker; emphasis on AI/ML and product engineering
- **Growth**: Opportunity to shape the product early-stage; recent case studies and product releases signal strong traction
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but modern HR tech stack (HubSpot, Zapier, etc.) and a focus on recruiter efficiency suggest a data-driven, flexible workplace

## Sources
1. [hipeople.io](https://hipeople.io/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hipeople-company)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hipeople)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/hipeople/__KKrGWtfzbI09KyW7OtyDdEMSAPkRXoV-5aE-yzdsr60)
5. [levels.fyi](https://www.levels.fyi/companies/hipeople)

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