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title: 'Software Engineer (frontend-biased) at HiPeople'
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# Software Engineer (frontend-biased) at HiPeople

- **Company:** HiPeople
- **Location:** World
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hipeople-official/db32431f-e34e-4acf-8af1-1e4ea8613bf3

## Job description

[HiPeople](https://www.hipeople.io/) is the AI Hiring Platform that takes care of screening, interviews, assessments, and references. So recruiting teams can focus on what matters most. People. We work with some of the world's leading brands, including the NFL, Zapier, Celonis, and DAZN. and are backed by leading investors and operators such as: Moonfire founder Mattias Ljungman, Capnamic, Cherry, André Christ (LeanIX, an SAP company), Mirko Novakovic (Founder Instana/Dash0), Micha Hernandez (Fiberplane), and others. We’re hiring an Software Engineer to accelerate our velocity in shipping differentiating AI for recruiting teams as we scale toward $10M ARR and beyond. You’ll work in in a highly collaborative, high-impact team team where everybody strives to make a dent every day with the software we ship. This role is for people who care deeply about quality, enjoy working on difficult frontend problems (both UI and performance), and have outstanding taste. We are an extremely lean team and plan to reach $10M ARR with fewer than 20 people. Every hire materially changes the company. This role has direct exposure to founders and real responsibility from day one.

## What you’ll do

- Turn rough ideas into end-to-end, delightful experiences
- Build using: React, TypeScript & Redux
- Ship multiple times a day, in 1-week sprints
- Talk to users whenever needed to uncover core problems
- Engage with other teams to quickly solve impactful problems
- Break down complex topics clearly in writing and in person
- Collaborate closely with product and design
- Work in a CI-driven environment; we optimize for cycle time, PRs merged per week, and planning accuracy
- Raise the bar for the codebase, standards, and quality
- Extend our automated end-to-end test suite with Playwright

## What we are looking for

- 100% alignment with our [Ops Principles](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XIxbcK6Il4xm4kofx8fsKoEP9J13B33V8KBPRquImBs/edit?usp=sharing) (if this doesn’t resonate, please do not apply)
- 2+ years of professional frontend experience
- Enjoyment of live collaboration (e.g. pair programming & huddles)
- High ownership mindset and strong attention to detail
- Strong interest in quality, not just shipping features
- Clear communication and documentation skills
- Growth mindset (e.g. learning and sharing new technologies with the team)

Background Strong candidates often come from:

- Software engineering roles at top tech companies
- Other paths that demonstrate building high-quality products at high velocity

Logistics This role is remote or on-site in our Berlin office. We do not offer visa support for Germany or any other country at this time.

## Benefits

- Direct ownership of AI products used by ambitious hiring teams in the US and EMEA
- Work closely with founders on core product
- Competitive salary and meaningful stock options
- Educational stipend to support ongoing learning and development
- The best team to work with (true story!)

Process

- Step 1: AI Application Screen (immediate)
- Step 2: AI Recruiter Interview (right after successful AI Application Screen)
- Step 3: AI Skills-Assessment (right after successful AI Recruiter Interview)
- Step 4: Interview with Co-founder
- Step 5: Interview with the team (incl. Live Case Study)
- Step 6: 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, candidate assessments, interviews, and reference checks for ambitious hiring teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Jakob Gillmann, Sebastian Schüller

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Human Resources Technology / Recruiting Software
- **Target Customers**: B2B, primarily mid-market and enterprise companies with high-volume or skills-based hiring needs
- **Mission/Purpose**: To multiply hiring team capacity with purpose-built AI agents, making hiring faster, fairer, and more data-driven.

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered Reference Checks**: Automates the request, collection, and analysis of candidate references, using NLP to generate deep, structured insights. Completes checks in ~25 hours with fraud detection.
- **Skills-Based Assessments**: AI-powered assessments that verify skills and culture fit before interviews, providing side-by-side candidate comparisons.
- **Automated Resume Screening**: Screens high volumes of inbound applications in real-time, blocking spam and surfacing top candidates.
- **AI-Driven Asynchronous Interviews**: Candidates interview 24/7 in 113 languages, controlled by evaluation criteria set by the hiring team, saving ~8 recruiter hours per week.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $6.8M
- **Latest Round**: Seed VC-II ($2.7M raised in October 2022)
- **Annual Revenue**: ~$2.4M (estimated)
- **Notable Investors**: Moonfire, Capnamic, Cherry Ventures, TSC, Mediahuis Ventures, Notion Capital, and SAP LeanIX founder André Christ.
- **Growth Signals**: Used by notable companies like Zapier, Grammarly, Superhuman, DAZN, and OLX. Decorated with 30+ G2 awards. Products can be used standalone or together, indicating strong product-market fit.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-Built AI Agents**: Unlike generic AI tools, HiPeople’s agents are specifically designed for the hiring workflow (screening, interviewing, assessing, referencing), providing a unified, compliant solution.
- **Data-Rich Reference Checks**: Focuses on reference checks as a high-signal, underutilized data point, turning them into objective, structured insights rather than subjective phone calls.
- **Bias Reduction**: Asynchronous, data-driven processes remove human bias from reference collection and initial screening.
- **Compliant by Design**: Built with AI/privacy compliance as a core feature, crucial for enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Encouraging customers to use multiple products together (e.g., assessments + reference checks) to get a "stronger signal earlier."
- **Deepening Data Insights**: Using the rich data from reference checks and assessments to feed into better onboarding and hiring decisions.
- **Scaling Enterprise Reach**: Targeting ambitious hiring teams at growing companies, leveraging integrations with the wider HR tech landscape.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as building "AI for ambitious hiring teams," suggesting a fast-paced, product-focused, and data-driven environment. The team is small (14 employees), offering high impact and ownership.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Offers remote positions (e.g., Applied AI Engineer is remote/Berlin-based), indicating flexibility.
- **Notable Perks**: Backed by top European VCs with a strong emphasis on engineering and AI. The team includes talent from companies like N26, Zalando, and Siemens.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on proprietary AI, science, and compliance. Current open roles include an Applied AI Engineer (Systems & Reliability) and a Software Engineer (frontend-biased), indicating a need for strong builders.

## Sources
1. [hipeople.io](https://www.hipeople.io/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hipeople-company)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hipeople)
4. [leadiq.com](https://leadiq.com/c/hipeople/5ddd460b94535a8f04e43673/employee-directory)
5. [unleash.ai](https://www.unleash.ai/hr-technology/interview/hipeople-data-disrupt-recruitment)

## Other roles at HiPeople

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