Senior Software Engineer

Empowered Staffing is partnered with a growing SaaS Recruiting/HR Tech platform helping recruiting firms, staffing agencies, and employers streamline hiring through one connected platform that combines Applicant Tracking System (ATS), CRM, and Project Management capabilities into a single experience. As we continue to grow, we are investing heavily in the future of search, automation, and AI across the platform. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer who can help us modernize the product further by improving performance and building practical AI-powered features that create real value for users.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys building across the stack, improving functionality, and helping shape where a SaaS platform should be heading in 2027.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and enhance AI-powered product features across the platform
• Help design and implement RAG-based experiences, intelligent search workflows, and agentic AI features for end users
• Build integrations and workflows using modern LLM platforms, including Claude-based MCPs and related AI tooling
• Improve OpenSearch relevance and performance across structured, keyword, and AI-assisted search experiences
• Optimize MySQL as needed including queries, indexes, execution plans, and schema design to improve speed and scalability
• Help improve our CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and release processes for faster and safer product delivery
• Support DevOps-oriented engineering work, including build pipelines, testing automation, environment consistency, and production deployment reliability
• Partner on infrastructure and deployment improvements across application performance, monitoring, and scalability
• Develop and maintain full-stack product functionality using PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Linux, Vue.js, and JavaScript
• Partner with product and leadership to identify high-impact technical improvements and bring them to life
• Help evolve our platform architecture so it can scale with product growth and future AI initiatives

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience with working at an Applicant Tracking System, HR tech, or SaaS platform that had Recruiting modules you were directly involved with
• 6-10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a SaaS product environment
• Strong experience with PHP
• Solid experience optimizing MySQL
• Experience working with search technologies such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI-powered product features using LLMs, vector search, embeddings, RAG, or workflow automation
• Ability to work across the stack, including frontend work in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Vue.js or similar frameworks
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and modern software release practices
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts such as build automation, testing pipelines, environment management, logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting
• Comfortable working in Linux-based environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance speed, quality, and scalability in a growing startup

Nice to Have:

• Experience building agentic AI workflows or AI copilots inside SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with Claude, MCPs, prompt orchestration, or related AI application patterns
• Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tooling
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, server management, and deployment automation
• Experience supporting production SaaS environments with observability and incident troubleshooting
• Familiarity with DigitalOcean or similar cloud environments
• Experience with APIs, automation tools, and third-party integrations
• Interest in helping shape technical direction as the engineering team grows

Why Join Us:

• Help build the future of AI, search, and workflow automation in recruiting software
• Work directly with company founders and have real influence on product direction
• Join at a stage where your work can meaningfully shape the platform’s evolution
• Remote work within the U.S.
• Opportunity for long-term growth as the company scales