HRIS & Talent Acquisition Systems​/Tools Engineer

Overview

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HRIS & Talent Acquisition Systems/Tools Engineer

We are looking for a Developer who focuses entirely on recruiting systems, tools, and infrastructure. This person will sit at the intersection of engineering, Talent Acquisition, and HRIS, and will own how our recruiting tech stack works end to end. They will translate recruiter and candidate pain into scalable solutions, design automations that remove manual work and elevate solutions to drive time to fill, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity.

You are successful when recruiting leaders see you as their product and engineering partner, not just their technical support.

• Architect for scale in enterprise systems with the use of Cursor, Enterprise
  
  ChatGPT, and other productivity tools.
• Drive greater recruiter efficiency by reducing manual work and tool switching, freeing recruiters to focus on high‑value activities.
• Enable smarter decision making through end‑to‑end insights that show ROI, support tradeoffs, and guide investment and disinvestment in tools and processes.
• Support tech‑forward growth so that new regions, teams, and tools can be onboarded without reinventing processes each time.
• Detect inefficiencies early by spotting bottlenecks and redundancies before they impact recruiters or candidates and eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Provide insights on systems health that cover adoption, error rates, and automation impact.
• Incorporate recruiter feedback into system design and proactively propose solutions, not just administer the tool.

This role is based out of Seattle, WA and follows a hybrid schedule. Team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays with remote work allowed on Mondays, subject to approved accommodations.

System and automation development

• Design, build, and maintain automations and integrations across ATS, HRIS, scheduling tools, assessment tools, and internal platforms.
• Implement and maintain data flows between recruiting systems and HR or business reporting environments as needed in partnership with HRIS data analytics.
• Ensure systems are configured to support global recruiting processes, compliance requirements, and reporting needs.
• Own JIRA workflows for Talent Acquisition and HR technical work, including clear requirements, ticket hygiene, and delivery tracking.

Product ownership for recruiting tools

• Act as technical product owner for the recruiting tech stack.
• Translate recruiter and candidate pain points into clear technical requirements.
• Evaluate new tools and features, run pilots, and give clear recommendations on what to adopt, scale, or retire.
• Maintain a roadmap of improvements across systems and automations based on impact and effort.

System health, analytics, and dashboards

• Define and track key health metrics for recruiting systems such as adoption, latency, error rates, time in stage, automation success, and data quality.
• Deliver quarterly system health reports and narratives for TA leadership.
• Partner with analytics and people data teams.

Stakeholder partnership and change enablement

• Partner with TA leadership, Recruiting Ops PM, and HRIS to design processes that actually work in tools, not just in slide decks.
• Run discovery and ongoing communication mechanisms with recruiters, hiring managers, leaders and coordinators to understand friction, bottlenecks, and workarounds.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly and set expectations on what can be automated and what still needs human judgment.
• Support rollouts through documentation, training material, and office hours when needed on technical specs.

• Strong experience as a Developer, Systems Engineer, or similar technical…