People Tech Application Engineer
Snap Inc. · Posted Oct 23
Visual messaging, augmented reality, camera, and social media services
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About the role
Snap’s People Team supports hiring, career growth, and healthy workspaces across its global workforce. The newly formed People Tech application development team in India is building an AI-powered HR software suite and deploying full-stack solutions for Snap. This hands-on role will code, architect, review PRs and test plans, write technical designs, and build and deploy new People Tech solutions and integrations.
What you will do
- Translate product management ideas and business concepts into product designs, technical specifications, prototypes, and implementation plans.
- Partner across Product, People, HR Technology, IT, Security, Legal, Finance, and Engineering teams to understand requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver solutions that support People Team products and services.
- Contribute directly to the codebase, developing production code, reviewing pull requests, and resolving complex technical issues, building and testing solutions.
- Architect scalable People Tech solutions that support internal tools, workflow automation, integrations, reporting, AI-enabled experiences, and operational processes.
- Own the quality of technical design by writing, reviewing, and approving technical design documents and PRs.
- Advocate for and apply best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, maintainability, cost management, and production support.
- Work closely with product and engineering teams to integrate AI, LLM, and chatbot solutions into People Tech systems where appropriate.
- Design and develop middleware, APIs, services, and integrations across systems such as Slack, Workday, Jira, Confluence, internal People data services, and other enterprise platforms.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience with backend services or distributed systems.
- Experience with database design and data modeling.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, including message queues, pub/sub systems, and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, webhooks, middleware, and integrations across multiple systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and deploying services to cloud environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and API integration patterns.
- Experience with Workday integrations, automations, and People data workflows.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, and other cloud-based services.
- Ability to translate ambiguous product or stakeholder requirements into product designs, technical specs, prototypes, and delivery plans.
- Ability to lead technical design for complex or cross-system initiatives.
- Ability to contribute directly to production code while also managing team delivery.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions.
- Ability to work independently without mature existing infrastructure or support.
- Proven track record of building applications from scratch.
- Ability to evaluate and apply AI/LLM capabilities responsibly in internal tools, workflow automation, and employee-facing experiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, backend services, enterprise integrations, or related technical roles.
- Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, APIs, and cloud-based application development.
- Experience reviewing production code, technical designs, and test plans.
- Experience translating product requirements or ambiguous stakeholder needs into technical specifications and implementation plans.
Preferred qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, backend services, enterprise integrations, or related technical roles.
- Experience building People Tech, HR Technology, Workday, internal tools, workflow automation, or enterprise platform solutions.
- Experience with Spanner and GCP
Benefits and support
- paid parental leave
- comprehensive medical coverage
- emotional and mental health support programs
- compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
About Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a technology company best known for creating Snapchat, a visual messaging application used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide to communicate through photos, videos, and augmented reality. The company also develops hardware products like Spectacles and creative developer tools such as Lens Studio to merge digital experiences with the physical world.
- Industry
- Social Media
- Company size
- 5,000+ employees
- Founded
- September 2011
- Location
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.8B raised
- 2012-05-01Seed$485,000
- 2013-02-01Series A$13,500,000
- 2013-06-01Series B$60,000,000
- 2013-12-01Series C$50,000,000
- 2014-12-01Series D$485,000,000
- 2015-03-01Series E$200,000,000
- 2016-05-01Series F$1,810,000,000
- 2017-11-01Post-IPO Equity$2,000,000,000
- 2024-05-01Post-IPO Debt$650,000,000
- 2025-02-01Post-IPO Debt$1,500,000,000
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder & Director
Robert Murphy
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Communications Officer
Ronan Harris
Chief Commercial Officer
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