People Tech Application Engineer

Overview

Build and own People Tech application solutions for Snap's India-based application development team, combining hands-on engineering with technical design and product translation.

What you'll 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Location: New Delhi, India.
• Work mode: Office 4+ days per week under a "default together" approach.