Application Developer

Position: People Application Developer
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world;
Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

The People Team drives our values of being kind, smart and creative across Snap's global workforce. We work together to empower our teams to hire thoughtful and passionate innovators, help people do their best work, grow their careers and build healthy and productive work spaces in a safe, and cohesive community. Together, we are Talent, Total Rewards, IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness), HR Tech, People Analytics, People Services, Council, Learning & Development, and Employee Relations.

We’re looking for a People Application Developer to join the People Tech team at Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services

Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

Manage automation roadmap and lead technical direction on solutions that influence all of People Team solutions

Design and develop large-scale solutions from scratch, with a focus on efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.

Design and build key automations and solutions to optimize the People Team solutions

Work closely with the product and engineering teams to integrate AI solutions into our systems

Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI services into production applications

Automate key processes and solutions

Build and deploy efficient, high-quality solutions, and ensure comprehensive testing coverage.

Perform regular testing, debugging, and updates to maintain solutions

Lead and mentor junior team members, effectively delegating tasks and ensuring adherence to best practices.

Design and develop middleware solutions for chatbot integration, including writing custom code, utilizing APIs to seamlessly connect between systems (e.g., Slack, Workday, Jira, Confluence).Enable chatbots to automate tasks within Workday, including making changes for employees and building custom automation workflows.

Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to integrate chatbot solutions into existing systems, ensuring smooth functionality and user experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

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, and middleware integrations across multiple systems

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and deploying services to cloud environments

You can independently execute on medium sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete

You understand the operational aspects of your system and may participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution

Ability to collaborate and work well with others

Excellent interpersonal and influence skills with a high attention to detail

Ability to communicate results clearly and effectively and execute both tactically and strategically

Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance

Experience with Workday integrations and automations

Familiarity with additional tools like Jira, Confluence, and other cloud-based services

Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and design concepts

Ability to work independently without existing infrastructure or support

Proven track record of building applications from scratch

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience3+ years of hands-on experience…