People Tech Application Engineer

About the role

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 operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

The People Team drives Snap’s values of being kind, smart, and creative across our global workforce. We help teams hire thoughtful and passionate innovators, do their best work, grow their careers, and build healthy, productive workspaces in a safe and cohesive community.

We’re looking for a technical hands engineer for our newly formed application development team in India. The People tech team is building the next generation AI powered HR software suite for Snap and looking to accelerate the deployment of these transformative full-stack software solutions. This role is for a hands-on technical developer who can translate product management ideas, stakeholder needs, and People Team priorities into clear product designs, technical specifications, prototypes, executable engineering plans, and consumer-grade solutions.

This person will code, architect, and build. They will also be responsible for reviewing PRs and test plans, writing technical design documents, building, testing and deploying brand new solutions.

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.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: