Staff Software Engineer (Java)

HireRight is the premier global background screening and workforce solutions provider. We bring clarity and confidence to vetting and hiring decisions through integrated, tailored solutions, driving a higher standard of accuracy in everything we do. Combining in-house talent, personalized services, and proprietary technology, we ensure the best candidate experience possible. PBSA accredited and based in Nashville, Tennessee, we offer expertise from our regional centers across 200 countries and territories in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Our commitment to get it right every time, everywhere, makes us the trusted partner of businesses and organizations worldwide. 

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across product, architecture, delivery, and engineering culture.

You will: 

• Design, build, and evolve full stack software systems used by customers, candidates, internal teams, and global operations
• Lead technical direction for complex initiatives across frontend, backend, data, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
• Partner with product, design, security, operations, and business stakeholders to solve high-value problems
• Turn ambiguous business and customer needs into clear technical approaches
• Build systems that are reliable, secure, observable, scalable, and maintainable
• Simplify complex workflows through thoughtful product and engineering design
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical coaching
• Help teams make strong technical decisions with incomplete information
• Identify and reduce technical debt, operational toil, and unnecessary system complexity
• Use AI and agentic tools responsibly to accelerate engineering work and improve team leverage
• Raise the bar for engineering craft, quality, and ownership

We typically look for 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including several years leading technical work across teams. We care more about the scope and impact of that experience than the exact number of years.

Technologies

Our technology environment will evolve, and we care more about engineering fundamentals than a perfect keyword match.

Relevant experience may include: 

• Modern JavaScript / TypeScript
• React, Angular, Vue, or similar frontend frameworks
• js, Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar backend technologies
• REST, GraphQL, event-driven architectures, or service-oriented systems
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Containers and orchestration
• Observability tools and production operations
• Automated testing frameworks
• Secure software development practices
• AI coding assistants and agentic development tools

You do not need to have used our exact stack. You do need to be able to learn quickly, reason deeply, and build responsibly.

How we work

We value: 

• Curiosity: ask better questions
• Simplicity: remove unnecessary complexity
• Ownership: if we build it, we own it
• Lean thinking: small batches, fast feedback, less waste
• Craft: quality matters
• Direct feedback: clarity is kindness
• Smart risk: experiment responsibly
• Data-informed decisions: use evidence without becoming trapped by it
• Agentic leverage: use modern tools to increase impact
• Continuous improvement: make the system better every cycle

Final thought

Hiring and workforce decisions affect companies, candidates, communities, and lives. The systems behind those decisions should be accurate, trustworthy, efficient, humane, and modern.

We are looking for engineers who take pride in craft, own what they build, and make the people around them better.

If that sounds like you, we would love to meet you.