Engineering, Integrations & Customer-Facing 🤩
As a Product Engineer, Integrations Specialist, you’ll play a key role in driving Zinc’s growth by working on mission-critical integrations. ⚡️
⭐️👉 This role is a balance of 50% hands on engineering and 50% customer-facing work on calls, allowing you to solve complex technical problems while directly engaging with customers and partners.
If you’re passionate about automating processes, solving tough technical challenges, and building strong relationships with external partners, this role is made for you. You’ll work closely with our Partnerships team to bridge the gap between technical and business needs, delivering integrations that delight users and support Zinc’s success.
🪴🛸The nature of this role gives you high ownership over integrations, offering you the flexibility to define and scale how these automations are built. While you’ll be working autonomously, you’ll also be part of a collaborative environment, engaging with stakeholders across teams and with external partners.
- Department
- Tech – Engineering
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Zinc – London
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- £70,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Sanjeev, VP Engineering
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
🔧 Build Scalable, Future-Ready Automations:
- Design and implement integrations within Zinc’s HRTech ecosystem, mainly focusing on ATS and HRIS systems.
- Build and maintain scalable, reliable APIs and webhooks that automate data sharing and streamline workflows between systems.
🤝 Be the Face of Technical Expertise:
- Lead the technical onboarding and support for enterprise customers, acting as the go-to person for troubleshooting and technical solutions.
- Collaborate with external teams to enhance and optimize integration workflows and ensure successful automation.
💡 Shape the API Experience:
- Work closely with our Partnerships team to ensure that Zinc’s API is intuitive, user-friendly, and provides significant value to customers.
- Influence the API roadmap based on feedback from partners and customers, making sure the integration experience is as seamless as possible.
🌟 Collaborate Across Functions:
- Partner with internal teams such as Partnerships, Account Management, and Customer Success to prioritize integration development and automation initiatives.
- Drive alignment between technical feasibility, customer needs, and business goals in order to deliver impactful solutions.
Our stack 🥞
Backend: Express.js, MongoDB, Typescript
Deployment: CircleCI
Infrastructure: Ubuntu, Docker, AWS
Testing: Jest, Cypress
Deployment: CircleCI
Infrastructure: Ubuntu, Docker, AWS
Testing: Jest, Cypress
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
Hard Skills 💻
- TypeScript: You’ll be focused on backend systems that handle integrations. Strong TypeScript skills are essential for developing scalable, efficient, and maintainable automation solutions.
- API Design: Automations are key to Zinc’s growth. Your ability to design clear, intuitive APIs will ensure smooth and seamless connections between Zinc and its partners.
- AWS: With AWS as the backbone of Zinc’s infrastructure, your expertise will help ensure that integrations are fast, reliable, and scalable.
- External APIs: You’ll work with a variety of partner APIs (JSON, XML, etc.). Your experience with these APIs will enable you to build robust, automated connections that “just work.”
Soft Skills 🎙️✨
- Autonomous Problem Solver: You’ll own integration projects end-to-end. Your ability to take initiative, solve complex issues, and drive impact is crucial to this role.
- Confident Communicator: With 50% of your time spent directly communicating with customers and partners, you must be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, approachable way.
- Collaborative: Though you’ll be independently driving integration projects, you’ll also work closely with cross-functional teams, especially Partnerships and Product, to make sure everything aligns.
- Resilient & Adaptable: Every integration is unique, and customer interactions won’t always be straightforward. Your ability to stay calm, problem-solve, and adapt will be essential in managing challenges and maintaining strong relationships.
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat to Serbia 🇷🇸🏔️✈️
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About Zinc
Who we are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission
We’re a culture first company, by this we don’t just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc’s culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc’s culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company’s future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Applied 📩
Stage 2:
Talent Discovery Call ✨
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