• Chicago, IL • Hybrid • Full-Time
Department: Business Technology
Hireology builds purpose-built hiring software for healthcare, hospitality, and retail automotive. Our platform helps businesses attract, engage, and hire the right people, faster and with more confidence. We’re headquartered in Chicago and are a team of curious, practical people who care about doing good work.
Hireology’s Business Technology team builds the tools, workflows, and automations that the rest of the company runs on, from Finance and Revenue Operations to Sales, Customer Success, IT, and Implementation. As an Agentic Software Engineer, you’ll design, architect, and build software solutions that make the day-to-day work of those teams faster and less painful.
This isn’t a role where you sit behind a ticket queue. Business Technology is a new department, and you’ll be on the ground with non-technical colleagues regularly, helping them figure out what they actually need and then building it. If you can hold a real conversation with a CFO or a CS manager and then go write the code, you’ll fit right in.
Hireology moves fast and makes decisions quickly. You’ll be context switching between teams, problems, and priorities on a regular basis, and that should energize you, not drain you. If you do your best work in a stable, predictable environment, this probably isn’t the right fit.
Hireology has adopted a full AI Software Development Lifecycle. Our engineers spend less time writing code by hand and more time on spec-driven development, context engineering, and working alongside AI agents. We use Claude Code, the Superpowers framework, and the BMAD methodology, and while we lean on these tools heavily, we are very opinionated about the code that comes out the other side. Quality, maintainability, and good engineering judgment still matter, and it’s your job to make sure the output meets that bar. To be clear, this is not an invitation for vibe coders. We want real software engineering talent who genuinely knows how to build, but has made the shift to what modern engineering actually looks like.
In practice, this means you operate more like a manager than a solo developer. You’re directing agents, reviewing their output, correcting their course, and making judgment calls on what good looks like. The quality of what gets built depends heavily on how well you understand the problem in the first place, which means you have to lead with genuine customer empathy. You need to sit with people, understand how they actually work, and break down their problems in a way that’s clear enough for both humans and AI to act on.
Strong problem decomposition is at the core of this role. Before any code gets written, you should be able to articulate what the real problem is, why it matters, and what a good solution looks like. If you’ve moved beyond using AI just for autocomplete and are thinking seriously about what engineering looks like when agents do more of the work, this is the right place.
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This role is hybrid based in Chicago, IL. Because Business Technology is a new department and much of the work involves face-to-face collaboration with non-technical colleagues, we expect this person to be in office at least 3 days per week. That cadence may shift based on project needs. Other engineering roles at Hireology may have different arrangements.
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid; minimum 3 days/week in office for this role, with flexibility based on business needs)
Hireology is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or protected veteran status, or any other category protected under the law. All employment decisions are solely based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We support an inclusive workplace where Hireologists excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.