Software Engineer

Location: Lincoln, NEAbout HiBidWho we are:HiBid provides business management software and demand generation services for auctioneers and sellers of secondhand goods. We are the second-largest online auction platform behind eBay and a leading auction software provider, facilitating over $2B in annual transactions between thousands of sellers and millions of bidders.We're an AI-first company, constantly applying AI to optimize internal operations and improve our product experience. We are in growth mode, well-capitalized, and backed by two tech-focused private equity firms.Why do we exist:Powering win-win-win outcomes – for sellers, bidders, and our marketplace.How do we behave:Fired-Up: Eager & drivenRock Solid: Reliable & trustworthyRaise the Bar: Forward-thinking & open-mindedHuman: Empathetic & RelatableAbout the RoleHiBid is one of the largest live online auction marketplaces. We're doing twobig things at once: modernizing our platform into an event-driven, CQRS-basedarchitecture with a single source of truth, and building AI into both ourproduct and the way we write software. Most of our engineers already work withClaude Code or Cursor every day. This role contributes to both.What you'll work onPlatform and architecture- Help move our services into the new event-driven, CQRS architecture:modernizing older services, consolidating data into one source of truth, andretiring the legacy sync paths they depend on. You'll work closely with theengineers and DevOps designing this.- Foundations: build and deploy pipelines, monitoring, and the data plumbingother teams build on.AI- AI tools for the whole company. For example, the internal server that letsteams ask questions of live business data, with the right access controls,PII masking, and audit logging.- Making HiBid readable to AI assistants and shopping agents: structured dataand clean APIs, so agents can find, understand, and recommend our listings.- AI in how we build software: agent code review on every commit, automatedtests, and AI-assisted security scanning.Our stack spans C#/.NET, Node/TypeScript, Angular, React, SQL Server, andPostgres, across Azure and AWS. You won't know most of it on day one, and that'sfine.Who you are- 1 to 3 years of professional software experience. A CS degree is welcome butnot required.- You use coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) every day andhave opinions about using them well.- You plan before you prompt, keep changes small enough to review, and checkwhat the agent actually did.- You've built something real with agents, at work or on your own, and can walkus through it, including what went wrong.- You push through blockers on your own, ask for help early when you're trulystuck, and push back when a direction seems wrong.- You communicate directly: short answers, clear reasoning, and you'recomfortable saying "I don't know."- You're curious about how systems work under the hood, how data moves betweenservices, and why an architecture is shaped the way it is.