People Systems Engineer

About Stitch Stitch is a payments infrastructure company on a mission to make it easier for enterprise businesses to connect to the financial system and build better experiences for their customers. We are expanding the team to enable Stitch to broaden our product offering and extend our geographical footprint. About the role The People Systems Engineer is the engineering layer behind Stitch's People function, building, integrating, and automating the systems that let the function run with minimal manual work. The role is built around writing scripts, building integrations, designing pipelines, and shipping internal tooling that eliminates the operational drag from People processes. This is an engineering hire embedded in People whose role is to build the systems that make their work efficient, accurate, and audit-ready. As part of a small, scaling team, this person is empowered to identify where engineering creates leverage and ship the solutions themselves. Key responsibilities People Systems Ownership: Own the People tech stack from an engineering perspective — HRIS (BambooHR), performance platform (15Five), ATS, EoR (Deel), payroll systems, and others. Configure, integrate, and maintain the stack. Build custom integrations where vendor capabilities fall short. Manage APIs, webhooks, authentication, and data flows between systems. Automation & Workflow Engineering: Build automations and workflows that eliminate manual work across People processes. Beyond no-code: write scripts, build integrations, design data pipelines, and ship internal tools. The goal is a People function where the operational layer is largely self-running, freeing PBPs to focus on judgment work. Document Generation Systems: Build the engineering layer for employment document generation — contracts, addendums, letters, offer documents — pulling directly from systems data. Maintain the templating engine, integrate it with People workflows, and ensure routine documents generate themselves. Templates and legal accuracy are owned by the PBPs and Legal; this role owns the systems that produce the documents. People Data Infrastructure & Analytics: Build and maintain the data pipelines that power People reporting and analytics. Partner with our data team where they own the warehouse and core dashboards, and own the People-side of the data work — system-to-warehouse integrations, custom dashboards, ad-hoc reporting tooling, and the data quality layer. Payroll & Compliance Reporting Automation: Build the integration and automation layer that supports payroll and compliance work. This role builds clean data flows, automated reconciliation, audit-trail capture, and statutory reporting tooling so those teams can run their processes efficiently and accurately. Onboarding & Offboarding Systems: Build the systems and automation layer for new joiner provisioning, exits, and access management — system access workflows, automated checklists, status tracking, document triggers, and IT integrations. Programme management of onboarding sits with the People Business Partners; this role provides the engineering scaffolding underneath. Internal Tooling & Self-Service: Build internal tools that let the People team, managers, and employees self-serve where it makes sense — request forms, status lookups, manager dashboards, employee data portals. Identify where a small internal tool would remove a recurring queue of manual requests and ship the tool. Requirements 3–5 years of software engineering or systems engineering experience, ideally in scaling tech or fintech environments Strong scripting and programming skills — Python, JavaScript / Node, or comparable Hands-on experience integrating SaaS systems via REST APIs, webhooks, and OAuth Comfort with SQL and working with data — pipelines, transformations, and analytics-adjacent engineering Track record of shipping automations and internal tooling that eliminated meaningful manual work Ability to operate independently and ship end-to-end without heavy engineering oversight Comfort partnering with non-technical stakeholders (People, Finance, Legal) to translate operational needs into engineering solutions High discretion and sound judgment with sensitive information Excellent written communication, including the ability to document systems, decisions, and tradeoffs Nice to have Prior experience building tooling for People, HR, or Finance teams Familiarity with one or more People SaaS platforms (BambooHR, HiBob, Workday, 15Five, Deel) Experience with workflow automation platforms (Slack workflows, Zapier, Make) as part of a broader engineering toolkit Exposure to data warehousing and BI tooling (Looker, Mode, dbt, BigQuery / Snowflake) Experience working in or embedded with a non-engineering function (People, Finance, Legal, Ops) Benefits & Perks 🏖️ Remote-friendly Work We recognise and value the importance of enabling remote work and maintaining a globally distributed workforce. We cater to equitable employee experiences for both in-office and remote team members. We remain conscientious about ensuring a level playing field, especially around team events, business meeting practices, and office-driven benefits. While we facilitate remote work, we also see the value in bringing the full team together in person from time to time. 🎨 Stock Ownership* We believe in the power of ownership. That's why every full-time team member becomes a part-owner of Stitch. Our employee stock ownership plan ensures that when the company thrives, you do too. ⏰ Time Off* Taking time off from work is critical to ensure that you can take necessary breaks and have time for important life events outside of work. It also helps you manage your energy better. In line with this, we provide a generous annual leave policy, along with supportive family responsibility, parental, study, and long-tenure sabbatical leave options, designed to accommodate the diverse needs of our team. 📚 Learning & Development Fund* We are committed to the professional growth of our team. Each year, we allocate $3,000 per full time team member for learning and development, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and skill enhancement. 🩺 Health Insurance Contribution* Recognising the importance of health and well-being, we contribute to health insurance for all team members and provide group health insurance schemes in certain jurisdictions. 💻 Equipment To ensure our team has the tools they need, new members receive a brand-new Mac laptop along with the necessary peripheral equipment upon joining Stitch. 💜 Employee Assistance Programmes We care about the well-being of our team. Our Employee Assistance Programmes provide you with the necessary resources and support to not only excel in your job but also to thrive in your personal life. Whether it's counselling, advice, or support services, we're here to help every step of the way. Other notable benefits and perks Celebrations for important life and work milestones Daily team lunches in the Cape Town office Bi-annual work retreats New starter dinners Frequent team and company events Compliance with POPIA Our processing of your Personal Information is subject to, and in compliance with, the provisions of POPIA. Privacy and security of your information We will process your information only on instructions from you, which we are deemed to have received when you submit information on our website. We will maintain the confidentiality and security of such information per the standards contained in the POPIA, which requires us to adopt reasonable safeguards to protect the integrity and confidentiality of such information from unauthorized access, loss or destruction. *these benefits are applicable for full-time staff members but may not apply for fixed-term and part-time staff