Freelance Integration Engineer (HR Systems)

Company Intro

At Toloka AI we create data that powers leading GenAI models and innovations. We work with frontier labs, big tech, renowned AI startups, enterprises and non-profit research organizations worldwide. We use a combination of Experts + Crowd + Tech Platform to teach AI models to reason and evaluate their efficacy and safety. We have experts in more than 50 different domains—from doctors and lawyers to physicists and engineers—and boast one of the most diverse global crowds, representing over 100 countries and speaking 40+ languages. We are a well-funded startup with an enviable portfolio of clients including Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, poolside, Recraft, and Shopify.

Recently, we secured strategic investment led by Bezos Expeditions with participation from Mikhail Parakhin, CTO of Shopify and board advisor to leading GenAI companies, who now serves as our Chairman of the Board. Our remote-first team is globally distributed around the world: USA, UK, the Netherlands, Israel, Czech Republic, Serbia, and more. We are headquartered in Amsterdam.

About position

We're looking for a freelance Integration Engineer to join our Corporate Infrastructure team. You'll build and maintain the integrations that connect our people systems — making our ATS, HRIS, project tracking tools, and surrounding infrastructure communicate reliably and securely.

This is a hands-on technical role: analyzing requirements, designing webhook flows and integration architecture, building and debugging integrations, implementing security requirement, and ensuring data moves correctly between systems.

You'll work on an hourly basis against a prioritized backlog, but you're expected to help shape it, proposing solutions and owning the design, with product direction from the HR Tech owner and technical oversight from Engineering.

Responsibilities

1. Solution Design & Business Analysis

Understand existing processes and pain points, and translate ambiguous or high-level requirements into concrete technical solutions

Define the target architecture for each data flow: systems of record, sync direction and frequency, event-driven vs. batch, and the error/reconciliation strategy

Create design and technical documentation

2. Integration Development & Maintenance

Build and maintain integrations between people systems (ATS, HRIS, project tracking tools)

Design and implement webhook connections and event-driven data flows

Own field mapping and data transformation between systems with differing schemas

Migrate legacy integrations and update them to reflect current business logic

Ensure data is correctly propagated end-to-end across connected systems

3. Security & Reliability

Handle PII to a high standard: data minimization, least-privilege API scopes, secrets management and audit trails

Audit integrations on a BAU basis - verifying data is processed, synced, and stored correctly

Implement monitoring and error-handling to catch failures early

Requirements

Solid experience building and maintaining system integrations via REST APIs and webhooks

Strong Python for scripting, automation, and integration logic

Experience with cloud infrastructure - Azure is a plus

Comfortable with secure data handling: OAuth2 / API-key auth, webhook signature verification, secrets management, handling of sensitive PII

Able to own design decisions and documenting trade-offs independently, not only executing a predefined spec

Able to work with Jira as part of a broader technical workflow

Ways of Working

Self-directed and able to pick up tasks from a backlog independently

Good at communicating progress and flagging blockers

Comfortable in a remote, async environment

Nice to Have

Prior experience integrating with HRIS or ATS platforms (HiBob, Greenhouse, Workday, or similar) as a developer

Familiarity with CosmosDB or similar NoSQL stores

Infrastructure-as-Code on Azure

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