Job Description

Eightfold was founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who they are and their network's strength vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals and how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry’s first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their careers.

To date, Eightfold AI has received more than $410 million in funding and a valuation of over $2B from leading investors to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society - employment, working on hard business problems, and being part of an amazing growth story - Eightfold is the place to be!

About The Team
You will be part of the core team handling the Talent Acquisition product line, which is the flagship product of Eightfold. Technical contributions will span across the entire tech stack and will help in adding exciting new capabilities to the product and handle customer facing requests. Come join one of the most impactful teams in the company to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world.

As a Lead Engineer ;

What You'll Do

• Lead the projects/PODs end to end
• Lead the design discussion by working closely with the product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams.
• Mentor the juniors by performing code reviews.
• Develop robust, scalable, and configurable server-side applications and modules with an emphasis on quality, performance, design, and re-usability.
• Design and develop new microservices or integrate applications with existing ones.
• Design and develop safe and reliable data pipelines for high-scale data integration for fortune 500 customers.
• Build for customization and generalization powered by configuration management.
• Improve code coverage and drive up the automated unit and selenium testing.
• Develop and improve internal tools for effective administration, monitoring, and altering.

What We Need

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals with hands-on experience in back-end development of 6 to 10 or more years.
• Hands-on experience leading the projects/features/POD
• Sound foundation in distributed systems, and microservices.
• Passionate about designing, building, launching, and maintaining products
• Cares about the details in the user experience
• Ability to develop software/code in one mainstream programming language (brownie points if you know Python)
• Communicates and collaborates effectively across teams

Our Backend Stack

We mainly use and are not limited to the below technologies. Also, we hire engineers coming with experience in any of the mainstream programming languages.

• Python, Flask, Tensorflow, SQL, Bash, Ansible
• Apache Spark, Solr, Mysql, Docker
• Major AWS services like Aurora, S3, Redshift, Cloudformation, SNS, SQS, etc
• Extensive use of AI and machine learning technologies
• Distributed Systems, Microservices

We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in your work and see your work's positive impact on your colleagues, our customers, and the world. We believe in providing transparency and support so you can do the best work of your career.