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eightfold.ai Staff Engineer-Backend in Bangalore, India
Eightfold (https://eightfold.ai/) 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 (https://eightfold.ai/blog/eightfold-ai-raises-220m/) 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.
What you’ll do:
Responsible for owning a broad problem space, designing solutions & executing the implementation.
Act as a technical lead & mentor the team members.
Code and design review
Design and Develop robust, scalable, and configurable server-side applications and modules with an emphasis on quality, performance, design, and re-usability.
Work cross-functionally with PM, design, and engineering team to come up with a solution, and roadmap and execute on delivering it.
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
10+ years of experience in back-end development.
Experience working in distributed systems, microservices, and highly scalable backend systems.
Passionate about coding, 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
Self-starter
Our Backend Stack:
We majorly use and are not limited to the below technologies. Also, we hire engineers coming with an experience in any of the mainstream programming languages. Being language agnostic, our interview process will not focus on any specific languages/frameworks, rather we focus on your problem-solving skills, and coding/designing abilities.
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
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.
Hybrid Work @ Eightfold: We embrace a hybrid work model that aims to boost collaboration, enhance our culture, and drive innovation through a blend of remote and in-person work. We are committed to creating a dynamic and flexible work environment that nurtures the collaborative spirit of our team. Starting February 1, 2024, employees residing near Santa Clara, California, or our Bangalore and Noida offices in India will return to the office twice a week.
Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.
