Staff Engineer

Eightfold AI · Bangalore

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">About the Team:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">You will be joining a pivotal team at Eightfold responsible for our flagship Talent Acquisition (TA) product line, a major revenue generator that has been integral to our success from the start. Our prestigious global clients rely on this product, and our engineering team is at the heart of all product development activities.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Key outcomes for this team include:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">> Reducing time-to-hire for our customers.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">> Innovating and enhancing product capabilities, from new feature development to improving existing features' maturity and performance.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">> Integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI into our product architecture.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">> Building new product lines as needed to deliver a robust and comprehensive customer experience.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">The work done by this team is directly tied to Eightfold's overall success. If you're eager to be part of a dynamic, high-impact product development environment and grow with the team, this is the perfect opportunity. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">What you’ll do:<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Responsible for owning a broad problem space, designing solutions & executing the implementation.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Act as a technical lead & mentor the team members.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Code and design review</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Design and develop robust, scalable, and configurable server-side applications and modules with an emphasis on quality, performance, design, and reusability. </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Work cross-functionally with PM, design, and the engineering team to develop a solution and roadmap, and execute delivery.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Build for customization and generalization powered by configuration management.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Improve code coverage and drive up automated unit and Selenium testing.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Develop and improve internal tools for effective administration, monitoring, and altering.</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">What we need:<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">At least 10 years of experience in back-end/full-stack development.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Experience working in distributed systems, microservices, and highly scalable backend systems.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Passionate about coding, designing, building, launching, and maintaining products</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Cares about the details in the user experience</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude or similar, to accelerate coding workflows.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Ability to develop software/code in one mainstream programming language (brownie points if you have worked on Python and React)</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Communicates and collaborates effectively across teams</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Self-starter</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">About Eightfold :<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Eightfold is a global leader in an AI-native enterprise talent platform, trusted by the world’s largest & most respected Fortune 500 organizations. Our platform is built from the ground up, operating at scale across Azure and AWS, deployed in multiple regions globally, including IL4-compliant environments for US Government, supporting users in 100+ countries and 30+ languages. Today, Eightfold is at the forefront of agentic AI, delivering intelligent agents that actively drive outcomes across hiring and talent workflows, while much of the industry is still experimenting with prototypes. Backed by over $410M in funding and valued at $2B+, we are defining the next era of agentic talent systems.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">What sets Eightfold apart is not just the technology & our mission, but the team behind it. We are a deeply technical, execution-driven organization that values ownership, collaboration, and high standards. Our engineers, product leaders, and go-to-market teams work closely together in person and across functions to build systems that scale in the real world. If you’re excited to work on hard problems, move with urgency, raise the bar every day, and help build agentic systems that transform how the world works, Eightfold is the place to do it. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">You may want to refer to the media coverage on <a href="https://employee.eightfold.ai/vsimp?d=eyJtc2dfaWQiOjY4NzMwODY1MjU1LCJldmVudCI6ImNsaWNrIiwibmhhc2giOi04NDg4OTM5NTEzMTUxNjYxMjU5fQ._NS1VwT4eE55aDSDvPtC2I2h2VY&n=https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/10/ai-startup-eightfold-valued-at-2-1b-in-softbank-led-220m-funding/?guccounter=1%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">TechCrunch</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/talent-matching-startup-eightfold-ai-raises-220-mln-round-led-by-softbank-vision-2021-06-10/" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Reuters.</a><a href="https://eightfold.ai/customers/customer-stories/" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Our customers</a><a href="https://eightfold.ai/about/press/" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Press</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Founders:<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Varun Kacholia<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunkacholia/" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunkacholia/</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> ) & <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">Ashutosh Garg<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;"> (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshgarg893/" style="text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshgarg893/</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: border-box;">) Engineering culture at Eightfold:<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</div>

Collected experience requirement

10+ years