Description
Senior Engineer- Backend
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Department: Engineering
Work Location: hybrid
About Eightfold
Eightfold is a global leader in 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.
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.
Eightfold.ai is led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia-IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.
About the Team :
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 enterprise customers rely on this product, and our engineering team is at the heart of all product development activities. Key outcomes for this team include:
> Reducing time-to-hire for our customers.
> Innovating and enhancing product capabilities, from new feature development to improving existing features' maturity and performance.
> Integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI into our product architecture.
> Building new product lines as needed to deliver a robust and comprehensive customer experience.
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.
What You'll Learn To Do:
- 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.
- You will also get the opportunity to work on the latest Generative AI/LLMs as we are actively leveraging them in our workflows
- Design and develop safe and reliable data pipelines for high-scale data integration for the 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 Look For :
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals with hands-on experience in back-end development of 3 to 6 years. (extra points for skills in Python and React.Js)
- Sound foundation in distributed systems, and microservices.
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, or similar to accelerate coding workflows.
- Experience in building, launching, and maintaining SaaS products.
- Cares about the details in the User experience and is highly driven to solve real problems for millions of Users
- Communicates and collaborates effectively across teams
- Excellent problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills and debugging in cloud environments and/or SaaS products.
Our Backend Stack:
We mainly use and are not limited to the below technologies. Also, we hire engineers 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.
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