Senior Engineering Manager

What is SeekOut?  

SeekOut helps thousands of organizations hire, grow, and retain great talent with its people-first talent optimization platform and proven expertise in diverse and hard-to-find talent. In our digital age, organizations are overflowing with data—yet few deeply understand their employees because people data is siloed and disconnected. Your people are the real difference makers—and once you know their passions, experiences, and the opportunities that will get them to where they want to go, you can better align their skills, capabilities, and career paths to the needs of the business. SeekOut unifies talent acquisition, talent management, and talent analytics to help you grow the people you have and find the people you need. Six of the top 10 most valuable companies in the United States trust SeekOut as their single platform for managing and recruiting talent.   

SeekOut is recognized on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers, Deloitte’s Fast 500, and the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. In 2021, SeekOut was crowned GeekWire Startup of the Year. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding from leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield, and Founders Circle Capital. For more information, visit www.seekout.com. 

What are we looking to add to our team?   

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to join our core engineering team in Bangalore. You will help us build new products and features to disrupt recruiting and talent acquisition space. You will have an opportunity to be part of a passionate and diverse group – to learn, grow, and make a significant and meaningful impact to a growing product.  

What you will be doing:    

• Lead multiple v1 efforts end to end, starting from initial idea to requirements, then on to planning, architecture, design, development, and finally shipping 
• Successfully work across multiple teams, Engineering, Product, AI, and Customer Success teams to deliver an exceptional product.  
• Architect, design, and build scalable, reliable, high-performance online services as well as core backend software components 
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of our infrastructure  
• Lead by example, Mentor and coach software engineers of all levels and help them grow in their career.  
• Advocate lean and agile development practices, building solid products that will last test of time 

You will make a great match, if you:   

• Have 10+ years of professional development experience – having shipped multiple versions of SaaS products 
• Demonstrated experience building distributed systems with a cloud service-oriented architecture  
• Have 5+ years of experience with expertise in at least one of: Azure, AWS, Spark, AI, Applied Machine Learning, NLP, Predictive Modeling, Search, or related  
• Demonstrated skills in building high performance teams 
• Have a BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field 
• Ideally have worked in Startups or shipped v1 features and projects with end-to-end accountability 
• Have excellent leadership skills, strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Enjoy the fast-paced startup environment, have a growth mindset, and can adapt to changing requirements   
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong empathy for customers
• Are innately curious with strong bias for action and willingness to go above and beyond
• Are strategic and results driven with an ability to make an impact with influence and collaboration 

Our Dedication to a Diverse Workforce:  

SeekOut condemns discrimination, racism, and racial injustice in all forms. Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, SeekOut will honor your experiences, perspectives, and unique identity. Together, we strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming. We are accelerating our efforts through our products and policies to take action and advance definitive, measurable policies and practices that eliminate racism and discrimination.    

We celebrate the cultural values of being:   

• An inclusive and diverse place where employees can bring their whole selves to work.    
• A collaborative team where people come together to brainstorm and communicate ideas.    
• Focused on customer success and delight.   
• Committed to continual learning and growth.  

SeekOut is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process.  If you require assistance or accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@seekout.com.