Software Engineer
Build and maintain full-stack talent discovery experiences, including search, matching, ranking, and semantic retrieval systems. The engagement requires 5+ years of production coding experience, strong frontend and backend skills, and deep OpenSearch or Elasticsearch expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to define requirements and deliver product experiences.
- Build and improve full-stack experiences for Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related talent discovery workflows.
- Design and ship search-backed capabilities using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, ranking, and semantic retrieval.
- Develop matching systems combining keyword, structured, semantic, and AI/ML signals.
- Partner with Applied ML and cross-functional engineering teams to balance relevance, latency, reliability, infrastructure cost, and user trust.
- Build evaluation, observability, testing, and feedback mechanisms to improve matching quality.
- Develop clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable production code.
- Contribute to code reviews and engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing production code.
- Experience with Ruby, C#, Java, or Python; Ruby and Rails preferred.
- Strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals, including React.
- Full-stack experience across backend systems, APIs, data modeling, and modern frontend development.
- Deep production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience building search, ranking, recommendation, or matching systems.
- Practical production experience applying AI or ML techniques such as embeddings, semantic search, classification, or ranking.
- Experience collaborating with Product and Design in ambiguous, user-facing problem spaces.
Nice to Have
- Experience with analytical databases.
Skills
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Opensearch, Elasticsearch, APIs, Data Modeling, Semantic Search, Machine Learning, Analytical Databases
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