Staff Engineer, Backend
Eightfold
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jul 14, 2025
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 do:
> Own a broad problem space end-to-end — from designing scalable solutions to driving implementation and delivery.
> Serve as a technical lead and mentor, guiding team members and fostering engineering excellence.
> Be hands-on with coding, actively contributing to core development efforts alongside the team.
> Conduct thorough code and design reviews to maintain quality and consistency across the codebase.
> Design and develop robust, scalable, and configurable server-side applications and modules, with a strong focus on quality, performance, and reusability.
> Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to define solutions, create roadmaps, and execute effectively.
> Build systems with customization and generalization in mind, leveraging configuration management to support flexibility at scale.
> Continuously improve test coverage, including unit and Selenium-based automated testing.
> Develop and enhance internal tools to streamline administration, monitoring, and alerting.
What we need:
> Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design).
> 10+ years of experience in back-end development, with a track record of building reliable and performant systems.
> Hands-on experience with distributed systems, microservices, and highly scalable back-end architectures.
> Experience using Generative AI tools is a plus, especially tools like Cursor, which we actively use in our workflows.
> Passionate about coding, designing, building, launching, and maintaining high-quality products.
> Attention to detail, especially when it comes to user experience and system behavior.
> Proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language (bonus points for Python).
> Strong communication and collaboration skills with a team-oriented mindset.
Eightfold Engineering Values:
We are a team of self-starters who excel in our fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in the work you are doing, and see the positive impact of your work on your colleagues, our customers, and people around the world. We have a mindset of continuously improving. There is no detail that is beneath us, and we can dive into anything needed. We focus on executing fast and delivering value to our customers every single day. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career.
About Us:
Eightfold AI doesn’t just organize data — we understand people. As pioneers of the world’s most innovative AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform, we combine enterprise data, market insights, and user interactions to create a complete picture of talent across the entire employment life cycle, providing an end-to-end experience that includes hiring, development, and retention. A third of our customers are from Fortune 500 companies and have relied on us to move faster and more strategically than the competition. Our platform is guiding our customers through the greatest work acceleration in history by unlocking the power of people and showing them how partnering with AI can unleash unlimited potential.
We secured a $220M Series E funding round, led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund in June 2021. Thus, we’ve raised more than $400 million in funding to date. We’re valued at over $2 billion.
Our customers- https://eightfold.ai/customers/
Press- https://eightfold.ai/press/
You may want to refer to the media coverage on TechCrunch and Reuters.
Founders:
Our Engineering Leaders:
Vineet Abraham (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineet-a-9264707/)
Vinodh Ravindranath (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinodhkumarr/)
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.