Staff Engineer

Eightfold AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Eightfold AI is seeking a senior backend engineer to own broad problem spaces, design scalable server-side solutions, and lead technical efforts on our AI-powered talent platform. You will drive architecture decisions, mentor teammates, and collaborate across product and design to deliver robust features that scale globally.

You will also review code, improve test coverage, and contribute to internal tooling for administration and monitoring, while leveraging Azure/AWS and AI-assisted tooling to

Qualifications

• Solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own a broad problem space, designing solutions & executing the implementation.

Skills

Back-end development

Full-stack development

Distributed systems

Microservices

Python

React

AI tooling

Code review

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Azure

AWS

Selenium

Job description

Job Description

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 clients rely on this product, and our engineering team is at the heart of all product development activities.

• 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 Eightfolds overall success. If youre 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

• Responsible for owning a broad problem space, designing solutions & executing the implementation.
• Act as a technical lead & mentor the team members.
• Code and design review
• Design and develop robust, scalable, and configurable server-side applications and modules with an emphasis on quality, performance, design, and reusability.
• Work cross-functionally with PM, design, and the engineering team to develop a solution and roadmap, and execute delivery.
• Build for customization and generalization powered by configuration management.
• Improve code coverage and drive up automated unit and Selenium testing.
• Develop and improve internal tools for effective administration, monitoring, and altering.

What we need

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• At least 10 years of experience in back-end/full-stack development.
• Experience working in distributed systems, microservices, and highly scalable backend systems.
• Passionate about coding, designing, building, launching, and maintaining products
• Cares about the details in the user experience
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude or similar, to accelerate coding workflows.
• Ability to develop software/code in one mainstream programming language (brownie points if you have worked on Python and React)
• Communicates and collaborates effectively across teams
• Self-starter

About Eightfold :

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.

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.

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Founders

Varun Kacholia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunkacholia/) & Ashutosh Garg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshgarg893/)

Engineering culture at Eightfold

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 works 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.