Remote Software Engineer — AI-Driven Talent Matching

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking a Software Engineer to support the development and maintenance of web-based applications as part of an approximately 12-month engagement. You’ll contribute to Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related employer-facing experiences.

You’ll work across the stack to build product capabilities and the search and matching systems behind them, with a particular focus on OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and practical applications of AI to matching, ranking, and search relevance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing production software.
• Experience with Ruby, C#, Java, or Python, with Ruby on Rails preferred.
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals, including React.
• Full-stack experience across backend systems, APIs, data modeling, and modern frontend development.
• Production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, and performance considerations.
• Experience building or working with search, ranking, recommendation, or matching systems.
• Practical experience applying AI/ML techniques to production applications.
• Experience collaborating with Product and Design in ambiguous, user-facing problem spaces.
• Ability to develop clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable production code.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Talent Matching and Rediscovery features.
• Build and maintain search and ranking systems behind employer-facing experiences.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and ML teams to improve relevance and performance.
• Write clean, scalable production code and optimize for reliability.

Skills

5+ years experience writing production

Ruby/C#/Java/Python

JavaScript/TypeScript, React

Full-stack development

AI/ML in production

collaboration with Product/Design

Tools

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Job description

Openkrill is seeking a Software Engineer to support the development and maintenance of web-based applications as part of an approximately 12-month engagement. You’ll contribute to Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related employer-facing experiences.

You’ll work across the stack to build product capabilities and the search and matching systems behind them, with a particular focus on OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and practical applications of AI to matching, ranking, and search relevance.