Senior Software Engineer, Talent Matching Software
On-site · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer to build the core software behind our talent matching: the services that search, score and rank candidates and the APIs that deliver matches to HR tech platforms and our staffing business. You will own production services, serving layer, and APIs, work with Data Science on productionizing models, and use AI-assisted development daily to design, write, test, and review code. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating backend services and asynchronous APIs/pipelines, ensuring fast, reliable performance under load, and collaborating with Product/Operations to translate recruiter/candidate needs into shipped features. Emphasis on testing, observability, latency, and cost, with a focus on distributed systems and vector-search-enabled workloads.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong Python skills
- Hands-on experience designing and operating production APIs and backend services at scale
- Experience designing asynchronous APIs (queues, events, webhooks, or streaming) and reasoning about concurrency
- Comfortable in a stack like Python on AWS, infrastructure as code using CDK, asynchronous services over SQS, and Postgres (with VectorChord for vector search)
- Fluency with AI-assisted development: building with coding agents and LLM tools
- Strong fundamentals in testing, observability, and debugging across distributed systems
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