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Indeed Hiring for Resume Platform – Staff Software Development Engineer Job at United, LA Full Time
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Your Job
As a staff software development engineer (SWE3), you will design new software systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new software features and products.
This opportunity is for a senior staff engineer working primarily on backend systems for the Platform team in the Resume product group. This team is responsible for the backend systems and APIs used by Employers & Recruiters to find and contact the candidates they want to hire. The Resume Platform Team owns the core technologies that drive the growth of the whole product group and business. This team needs an experienced staff engineer with established experience in backend systems, services, and APIs to lead the next phase of growth.
If our mission and these challenges resonate with you, or if you’ve simply been frustrated by the job hunting process at one point or another, then we need to talk!
Responsibilities:
- Work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Test & Software Engineers and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and to decompose large requests into smaller ones that can be executed sequentially or in parallel.
- Provide sound technical guidance, ensure product quality, and help set the technical direction for the team.
- Research, experiment, and develop new innovations as well as product and platform improvements that improve employer experiences which helps people find jobs.
- Contribute to the product roadmap, technology, and vision while creating a culture of quality and operational excellence on the team.
- Demonstrate strong technical leadership and leverage your years of hands-on technical engineering experience to hold the organization to a high standard of technical excellence.
- Share the expertise on products and technologies by mentoring other engineers and by providing insightful feedback in code reviews for changes made by other engineers.
- Investigate and resolve difficult problems and fix complex bugs; accept escalations of complex issues. A
- ssist other engineers in designing solutions, prioritizing work items, estimating urgency and business impact, and balancing short-term and long-term results.
Resume Search. ‘Find and Engage the People you’ll Hire’
Helping people to get jobs is hard, even in today’s market. Hundreds of thousands of recruiters sift through millions of resumes. Our vision is to use technology to disrupt the status quo and enable recruiters to be more effective. We will use the right tools for the right situation (e.g., machine learning and other automation techniques) to offload the repetitive, time-consuming tasks so that recruiters can concentrate on customer service. For example, our system will match the best candidates to each job, based on both skills and culture fit. Recruiter will receive recommendations, rather than having to manually search. Our business is growing rapidly, both in revenue and number of customers, but we have just started. There are numerous opportunities for building new systems and product features, but we need talented, passionate people working together to make this happen. We are looking to grow our teams with people who share our energy and enthusiasm for creating the best experience for job seekers.
All Indeed teams work together towards this mission by constantly innovating and improving every part of the job seeking experience. In the Resume Search team, our focus is on employers and our goal is to help people get jobs by making recruiting easy and frictionless. We provide a suite of world-class recruiting tools on a highly distributed platform that scales to the needs of the 3+ million companies that use Indeed to hire. Our tools include a search system for finding the most relevant resumes fast and contact management for engaging candidates.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field (Master’s is a plus)
- 5+ years of experience in software development through multiple product cycles and a strong track record of on-time delivery for large, cross-functional projects
- Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, distributed system architecture, and can demonstrate significant prior success as a software engineer who solved complex problems
- Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Deep understanding of best engineering practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations
- 2+ years of deep experience with search technologies and capabilities in designing, developing and delivering technology for a search-focused product.
Who we are
We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people’s lives all around the world, one job search at a time.
Our Mission
As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We’re looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.
(*comScore Total Visits, March 2021)
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Seattle 164,000 – 239,000 USD per year
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