
Software Engineer – Contract
Posted Oct 30

Posted Oct 30
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to establish requirements and create product experiences from inception to completion.
• Develop and enhance full-stack experiences for Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and associated talent discovery processes.
• Design and implement search-enabled features utilizing OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, focusing on indexing, query architecture, relevance optimization, ranking, and semantic retrieval.
• Create matching systems that integrate keyword, structured, semantic, and AI/ML signals.
• Work alongside Applied ML and cross-functional engineering teams to assess relevance, latency, reliability, infrastructure costs, and trade-offs related to user trust.
• Build evaluation, observability, testing, and feedback systems to enhance matching accuracy.
• Produce clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable production code for core services.
• Participate in code reviews and adhere to engineering best practices.
• Undertake additional projects within the engagement scope as necessary.
• Over 5 years of experience in writing production-level code.
• Proficiency in Ruby, C#, Java, or Python; experience with Ruby on Rails is preferred.
• Solid fundamentals in JavaScript or TypeScript, with experience in React.
• Full-stack experience encompassing backend systems, APIs, data modeling, and contemporary frontend development.
• Extensive production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query formulation, relevance tuning, and performance considerations.
• Experience in developing search, ranking, recommendation, or matching systems.
• Practical production experience in implementing AI or ML techniques, such as embeddings, semantic search, classification, or ranking.
• Experience collaborating with Product and Design teams in complex, user-facing problem domains.
• Familiarity with analytical databases is an advantage.
• Capability to collaborate with a distributed team based in the US and Canada, ensuring reasonable access to stakeholders.
• Engagement as an independent contractor through a Contractor of Record via Deel in Argentina.
• Performance-based bonus structure that acknowledges exceptional contributions.
• Performance review program that offers constructive feedback.
• Remote-first work culture.
• Access to shared office spaces located in New York City and Ireland.
• Optional co-working space availability.
• Employee resource groups.
• An inclusive and award-winning company culture.
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