Hiring Company Name: Andela
Hiring Company Website
www.andela.com
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Job Summary:
We’re seeking a Staff Engineer to help drive technical excellence and innovation across our platform, with a particular focus on leveraging AI to transform how global talent connects with opportunities. You’ll work on complex technical challenges that span our entire platform, from AI-powered matching algorithms to scalable marketplace infrastructure.
Exceptional Leadership:
You don’t need to be a people manager to be a leader, and you’ll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you.
- Low ego, low drama, servant leader: You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea.
- One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above yourself and your team alone.
- Great listener, hungry for feedback: You’re always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen.
- Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you.
- Player-coach: You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this by proactively collaborating with your team while actively engaging in important details.
- Business problem solver: You’re not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
- Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for key platform initiatives.
- Design and implement core platform capabilities that power our AI-driven talent matching.
- Lead the technical evolution of our systems to support rapid scaling and enhanced AI capabilities.
- Mentor other engineers and elevate the technical discourse across the organization.
- Collaborate with product teams to translate ambitious goals into practical technical solutions.
System Design & Implementation
- Architect and build scalable systems that handle complex matching algorithms and marketplace dynamics.
- Design and implement AI-powered features that enhance our talent evaluation and matching capabilities.
- Create robust, maintainable solutions that can scale with our global user base.
- Establish technical standards and best practices for system reliability and performance.
Cross-functional Impact
- Work closely with product managers to shape technical strategy and execution.
- Partner with data scientists to implement and optimize AI/ML models.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with global data privacy regulations.
- Guide technical decisions across multiple teams and workstreams.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience driving complex projects.
- Strong background in distributed systems and scalable architectures.
- Experience building and scaling marketplace platforms or similar complex systems.
- A track record of making significant technical decisions that impacted product direction.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
- Strong understanding of AI concepts and their practical applications.
- Excellence in written and verbal communication, particularly in technical contexts.
- While the team is distributed across the world, this role is US-based.
- Experience with AI/ML platform development.
- Background in talent matching algorithms or recommendation systems.
- Experience with large-scale data processing and analytics.
- Familiarity with global compliance and data privacy requirements.
- A track record of publishing technical content or speaking at conferences.
- Experience working with distributed, remote teams.
Client's benefits
Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote! Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from us. Flexible working hours, Equity (as a part of the compensation package) Healthcare, 401k / pension Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave
