Software Engineering Technical Lead, Hirevue
Engagement Product Line
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Online platform for screening, recruiting and interviewing potential hires
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Online platform for screening, recruiting and interviewing potential hires
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help candidates and workplaces around the world to reach their full potential.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an experienced, full-stack engineer. More specifically, we’re looking for:
- Someone with experience designing, building, deploying, supporting SaaS products. You should have familiarity with cloud development, Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTFul APIs, XSS attacks, and MVC web frameworks
- Someone who understands fundamental computer science concepts. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have a CS degree. You should be able to describe technical design options, engineering trade offs, making technical recommendations and decisions
- Someone with a firm grasp of SQL and databases in general (including non-relational databases). You should know how to do CRUD operations, what indexes are and why they matter, and the difference between a left join and an inner join for instance
- Someone to work hand in hand with Product and UX, to design solutions that deliver business value and delight customers
- B.S. in Computer Science (or related field), equivalent trade school degree, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years in a software engineering role, 12+ years preferred
- Highly proficient with languages and technologies listed below
- Experience with dialogue systems, machine learning systems, multi-agent LLM architectures, and AI natural language processing (NLP)
- Familiarity with AWS foundational services
- Experience working effectively in a global virtual environment
- Ability to design scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker.)
- Understanding of security best practices
Desirable
- Prior Technical Lead Experience
- Project Management Experience
- AWS and Cloud certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, and/or AWS Certified Developer – Associate certifications)
- Experience with data preprocessing, transformation, and loading techniques
- Understanding data storage and retrieval solutions
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineering Technical Lead at HireVue, you’ll report to one of our Engineering Directors and be responsible for leading technical initiatives from inception to the hands of our users
- You will be empowered to drive continuous improvement and constantly evaluate the return on investment on every decision we make when building our products
- You’ll be in a hands-on development and technical lead role collaborating with our cross-functional teams to help continue building the leading HireVue platform
- Your focus will be architecting solutions, writing quality code, leading other engineers by example, and solving technical challenges that will continue improving the experience of our users
- You will become a key contributor to the codebase, willing to work in any area of the code when needed
- You will be coding our cutting-edge human interaction software, working on an Enterprise-level Chatbot software platform to help companies engage candidates, post-hire performance, and help candidates land their dream jobs
- This role involves domain and product area ownership, specifically focusing on developing and enhancing communications with users through various forms such as chat, email, messaging, and more
- You will ensure seamless and effective engagement, improving both candidate and customer experiences
- Our ability to deliver quality software to our customers in a timely, predictable manner will be directly attributable to your capacity to identify and address challenges faced by the initiatives you will be leading
- Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the HireVue platforms ensuring that we’re utilizing the best development techniques, architectural patterns, frameworks and libraries for those initiatives
- Own and ensure the resolution of complex problems found in our systems and integrations
- Find opportunities to broadcast knowledge and lessons learned across delivery teams
- Delegate to teammates and work with them to ensure they're successful
- Identify technical debt buydown opportunities and work with the product line leadership team to prioritize these activities
- Ensure patterns are in place to provide thorough automated testing with tests at each level of the test pyramid
- Communicate patterns and solutions through both thorough written documentation and technical presentations
Our take
Companies are facing increasing competition to attract job seekers and therefore need new ways to make interviewing processes more accessible. Hirevue does exactly this, working with companies to conduct video interviews - live or recorded - that are scheduled around a candidate’s availability.
In order to do so, the company has deployed the use of artificial intelligence, which assesses and scores a candidate based on skills like problem-solving and communication. This not only doubles the number of interviews and hires that a company can make (in less than half the time) but improves candidate quality. For this reason, companies like Amazon and Unilever deploy its services to scale and accelerate their hiring processes, a great reflection of the quality of Hirevue's offering.
The company has met criticism, however, with some claiming its analysis of factors like facial movements, word choice or speaking voice is simply a blend of superficial measurements and arbitrary number-crunching that could be seen as unfair discrimination. Despite this, Hirevue does seem to have found an interesting angle into the fruitful hiring industry and will look to expand its position over the coming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2015
$45m
SERIES E
Oct 2013
$25m
SERIES D
Total funding: $93m
Company benefits
- Rich benefits: We offer quality medical, dental, and vision options at an affordable price.
- Flexible paid time off: We all need time away from work to recharge. Full-time team members are eligible for flexible time off. And we want you to use it!
- Fun: Join us for Lunch and Learn, Virtual Fun Days, and more. We have a pool table and video games in our HireBrew pub at our Utah Headquarters.
- Paid parental leave: We support our team members and their families with Paid Parental Leave. This includes paid Maternity & Adoption, Parental Bonding, and Granternity Leave.
Company HQ
South Jordan, UT
Leadership
Jeremy Friedman
(CEO)Jeremy previously co-founded Spiral Connect and founded Schoology where he served as the CEO for over 10 years until it was acquired by PowerSchool in 2019. He then became the SVP of Schoology at Powerschool.
Walker Ellis
(CRO)Prior to joining Hirevue in 2023, Walker spent 3 years at PowerSchool as the VP of Sales and Group VP of Strategic Accounts & Government Affairs. He also spent over 6 years at Microsoft, joining in Solution Sales before moving into the role of Director of Americas Enterprise Sales, Dynamics and then Sales Leader of Americas Business Applications.
Smitha Venugopal
(CFO)Prior to joining Hirevue in 2024, Smitha was the CFO at Escalent for 2 years. Before that, she spent nearly 8 years at Solera as the VP, Corporate Controller and FP&A. She also spent over 5 years at Comverse as a Director of Revenue Recognition and Assistant Corporate Controller and nearly 6 years at Deloitte as a Manager.
Alberto Silveira
(CTO)Alberto is the author of "Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams". Previously, he served as the Head of Engineering at LawnStarter and as a Senior Director/Head of Engineering at Schoology.
Marcy Daniel
(Chief Product Officer)Prior to joining Hirevue in 2024, Marcy was the CPO at Quorum and PowerSchool.
Mike Hudy
(CSO)Prior to joining Hirevue in 2023, Mike was the CSO at Modern Hire. He also served as an Executive VP of Selection Science at Shaker International for nearly 18 years and as a Senior Consultant at SHL for 4 years.
Sibyl McCarley
(Chief People Officer)Sibyl worked at Modern Hire as a VP of Human Resources and Senior VP of Talent until it was acquired by Hirevue in 2023. She then moved into the role of VP of People & Engagement, Senior VP of People in 2024 and CPO later that same year. She also spent over 5 years at Michael Best & Friedrich in HR roles, and nearly 7 years at Deloitte as a Resource Management Consultant, Talent Specialist, and Talent Business Advisor.
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