Lead Engineer- Fullstack / Frontend

About Eightfold Eightfold is a global leader in AI-native enterprise talent platform, trusted by the world’s largest & most respected fortune 500 organizations. Our platform is built from the ground up operating at scale across Azure and AWS, deployed in multiple regions globally, including IL4-compliant environments for US Government, supporting users in 100+ countries and 30+ languages. Today, Eightfold is at the forefront of agentic AI, delivering intelligent agents that actively drive outcomes across hiring and talent workflows, while much of the industry is still experimenting with prototypes. Backed by over $410M in funding and valued at $2B+, we are defining the next era of agentic talent systems.

What sets Eightfold apart is not just the technology & our mission, but the team behind it. We are a deeply technical, execution-driven organization that values ownership, collaboration, and high standards. Our engineers, product leaders, and go-to-market teams work closely together — in person and across functions — to build systems that scale in the real world. If you’re excited to work on hard problems, move with urgency, raise the bar every day, and help build agentic systems that transform how the world works, Eightfold is the place to do it.

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Eightfold.ai is led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia-IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.

Our customers Press About The Team We're looking for a Full Stack Lead Engineer to lead the development of customer-facing analytics dashboards with self-service authoring capabilities. In this role, you'll guide a small team of engineers, drive end-to-end technical execution, and collaborate with global product, design, and data teams to build intuitive, high-performance analytics experiences.

What You'll Do > Build modern, scalable UIs using React and TypeScript for rich data visualization and authoring workflows.

> Design and deliver backend services and APIs in Python (Flask, FastAPI, or Django).

> Lead and mentor a small team of full stack engineers, ensuring high technical standards and code quality.

> Collaborate with cross-geo product managers, designers, and data engineers to bring analytics concepts to life.

> Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance across the full stack.

What You'll Bring > 6 or more years of full-stack development experience with strong expertise in React and Python.

> Proven experience building complex, customer-facing applications or analytics dashboards.

> Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and frontend-backend integration.

> Experience with data visualization frameworks (e.g., D3.js, Recharts, Plotly).

> Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern CI/CD pipelines.

> Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.

Engineering Culture At Eightfold We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in your work and see your work's positive impact on your colleagues, our customers, and the world. We believe in providing transparency and support so you can do the best work of your career.

Hybrid Work At Eightfold, we believe our best work happens when we collaborate closely, learn from one another, and build together. We follow a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with a strong emphasis on in-person collaboration to foster innovation, culture, and rapid execution.

Employees based near our Santa Clara, Bangalore, and Noida offices are expected to work from the office three days per week, as we believe regular in-person engagement is essential to how we build high-impact products and strong teams.

Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.

Experience our comprehensive benefits with family medical, vision and dental coverage, a competitive base salary, and eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses or commissions.