Why this matters
Hiring remains slow, manual, and biased, even in 2025. Octopyd is changing that.
We&re building AI-native systems that source, evaluate, and engage talent automatically, giving recruiters "super-powers" and giving candidates a fairer shot. The software you build will sit at the heart of this transformation: orchestrating large-scale LLM pipelines, Real Time ranking engines, and delightful recruiter workflows that make filling a role 10 faster.
What you&ll do (if you leanbackend
- Architect cloud-native services that connect LLM evaluation engines, ATS integrations, and high-throughput data pipelines.
- Design distributed systems that score millions of résumés in minutes with high availability, low latency, and strict privacy controls.
- Build streaming and batch pipelines for candidate data, interview events, and outreach metrics.
- Own infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD so experiments ship to production safely and often.
What you&ll do (if you leanfrontend
- Craft a next-generation recruiter workspace-think "Figma meets ATS"-using modern TypeScript and open-source frameworks.
- Visualize deep candidate insights (skill graphs, interview scores, diversity metrics) in snappy, interactive UIs.
- Collaborate closely with Back End and ML teams to surface AI recommendations in real time.
- Push the limits of browser performance to keep power users in flow.
What you bring
- 3+ years of professional software development, with deep expertise in either Back End or frontend.
- A record of shipping production systems at scale-focused on performance, resilience, and usability.
- Strong coding skills in languages that fit your stack (Go or Python on the backend; TypeScript/React on the frontend).
- A collaborative mindset and the curiosity to work across product, ML, and design.
- A passion for building tools that make other people wildly more effective.
Bonus points
- Experience with recruiting/HCM, ATS integrations, or HR analytics.
- Hands-on knowledge of LLM fine-tuning or retrieval-augmented generation.
- Background in high-volume data processing, event-driven architectures, or graph databases.
- Prior success scaling engineering teams in a startup environment.
- Clear, concise technical writing and diagramming chops.
What it&s like here
Octopyd is a fast-moving, high-trust AI startup. You&ll partner with top engineers, data scientists, and talent-ops experts to solve hard problems at the intersection of cloud, ML, and human workflows. We value ownership, rapid experimentation, and a "bring the data" mindset. If you&re excited to reinvent how the world hires, you&ll feel right at home.
Logistics
- Location:Hybrid hubs in Bay Area, CA (US), three days in-office, two days remote. Fully-remote option within US for exceptional candidates.
- Visa sponsorship:We welcome H-1B transfers and other employment-based visas.
How to apply
Don&t meet every single requirement? Feel over-qualified? No problem-if our mission energizes you, we want to hear from you. Octopyd is growing fast and needs world-class engineers at many experience levels. Apply with your résumé, GitHub (or equivalent), and a brief note on which path-backend, frontend, or both-gets you fired up.