Software Engineer

Next Match AI is building a new infrastructure for hiring that leverages AI to match candidates with employers. They are seeking a Software Engineer to work on their core platform, focusing on features that enhance candidate and employer experiences while ensuring system reliability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Ship production features end-to-end
• Work across front-end, back-end, and integrations (depending on your strengths)
• Help us scale a platform that must handle thousands of candidates and employers safely and reliably
• Design, build, and maintain core product features for candidates and employers
• Develop and consume REST/GraphQL APIs and integrate third-party services (ATS, payments, identity)
• Work with databases, authentication, permissions, and background jobs
• Collaborate with product, design, and data/AI teams to define requirements and success metrics
• Write clean, testable code; participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
• Improve performance, reliability, and security across the stack
• Help shape engineering culture, tools, and best practices as we scale

Requirements:

• 1–7+ years of professional software engineering experience (we're open to strong juniors who can show projects and GitHub, and to experienced mid/senior engineers)
• Solid foundation in data structures, APIs, and web fundamentals
• Experience with at least one modern backend stack and one frontend framework
• Comfort debugging complex issues and taking ownership from idea → shipped feature
• Product mindset: you care about user impact, not just tickets
• Comfortable working in a remote-first, fast-moving startup
• Experience in HR tech, marketplaces, or SaaS platforms
• Exposure to AI/ML products, ranking, or recommendation systems
• Previously worked in an early-stage startup or founding engineer environment