Senior Software Engineer, Python
ABOUT BEAMERY
Beamery’s mission is to create equal access to work, skills, and careers. We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry, enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions – by accelerating their recruiting processes, unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities, enabling smarter upskilling initiatives, and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire and redeploy over a million people annually.
Our product is used by Fortune 2000 organizations globally and enables users across 100+ countries to make smarter talent decisions and close skills gaps. Read more about our work here.
What’s ahead — and why it’s an exciting time to join the team:
✨ Deepening our native integrations with SAP, Workday, Microsoft, and LinkedIn to seamlessly embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made.
✨ Embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the future—powering workforce strategies, internal mobility, and skills forecasting.
✨ Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools, make fairer decisions, and expand access to opportunity at scale.
But it’s not all about creating high-quality products, we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust, empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.
ABOUT THE ROLE/ TEAM
The “Workforce Insights” team is a full stack team working on one of Beamery’s newest products. We own Beamery’s Job Architecture Portal and associated backend APIs.
We sit in Beamery’s AI vector and collaborate daily with knowledge engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists.
We help customers optimise their workforce planning by giving them tools and insights to help them quickly and easily visualise, define and manage their job architecture.
Our current challenge is bringing fine-grained permissions and approval workflows into our product while maintaining high performance as our product grows.
Our tech stack is: Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Istio, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REDIS.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING AT BEAMERY
We are looking for a product-minded Backend Engineer to help ensure our Job Architecture and Labour Market Insight APIs evolve and scale to cope with new feature development, varied customer needs, and increased user traffic. This person will:
🚀 Play a critical role in designing, developing, and operating our microservices, APIs and the data models backing them.
🚀 Work with teammates to continuously improve our APIs which deliver role and skill insights for our customers.
🚀 Execute on projects and follow through end to end starting with discovery and design through prototyping and implementation to gauging success and owning operations.
🚀 Collaborate with product managers, designers and fellow team members to identify and implement optimal design approaches to deliver value to our customers.
🚀 Improve our internal processes, documentation and ways of working (we focus on delivering value to our customers through agile methodologies, iterative delivery, and close collaboration both within our team and across Beamery).
🚀 Play a pivotal role in cultivating a vibrant company culture that champions creativity by championing a welcoming atmosphere where team members are empowered to openly share their thoughts and innovative ideas.
🚀 Participate in company-wide initiatives and learning & development opportunities, such as tribes, hackathons, and programs like Women in Engineering, to foster a diverse and inclusive culture.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
🚀 Strong experience in developing and deploying large-scale high-performance services/APIs
🚀 Expertise with Python, TypeScript or similar languages
🚀 Strong SQL skills
🚀 Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
🚀 Curious to understand “Why” before diving into technical implementation
🚀 Good communication skills
🚀 Proactive team player who’s committed to continuous improvement
Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email[email protected]
Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.