Staff-level Lead Engineer

We are Indeed Flex. We Help People Get Jobs. Right now, we’re hiring!

The current staffing model is broken, with low wages and limited opportunities. As flexible work continues to grow, we’re taking a radically different approach: providing job seekers with control, ownership and choice, so employees can find the working patterns and scenarios to suit their lifestyles. In doing so, we aim to revolutionise the industry.

After demonstrating our approach throughout the UK under the Syft brand, we were acquired by Indeed.com in 2019 and we rebranded to Indeed Flex in 2020. With continued independence and phenomenal levels of support we’ve been able to accelerate our mission as we expand throughout the US as well as the UK. Fast growth creates tremendous opportunities - come and join a team of inquisitive, passionate, and driven individuals helping each other grow and building something meaningful!

Project Objectives

The Supply org acquires, tracks, evaluates, qualifies and onboards workers/Flexers onto our platform. We leverage AI to conduct interviews and assist our workers through the onboarding flows. Our goal - get workers onboarded, compliant, and ready to work  for their first shift. 

Flex is primarily a Ruby monolith and as we align more tightly to Indeed systems and platforms we’re looking for capable staff-level lead engineers to execute on a rolling transformation towards Indeed ecosystems leveraging Java, Python, and Rust.  Supply Org is already using all of these languages  with some microservices built in Django, some using Java/Spring, and  one that is built in Rust. 

Scope of work

Contribute to lowering our Cost per hire goal, by building tools that help Flex through the acquisition funnel. Conduct  interviews, verify worker skills and roles,and complete compliance tasks. Identify paths of deprecation within Flex-core and migrate certain data models to new services to establish a new source of truth. 

Deliverables

• Reduce Cost per hire by eliminating human touchpoints or optimizing our spend.
• Fearless of technologies, frameworks, and languages.
• Drive requirements and display ownership of large, complex projects or systems. Communicate with stakeholders across multiple projects and communicate consistently and proactively.
• Advise teams through designing and building large, complex, and reusable systems. Ensure systems are designed to be simple, maintainable, and scalable.
• Drive code quality for projects and guide others in performing code reviews. Ensure code passes standards for cleanliness, reliability, and functionality.
• Own and lead on discrete areas of Rails monolith decommission as we move towards non-Ruby ecosystems, resulting in smooth transition and feature minimisation as you follow best practice engineering 
• Documentation for system architecture, API specifications, and deployment procedures. Maintain backend APIs and integrations with 3rd party vendors.
• Performance monitoring and observability tools for system reliability 

Skills Required

Technical Skills: 

• Demonstrated polyglot ability and an eager willingness to jump into any code base. In particular, familiarity with Python/django and Ruby/rails are strongly desired.
• Advanced Java or Rust development experience 
• Experience leveraging coding agents to reduce delivery time and maintain output quality
• MCP design and creation 
• Significant React frontend development experience 
• RESTful API and GraphQL development 
• Database design and optimization (Postgres, MySQL, Redis) 
• Passion for developer productivity and staying up-to-date with AI advancements.
• Breaking apart monoliths, utilizing contextually appropriate strategies.
• Marketing background or experience is a plus.

Soft Skills: 

• Strong collaboration abilities 
• Problem-solving and technical debt assessment 
• Cross-functional communication with product and engineering teams