BrightHire is a category-creating, high-growth, Series B software company with a mission to give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.
We deliver on this mission by transforming the way many of the world’s leading companies build exceptional teams. We created the Interview Intelligence category, and our clients include some of the world’s most innovative companies—Canva, OpenAI, Ramp, Hubspot—up to the Fortune 500.
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About the RoleYou will own the end-to-end delivery of our core platform that powers our ATS, Video, Scheduling, and Telephony integrations along with our flagship AI features. Working in lockstep with Product and Design, you’ll move quickly to design, build, and refine features throughout the entire stack from data pipelines, database performance, and prompt engineering through the backend, and all the way to frontend interactions. You’ll focus on the performance and stability of the platform along with new product features to enable integrations, AI, and customer workflows. You will work on the output quality of AI features and make sure users get accurate, on-brand AI outputs fast. You’ll work on real features people use every day—things like:
- Automatic video recording and transcription.
- AI Notes and Summaries.
- Ensuring the platform can scale and reliably record, transcribe, and generate AI summaries for over 250,000 interviews per month.
- Generating insights and advanced AI insights quickly and reliably for all of our recorded interviews.
- Customizable interview summaries that enable customers to create fully personalized AI-generated summaries using their own structure and criteria.
- …and more
- You have plenty of experience building across the stack in Python and Javascript/Typescript, especially building out the backend logic, data models, and architecture.
- You have a deep understanding and experience with data pipelines, distributed architectures, and scaling applications in high-scale environments.
- You think deeply about how customer facing features work for end users and can make decisions with user empathy.
- You might have real world experience building generative AI applications end to end, building prompt chains, eval harnesses, vector search, and more.
- You’ve worked with both structured (SQL) and unstructured data (raw text) and know how to transform them and utilize them together.
- You have product instincts and work well with design.
- You move fast and independently, but you know when to pair and when to pull others in.
- You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects in small, autonomous squads, with the flexibility to lead initiatives or focus as an individual contributor depending on your goals and interests.
- Our developer experience is thoughtfully designed, with fast CI (< 10 minutes), 1-click deploys, strong observability, and a clean codebase that enables you to move quickly and confidently.
- Our culture supports sustainable, focused work with fully remote roles, regular working hours, no-meeting Wednesdays, and flexible time off to recharge when needed.
- Our team is composed of smart, collaborative, and genuinely kind people, creating an environment where you can learn, grow, and do your best work.
Our company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
Skills Required
- Experience building across the stack in Python and Javascript/Typescript
- Deep understanding of data pipelines and distributed architectures
- Experience with structured (SQL) and unstructured data
- Real world experience building generative AI applications
- Ability to work well with design and product teams
BrightHire Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about BrightHire and has not been reviewed or approved by BrightHire.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as meaningful alongside base pay, with multiple mentions of significant equity as part of total compensation. Listings consistently pair competitive salary with meaningful equity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible PTO, a separate vacation bonus, and paid parental leave. This combination extends beyond standard PTO and signals support for time away.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision, with mentions of fully employer‑paid options in some descriptions. Coverage spans core categories expected in a comprehensive package.
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What We Do
BrightHire is the first interview intelligence platform, transforming how the world's fastest growing companies scale by making the hiring process better, faster, more equitable, and above all human.
