Senior Software Engineer

March 5

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Lightcast is a leading authority on labor market data, providing trusted and comprehensive labor market analytics to drive decisions across education, enterprise, and government sectors. With more than 23 years of experience, Lightcast delivers detailed insights into skills, jobs, supply and demand through an extensive data set generated from millions of job postings, career profiles, and other sources across the globe. Their services are designed to help educational institutions, enterprises, and government organizations build future-ready workforces by using AI-enabled and continuously updated data. Lightcast is globally recognized and trusted by industry innovators, and is a vital resource for organizations navigating workforce challenges and demographic changes in the labor market.

Economic Development • Labor Market Data • Economic Impact Analysis • Business Development • Higher Education

501 - 1000 employees

🏢 Enterprise

📚 Education

🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• Lightcast is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Classifiers & Extractors team. • This team develops and maintains high-performance text extraction and classification solutions that analyze job postings, resumes, and related documents. • In addition to building cutting-edge classification and machine learning solutions, the team also creates internal tools that support data pipeline and curation teams, enhancing Lightcast’s data and taxonomies. • The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering, with a strong background in performance-critical software development using languages like C or C++.

🎯 Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. • Minimum of 5 years of experience with a BS degree or 3 years with an MS degree. • Strong proficiency in C/C++ and familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Bash. • Proven technical leadership skills with strong interpersonal abilities. • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills. • Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures. • Experience with systems programming on Linux, including performance optimization techniques (e.g., virtual memory, cache lines, etc.). • Proficiency with debugging and performance evaluation tools such as gdb, perf, and valgrind. • Experience working in a high-performance production environment. • Proficiency with version control systems like Git. • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket. • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and containerization tools like Docker is a plus.