First Advantage operates a 5,000+ person HR software and data business built on a polyglot stack (Angular, .NET, Java, Python, Go) deployed across AWS, Azure, and GCP with heavy observability infrastructure (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). The hiring spike (110 roles in 30 days, accelerating) is concentrated in support (29), sales (20), and ops (18)—a customer-success-driven hiring posture—while engineering remains lean (16 roles), signaling operational scaling and account retention as near-term priorities over product velocity.
Notable leadership hires: Customer Success Director, Team Lead Operations, IT Support Lead
First Advantage is a public HR technology company (NASDAQ: FA) operating background screening, identity verification, and post-hire monitoring services for 80,000 organizations across 200+ countries. The platform sits on proprietary databases (over one billion records) and APIs, serving three core workflows: employment screening (criminal checks, I-9 compliance, work opportunity tax credits), digital identity verification, and continuous verification throughout the employee lifecycle. The company operates a traditional enterprise sales model alongside developer-led API adoption, with operational infrastructure spread across multiple cloud environments and supported by Salesforce and Siebel for CRM.
Angular and .NET for frontend and backend; Java, Python, Go, and Node.js for services; Kubernetes orchestration; AWS, Azure, and GCP for cloud; Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for observability; Salesforce and Siebel for CRM.
South Korea, United States, Philippines, India, Poland, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Australia across support, sales, ops, and engineering functions.
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