Founding VP of Engineering at a startup developing AI-driven recruiting solutions. Overseeing technical direction, team development, and product execution from launch to scale.
Responsibilities
Work closely with founders to turn product vision into shipped systems
Design and build core product features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
Architect and scale AI-driven systems that evaluate, rank, and coordinate talent workflows
Build reliable, production-grade services using React, TypeScript and Python
Own deployment, observability, performance, and cost as first-class product concerns
Make foundational technical decisions and evolve the platform as we scale
Define engineering culture, hiring bar, and team rituals as we grow from 3 to 20+
Partner with founders on roadmap prioritization, resource allocation, and technical tradeoffs
Establish engineering processes that maintain velocity without sacrificing quality
Build and mentor the engineering team; make early key hires
Requirements
Strong full-stack engineering
Proven experience shipping and operating production systems
Solid platform and DevOps experience, including: Cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and Scaling, reliability, and performance tuning
Comfort owning infrastructure decisions and evolving them over time (Docker today, Kubernetes or similar at scale)
Security- and reliability-first mindset
Experience building and leading engineering teams (even small ones)
Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers
Ability to context-switch between code and cross-functional leadership
Benefits
Founding-level ownership with real architectural influence
Build a category-defining product at the intersection of AI and hiring
Work on systems that operate at scale, learn continuously, and ship fast
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