Founding Engineer
Location: New York City
Industry: AI / Recruiting / HR Tech
Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful early equity
About the Company
TalentPluto is an early-stage AI startup building an autonomous recruiting platform that rethinks how companies hire. Our AI agents conduct candidate screening calls, engage in real-time conversations with hiring managers, and orchestrate complex recruiting workflows using cutting-edge large language models, voice AI, and workflow automation.
We ship quickly with real users, learn from feedback, and optimize for simple, pragmatic solutions. We operate with high trust, high ownership, and a strong focus on building tools that meaningfully improve how hiring gets done.
The Opportunity
We’re hiring our first Founding Engineer to help define TalentPluto’s technical direction and own major parts of the product and stack. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building products end-to-end, working closely with founders and customers, and shaping both the architecture and the culture of an engineering organization from day one.
You’ll design, build, and ship features across the stack, from data models and APIs to polished UI. You’ll also set the foundations for our infrastructure, processes, and best practices, and play a key role in hiring and onboarding future engineers. This is a broad, high-impact role for someone who wants ownership rather than a narrow “tickets” lane.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship features across the stack, from backend data models and APIs to user-facing interfaces.
- Collaborate directly with the founders and customers to turn fuzzy requirements into simple, shipped solutions.
- Help choose core tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns for the platform.
- Set up and maintain foundations for infrastructure, including CI/CD, observability, testing, security, and performance baselines.
- Establish engineering best practices such as code review norms, testing standards, and release processes.
- Contribute to building pipeline management UIs, multi-tenant systems, and integrations with payments and external services.
- Help interview, hire, and onboard future engineers and contractors as the team grows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, and contribute to documentation and internal tooling where needed.
Requirements
You may be a strong fit if you:
- Have experience shipping real products end-to-end at a startup or small, fast-moving team.
- Are comfortable working across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, and occasionally mobile).
- Enjoy owning problems, not just tasks, and care deeply about user outcomes.
- Are comfortable working with ambiguous specs and iterating directly with founders and users.
- Value clean, pragmatic engineering: tests, clear abstractions, and simple designs over unnecessary complexity.
- Communicate clearly, give and receive feedback well, and collaborate effectively with non-engineers.
- Startup experience.
Technical requirements:
- TypeScript or JavaScript
- React and Next.js (including App Router and Server Components)
- Full-stack development across frontend, backend, and databases
- AI and LLM integrations (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, RAG, embeddings)
- PostgreSQL and SQL
- System design and architecture (scalable, reliable services)
Nice to have:
- Exposure to AI, data, infrastructure, devtools, or voice/audio systems
- Comfort with our stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL, Trigger.dev, Retell, Twilio/Telnyx, Upstash, Vercel or AWS
- Experience setting up analytics, experimentation, or data pipelines
- Prior work on developer tools, internal tools, or reliability-critical workflows
- Experience with Slack/Discord bots or other conversational interfaces
- Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playwright)
Recommended Jobs
Head of Sales
Our client is a fast-growing market research and insights company on a mission to help businesses make smarter, fact-based decisions. Combining advanced technology with expert consultancy, they provi…
Newsroom Application Developer
Job Responsibilities: Contribute to the creation of newsroom tools that improve our journalism Contribute to the creation of digital stories and features that explore new forms of storytelling …
Job Offer: Housekeepers / Laundry Attendant
Housekeepers / Laundry Attendant We are currently seeking hardworking and reliable Housekeepers / Laundry Attendants to join our team in Rhinebeck, NY. As a Housekeeper / Laundry Attendant, you wil…
Agile Coach
Agile Coach & Scrum Master – Retail CRM Delivery Context Mission Context Support our client’s retail CRM transformation and global rollout. The role blends Agile coaching with operational delivery…
Parts Stock Clerk/Inventory Specialist
DARCARS of Mount Kisco is now hiring for an Parts S tock Clerk/ Inventory Specialist! As the Stock Clerk/ Inventory specialist you are responsible to act as the principle person in charge of t…
IWMS Specialist
IWMS Specialist Job ID 255450 Posted 13-Jan-2026 Service line Advisory Segment Role type Full-time Areas of Interest Customer Service, Data & Analytics, Digital…
Legal Entity Regulatory Governance Vice President
Department Profile: The Finance Division reports to the Chief Financial Officer and consists of some 3,000 employees worldwide. Finance protects the Morgan Stanley franchise by serving as guardian…
Travel salesman
The Role: As a Travel Salesman, you will be responsible for promoting and selling travel packages to clients, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable travel experience. You will work closely with client…
Manager, New Equipment Project Management
Date Posted: 2025-11-12 Country: United States of America Location: OT225: GM - NEW YORK, NY One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, 10119 USA Would you like to join a truly internatio…
Service Captain (550 Madison)
COMING SPRING 2026: We are seeking to hire dynamic and experienced team members to join our award winning hospitality team as Gracious Hospitality Management expands our operations to our newest proj…