Senior Full-Stack / Founding Tech Lead (AI CRM) @ Universal Hire

About us :

We’re building a modern, AI-first CRM for recruiting. True greenfield with rapid iterations and real ownership. Goal : MVP in ~60 days, harden for scale by Day 90. You’ll be the cornerstone engineering hire working directly with the founder.

Why this role :

• Massive ownership : set the technical direction and standards from day one.
• Real product impact : ship AI features that recruiters use daily (search, summaries, matching, automations).
• Founding-level equity and a fast path to Head of Engineering / early CTO.

Compensation & equity

How we work

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What you’ll need (skills & experience) :

About us :

We’re building a modern, AI-first CRM for recruiting. True greenfield with rapid iterations and real ownership. Goal : MVP in ~60 days, harden for scale by Day 90. You’ll be the cornerstone engineering hire working directly with the founder.

Why this role :

Compensation & equity

How we work

Process :

Apply :

,[Own the architecture for a secure, multi-tenant SaaS, choosing a managed-first platform (e.g., Vercel / Cloudflare / Fly.io / Render or AWS / GCP / Azure) that balances speed, reliability, and cost for a small team., Build end-to-end : TypeScript / React app, APIs, data models, background jobs, and real-time features., Ship AI capabilities : RAG search, entity dedupe / matching, summarization, recommendations—designed with evals, guardrails, and cost / latency budgets., Establish engineering standards : testing, code conventions, CI / CD, feature flags, observability, RBAC, audit trails, data privacy (consent / DNC, export / delete)., Collaborate & lead : translate product goals into technical plans and help hire / mentor 3–6 engineers as we scale., Day 30 - Architecture doc + lightweight threat model with platform choice rationale; Monorepo scaffold (Turborepo / pnpm, Biome / lint) + CI (GitHub Actions); Auth / roles live; first UI flows (companies / contacts); seeded Postgres / Prisma; Baseline AI : embeddings pipeline + eval harness wired into Langfuse; initial traces and cost / latency dashboard., Day 60 (MVP) - Usable CRM : companies, contacts, pipeline, notes / tasks, saved views / search; Email / SMS I / O and unified activity timeline; background jobs running in prod; AI V1 : RAG search, dedupe / matching, meeting / email summaries; eval dashboards and budget guards., Day 90 - Hardening : SLOs / alerts, audit logging, DR / backups (PITR), performance pass.; First automations (auto-enrich → routing / sequences); Prompt versioning & A / Bs, red-team tests (injection / PII), model fallback / traffic splitting.] Requirements : Node.js, React, ERP, Segment, soc2, GDPR, team lead, Open API, openai, Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, CRM