Founding Engineer

talentpluto•New York, NY

16h•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Experience shipping real products end-to-end at a startup or small, fast-moving team.
Comfortable working across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, and occasionally mobile).
Enjoy owning problems, not just tasks, and care deeply about user outcomes.
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.
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 Haves

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)

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.