The Role
As Ezra’s first full-time engineering hire, you’ll partner directly with the CEO to own the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical execution across the entire product. You’ll work across the stack—from real-time voice AI systems to intuitive front-end interfaces—and help lay the foundation for the team, codebase, and culture as we grow.
This is a unique opportunity to join a funded, post-MVP startup and build a product that’s already in use with real customers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead engineering end-to-end—backend, frontend, infra, and DevOps.
- Prototype and integrate voice AI pipelines
- Make foundational decisions about architecture, infrastructure, and tooling.
- Collaborate with the CEO to shape product roadmap and execution.
- Build toward a system that supports high-volume hiring and tight feedback loops.
- Establish engineering practices (testing, monitoring, CI/CD, etc.) from the ground up.
- Help hire, onboard, and mentor the early engineering team.
What We’re Looking For
- 9+ years of experience building production systems.
- Fluency in Node.js, React, TypeScript, and Python.
- You’ve shipped and scaled real products, ideally at fast-moving startups.
- You’re excited about AI and voice interfaces, and have worked with LLMs or similar tools.
- You’re scrappy, self-directed, and love working across product and engineering.
- You thrive in ambiguity and know how to balance shipping fast with technical debt.
Bonus Points
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or real-time LLM APIs.
- Familiarity with Supabase, streaming pipelines, transcription services, or audio processing.
- Background in recruiting tech, HR tech, or conversational interfaces.
- Prior experience as a founding engineer or early technical hire.
Work Environment
• Fully remote, with core collaboration hours in Pacific Time
• Small, focused team where your work is immediately impactful
• Momentum: real users, real feedback, real opportunity to shape what Ezra becomes
