Founding Technical Lead – AI Hiring Platform (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Virginia; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Meals provided in office

Relocation support

Comprehensive health coverage

Job summary

Neuroscale AI is seeking a Founding Member of Technical Staff to design and ship core platform features built on Next.js, React, Node.js, Python FastAPI, and OpenSearch. You will work directly with the founders on high-impact questions around scalable candidate search and AI-assisted recruiting for federal/regulated customers.

You will own critical components from day one, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to equity-backed growth.

Qualifications

• Built something from scratch: startup/product/system that others depend on.
• Ship-focused: prioritize delivering impactful features.
• High-agency: own problems end-to-end and drive them to completion.
• Proven excellence in work, school, open source, or side projects.
• Experience with core stack: Next.js, Node.js, AWS, search/data infra.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features end-to-end, often on LLMs.
• Architect and own critical subsystems from day one.
• Improve search quality via recruiter behavior data and feedback loops.
• Collaborate directly with founders on high-impact technical questions.

Skills

Next.js

React

Node.js

AWS

OpenSearch / Elasticsearch

Temporal

LLM products

Search at scale

Python

Tools

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Temporal

Job description

Neuroscale AI is seeking a Founding Member of Technical Staff to design and ship core platform features built on Next.js, React, Node.js, Python FastAPI, and OpenSearch. You will work directly with the founders on high-impact questions around scalable candidate search and AI-assisted recruiting for federal/regulated customers.

You will own critical components from day one, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to equity-backed growth.