Product Engineer

At HiringAgents, we’re re-inventing the way talent and opportunity meet through AI AAgents.

Deciding where to work is one of life’s most crucial choices, yet many end up in unsatisfying jobs. This mismatch arises from a highly inefficient talent matching process. On the company side, recruitment is complex, involving a lot of repetitive and mundane tasks, barely leveraging state of the art automation. Meanwhile, candidates spend countless hours applying for numerous roles, often without receiving any response, relying on generic resumes and not optimising their interviewing strategies.

At Holly, we’re building two AI agents to help humanity find more fulfilling work.

Holly, our flagship AI recruiter assistant, helps organisations find the right talent more effectively. She acts as an AI employee that joins the recruitment team, automating the repetitive parts of the job. You teach her what you’re looking for, and she handles searching, vetting, reaching out, and interviewing candidates at scale, while involving humans whenever necessary.

Hunter, our AI career assistant, acts as a personal recruiter. He understands candidates deeply and uses that information to find relevant jobs, supply useful career info and coaches candidates throughout the interviewing process.

We recently raised a $1.5m pre-seed by Tioga Capital, Portal Ventures and some amazing angel investors. Our paid customer base is growing rapidly, which is why we are expanding our team to bring Holly’s capabilities to every company and candidate worldwide.

About the role

As a founding engineer, you’re a key member of the founding team.

Your main responsibility is building a great product experience for our customers, pushing the bleeding edge of agent-based LLM applications.

For this early stage of the business, we’re building a strong team of generalists. You’ll be a key stakeholder in every important decision: prioritising the biggest problems, brainstorming pragmatic solutions, implementation, testing, releasing and maintaining. We’re looking for someone that is pragmatic, takes initiative and combines technical prowess and product intuition to go from vague specs to a minimal but satisfactory implementation in no-time, often involving some design work and user interaction.

Your work will involve mostly full-stack (web) work and anything related to LLMs: prompt-engineering, vector databases etc.

Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript based, but we also use Python and no-code tools wherever it makes sense. We’re very keen to adopt new technologies when they’re the best fit for the job.

Some of the things you’ll be working on:

• Discuss priorities and pragmatic solutions

• Building new features in our front- and backend

• Make Holly more intelligent by improving our LLM-agent based architecture

• Give Holly more data to work with by scraping relevant public data sources, improving our data architecture etc.

• Build out our data infra and dashboards

Requirements

• 4-6y experience as a full stack developer at a tech company

• Recent experience at an early or growth stage startup

• You have experience with React / Next, NodeJS and SQL (Postgres)

• You’re end-to-end, e.g. have experience with building features spanning the frontend, backend and infrastructure

• You have a track record that shows ambition and excellence. You’ve worked on hard problems successfully.

• Your work is very important to you. You’re willing to work hard and are looking to be part of a team of top performers with the same attitude.

• You’re proud to share cool side project(s)

Nice to haves

• You’ve build LLM-based apps before

• You have experience with elastic search

What we offer

• Competitive package - we use this very transparent framework for compensation

• Exciting in-office culture with a small team looking to have a big impact (more on this below)

• 28 holidays (including bank holidays)

About our culture

At Holly, we’re on a big mission and are looking for 10x performers to help make it happen. Our style of working doesn’t suit most people, but the people that do fit in, can’t work in any other way. That’s why we want to be super up-front about this, to make sure we don’t waste your time.

Main characteristics:

• Passionate about work. We try to do our best work, and take pride in it.

• Done is better than perfect. Move fast and break things. Swift progress is prioritized, even at the risk of mistakes.

• Open & transparent. Most information is accessible by everyone in the company.

• Frequent feedback. We embrace getting and giving candid feedback. Ideally in a nice way, but raw if it must. We live by the growth-mindset.

• High standards. We strive for excellence and openly address anything that does not meet that standard. We value team members keeping us accountable.

Interviewing process

This role is a high priority for us, so we’re set to run a very efficient and quick process (<2 weeks).

• Cultural fit interview with both founders (2x30 mins)

• Take-home tech design test (1h30h at home, 45min interview)

• Live coding test (1h30h in-office or on a call)

• Reference calls