CTO

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From platform administration to transactional emails, The Hub is a marketplace with legacy systems, facilitating use cases across admin, candidates, and job posters. The Hub certainly isn't rocket science, but the seniority we need is the kind that can hold all of it in their head at once.

This is a build-from-scratch role where you will flex both technical and strategic excellence: AI-native architecture, DevOps, analytics, performance, observability, compliance, security, data processing, product engineering across B2B and B2C surfaces, GTM engineering, aggregation, and integrations.

We respect that it is hard to cover every domain at world-class depth in one person. You'll have the resources to hire one to two specialists from the start to unlock deep value in the domains you deem most critical, or to fill your blanks. Maybe you already know who the first one is. The important part is that you're ultimately responsible, and that both comforts and motivates you.

Product engineering, end-to-end

Beyond owning everything-tech, you'll be obsessed with our product. You will design, build, and ship product features, many of them built on LLMs.

The product principle is solving what makes a good startup hire, for the founder and the candidate at the same time, through whatever surface delivers it best. How do we optimize matchmaking between people and jobs in a world that has moved beyond spec lists and CVs? We have 100 high-impact things to build. Which ten ship first, and why? How do we delight a founder or a candidate in the first two minutes of signing up?

You'd own both sides of the product end-to-end: the company experience (how hiring managers brief us, see talent, and decide) and the talent experience (how candidates get found, profiled, and introduced). UX, UI, and the conversational agent inside it. All of it.

Deep overarching technical understanding and decision-making, with builder mentality and taste. Do, don't just delegate.

WHAT YOU'LL WALK INTO

What you walk into is rare. Ten years of brand, trust, distribution, and data, on a profitable baseline, with fresh founder backing. We are not looking for product-market fit; we are looking to operationalize and scale a winning model while reinventing the platform beneath it. The job is to build the new while scaling the proven.

Alex, our senior full-stack engineer, is deep on the 1.0 codebase and will be your right hand from day one. He currently owns and maintains the existing platform.

The stack is Nuxt 2 / Vue 2, Node.js + Keystone, MongoDB + Mongoose, OpenAI for AI features, Nginx, AWS (S3, EC2) + DigitalOcean, plus a Chrome extension. The platform connects with several integrations and tools, including GA4 for web analytics, Stripe for payments, Mailchimp for transactional emails, IMGIX for CDN, Google Cloud for geocoding, 5-10 custom XML feeds, and 5 ATS integrations.

The hardest part of this role is doing two things at once: shipping new, AI-native features while modernizing a ten-year-old platform underneath them, without stopping the business. The two easy answers are both wrong. Keep patching the old system and you never escape it. Tear it down for a clean rewrite and you stall growth for a year and throw away a decade of hard-won edge cases. The job is the harder middle path: decide what to keep, what to rebuild, and what to replace, and in what order, while the platform stays live and keeps growing. Greenfield where it matters, legacy where it serves us.

In the first 6 months, you will stabilize the platform, choose the architecture for The Hub 2.0, ship the first AI-native workflows, and hire 1-2 people.

From months 6-18, you will rebuild the core platform, data layer, and candidate/company experience while growing the engineering team deliberately.

WHO YOU ARE

\* You're most likely an ex-founder who's done a CTO stint, or a strong builder ready to step into the seat for the first time.