Co-Founder, Engineering & AI

Mongooz is looking for a Technical Co-Founder & CTO to build Mongooz from the ground up.

This is a deeply hands-on role. You will code, architect, ship, debug and continuously improve the product yourself - not just manage engineers.

You should be able to take a product idea, break it into the right technical approach, and turn it into a reliable production feature. As we grow, you'll build and lead the engineering team. For now, we need a builder first, manager later.

What you will own:

• Building Mongooz from the ground up

• Writing production code across the core platform

• Designing product and system architecture

• Candidate search, filters, ranking and matching

• Retrieval and recommendation systems

• Large-scale structured and unstructured talent data

• Backend systems, APIs and data pipelines

• AI/LLM workflows, RAG and agentic systems

• Product performance, reliability and scalability

• Engineering standards and technical decision-making

• Hiring and developing the engineering team over time

What we are looking for:

• 6–12 years of strong software engineering experience

• Deep backend and systems engineering fundamentals

• Strong hands-on coding ability

• Experience building products from scratch

• Experience with search, data-intensive or recommendation products

• Strong understanding of databases, indexing, query systems and APIs

• Experience with Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or similar technologies

• Practical experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings and modern AI systems

• Experience working in a 0→1 or early-stage startup environment

• The ability to move quickly without creating fragile engineering foundations

• Previous experience as a founder, founding engineer or early technical employee would be highly relevant.

What you're joining

• Meaningful equity and genuine co-founder ownership

• A product that is GTM-ready, with the focus now shifting toward execution, customer adoption and scale

• Access to and collaboration with global data providers, giving us the foundation to build serious search and intelligence capabilities

• A smart engineering team already onboard, so you are not starting with an empty room

• Co-founders with deep recruiting domain expertise and product management experience, bringing strong understanding of the problem, customer and workflow we are solving for

• You will not be joining to validate whether the problem exists. You will be joining to help turn a clear problem, early product and GTM readiness into a strong, scalable technology company.