HopHR

Founding VP of Engineering

HopHR

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDockerKubernetesPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Work closely with founders to turn product vision into shipped systems
  • Design and build core product features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
  • Architect and scale AI-driven systems that evaluate, rank, and coordinate talent workflows
  • Build reliable, production-grade services using React, TypeScript and Python
  • Own deployment, observability, performance, and cost as first-class product concerns
  • Make foundational technical decisions and evolve the platform as we scale
  • Define engineering culture, hiring bar, and team rituals as we grow from 3 to 20+
  • Partner with founders on roadmap prioritization, resource allocation, and technical tradeoffs
  • Establish engineering processes that maintain velocity without sacrificing quality
  • Build and mentor the engineering team; make early key hires

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack engineering
  • Proven experience shipping and operating production systems
  • Solid platform and DevOps experience, including: Cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and Scaling, reliability, and performance tuning
  • Comfort owning infrastructure decisions and evolving them over time (Docker today, Kubernetes or similar at scale)
  • Security- and reliability-first mindset
  • Experience building and leading engineering teams (even small ones)
  • Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers
  • Ability to context-switch between code and cross-functional leadership
Benefits
  • Founding-level ownership with real architectural influence
  • Build a category-defining product at the intersection of AI and hiring
  • Work on systems that operate at scale, learn continuously, and ship fast
  • Small team, high trust, zero bureaucracy
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack engineeringproduction systemsCloud infrastructure designCI/CD pipelinesscalingreliability tuningperformance tuningReactTypeScriptPython
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringteam buildingcross-functional collaborationdecision makingresource allocationroadmap prioritizationengineering culture definitioncontext-switchingquality maintenance