About this role
You'll own engineering as a function: technical direction, team growth, and execution velocity as we scale from launch to market expansion.
Our engineering org is small but growing, and we’re weeks away from launching Moon Engine. A senior team of AI scientists, software engineers, and product leaders has spent the last several months building the core system from first principles. Now we’re scaling.
Moon Engine is an agent-orchestrated recruiting operations system, not automation: autonomous agents operating as decision partners, coordinating real hiring decisions with governance, auditability, and preference-aware behavior.
This is a rare moment to step into a foundational leadership role: real product, real users, hard technical problems, and architecture decisions that will compound for years.
If you want to build and lead a system at the intersection of agentic architectures, production AI, and real-world decision infrastructure, let’s talk.
\n- 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
- 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
- Experience building agentic or multi-agent AI systems
- Hands-on with LangGraph, LangChain, or LLM orchestration frameworks
- Prior work on AI-native products, developer platforms, or workflow automation
- Early-stage startup experience or strong builder mentality
- 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
Other facts
About Hop
Hop is a platform that connects emerging AI, GenAI, and ML talent from Latin America with high-impact projects. Our AI technology evaluates hundreds of candidates weekly, flagging those who score 80% or higher for human review and interviews. Only 1 in 500 talents make the cut.
We go beyond conventional qualifications—whether talent holds a PhD or has no formal education, we identify builders and doers with real skills and a drive to succeed. We provide access to top mentors and offer training uniquely designed to instill a deep understanding of ethics, the wisdom of work, self-mastery, and work culture, ensuring our talent is well-rounded and ready to excel.
Hop’s mission is to break geographic barriers, giving global talent access to high-paying, future-focused roles. We help people stay relevant in an AI-driven world by connecting them with opportunities that uplift their lives and communities.
What you'll do
- You will work closely with founders to turn product vision into shipped systems and design and build core product features end-to-end. Additionally, you will architect and scale AI-driven systems and establish engineering processes as the team grows.
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