Founding Engineer

About Ezra

The Role

What You’ll Do

• Lead engineering end-to-end—backend, frontend, infra, and DevOps.
• Prototype and integrate voice AI pipelines (ASR → intent classification → LLM → TTS).
• Make foundational decisions about architecture, infrastructure, and tooling.
• Collaborate with the CEO to shape product roadmap and execution.
• Build toward a system that supports high-volume hiring and tight feedback loops.
• Establish engineering practices (testing, monitoring, CI/CD, etc.) from the ground up.
• Help hire, onboard, and mentor the early engineering team.

What We’re Looking For

• 9+ years of experience building production systems.
• Fluency in Node.js, React, TypeScript, and Python.
• You've shipped and scaled real products, ideally at fast-moving startups.
• You’re excited about AI and voice interfaces, and have worked with LLMs or similar tools.
• You’re scrappy, self-directed, and love working across product and engineering.
• You thrive in ambiguity and know how to balance shipping fast with technical debt.

Bonus Points

• Experience with voice AI tools
• Familiarity with voice streaming pipelines, transcription services, or audio processing.
• Prior experience as a founding engineer or early technical hire.
• Background in recruiting tech, HR tech, or conversational interfaces.

Work Environment

• Fully remote, with core collaboration hours in Pacific Time
• Small, focused team where your work is immediately impactful
• Momentum: real users, real feedback, real opportunity to shape what Ezra becomes