Founding Engineer (Hands-On CTO Track)

About InterspectAI

We’re building Spectra & SpectraHire—multi-tenant AI products that power interview automation, deep analytics, and enterprise integrations. You’ll be the technical force multiplying our small team: owning architecture, shipping product, and laying down the engineering culture and DevOps foundations.

The Role

A true “mini CTO” who codes daily, makes pragmatic architecture decisions, and can lead the next 3–5 hires. You’ll span backend, frontend, infra, and ML/real-time media surfaces (LiveKit). If you like zero-to-one, complex systems, and talking to users, this is for you.

Stack You’ll Touch

• Frontend: ReactJS, TypeScript (SPA), Tailwind
• Backend: Java (Spring Boot) & Python (FastAPI), Node.js (select services)
• Auth: Keycloak (OIDC/OAuth2), SSO (Entra ID/Okta/Google)
• Data: PostgreSQL/CockroachDB, Redis, S3, Glue/ETL
• Analytics/BI: Metabase/Superset
• Realtime/Media: LiveKit (SFU), Deepgram (ASR)
• Infra: AWS (Fargate/ECS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB), IaC (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Own the architecture: Design and evolve a secure, multi-tenant SaaS (B2B & B2C) with clean module boundaries (API layer, services layer, data/analytics, auth).
• Ship product fast: Implement core features across React (UI), FastAPI/Spring (services), and integrate with Keycloak, LiveKit, and third-party APIs.
• Data & analytics: Define data models, ETL pipelines, and materialized views to power dashboards and AI insights (Metabase).
• DevOps & reliability: Stand up environments, CI/CD, observability, blue/green deploys; tune cost/perf; enforce SLOs and error budgets.
• Security & compliance: Tenant isolation, RBAC/ABAC (Casbin/jCasbin), audit trails, secrets management, SSO federation patterns.
• Technical leadership: Code reviews, mentoring, coding standards, architecture decision records (ADRs), tech roadmap.
• Customer-obsessed: Join product calls, translate requirements into solid designs, instrument usage, and iterate.

Nice Problems You’ll Solve

• Resilient multi-region media flows (LiveKit) with graceful worker failover
• Token-based impersonation for support & auditability
• Dynamic analytics model (EAV facts) for arbitrary tenant metrics
• High-volume ETL into analytics schema with incremental loaders
• Keycloak realm/org modeling for B2B tenants & B2C social logins

Qualifications

Must-haves

• 6–12+ years building and operating production systems (startup or product company).
• Strong in at least two of: React/TypeScript, Java (Spring Boot), Python (FastAPI), Node.js services.
• Deep AWS familiarity: containers (ECS/Fargate), networking, IAM, monitoring, CI/CD.
• Databases: schema design, migrations, performance tuning (Postgres/CockroachDB), Redis.
• Comfortable with auth/OIDC, JWT, and SSO integrations (Keycloak or equivalent).
• Evidence of shipping fast, owning outcomes, and wearing many hats.

Nice-to-haves

• LiveKit/WebRTC, streaming/media pipelines.
• Chargebee/Stripe, webhooks & idempotency patterns.
• Data tooling: Glue/Spark, Metabase/Superset.
• Policy engines (Casbin/jCasbin), GraphQL, domain-driven design.
• Experience with SOC2/GDPR best practices.

30/60/90 Day Plan

• 30 days: Deep dive into codebases and infra; stabilize CI/CD; ship 1–2 features; instrument key metrics and logs; own on-call runbook.
• 60 days: Lead a cross-cutting refactor (auth/tenancy boundary or analytics ETL); deploy improved observability; optimize a cost hotspot.
• 90 days: Drive a major release (e.g., University wholesale model or Tenant SSO federation); define hiring plan; mentor a junior/mid dev; document v1 architecture.

How We Work

• Small team, high trust, async-first, crisp written communication.
• Pragmatic engineering: prefer boring tech that scales, automate toil, measure everything.
• Ship to learn: feature flags, staged rollouts, metrics-driven iteration.

Compensation

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity (founding engineer level).
• Remote-first (±4 hours of core overlap); hardware + learning budget.

Interview Process

• Intro call (30 min) – mutual fit & product walkthrough
• Technical deep dive (60–90 min) – architecture & code discussion
• Hands-on exercise (async, ~2–3 hrs) – small feature or design doc
• Founder session – roadmap, culture, offer

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹3,000,000.00 - ₹4,500,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Experience:

• Python: 4 years (Preferred)
• Java: 5 years (Preferred)
• React: 5 years (Required)
• PostgreSQL: 4 years (Preferred)