Job Description

**Our Mission**

At Guide, our mission is to reimagine recruiting by building an AI-first
platform that empowers talent teams and candidates alike. We envision a future
where recruiting is largely agentic—seamlessly combining human intuition and
advanced AI to deliver personalized, insightful, and transparent hiring
experiences at scale. An "AI exoskeleton" that enables small human teams to
deliver 10x more than before.

We're beginning with recruiting operations, leveraging powerful AI to automate
manual tasks such as scheduling and coordination, freeing talent teams to
engage more deeply and creatively with candidates. But that's just our
starting point. We're ambitiously shaping the future of recruiting,
transforming it into a strategic, innovative, and deeply human-centered field
that's enabled by AI.

**Our Team**

We’re a lean, autonomous, remote engineering team that thrives on creative
problem solving, trust, and extreme ownership. At Guide, each engineer manages
work from end to end, collaborating closely but independently to punch far
above our weight class - talking to customers, influencing the product
direction and executing across the stack. Our culture is built around
excellence, high caliber collaboration, balanced lifestyles, and continuous
learning. We all are in this to build a company together, with full
transparency and exposure to all functions of the business.

We move deliberately, favoring impact and iteration speed over theory and
research. We hire slow, keep an exceptionally high talent bar, and aim to keep
our team far smaller than the norm. The ideal fit at Guide thrives in
ambiguity and creating from scratch, and may have ambitions to build their own
company in the future.

**The Role**

As an engineer at Guide, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the
trajectory of new products from foundational stages through to real customers
and revenue. Before joining Guide full time, you’ll have an opportunity to
work with us for a full week (paid, of course) to make sure we’re both
thrilled about the fit.

**What You 'll Do**

* Architect, build, and ship meaningful full-stack features rapidly and independently.
* Explore and leverage cutting-edge AI to amplify team horsepower and productivity.
* Contribute deeply to product strategy, design, and roadmap decisions.
* Scale and adapt the product to meet evolving market demands.
* Operate autonomously in a high-trust, async-first environment.

**Key Criteria & Strengths (Who We're Looking For)**

* High Agency: Proven ability to own projects and deliver results end-to-end.
* AI Excellence: Deep experience proactively leveraging modern AI tools.
* Love for Ambiguity: You thrive when navigating unclear and shifting priorities.
* Async Communication: Excellent written and proactive communicator.
* Technical Expertise: Solid foundation in our core tech stack (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres).
* Creative Exploration: A passion for exploring new ideas, methodologies, and technologies.
* Passion for Guide’s mission and values, contributing to a collaborative, high-caliber, and balanced team environment.

**The Collaborative Hiring Experience**

* Live Coding Interview: Short technical screen, demonstrating your technical abilities in React and some high-level architecture discussion
* Technical Deep-Dive: In-depth discussion with the engineering team to design the architecture for a full-stack application.
* Paid Contract-to-Hire Trial (1-2 Weeks): Direct immersion in real Guide projects, emphasizing autonomy, impact, and communication.

**What We Offer**

* A exceptionally autonomous, creative and fully remote work environment, with strong work-life harmony.
* Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, true founder-level exposure to the business
* Opportunity to help build new products and find PMF with paying customers, with a team you love.

If you're excited to build zero to one, create from scratch with a small,
senior and entrepreneurial team, join us in rewriting the hiring operating
system together.