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About Zorvis AI
Zorvis AI is building the AI-powered HR platform for India and UAE SMEs. We help businesses hire smarter, stay compliant, and make better people decisions — without the complexity of enterprise tooling. Early stage. Real customers in the pipeline. Moving fast.
The role
We're hiring our first backend engineer. You'll work directly with the CEO to build the product from the ground up — owning the codebase, making the technical calls, and shipping features real customers depend on. Your fingerprints will be on every architectural decision, and the equity reflects it.
What you'll own
- End-to-end backend architecture: API design, database schema, multi-tenant data isolation, and job queue infrastructure. The decisions you make in month one will be load-bearing for years.
- The candidate pipeline engine — ranking, scoring, async test delivery, status transitions. The core of the product.
- Test delivery across channels — WhatsApp, email, SMS, web. Built so a candidate on a ₹8,000 Android in Coimbatore gets the test on the channel they actually check. WhatsApp Business API, idempotent webhooks, the whole pipe.
- Async job workers for reminders, scoring, and document generation. BullMQ or equivalent, scaled for thousands of jobs an hour.
- India and UAE compliance pipelines — statutory deadline tracking, document generation, regulatory alerts. PF, ESIC, TDS, UAE labour law. The work no enterprise vendor wants to do well, and we have to.
- AI / LLM orchestration — connecting to inference APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq) for interview scoring, offer pre-fill, intelligent summaries. Async, gracefully degradable, never blocking the user.
- Third-party integrations — WhatsApp, calendar OAuth, payment gateways, background verification providers. You'll get to know retries, idempotency, and partial failures intimately.
- Infrastructure and CI/CD from day one — deployment pipelines, environment management, monitoring, error tracking. We don't have a DevOps person. You set the bar.
- Frontend collaboration — working closely with the frontend engineer on API contracts, real-time events, and type safety across the stack.
Tech stack
Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, BullMQ, Supabase, Next.js (for frontend awareness), deployed on managed cloud infra. Open to your opinions where they're better.
What we're looking for
- 4+ years writing production Node.js + TypeScript. Code others can read, maintain, and not curse you for.
- Strong PostgreSQL instincts — schema design, query performance, multi-tenancy patterns, indexing. You've debugged a slow query in prod and lived to tell.
- Built and operated async job queue systems at scale — BullMQ, Celery, Sidekiq, or equivalent. You know what happens when a queue backs up at 2 AM.
- Comfort integrating third-party APIs and webhooks — retries, idempotency, partial failures. You've fought a webhook race condition and won.
- Enough React / Next.js to review frontend code and unblock the frontend engineer when needed. You don't need to be a CSS wizard, but you can read a component.
- Ownership mindset. You treat production like it's your product — because it is.
Bonus, not required
- LLM API experience — prompt design, structured output, async orchestration
- Prior 0→1 SaaS work
- Exposure to Indian payroll, compliance APIs, or UAE labour systems
- Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
How we work
- We ship multiple times a week.
- We prioritise speed over perfection, then we come back and fix it.
- We avoid unnecessary complexity. No microservices for the sake of microservices.
- We iterate based on real user feedback, not roadmap theatre.
- The CEO sits next to you. No middle layer. No politics.
Not a fit if
- You need a fully-defined spec before you can start coding.
- You over-engineer for hypothetical scale instead of shipping for real users.
- You prefer process over execution.
- You're optimising purely on base salary — we can't match FAANG cash, but we'll match FAANG impact.
Why join
- Full technical ownership. Architecture, infrastructure, and stack choices are yours.
- Direct partnership with the CEO. No middle layer, no politics, no Slack-channel telephone.
- Meaningful ESOPs from the earliest stage — you're building this, not joining it.
- A problem worth solving: SMEs in India and UAE have been ignored by enterprise HR tech for too long.
Location and comp
- NCR-based, full-time. Hybrid is fine. Fully remote is not (yet).
- Competitive cash + meaningful ESOPs with standard vesting.
To apply
Share with your application:
- LinkedIn / GitHub / portfolio link
- One backend system you've built that you're proud of
- Resume
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