Meolaa
Website:
meolaa.com
Job details:
At Meolaa, tech isn't a cost centre. It's the backbone. We're building D2C infrastructure, marketplace integrations, supply chain systems, and data pipelines that need to be bulletproof. We need someone who understands what good engineering looks like, can source talent in a competitive market, and can move fast without hiring people who'll slow us down.
The reality is you own the engineering hiring roadmap, and you own the quality bar.
What does that actually mean?
It means on Monday you're on the phone with a Backend engineer who just got an offer from Stripe, and you need to convince them Meolaa's tech problem is more interesting.
On Tuesday you're breaking down the CTO's roadmap into hiring needs — how many DevOps engineers do we need for Q2?
On Wednesday you're doing final interviews with your top 3 candidates for the role and making the call.
On Thursday you're handling competing offers and negotiating with candidates who have leverage.
On Friday you're presenting your hiring pipeline to the CTO, pipeline health, quality of candidates, time-to-hire trends.
No two weeks look the same. But every week you're moving the needle on team composition.
What You'll Own
𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
- Build and own Meolaa's employer brand in the tech community
- Source engineers from communities, GitHub, conferences, referrals not just LinkedIn
- Build relationships with engineering leaders and CTOs at other startups
- Be known as the person who connects good engineers to interesting problems
- Track market trends what's hot (AI engineers), what's cold (older tech stacks)
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
- Build Boolean search strings that actually return quality candidates
- Source across roles, Backend, Frontend, DevOps, QA, Data engineers, Product managers
- Maintain a warm pipeline of pre-screened candidates so you're never scrambling
- Know the difference between a good engineer and a good interview performer
- Build sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill roles (DevOps, ML engineers)
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹
- Screen candidates technically enough to know good from mediocre
- Brief your team on who's coming, what to look for, what to probe on
- Debrief after interviews and make hiring recommendations (not just pass candidates through)
- Own the candidate experience make Meolaa a place people want to work
- Flag red flags early if someone's a flight risk, you should see it
𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
- Own hiring timelines CTO says "I need a DevOps engineer by Month 3," you own that deadline
- Track pipeline health do we have 3–4 candidates in process for each open role?
- Manage competing offers and counter-offer strategically (when to, when not to)
- Keep candidates warm through the process silence kills pipelines
- Own time-to-hire metrics and identify where the bottleneck is
You might be the one if
- You have 3–6 years of tech recruiting experience, you've filled engineering roles before
- You understand technology well enough to have conversations with engineers about their work
- You know the difference between a full-stack engineer and a backend engineer, and why it matters
- You've sourced engineers outside of LinkedIn (referral networks, communities, GitHub)
- You've dealt with competing offers and know how to retain talent
- You can read a resume and know if someone's actually good or just has buzzwords
- Prior experience in D2C, startups, or consumer tech is a strong plus
- You know Bangalore's tech talent market (where the talent is, what they care about, what they're paid)
- You think like a matchmaker, you're not filling positions, you're matching people to problems they care about
Why Meolaa?
We're building tech infrastructure that's not trivial. D2C platform, marketplace integrations, supply chain visibility, data pipelines the engineers here are solving real problems. That's attractive to good engineers. Your job is to find them and convince them that building this is more interesting than another FAANG role.
This isn't a volume recruiting role.
This is a quality hiring role at a company that values good engineering.
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