Hot Takes
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hot-takes-club
Industries: Market Research
Job details:
Founding Engineer / Tech Lead, Hot Takes
Location: India (mandatory), Hybrid/Remote with in-person travel once a month
Type: Full-time, equity-heavy, with a clear path to co-founder
Reports to: Co-Founder & CEO
About Hot Takes
Hot Takes is a DPIIT-recognized, AI-powered, gamified consumer intelligence platform for
Indian D2C and consumer brands. We turn weeks of traditional research into decision-ready
insights using proprietary gamified study mechanics and a deployed multi-agent AI research
pipeline. We’re incubated at VelTech and Sona Star Incubator, with enterprise clients
including Modenik (Dixcy Scott, Slimz) and Voltas Beko.
The core platform is live, the agentic pipeline is deployed, and we have paying clients. We
need someone to scale it all and build what comes next.
The Role
This is a co-founder-track seat. You’ll join full-time with meaningful equity, with the explicit
expectation that we convert if we prove the fit.
You’ll own the full stack across our three-sided platform (respondents, brand admins,
internal ops), scale our deployed multi-agent AI pipeline, and build new capabilities in the
primary research space independently, without a team beneath you. We have a clear
product roadmap. We need someone who executes against it, tells us when we’re wrong,
and solves the problem instead of waiting for a rewrite.
We want someone who codes AI-forward, using tools like Cursor or Copilot to move fast, not someone who treats AI as an afterthought.
Stack
- Languages and Frameworks: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React or Next.js, Node.js
- AI and Agentic: Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, LangChain or LangGraph (or equivalent), prompt
- engineering, multi-step agent design, RAG pipelines
- AI Dev Tools: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent. Active use, not awareness.
- Infrastructure: REST APIs, PostgreSQL, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker
If your stack differs but you can demonstrate the thinking and the ship speed, we’ll still talk.
What We’re Looking For
Someone who has built and shipped full-stack products independently. Real, production-
grade experience with LLMs and agentic systems, not just API calls. Founder instincts:
comfortable with ambiguity, focused on trade-offs, not tickets. The ability to push back
when the plan has a flaw and then find the fix. A genuine drive to learn and level up when
the problem outgrows current knowledge.
Years of experience are not a filter. Skill level and learning velocity are.
Must be based in India. In-person availability is required roughly once a month.
How to Apply
Send your background and something you’ve built to aastha@hottakes.club (cc
vishrutha@hottakes.club) with the subject line: Hot Take: I can be your co-founder
We’d rather see something scrappy you shipped in two weeks than something polished that
took six months.
Click on Apply to know more.