Founding Engineer @ Tofu

Toronto, ON - Hybrid l C$120,000 - C$150,000 l 1% - 2.5% equity

Overview

Tofu is an agentic-AI recruiting platform that performs specific recruiting tasks for talent teams. At Tofu, we’re building the future of recruiting through a suite of AI-powered tools- using proprietary signal data to help recruiters and candidates reach the best outcomes.

We’re looking for another Founding Engineer who wants to join us in building the future of recruiting. You’ll be instrumental to the engineering function and have an insane amount of ownership. Most importantly, you’ll do meaningful work. This is an opportunity to be known as one of the pioneering technical leaders credited with building the future of how recruiting is done.

We’re backed the best early stage investors from Bay Area and Waterloo including Night Capital, Ritual Capital, Garage Capital, and Wayfinder.

If you’re looking to be part of something special or have thought about starting your own company, we’d like to chat.

How you’ll grow tofu

  • Lead key architecture decisions for the product
  • Lead the scoping and development of new integrations, features and platform scalability
  • Produce high-quality, production-ready, maintainable and scalable code
  • Unblock and support team members and customers
  • Champion our customers and users from an product engineering perspective
  • Be positioned to lead the engineering team as we continue to grow

You’ve got

  • Experience working at a startup or have started your own
  • Excellent Python, Django and React experience
  • Some experience with LLMs and NLP modelling
  • Solid understanding of Django's MVT architecture and best practices
  • Experience with Celery for distributed task processing and background job scheduling
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals and experience with configuring and securing network infrastructure
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills - you can clearly articulate the what, why and how
  • Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
  • A product mindset; we want you to sweat the details, obsess over what you touch and truly understand how it impacts the end user

Interviewing at tofu

  1. Intro chat with Jessica (20 mins)
  2. Chat with our CTO, Jon (30 mins)
  3. 👩🏻‍💻 challenge
  4. Chat with Jason, our CEO (45 mins)
  5. Chat with Devon, one of our investors
  6. Sit down
  7. Offer

Compensation

  • Cash (CAD): $120k-$150k, based on skills
  • Equity

Other perks

  • 3 weeks vacation
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • New laptop so you can do your best work
  • tofu swag your friends will want to steal from you

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