Technical Co-founder

Company Description AlterCV is an ATS-first resume builder focused on helping job seekers get past automated screening and in front of human recruiters. The platform analyzes resumes against job descriptions and optimizes them for applicant tracking systems used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, including Workday, Greenhouse, and Lever. Job seekers receive live ATS scoring, keyword matching, and country-specific formats that are legally and culturally accurate. AlterCV is privacy-first, parsing resumes in the browser without storing them on its servers. The company has supported over 2,800 professionals globally, achieving an average ATS score uplift of 38% per session and growing organically without paid acquisition.

You are the right person if:

You have shipped real SaaS products to real users. You are comfortable with React, Node.js, and Supabase. You think like a founder, not a contractor. You want to own something real, not just build someone else's vision. You are ready to have skin in the game on both sides, with a capital contribution of Rs.15 lakhs in exchange for significant founding equity and a salary once we close our institutional round.

Role Description As a Technical Co-founder at AlterCV, you will own the end-to-end technical vision, architecture, and implementation of the core product and supporting systems. You will design, build, and maintain scalable web applications and services, with a focus on fast, reliable parsing, scoring, and keyword-matching features. You will collaborate closely with the founding team on product strategy, experimenting rapidly, shipping MVPs, and iterating based on user feedback and data. Day-to-day, you will write production-grade code, review pull requests, manage deployments, monitor performance, and ensure security and privacy-by-design. This is a full-time, remote role with significant equity and direct impact on product direction and company growth.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to interpret user behavior, product metrics, and technical performance, and to guide data-informed product and engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate asynchronously in a remote environment.
• Sales-related aptitude, such as comfort joining founder-led sales calls, demoing the product, and gathering feedback from early customers to inform the roadmap.
• Marketing awareness, including understanding of growth loops, positioning, and how product decisions impact acquisition, activation, and retention.
• Research skills to evaluate technologies, ATS integrations, privacy and security best practices, and evolving hiring trends to maintain product relevance.
• Proven full-stack engineering experience (e.g., modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure) and comfort owning production systems.
• Background in early-stage startups or founding roles, with a bias toward action, experimentation, and lean execution.
• Commitment to privacy, security, and ethical handling of user data; familiarity with relevant regulations is a plus.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, work autonomously, and take shared responsibility for product, culture, and long-term company direction.