Our Mission

At Guide, our mission is to reimagine recruiting by building an AI-first platform that empowers talent teams and candidates alike. We envision a future where recruiting is largely agentic—seamlessly combining human intuition and advanced AI to deliver personalized, insightful, and transparent hiring experiences at scale. An "AI exoskeleton" that enables small human teams to deliver 10x more than before.

We're beginning with recruiting operations, leveraging powerful AI to automate manual tasks such as scheduling and coordination, freeing talent teams to engage more deeply and creatively with candidates. But that's just our starting point. We're ambitiously shaping the future of recruiting, transforming it into a strategic, innovative, and deeply human-centered field that's enabled by AI.

Our Team

We’re a lean, autonomous, remote engineering team that thrives on creative problem solving, trust, and extreme ownership. At Guide, each engineer manages work from end to end, collaborating closely but independently to punch far above our weight class - talking to customers, influencing the product direction and executing across the stack. Our culture is built around excellence, high caliber collaboration, balanced lifestyles, and continuous learning. We all are in this to build a company together, with full transparency and exposure to all functions of the business.

We move deliberately, favoring impact and iteration speed over theory and research. We hire slow, keep an exceptionally high talent bar, and aim to keep our team far smaller than the norm. The ideal fit at Guide thrives in ambiguity and creating from scratch, and may have ambitions to build their own company in the future.

The Role

As an engineer at Guide, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the trajectory of new products from foundational stages through to real customers and revenue. Before joining Guide full time, you’ll have an opportunity to work with us for a full week (paid, of course) to make sure we’re both thrilled about the fit.

What You'll Do

• Architect, build, and ship meaningful full-stack features rapidly and independently.
• Explore and leverage cutting-edge AI to amplify team horsepower and productivity.
• Contribute deeply to product strategy, design, and roadmap decisions.
• Scale and adapt the product to meet evolving market demands.
• Operate autonomously in a high-trust, async-first environment.

Key Criteria & Strengths (Who We're Looking For)

• High Agency: Proven ability to own projects and deliver results end-to-end.
• AI Excellence: Deep experience proactively leveraging modern AI tools.
• Love for Ambiguity: You thrive when navigating unclear and shifting priorities.
• Async Communication: Excellent written and proactive communicator.
• Technical Expertise: Solid foundation in our core tech stack (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres).
• Creative Exploration: A passion for exploring new ideas, methodologies, and technologies.
• Passion for Guide’s mission and values, contributing to a collaborative, high-caliber, and balanced team environment.

The Collaborative Hiring Experience

• Live Coding Interview: Short technical screen, demonstrating your technical abilities in React and some high-level architecture discussion
• Technical Deep-Dive: In-depth discussion with the engineering team to design the architecture for a full-stack application.
• Paid Contract-to-Hire Trial (1-2 Weeks): Direct immersion in real Guide projects, emphasizing autonomy, impact, and communication.

What We Offer

• A exceptionally autonomous, creative and fully remote work environment, with strong work-life harmony.
• Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, true founder-level exposure to the business
• Opportunity to help build new products and find PMF with paying customers, with a team you love.

If you're excited to build zero to one, create from scratch with a small, senior and entrepreneurial team, join us in rewriting the hiring operating system together.