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ClanX

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👥 HR Tech

Recruitment • Artificial Intelligence • HR Tech

ClanX is a specialized recruitment agency focusing on technology roles such as engineers, product managers, and designers. Leveraging a network of tech professionals, the company provides a rapid and efficient hiring process with no upfront fees, ensuring a high-quality match for companies looking to fill technical positions. With a high match rate and quick turnaround times, ClanX uses AI-powered tools and deep industry expertise to vet candidates thoroughly. They offer a success-based payment model and a free replacement period, ensuring satisfaction with their hires.

📋 Description

• Act as the founding engineer and take end-to-end ownership of the technology • Build and evolve Nola's backend systems from 0-1 • Design scalable APIs, services, data models, and system architecture • Work across the stack when required, while primarily owning backend engineering • Use AI effectively across the engineering workflow to improve speed and quality • Experiment with AI-native approaches and build AI-powered capabilities where relevant • Partner closely with the founding team to shape product and technical decisions • Take features from idea to production, including design, implementation, testing, and iteration • Make pragmatic technology choices for a small, fast-moving team • Own reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of the platform • Identify technical problems proactively and solve them without waiting for direction

🎯 Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of software engineering experience • Strong backend engineering experience with full-stack capability • Primarily worked at product-based organisations • Proven experience taking products or major features from 0-1 • Strong ownership and ability to work independently in a lean team • Experience designing backend systems, APIs, databases, and production services • Highly active user of AI in day-to-day engineering workflows • Personal projects using AI/LLMs or AI-powered tools • Curious mindset with strong self-learning ability • Personal or open-source projects outside of the day job • Comfortable making engineering and product decisions with limited structure • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills • Ability to translate product requirements into simple, scalable solutions • Candidates must be based in India • Availability to join within 30 days is sought

🏖️ Benefits

• Full compensation paid as contract income without standard employee salary deductions • Potential eligibility to claim up to 50% of gross receipts as presumptive business/professional income under applicable Indian tax provisions, subject to eligibility and individual tax circumstances • Potential tax efficiency compared with standard salaried employment