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OnHires

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

OnHires is a global IT recruitment and staffing partner that sources, vets, and places technical and creative talent for fast-growing companies. They provide services including vetted developers, sourcing, executive search, talent mapping, RPO, HR consulting, and flexible hiring models (subscription, pay-per-hire, hourly), with a focus on fast, high-quality hires and scalable talent pipelines.

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the mobile application, web platform, backend services, and infrastructure. • Review the existing architecture, codebase, engineering processes, and technical risks. • Design and implement an AI-first software development workflow. • Introduce effective practices for AI-assisted development, code review, automated testing, documentation, and quality control. • Ensure that AI-generated and AI-assisted code meets production standards for maintainability, security, reliability, and performance. • Manage the relationship with the current outsourced engineering agency. • Help the agency adapt to the new development model or recommend a different team structure where necessary. • Define the appropriate balance between AI agents, internal engineers, and external development partners. • Improve automated test coverage and release confidence. • Establish engineering standards, technical governance, and automated quality gates. • Ensure predictable deployments, production stability, monitoring, and incident prevention. • Contribute directly to architecture, technical problem-solving, code review, and implementation when required.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience as a hands-on CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Engineering Lead, or senior Technical Lead. • A strong software engineering background and the ability to review production code and architecture in depth. • Recent hands-on involvement in software development, architecture, or technical delivery. • Practical and systematic experience with AI-assisted software development and coding agents. • A clear understanding of where AI can increase engineering productivity and where human review and technical controls remain essential. • Experience building or operating web, mobile, or subscription-based products. • Familiarity with modern JavaScript or TypeScript ecosystems, ideally including React, React Native, Node.js, or comparable technologies. • Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and automated testing. • Experience working with outsourced, distributed, or external engineering teams. • Ability to assess an existing engineering setup and make pragmatic decisions about architecture, team structure, tooling, and delivery processes. • Professional English sufficient for regular communication with the founders and external partners. • A high level of ownership and comfort operating without a predefined engineering playbook.