About Halda

Halda is a B2B SaaS startup building an AI agents for higher education student recruitment. Founded by early Podium and Zinch team members, Y Combinator alums, and backed by Album VC and Kickstart.

Core Values

• Team First: We over me. No one left behind.

• Extreme Ownership: We own our work until it is done, no matter what it takes.

• Customer Value is All That Matters: We serve customers, not the engineering gods.

• Velocity is King: Whoever ships value the fastest wins.

• Tortoises are Faster Than Hares: Always seek deep understanding — learning compounds over time.

• Done is Better Than Perfect: Start with the skateboard; end with the Lamborghini.

• Details Matter: At every stage of fidelity, excellence is in the details. Key Theme We put the customer and the business before code. We operate on a Scrumban workflow with commitments tied to product launch dates. Builders own shipping features end-to-end — from customer discovery through QA. If you're motivated to dominate the market and excited about building Netflix-level personalization at scale, you'd fit in great here.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and drive architecture decisions as we scale

• Build, test, and ship features across the full stack (Ruby on Rails, React, Python, Go)

• Leverage AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development

• Drive technical spec review and ensure architectural consistency across the codebase

• Review and refine AI-generated product specs for technical accuracy

• Lead code reviews and maintain high code quality standards

• Participate in customer problem discovery and validation interviews

• Manage CI/CD pipelines using ECS on AWS and GitHub Actions

• Mentor and uplevel other engineers on the team

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience building a SaaS product

• Proficiency in a backend framework (Rails, Node, Phoenix, Spring, etc.) and a frontend framework (React, Vue, etc.)

• Database proficiency — schema design, migrations, and performant SQL

• Experience with automated testing (Minitest, Jest, Cypress, etc.)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Experience developing with AI coding agent harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.)

• Track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in CS or equivalent technical discipline

• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React

• Experience with Tailwind CSS

• Experience with data pipelines and analytics products

• Experience scaling backend and frontend infrastructure

• Experience leading technical projects end-to-end across multiple engineers

• Experience building or managing AI agent workflows for software development

How to Apply
Send your resume to spencer@halda.ai.