Who we are

Caro is a headcount platform for enterprise teams founded by Roopak and Cathy. For software companies, headcount is 70%+ of spend, and the team is the lifeblood of the company. Yet, it’s notoriously difficult to get right. Caro helps companies hire quickly without overspending by getting finance teams, people teams, talent teams, and hiring leaders on the same page.

Quick highlights:

• Our early customers are leading tech companies: Affirm, Discord, Duolingo, Lyft, and more.
• We’re backed by tier 1 investors: Accel and Lightspeed.
• We’re nearly profitable and have 3+ years of runway.

What we’re building

Here are some technical challenges we’ve been tackling recently:

• Multi-system reconciliation: Caro has bi-directional integrations into 3 core systems (finance, recruiting, and HR). Reconciling values between all three and resolving discrepancies is extremely challenging. Think of it like a complicated CRDT with slow moving systems.
• Permissions: Since we manage sensitive data (e.g., compensation, termination), we need to a robust permissions management system to ensure only certain people can access this information. Think of a spreadsheet with cell level permissions for reading and writing.
• Agentic workflows: We are deploying agents to execute tasks along the headcount lifecycle (e.g., mapping and validating data across systems, making changes to records). We’re building a framework to orchestrate these tasks, while keeping a human in the loop.

What we're looking for

We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to work directly with our founders and early customers to build our early product and join us in our journey toward product market fit. You’ll own large parts of the product independently, from technical design all the way to shipping into production. But in true startup fashion, you’ll be wearing way more hats than just engineering (implementation, product, customer support). You will:

• Ship and iterate quickly while being thoughtful about trade offs for quality
• Collaborate with the founders on designing the best solution for our customers’ problems
• “Color outside the lines” and challenge the status quo by bringing fresh perspectives
• Interact directly with customers to diagnose and resolve issues in the product
• Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including GCP, MongoDB, and Typescript

Who you are

• 2+ years experience in a full time software engineering role