The Founding Software Engineer will architect and refine HUB IQ, focusing on full stack development, AI integration, and optimizing UI/UX.
Founding Software Engineer
🧠 About HUB IQ
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👩💻 What You’ll Do
🔍 What We’re Looking For
🚧 Example Projects You May Tackle
📈 What Success Looks Like90 Days
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Deploy Labs
On-Site | 📍 4100 MacArthur Blvd #150, Newport Beach, CA 92660
🚀 About Deploy LabsDeploy Labs is the product innovation arm of Deploy, focused on building vertical AI software for operationally complex industries.
Our flagship product, HUB IQ, is a modern operating system for the staffing industry; a multi-tenant, SOC 2-aligned HRMS support platform designed to unify sales, workforce risk, legal workflows, finance tracking, and AI-driven profitability insights.
We are currently live with multiple users & projected to 5x by the end of Q2.
Our initial focus is light industrial and clerical staffing, with a broader vision of building workflow intelligence software that can extend across industries.
This is applied AI in a real revenue-generating environment, not experimental software.
🎯 The OpportunityWe are hiring our Founding Software Engineer to help architect, scale, and refine HUB IQ alongside leadership.
This is a 0→1 product role with real ownership.
You will report directly to Ian and Matt and work closely with leadership on architecture decisions, product roadmap, AI integration, and long-term platform scalability.
This is not a ticket-taking role, it is a foundational build seat.
HUB IQ currently includes:
• KPI dashboards at branch and customer levels
• Sales pipeline management
• Worker’s comp claims tracking
• Legal case management
• Finance tools including AR management and excess interest tracking
• AI-powered contract repository with intelligent document synthesis
Our AI layer is already delivering meaningful insights — including profitability analysis revealing that removing three unprofitable clients would increase profit by several hundred thousand dollars.
Additional capabilities include:
• Weekly projections and goal tracking
• Customer risk and volatility analysis
• Profitability modeling across customers and branches
• Built on a vibe coding platform
• Migrated from Supabase to Snowflake for improved cloud compliance
• Multi-tenant system architecture
• SOC 2-aligned security practices
• Data currently stored in Snowflake, with expansion toward in-house NVIDIA-powered AI processing
Security features include:
• Two-factor authentication
• Failed login tracking
• Suspicious activity monitoring
• Session tracking and trusted device management
• Client transparency portal for controlled data access
• Own and evolve full stack architecture
• Build and refine core product features
• Improve UI/UX to reduce clicks and optimize workflow efficiency
• Integrate AI capabilities through strong prompting strategies
• Establish development best practices and security standards
• Support audit readiness and penetration testing efforts
• Collaborate directly with leadership on technical roadmap
• Help define engineering culture and future hiring standards
• Mid-to-senior level full stack engineer
• Strong foundational engineering skills
• Experience building 0→1 products
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and high-ownership environments
• UI/UX awareness focused on efficiency and workflow simplification
• Exposure to data security, audits, or penetration testing is a plus
• Experience integrating AI systems or prompt-based tooling
• GitHub presence preferred but not required
• Flexible mindset toward tech stack (Vibe, Cursor, or traditional coding approaches)
This role is primarily on-site in Newport Beach.
No visa sponsorship available.
• Build and optimize real-time KPI dashboards across multi-tenant architecture
• Develop AI-driven profitability and customer risk scoring models
• Architect scalable data processing pipelines leveraging Snowflake and NVIDIA infrastructure
• Improve UI/UX efficiency to reduce friction and increase operator velocity
• Strengthen authentication, monitoring, and audit-readiness systems
• Contribute production-ready features
• Take ownership of core product modules
• Improve workflow performance or user efficiency
• Demonstrate strong collaboration with leadership
1 Year• Influence architectural direction of the platform
• Drive scalability from hundreds to thousands of users
• Advance AI capabilities within HUB IQ
• Help define engineering standards and hiring benchmarks
• Be considered a long-term technical leader within Deploy Labs
• Salary: TBD
• Phantom stock model with performance-based pathway to real equity
• Full benefits package
• Unlimited PTO
We operate with a “must be present to win” philosophy — this is a founding engineer opportunity with meaningful long-term upside.
- Recruiter screen – culture and long-term motivation
- CEO call with Matt – product deep dive
Technical interview with Ian – live coding and problem-solving
- On-site session – demo walkthrough, whiteboarding, mission alignment
The base pay range for this role is $90 – $165 per year.
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