Hey You're Hired
Overview
Hey You're Hired is a SaaS platform that helps job seekers land roles faster. It brings the whole job search into one place: an AI career coach for interview practice, a smart job matcher, an AI resume builder with tailoring per job, cover-letter generation, a daily briefing and an application tracker. I joined as a founding engineer and built the platform with React, Next.js, Node.js and Express, working from the first prototype through to a production launch with real users and paid subscriptions.
Challenges
The product depends heavily on AI features, so prompt quality, response speed and cost all had to be balanced carefully. The resume editor was the hardest piece: users needed rich editing, live AI suggestions and clean PDF export from the same document. On top of that, subscriptions, usage limits and authentication had to work reliably from day one because the platform launched with paying customers.
Solutions
I designed the AI workflows around structured prompts with caching and background processing to keep responses fast and costs predictable. The resume editor was built as a component-based document model, which made tailoring, suggestions and PDF export work from a single source of truth. Stripe subscriptions, usage metering and role-based access were wired into the backend early, so billing and limits stayed simple to reason about as features grew.
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