HR & Recruitment · 2025
Harehire
End-to-end hiring and recruitment platform.
Harehire
Context
The problem.
A new entrant to the recruitment software market needed to ship a complete hiring stack — job posting, ATS, candidate screening, and recruiter workflows — without the budget or runway for a full engineering team. The constraint was build-it-all-solo, ship-it-fast, and have it production-ready for paying customers.
Role
What I owned.
- Solo engineering: architecture, frontend, backend, database, deployment.
- Designed the data model spanning jobs, applicants, screening stages, and recruiter teams.
- Built the candidate-facing application flow and the recruiter-facing pipeline.
- Set up production hosting, monitoring, and the customer onboarding surface.
Approach
How it came together.
Boring stack, ambitious scope
React on the front, Laravel + MySQL on the back. Nothing exotic — every piece chosen for how well one engineer can maintain it under load while the product evolves.
Pipeline as the core primitive
Everything in recruiting is a pipeline. Jobs, applicants, screening stages, and recruiter actions all model around a configurable pipeline so a customer can shape the workflow to their team without code changes.
Customer-led iteration
Shipped early with the smallest viable pipeline, then expanded screening, scoring, and team-collaboration features against real recruiter feedback rather than a spec written in advance.
Outcome
Where it stands.
- End-to-end hiring platform live and serving customers.
- Solo build delivered end-to-end without a hired engineering team.
- Architecture configured to absorb the next round of features without a rewrite.