Fractional HR and recruiting platform for early-stage startups
Octopus HR is a 2-person Vancouver firm (founded 2024) selling fractional HR and full-cycle recruiting to startups under 100 people. The tech stack — Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, Docker — is built for data-heavy, real-time product surfaces, yet the company is hiring engineering and marketing talent at senior levels while managing performance and scale challenges. This mismatch suggests they're either building a product layer on top of their service delivery, or planning rapid expansion beyond hands-on consulting.
Octopus HR provides fractional HR leadership and recruiting services to early-stage founders and scaleups. They handle hiring, employee engagement, compliance, and operations so founders can focus on product and growth. The service model is deliberately anti-corporate: no red tape, no jargon, direct integration into client teams. Based in Vancouver and currently operating with a small core team, they're actively hiring senior engineers and marketers in Canada.
Next.js, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, and Python. They also run infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Redis, vSpark) and paid-media tracking (Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, AppsFlyer).
Vancouver, Canada. The company was founded in 2024 and is self-owned with 2–10 employees.
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