Recruiting from Scratch ยท 3 months ago
Backend Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA|Onsite
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$130K/yr - $500K/yrRecruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure, while owning projects end-to-end and collaborating with product and design teams.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure
Own projects end-to-end, delivering production systems tied directly to business outcomes
Collaborate with product and design to ship features quickly across the stack
Write clean, maintainable code while participating in design discussions, code reviews, and retros
Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints
Contribute to core systems powering training, evaluation, and scaling for advanced AI labs
Qualification
Required
Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
High ownership mindset with curiosity and the ability to ask the right questions
Comfortable breaking down ambiguity into simple, production-ready solutions
Benefits
Generous early-stage equity package
Direct ownership and immediate impact on mission-critical systems
Opportunity to work closely with a senior, high-performing engineering team
Exposure to cutting-edge AI model training and evaluation workflows
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
Founded in 2021
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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