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Recruiting from Scratch · 1 day ago

Founding Software Engineer (LATAM)

Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Founding Software Engineer to play a key role in building and scaling the company’s core product and infrastructure, while collaborating closely with founders and early engineers.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Designing and building complex data-capture and workflow systems across web and desktop environments
Developing frontend-heavy full-stack applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
Architecting and optimizing high-throughput, production-grade data pipelines
Collaborating with product and engineering leadership to define product strategy and ship quickly
Establishing engineering best practices, tooling, and technical standards as the team scales
Taking ownership of systems that directly impact customers and core business outcomes

Qualification

JavaScript/TypeScriptReactPythonAWSGCPData-intensive systemsCollaboration in remote teamsContainerization DockerContainerization KubernetesDistributed systemsMessaging tools KafkaMessaging tools RedisMessaging tools ElasticsearchCommunication

Required

4–10 years of professional experience as a full-stack or frontend-leaning software engineer
Strong experience building and scaling production web applications
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (especially React and Next.js) and Python
Experience designing or working with data-intensive systems and workflows
Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and ambiguity
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a remote, distributed team

Preferred

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
Familiarity with distributed systems and messaging tools (e.g., Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch)
Exposure to containerized or orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Prior experience helping define systems or infrastructure at an early-stage company
Interest in data infrastructure, developer tooling, or AI-adjacent products

Benefits

Equity: Competitive equity package
Growth Opportunity: High ownership role with potential to grow into technical leadership as the company scales
Impact: Direct influence on product, architecture, and company direction from the earliest stages

Company

Recruiting from Scratch

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A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage

Leadership Team

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Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
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Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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