Recruiting from Scratch · 6 hours ago
Founding Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$150K/yr - $200K/yr
3+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm revolutionizing cybersecurity training using AI. As a founding engineer, you will own entire systems, make architectural decisions, and work directly with customers to turn their pain into product.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Own and architect adaptive phishing simulations that use LLMs to evolve based on user risk, role, and behavior
Build infrastructure for ingesting and analyzing real-time behavioral signals like decision latency and user telemetry
Design interfaces that help security teams visualize and act on human risk data
Work directly with early customers to rapidly iterate, turning feedback into shipped features
Make foundational technical decisions: choosing tools, setting patterns, and building systems that scale
Ship clean, scalable, well-documented code across the full stack
Use AI tools to accelerate your workflow and focus on high-impact problems
Qualification
Required
3+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent
Strong fundamentals in computer science: data structures, algorithms, and system design
Proficiency in at least one of our core languages: Go or TypeScript
Track record of shipping products, features, or projects you built yourself
Excellent communication skills and a bias toward transparency
Genuine passion for building and comfort with ambiguity
Preferred
Experience in cybersecurity, AI/ML, or enterprise software
Familiarity with our stack: Go, TypeScript, NextJS, Postgres/SQL, AWS, Cloudflare
Hands-on experience with LLMs or AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
A portfolio that shows how you think: GitHub, blog, or personal projects
Benefits
Meaningful equity as an early team member
Competitive salary
Direct impact on product, customers, and company direction
A small team where your work is visible and valued
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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