Job Details

Overview

Who is Recruiting from Scratch: Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. We partner closely with our clients to deeply understand their needs, then connect them with top-tier candidates who are not only highly skilled but also the right fit for the company's culture and vision. Our mission is simple: place the best people in the right roles to drive long-term success for both clients and candidates.

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Role

Title of Role: Senior Backend Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)

Company Stage of Funding: Hyper-Growth, Highly Profitable Private Company

Office Type: On-site, Full-Time

Salary: Competitive (based on experience) + Equity

Company Description

We're representing one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, scaling from $1M to $500M in revenue run rate in just 17 months — with growth accelerating weekly. The company builds AI-driven models that evaluate candidate performance potential more effectively than human recruiters, and their technology is trusted by the top 5 global AI labs. The engineering team is small, profitable, and scaling quickly, providing outsized opportunities for impact, ownership, and leadership from day one.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll own and deliver high-impact projects that power the workflows of some of the world's most advanced AI organizations. You will:

• Design, build, and scale production-grade backend APIs, services, and infrastructure.

• Lead system design and architecture decisions for mission-critical workflows.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pair programming.

• Partner with Product and Design to ship features quickly while maintaining quality and scalability.

• Anticipate bottlenecks, propose scalable solutions, and improve system reliability.

• Contribute to systems enabling leading AI labs to train, test, and evaluate their models.

Ideal Background

• Strong coding fundamentals (Python preferred, but language-agnostic hiring process).

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and system design.

• Experience shipping production systems at scale in high-growth or high-stakes environments.

• Ability to reason about trade-offs between speed and reliability in decision-making.

• Strong communicator, able to align technical execution with business goals.

• High ownership mindset, curiosity, and bias toward delivering simple, pragmatic solutions.

Why Join

• Impact: Your work directly powers the infrastructure behind the world's leading AI labs.

• Learning: Gain early insights into frontier AI capabilities months ahead of the market.

• Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with a fast path to technical leadership and ownership.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary: Highly competitive (commensurate with experience)

• Equity: Generous early-stage equity package

• Work Setup: On-site in San Francisco

• Other Benefits:

  • End-to-end project ownership in a hyper-growth company

  • Direct collaboration with senior engineers in a high-performance culture

  • Opportunity to shape both engineering systems and company culture

This role is perfect for senior backend engineers who thrive on system design, scalability challenges, and leadership opportunities — and who want to build the infrastructure supporting the world's most advanced AI research.

Salary Range: $130,000-$500,000 base.