About the Role
This is a full-stack Product Engineer role at an early-stage AI recruiting startup, working directly alongside founders to build and ship the core product. You'll own features end-to-end — from scoping through production — and have a real hand in shaping technical direction as the team scales.
What You'll Do
- Own complete product features from requirements and design through deployment and iteration.
- Design APIs and data models, and implement both frontend and backend code.
- Build user-facing experiences that balance usability with performance, iterating based on feedback and metrics.
- Integrate LLM and AI capabilities into product flows to make intelligence reliable for end users.
- Design and implement scalable backend services, data schemas, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and testing.
- Collaborate directly with founders, product, and design to prioritize work and define success metrics.
- Contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions, making pragmatic tradeoffs suited to early-stage growth.
What We're Looking For
- 2–8 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing products.
- Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript and React/Next.js on the frontend; Python or Node.js on the backend.
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
- Practical, production-grade experience integrating LLMs or AI services (engineering focus, not research).
- Proven product sense — able to translate user problems into measurable, practical solutions.
- Comfortable working in small teams with limited process, high ambiguity, and broad scope across frontend, backend, and DevOps.
- Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and automated testing as part of CI/CD pipelines (metrics, tracing, logging, health checks).
- Background with multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems, API design, real-time systems, or high-throughput applications is a plus.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and/or experience in regulated industries (healthcare, fintech, legal) is a bonus.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, CA, USA.