Agency Recruiter, Software

• Title of Role: Agency Recruiter Software Engineering
• Location: remote
• Office Type: Remote
• Salary: $50K$80K

Recruiting from Scratch is a software-driven technical recruiting firm. We help venture-backed startups and public technology companies hire exceptional software AI and product talent.

• Own full-cycle searches for senior and staff software engineers at competitive well-funded technology companies.
• Lead intake conversations that produce a real search strategy: calibrate the technical bar identify target companies surface likely tradeoffs and define what a strong candidate looks like before sourcing begins.
• Evaluate engineers credibly. Read a résumé LinkedIn profile or GitHub repository and understand what the person actually built the difference between services and scripts scale and scaffolding or senior- and staff-level scope.
• Explain and defend your assessment to technical hiring managers.
• Build and manage pipelines through targeted outbound referrals and our proprietary candidate databasenot LinkedIn Recruiter alone.
• Use modern AI-assisted sourcing tools to research markets identify candidates and work more efficiently.
• Stay current on modern software development and how AI is changing engineering teams technical roles and the signals that indicate exceptional performance.
• Run thoughtful candidate processes including preparation feedback compensation alignment offer management counteroffers and closing.
• Maintain clear accurate pipeline data so clients and teammates always understand where a search stands.
• Turn what you learn into better scorecards sourcing strategies screening criteria and recruiting processes.

• A track record recruiting software engineers in an agency executive-search or high-growth startup environment.
• Demonstrated production including placements made fees or gross profit earned and offers closed. We will ask about specific results.
• Strong technical screening ability. You can explain the difference between a senior and staff backend engineerand describe why you rejected the last candidate you passed on in technical terms.
• Genuine curiosity about software AI and modern engineering. You follow the market because you find it interesting not simply because a job description requires it.
• Experience building targeted sourcing strategies rather than relying on high-volume outreach.
• Consultative written and verbal communication with the credibility to advise engineers founders and hiring managers.
• Strong candidate management and closing skills particularly when candidates are considering multiple offers.
• Comfort working independently in a remote transparent performance-oriented environment.
• High standards for candidate experience data quality and follow-through.

• Experience recruiting across adjacent technical functions including data infrastructure machine learning product or hardware.
• Experience hiring for venture-backed startups including founding and early engineering teams.
• A computer science background previous engineering experience or a history of building technical projects yourself.
• Fluency with modern ATS platforms sourcing tools and AI-assisted recruiting workflows.

The base salary for this position is $50000$80000 depending on experience plus uncapped commission. On-target earnings are approximately $120000 with no ceiling for top performers.

Our commission structure rewards placements and fee production rather than raw submission volume. We will explain the complete commission plan during the interview process.

This is a full-time remote position for candidates based in the United States.