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Product Engineer (SeniorStaff)


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 200000 - 300000
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers software and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Product Engineer (Senior/Staff)
Location - San Francisco CA or New York NY - On-site 5 Days Per Week)
Compensation - $200000 $300000 Base Competitive Equity
Visa - Visa Sponsorship Available - H-1B Transfers Supported; New H-1Bs Generally Not Supported)
Company Stage - High-Growth Series B Startup ($45M Raised)
Industry - AI Marketplace Future of Work Labor Technology Supply Chain Enterprise SaaS
About the Company

The company is building one of the worlds leading AI-powered labor marketplaces transforming how industrial staffing operates through intelligent automation agentic AI and modern software infrastructure.

Its platform leverages AI agents machine learning marketplace intelligence and large language models to automate sourcing vetting matching scheduling and workforce operations for businesses operating across logistics manufacturing warehousing and supply chain industries. By combining marketplace technology with AI-native workflows the platform has dramatically improved fill rates reduced hiring timelines and enabled customers to operate with unprecedented efficiency.

Backed by world-class investors including Founders Fund Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst the company has raised over $45M while growing revenue more than 40x since 2022. With strong unit economics significant market traction and a clear path toward IPO the company is redefining one of the worlds largest and least technologically advanced industries.

As a Product Engineer (Senior/Staff) youll build AI-native product experiences scalable backend systems distributed infrastructure and intelligent marketplace capabilities while partnering closely with leadership product operations and customers to shape the future of industrial staffing.

This is a rare opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing AI-native startups where youll directly influence platform architecture agentic AI adoption marketplace intelligence and product strategy while owning mission-critical systems that impact company growth every day.

What Youll Do
  • Build AI-native product experiences across backend services platform infrastructure and customer-facing applications
  • Develop production-grade agentic AI workflows powering sourcing matching vetting and workforce automation
  • Architect scalable distributed systems supporting millions of marketplace interactions
  • Design and implement high-performance APIs backend services and data models
  • Build intelligent recommendation matching and marketplace optimization systems
  • Partner closely with Product Operations Design and Leadership to solve high-impact business problems
  • Build scalable infrastructure supporting AI agents orchestration evaluation and production deployment
  • Leverage modern AI engineering workflows and frontier LLM technologies to accelerate development
  • Design highly reliable backend services using Python TypeScript PostgreSQL Kafka and distributed messaging systems
  • Contribute across platform engineering AI applications infrastructure and marketplace systems as a true product generalist
  • Improve platform performance scalability observability and engineering quality
  • Own highly impactful product initiatives from technical design through production deployment
Ideal Candidate Background
Experience Requirements
  • 510 years of software engineering experience (5 years for Senior; 7 years for Staff)
  • Experience building and shipping production software in fast-growing startup environments
  • Experience owning products or major features end-to-end
  • Experience building AI-powered or agentic AI products in production
  • Demonstrated impact through measurable business outcomes
  • Experience working across backend systems APIs infrastructure and customer-facing products
  • Proven ability to thrive in high-growth ambiguous startup environments
  • Strong product intuition with demonstrated engineering ownership
Technical Requirements
  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript/ engineering skills
  • Experience designing scalable distributed systems and backend architectures
  • Experience building production APIs and backend services
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL data modeling and query optimization
  • Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka RabbitMQ or similar distributed event platforms
  • Experience building AI-powered products using LLMs agentic workflows and modern AI tooling
  • Strong understanding of marketplace architectures recommendation systems or multi-sided platforms
  • Experience building scalable infrastructure supporting high-growth production systems
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals across system design scalability reliability and observability
  • Ability to rapidly learn and adopt emerging AI technologies while maintaining engineering quality
Education
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or another technical field required
  • Strong academic background from a Top 25 Computer Science program or equivalent technical university preferred
Soft Skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • High ownership mentality
  • Excellent collaboration across Engineering Product Operations and Leadership
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity
  • Self-directed and proactive
  • Strong learning agility
  • Startup mentality
  • Product-first engineering mindset
  • Customer obsession
  • High execution velocity
Compensation & Benefits
  • Base Salary: $200000 $300000
  • Competitive Equity Package
  • Relocation Assistance Available
  • Visa Sponsorship Available (H-1B Transfers)
  • Direct collaboration with executive leadership and CTO
  • Significant ownership over AI-native marketplace products
  • Opportunity to build foundational AI infrastructure
  • High-impact Senior/Staff Product Engineering role
  • Exposure to cutting-edge LLMs agentic AI distributed systems and marketplace technologies
  • Rapid career growth opportunities
  • Collaborative high-performing engineering culture
  • In-person environment designed for rapid learning and execution
Why Join

This is an opportunity to build one of the worlds most advanced AI-native marketplaces transforming the future of industrial staffing.

Youll develop intelligent agents distributed systems marketplace infrastructure recommendation engines and scalable backend services while collaborating closely with engineering leadership operations product and customers solving complex real-world workforce challenges.

As a Senior/Staff Product Engineer youll own critical platform initiatives from architecture through production while helping define the next generation of AI-powered labor marketplaces.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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