Product Engineer (Full Stack / Backend-Leaning)

• Product Engineer (Full Stack / Backend-Leaning)• Compensation: $130K–$210K base (varies by level and interview performance) + equity• Location: San Francisco, CA• Work Policy: 5 days/week in-office• Sponsorship: TN and OPT visa transfers supported• Stage: Seed-stage startup | $3.1M raised | YC-backed | 10+ enterprise customers

Who Are We? Were a YC-backed, San Francisco–based startup building autonomous AI agents for fraud, compliance, trust & safety, and threat intelligence. Our platform provides a unified API and end-to-end system that helps companies integrate best-in-class safety tools quickly and reliably.

Founded by engineers from leading Trust & Safety teams, were already working with enterprise customers and Fortune 500 companies. Were growing fast and scaling both product and team to meet demand.

What's in It for You?

• Work directly with founders on frontier AI systems solving real-world risk and safety problems.• Ship features with iteration cycles measured in hours—not quarters.• Own product features end-to-end, from backend logic to polished UI to production deployment.• Help build infrastructure that processes billions of events per day.• Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity in a fast-growing YC-backed company.• Platinum-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance.• Unlimited PTO.• Lunch and wellness stipend.

• What Will You Do?• Design and ship full product features across frontend and backend layers.• Build and scale AI-driven interfaces used in high-stakes environments.• Work directly in React/Next.js, TypeScript, MySQL, and ClickHouse.• Collaborate closely with founders to solve real-time decisioning challenges balancing precision, speed, and user trust.• Run fast pilots, demos, and production rollouts across industries.• Contribute to architectural decisions that enable scaling to billions of events.

• What Will You Need?• 3+ years of software engineering experience (mid to senior level).• Experience in startup environments or strong signal backgrounds (top-tier schools, impressive GitHub, or top-tier tech companies).• Hands-on experience with React/Next.js, TypeScript, MySQL, and familiarity with ClickHouse.• Strong fundamentals in full stack development with the ability to own features end-to-end.• Passion for craftsmanship and strong opinions about code quality and product design.• Comfort working in a high-urgency, fast-paced, in-person environment.

• Strongly Preferred• Growth-stage startup experience.• Experience at top-tier technology companies.• Experience with event sourcing, stream processing, or languages like Elixir, Rust, or Scala.

• Must Not Have• Job hopping history.• Employment gaps without strong explanation.• Consulting-only background.• Long-time manager/CTO transitioning back to IC without recent hands-on depth.• Primarily DevOps or infrastructure-focused profile.• Experience limited to internal dashboards, refactoring, or low-complexity projects.