Product Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch

  • San Francisco, New York
  • 30+ days ago
  • Remote

    Highlights

    Their platform transforms fragmented investment data — PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, committee notes, and proprietary research — into secure, searchable institutional intelligence for top investment firms. Who is Recruiting from Scratch : Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, New York (
    Remote
    )
    Websiterecruitingfromscratch.com

    Description

     
    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.
     

    Title of Role: Product Engineer

    Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY (On-site, 5 days/week)
    Company Stage of Funding: Series A ($50M raised; backed by Sequoia, Emergence, Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set)
    Office Type: On-site
    Salary: $150,000 – $300,000
    Visa: Visa sponsorship and transfers available

    Company Description

    Our client is building AI-native data infrastructure for financial services.

    Their platform transforms fragmented investment data — PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, committee notes, and proprietary research — into secure, searchable institutional intelligence for top investment firms.

    The company is solving one of financial services’ hardest infrastructure challenges: enabling firms to operationalize decades of proprietary knowledge through secure AI systems.

    Backed by $50M from Sequoia and leading investors, Rowspace is emerging as foundational infrastructure for AI-powered investment workflows.

    The founding team includes leaders from Stripe and Notion, bringing world-class engineering and product DNA.

    This is a rare opportunity to join one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure companies at an early stage.

    What You Will Do

    Build full-stack product features end-to-end

    Design intuitive workflows for financial users

    Build APIs powering integrations across external systems

    Develop ingestion pipelines for unstructured financial data

    Build secure knowledge systems for sensitive enterprise data

    Work directly with customers to identify workflow pain points

    Ship product improvements rapidly based on user feedback

    Build reliable LLM-powered product workflows

    Design evaluation systems for AI reliability

    Build scalable backend services

    Improve platform performance and system reliability

    Help define product architecture from the ground up

    Raise engineering quality across the organization

    Ideal Candidate Background

    2–8 years of software engineering experience

    Strong full-stack product engineering experience

    Production experience with React + TypeScript

    Backend depth in Python or Node.js

    Experience shipping customer-facing products

    Strong product intuition

    Experience building scalable APIs and data models

    Fast execution velocity

    Comfortable working directly with customers

    Strong ownership mindset

    Willing to work fully onsite in SF or NYC

    Preferred

    Experience at elite engineering startups

    Applied AI / LLM production systems

    Fintech / financial systems exposure

    Data ingestion pipeline experience

    Strong product design intuition

    Early-stage startup experience

    Security / privacy-sensitive systems

    Evaluation systems for AI reliability

    Top-tier CS education

    Strong Signals

    Stripe / Databricks / Applied Intuition pedigree

    Early-stage startup engineering

    Product ownership at high-growth companies

    Built AI-powered product workflows

    Fast shipping velocity

    Customer-driven product iteration

    Strong technical taste

    Clear motivation for startup intensity

    Compensation and Benefits

    Base salary: $150,000 – $300,000
    Visa sponsorship available
    Direct customer exposure
    Ground-floor engineering ownership
    Elite technical mentorship
    Massive upside potential
    Foundational platform ownership

    Why Join

    This is an opportunity to help define the future infrastructure layer for financial AI.

    You’ll build products at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and financial systems while working alongside elite operators from Stripe and Notion.

    If you’re a product-minded engineer who wants ownership, rapid iteration, and the chance to build foundational AI systems from first principles, this role offers exceptional upside.

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