Senior Software Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch

  • Redwood City, California
  • 30+ days ago
  • Remote

    Highlights

    Our client is building an AI-native operating system for procurement within the consumer packaged goods industry, transforming outdated workflows currently managed through email, spreadsheets, and PDFs into structured, intelligent systems. Their platform is already delivering measurable ROI for customers, helping procurement teams unlock significant savings through automation, visibility, and AI-powered workflow orchestration.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRedwood City, California (
    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.

    Senior Software Engineer

    Location: Redwood City, CA (On-site, 5 days/week)
    Company Stage of Funding: Seed-stage (backed by leading early-stage investors)
    Office Type: On-site
    Salary: $200,000 – $219,000 + Competitive Equity
    Visa: Visa sponsorship not available

    Company Description

    Our client is building an AI-native operating system for procurement within the consumer packaged goods industry, transforming outdated workflows currently managed through email, spreadsheets, and PDFs into structured, intelligent systems.

    Their platform is already delivering measurable ROI for customers, helping procurement teams unlock significant savings through automation, visibility, and AI-powered workflow orchestration.

    This is an opportunity to join an early-stage company with strong traction, proven product-market fit, and direct customer demand — working alongside experienced founders to shape the technical foundation of a category-defining product.

    What You Will Do

    Own features end-to-end from concept through production deployment
    Build full-stack product capabilities across frontend and backend systems
    Design scalable system architecture to support rapid company growth
    Partner directly with product leadership to define technical direction
    Ship customer-facing product improvements rapidly and iteratively
    Work directly with customers to understand workflow pain points
    Drive systems design decisions for platform scalability and reliability
    Build AI-powered procurement workflows and data intelligence systems
    Raise engineering standards across testing, observability, and code quality
    Contribute to foundational technical decisions for the next stage of growth

    Ideal Candidate Background

    5+ years of software engineering experience
    Strong full-stack engineering background
    Experience at VC-backed startups or high-growth product companies
    Hands-on product ownership experience
    Strong systems design and architecture thinking
    Experience building customer-facing software products
    Technical degree strongly preferred
    Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous startup environments
    Experience with modern frontend/backend frameworks
    Ability to ship autonomously with minimal oversight

    Preferred / Strong Signals

    Early engineer or founding engineer experience
    Experience in supply chain, logistics, procurement, or workflow-heavy domains
    Strong TypeScript / Node.js / React experience
    Experience building internal systems or operational tooling
    Direct customer collaboration experience
    High agency and ownership mindset
    Comfortable making architectural tradeoffs independently
    Daily user of AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, etc.)

    Strong Signals

    Strong product-minded engineering instincts
    Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
    Comfort with undefined problem spaces
    Demonstrated business impact from shipped work
    Ability to balance speed and engineering rigor
    Hands-on coding excellence
    Systems-level thinking

    Compensation and Benefits

    Base salary: $200,000 – $219,000
    Competitive early-stage equity
    Full onsite role in Redwood City
    Direct access to founders and leadership
    Meaningful ownership of product architecture
    High-growth startup upside
    Customer-facing product impact

    Why Join

    This is an opportunity to join an early-stage AI company already delivering measurable customer value in a massive, underserved market.

    You will help define the technical architecture for a product solving real operational pain points while working directly with founders, customers, and product leadership.

    If you're excited by ownership, ambiguity, and building foundational systems in an AI-native environment, this role offers rare early-stage leverage.

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