Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Product

Recruiting From Scratch

  • San Francisco, California
  • 30+ days ago
  • Remote

    Highlights

    If you enjoy building products from scratch, owning systems end-to-end, and operating with founder-level responsibility, this role offers exceptional scope and career upside. Founded in 2021, the company recently raised a $100M Series C led by leading investors including Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, NEA, Goodwater Capital, and Y Combinator.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, 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/Staff Software Engineer, Product

    Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite – 5 Days/Week)
    Company Stage of Funding: Series C Fintech + AI + Crypto Infrastructure
    Office Type: In-Person (Downtown SF)
    Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 Base
    Equity: Competitive Equity Package
    Bonus: Competitive Total Compensation
    Visa: Sponsorship Available

    Company Description

    Our client is building the future of business banking by combining modern financial infrastructure, AI-native workflows, and global payment rails.

    The company powers more than $10B annually in transaction volume and has scaled to $300M+ ARR while maintaining an engineering team of only ~12 engineers.

    Founded in 2021, the company recently raised a $100M Series C led by leading investors including Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, NEA, Goodwater Capital, and Y Combinator.

    The platform serves thousands of businesses and provides:

    • Business Banking Infrastructure
    • Payments & Transfers
    • Invoicing Systems
    • Bill Pay & Expense Management
    • Virtual Cards
    • Accounting Integrations
    • AI-Powered Financial Assistants
    • Stablecoin & Global Banking Infrastructure
    • Treasury & Cash Management
    • Financial Operations Automation

    Engineering challenges include:

    • Building fault-tolerant financial systems
    • Designing scalable payments infrastructure
    • High-volume transaction processing
    • Financial compliance systems
    • Full-stack product development
    • Distributed systems
    • AI-powered financial workflows
    • Global crypto payment rails
    • Enterprise-grade reliability
    • Customer-facing fintech products

    The company sits in a rare position where engineers maintain startup ownership while operating at significant scale.

    The culture values:

    • Exceptional builders
    • Founder mentality
    • Ownership
    • Speed
    • Product craftsmanship
    • Technical excellence
    • Learning velocity
    • High accountability
    • End-to-end execution

    What You Will Do

    • Build and ship entire product surfaces end-to-end
    • Design database schemas and backend architectures
    • Build customer-facing financial products
    • Design APIs and backend services
    • Develop payment, transfer, invoicing, and card systems
    • Build full-stack applications across frontend and backend systems
    • Work directly with product, design, and compliance teams
    • Own features from concept through deployment
    • Design and scale core financial infrastructure
    • Build highly reliable fintech systems
    • Contribute to architecture and engineering standards
    • Create observability, monitoring, and operational tooling
    • Participate in system design and technical reviews
    • Drive technical decisions across product initiatives
    • Build AI-powered financial workflows
    • Develop global banking and payments capabilities
    • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering quality
    • Operate with founder-level ownership
    • Build products directly impacting company revenue

    Ideal Candidate Background

    • 2–15 years of software engineering experience
    • Exceptional individual contributor
    • Strong full-stack engineering background
    • Experience shipping products end-to-end
    • Experience building customer-facing applications
    • Startup experience preferred
    • Strong product ownership mentality
    • Experience designing APIs and backend systems
    • Experience building scalable software products
    • Strong frontend and backend engineering skills
    • Experience with PostgreSQL
    • Experience with React and modern web applications
    • Experience working closely with customers or product teams
    • Strong communication skills
    • Ability to operate in highly ambiguous environments
    • Strong technical judgment
    • Ability to move quickly while maintaining quality
    • CS or STEM degree from a top university preferred

    Strong Signals

    Founder / Builder Signals

    • Founder experience
    • Startup founder with meaningful users/revenue
    • Founding engineer experience
    • Built side businesses or products
    • Demonstrated entrepreneurial history
    • Started coding at an early age
    • Revenue-generating projects

    Engineering Signals

    • End-to-end product ownership
    • Strong product engineering mindset
    • Experience owning entire product surfaces
    • Full-stack expertise
    • High technical bar
    • Rapid promotions
    • Technical leadership without moving into management

    Startup Signals

    • Early employee at successful startup
    • Series A–C startup experience
    • High-growth startup experience
    • Experience operating on small teams
    • Ownership of major business outcomes
    • Demonstrated hustle and resourcefulness

    Compensation & Benefits

    • Base Salary: $200,000 – $350,000
    • Competitive Equity Package
    • Visa Sponsorship Available
    • Opportunity to join a $1.4B company
    • Significant ownership and autonomy
    • Direct collaboration with founders
    • High-impact engineering culture
    • Annual company offsites
    • Strong product-market fit
    • Rapid company growth
    • Opportunity to shape the future of financial infrastructure
    • Small engineering team with outsized impact

    Why Join

    This is a rare opportunity to join a company that has already achieved substantial scale while maintaining the ownership and speed of an early-stage startup.

    Most engineers spend their careers optimizing a small part of a product. Here, engineers own entire business-critical systems from database schema to customer experience.

    You'll work on:

    • Financial infrastructure
    • Payments
    • Banking products
    • AI-native workflows
    • Stablecoin infrastructure
    • Global financial systems

    while collaborating with some of the highest-performing engineers in the startup ecosystem.

    If you enjoy building products from scratch, owning systems end-to-end, and operating with founder-level responsibility, this role offers exceptional scope and career upside.

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