Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm focused on placing top talent at innovative companies. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join an AI infrastructure startup that is building intelligent assistants to automate workflows for busy professionals.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver major features from prototype through production deployment
- Drive architecture decisions across backend systems and platform reliability
- Build customer-facing LLM-powered systems at production scale
- Design and improve infrastructure for testing and reliability of non-deterministic AI systems
- Work directly with customers to understand needs and shape product direction
- Build scalable backend systems using Node.js and TypeScript
- Contribute to frontend architecture where needed using React and GraphQL
- Improve observability, system reliability, and operational tooling
- Diagnose production issues and implement scalable long-term solutions
- Collaborate closely with leadership on product and technical strategy
Skills
- 6+ years of full-stack engineering experience with backend depth
- Experience shipping customer-facing production systems end-to-end
- Strong startup experience in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
- Strong expertise in backend system design and distributed systems
- Experience working directly with product and customers
- Comfortable operating independently with minimal oversight
- Experience building LLM-powered production systems
- Experience with agent frameworks and multiple LLM providers
- Strong Node.js and TypeScript expertise
- Experience with React and GraphQL
- Experience with MongoDB or document-oriented databases
- Experience building testing/quality systems for AI products
- Top technical education background preferred
Benefits
- Equity: Competitive
- Visa: H1B transfers supported (no new H1B sponsorship)
- Hybrid SF office (4 days/week)
- Remote flexibility for exceptional candidates
- Relocation assistance up to $20,000
- Direct collaboration with executive leadership
- High ownership and rapid career growth
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