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.
I am a born survivor who LOVES a challenge. I specialize in People Operations, Talent Acquisition, and Recruiting for early stage tech startups.
For me, making the hire is just one part of what it means to be a great Talent Leader. I work with teams to build culture and create processes for sustainable long-term growth.
That means structured interview processes, continual feedback loops with hiring managers, and an amazing candidate experience. It means letting the data drive the evolution of our hiring process. It means creating an unforgettable onboarding experience for everyone who comes into the company.
When it comes to recruiting, I’m not afraid to look outside the more traditional channels to find your candidate. (Just ask me about the time I hired a Lisp Engineer from Facebook!)
Born and raised in Texas, I have been on my own and working since I was 14. My adventures have taken me to Honolulu, through a paralegal career, co-founding my own startup, into college admissions, and somehow found my way to recruiting here in Los Angeles.
My background naturally lent itself to recruiting – an opportunity to intersect my years of professional experience and my desire to help others.
The key to my success lies in my ability to listen and collaborate with both hiring teams and candidates. Through that, I am able to provide end-to-end service and client/candidate satisfaction.
My current focus is developing teams for Technology Startups - From Leadership to interns and everything in between. I build HR, Ops, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Technical Support, Product and Support teams. I love working with Software Engineers (hello, Full Stack Node.js Devs!)
In the past, I’ve recruited for Cyber Security, eDiscovery, Legal, Information Security, Information Technology, Finance, Executive/C-Level, Operations, Management, HR, Sales, and Administrative roles.
