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. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, 4 days/week onsite)
Company Stage of Funding: Series B (~$81M raised)
Office Type: Hybrid
Salary: $250,000 – $300,000 + Meaningful Equity
Visa: Visa sponsorship available (including new H1B applications)
Our client is a fast-growing AI-native enterprise software company building the next-generation CRM platform.
The company is reimagining customer relationship software for modern startups and growth-stage businesses, replacing legacy systems like Salesforce with an intelligent, AI-first platform that automatically assembles and organizes business context across email, calendar, meetings, and workflows.
Previously known for building a widely adopted AI product with over 25M users, the company has successfully pivoted into CRM infrastructure and is now seeing rapid adoption, with hundreds of businesses signing up each week.
Backed by top-tier investors including Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, the company has raised over $80M and is exceptionally well-capitalized.
The engineering team includes talent from Meta, Instagram, Google, Salesforce, Pinterest, and Llama, creating a very high technical bar.
This is a rare opportunity to join as one of the earliest senior backend technical leaders and shape the foundational architecture of a product scaling rapidly toward category-defining enterprise software.
Lead architecture and execution of critical backend systems
Own technical direction across API platform and core backend infrastructure
Design and scale multi-tenant backend systems
Build highly performant Postgres-backed systems
Drive backend architecture for new AI-powered product capabilities
Own data model evolution for increasingly complex customer workflows
Design systems for:
Multi-tenant isolation
API versioning
Rate limiting
Latency optimization
Query performance
Safe sandboxed execution for agentic capabilities
Partner directly with founders and product leadership
Lead complex backend projects end-to-end
Raise engineering standards through technical mentorship
Contribute to hiring and technical evaluation
Help define long-term backend architecture strategy
8+ years of backend engineering experience
Deep expertise building and scaling backend systems
Strong experience with performance tuning and scalability
Experience building production multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Strong API platform architecture experience
Experience operating in fast-scaling VC-backed environments
Excellent system design judgment
Strong coding ability
Comfortable operating with ambiguity
High ownership and initiative
Strong mentorship and technical leadership skills
Willing to work hybrid onsite in San Francisco
Deep experience with:
Node.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AWS
Backend latency / throughput optimization
Experience quantifying performance wins
Examples:
Reduced p99 latency
Improved query performance
Optimized database throughput
Experience designing:
Flexible data models
Custom object systems
Schema evolution systems
API ergonomics at scale
Enterprise SaaS / CRM experience
AI platform exposure
Strong product engineering instincts
Experience mentoring senior engineers
Base salary: $250,000 – $300,000
Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity
Visa sponsorship available (including new H1Bs)
Hybrid SF work environment
Direct collaboration with founders
High technical ownership
Opportunity to shape foundational architecture
Work alongside elite engineering talent
Strong long-term growth trajectory
This is a rare opportunity to help define the backend systems powering a category-defining AI-native enterprise platform.
You’ll work on hard backend challenges involving:
Large-scale multi-tenant systems
API platform design
Data model architecture
Performance optimization
AI-enabled product systems
You’ll shape both technical architecture and product direction at a company with exceptional funding, elite technical talent, and significant market momentum.
If you're excited by deeply technical backend systems work with high product ownership, this role offers exceptional upside.
Recruiting from Scratch provides recruiting services for companies that need to hire the best talent in software engineering, hardware engineering, product design, product management, marketing, GTM, and accounting & finance.
