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: New York City (On-site, 5 days/week)
Company Stage of Funding: Series A ($13M+ raised)
Office Type: On-site
Salary: $280,000 – $380,000 + Significant Early-Stage Equity
Visa: Transfers supported (no net-new visa sponsorship)
Our client is building next-generation AI-native developer infrastructure designed to fundamentally reshape how engineering teams build and deploy software.
Their platform already powers thousands of companies and orchestrates massive-scale compute workloads with exceptional performance and efficiency.
Now, they are expanding into entirely new AI-native product categories focused on agentic software development infrastructure.
This is a rare opportunity to define technical direction for 0→1 developer products inside one of the fastest-scaling infrastructure companies in the market.
Own architectural direction for entirely new product lines
Lead 0→1 product engineering initiatives
Translate product strategy into long-term technical execution
Design and build AI-native developer tooling
Solve ambiguous, high-complexity product engineering challenges
Drive technical standards across product engineering
Own reliability, performance, and production outcomes
Set engineering direction at the organizational level
Build scalable systems for agentic development infrastructure
Partner closely with product and leadership on technical roadmap decisions
Mentor senior engineers through hands-on collaboration
Raise engineering quality across architecture and execution
Operate as a force multiplier across engineering teams
Ship production systems hands-on
8+ years of software engineering experience
Staff-level product engineering experience
Strong product architecture ownership
Track record building products customers love
0→1 product development experience
Strong frontend / product systems engineering expertise
Deep TypeScript / React proficiency
Experience translating business goals into technical roadmaps
Hands-on technical leadership
Strong product intuition
Experience influencing engineering direction as an IC
Built category-defining developer tools
Experience scaling developer platforms
AI-native product development
Agentic coding / AI tooling expertise
Strong product sense with technical depth
High-growth infrastructure startup experience
Experience owning product architecture end-to-end
Technical leadership without formal management
Strong systems thinking
Customer obsession
Power user of AI coding agents
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity
Exceptional communication skills
Fast execution with high technical standards
0→1 product launch ownership
Base salary: $280,000 – $380,000
Significant early-stage equity
Medical / dental / vision
401(k) match
Unlimited PTO
Quarterly offsites
Parental leave
AI tooling allowance
Strong ownership and technical influence
Opportunity to define net-new product categories
This is an opportunity to architect entirely new AI-native developer products from the ground up.
You’ll operate as one of the company’s core technical authorities, shaping product direction while staying deeply hands-on.
If you want staff-level ownership building category-defining developer tools in an elite engineering environment, this is a rare platform to do it.
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.
