Software Engineer - Full Stack

About 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: Seed (~$7--8M raised)

Office Type: Hybrid

Salary: $175,000 -- $250,000 + Competitive Equity

Visa: No visa sponsorship (transfers may be considered for exceptional candidates)

Our client is building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI agents — enabling developers to deploy agents that write code, browse the web, and interact with computers autonomously in production environments.

Founded by former top-tier infrastructure engineers, the company is rapidly scaling as demand grows for production-grade infrastructure powering agentic systems.

This is an opportunity to join an elite engineering team building foundational infrastructure for the emerging agentic web.

• Own backend-heavy full-stack systems powering AI infrastructure products
• Lead evolution of billing and usage tracking systems
• Build and integrate payments infrastructure using modern billing APIs
• Drive cloud marketplace integrations across major cloud providers
• Design and ship developer-facing APIs and workflows
• Build highly scalable containerized infrastructure systems
• Work deeply with Docker, orchestration systems, and distributed infrastructure
• Partner across product and engineering to shape platform direction
• Improve authentication, access control, and developer platform workflows
• Contribute to system scalability, reliability, and developer experience
• Help define engineering patterns across a rapidly scaling platform
• Build foundational infrastructure powering production AI agents

• 4–7 years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience in full-stack or backend-heavy engineering roles
• Experience at high-growth startups or strong product engineering companies
• Hands‑on builder mentality
• Strong Type Script proficiency
• Strong Docker/containerization experience
• Experience with billing / payments systems preferred
• Experience building APIs or developer-facing products
• Strong systems reasoning ability
• Comfort working in fast‑paced, ambiguous startup environments

• Experience with Stripe or modern payments infrastructure
• Experience building developer tooling platforms
• Background in infrastructure-heavy product engineering
• Experience with Kubernetes or distributed systems
• Authentication / identity systems experience
  
  Experience scaling usage-based billing systems
• Prior startup experience from Series B–D companies
• Experience shipping production AI-adjacent systems

• Base salary: $175,000 -- $250,000
• Competitive early‑stage equity
• Hybrid role (4 days onsite in SF)
• High ownership engineering environment
• Direct access to senior engineering leadership
• Opportunity to shape foundational AI infrastructure
• Fast-moving product and engineering culture

This is a chance to help define the infrastructure layer powering AI agents in production.

You’ll work on technically difficult systems at the frontier of AI infrastructure, solving real scaling challenges for the next generation of autonomous software systems.

If you want to build foundational systems for the agentic web inside a high-caliber engineering team, this role offers exceptional ownership and technical depth.