Founding Engineer

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm revolutionizing cybersecurity training using AI. As a founding engineer, you will own entire systems, make architectural decisions, and work directly with customers to turn their pain into product.

Responsibilities:

• Own and architect adaptive phishing simulations that use LLMs to evolve based on user risk, role, and behavior
• Build infrastructure for ingesting and analyzing real-time behavioral signals like decision latency and user telemetry
• Design interfaces that help security teams visualize and act on human risk data
• Work directly with early customers to rapidly iterate, turning feedback into shipped features
• Make foundational technical decisions: choosing tools, setting patterns, and building systems that scale
• Ship clean, scalable, well-documented code across the full stack
• Use AI tools to accelerate your workflow and focus on high-impact problems

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent
• Strong fundamentals in computer science: data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Proficiency in at least one of our core languages: Go or TypeScript
• Track record of shipping products, features, or projects you built yourself
• Excellent communication skills and a bias toward transparency
• Genuine passion for building and comfort with ambiguity
• Experience in cybersecurity, AI/ML, or enterprise software
• Familiarity with our stack: Go, TypeScript, NextJS, Postgres/SQL, AWS, Cloudflare
• Hands-on experience with LLMs or AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
• A portfolio that shows how you think: GitHub, blog, or personal projects