Staff Software Engineer

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own and deliver major features, drive architectural decisions, and build scalable systems in an AI infrastructure startup.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver major features from prototype through production deployment
• Drive architecture decisions across backend systems and platform reliability
• Build customer-facing LLM-powered systems at production scale
• Design and improve infrastructure for testing and reliability of non-deterministic AI systems
• Work directly with customers to understand needs and shape product direction
• Build scalable backend systems using Node.js and TypeScript
• Contribute to frontend architecture where needed using React and GraphQL
• Improve observability, system reliability, and operational tooling
• Diagnose production issues and implement scalable long-term solutions
• Collaborate closely with leadership on product and technical strategy

Requirements:

• 6+ years of full-stack engineering experience with backend depth
• Experience shipping customer-facing production systems end-to-end
• Strong startup experience in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Strong expertise in backend system design and distributed systems
• Experience working directly with product and customers
• Comfortable operating independently with minimal oversight
• Experience building LLM-powered production systems
• Experience with agent frameworks and multiple LLM providers
• Strong Node.js and TypeScript expertise
• Experience with React and GraphQL
• Experience with MongoDB or document-oriented databases
• Experience building testing/quality systems for AI products
• Top technical education background preferred