Product Engineer (Junior/Mid)

Recruiting From Scratch
  • New York
  • Remote
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

     
    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.

    Product Engineer (Junior/Mid)

    Location - New York, NY - (On-site, 5 Days Per Week)

    Compensation - $140,000 – $200,000 Base + Competitive Equity

    Visa - Visa Sponsorship Available - (Open to Most Visa Types; Net New H-1Bs Generally Not Supported)

    Company Stage - High-Growth AI Marketplace Startup ($45M Raised)

    Industry - Artificial Intelligence, Labor Technology, Marketplace Platforms, Future of Work, Supply Chain Technology, Enterprise Software, Workforce Automation

    About the Company

    The company is building the future of AI-powered labor marketplaces by transforming how industrial staffing operates through intelligent automation, agentic AI, and modern software infrastructure.

    Its platform combines AI agents, marketplace intelligence, and advanced software systems to automate worker sourcing, verification, matching, scheduling, and workforce operations for businesses across logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, and supply chain industries.

    By applying frontier AI models to one of the world's largest and most complex labor markets, the company is rebuilding staffing infrastructure from the ground up. Its technology has already delivered significant improvements in customer outcomes, increasing fill rates from 46% to 95% and reducing time-to-fill from weeks to days through AI-driven matching, reliability scoring, and demand forecasting.

    Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst, the company has raised $45M and grown revenue more than 40x since 2022 while maintaining strong unit economics and positioning itself toward becoming the category-defining platform for industrial staffing.

    As a Product Engineer (Junior/Mid), you'll build AI-native product experiences across the worker marketplace, business platform, and internal operations systems. You'll work across frontend, backend, APIs, AI integrations, and infrastructure while owning meaningful product areas from concept through production.

    This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth startup where engineers operate with significant ownership, collaborate directly with leadership, and build products that impact millions of workers and businesses.

    What You'll Do

    • Build and own product features across the worker app, business platform, and internal operations systems
    • Apply frontier AI models and existing AI agents to automate staffing workflows including sourcing, vetting, matching, and fulfillment
    • Build modern frontend experiences using React, React Native, and TypeScript
    • Design and develop backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Node.js, Python, and PostgreSQL
    • Build AI-powered workflows that improve marketplace efficiency and customer outcomes
    • Develop real-time matching systems, autonomous vetting pipelines, and marketplace infrastructure
    • Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering teams to solve complex business problems
    • Own product surfaces end-to-end from user experience through backend implementation and deployment
    • Integrate LLMs and AI agents into real production workflows using prompting, tool wiring, and structured outputs
    • Build scalable systems supporting workers, businesses, and operational teams
    • Improve product reliability, performance, and user experience through rapid iteration
    • Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards as the company scales
    • Work closely with customers and operators to understand workflows and translate problems into software solutions

    Ideal Candidate Background

    Experience Requirements

    • 1–5 years of software engineering experience
    • Experience building and shipping products in early-stage or high-growth startup environments
    • Experience owning features or products end-to-end from concept through production
    • Experience building consumer, marketplace, SaaS, or AI-powered applications
    • Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable business impact through engineering work
    • Experience working in ambiguous environments with high ownership expectations
    • Strong execution ability with a bias toward shipping quickly
    • Exceptional new graduates with strong technical signals, internships, side projects, or top academic backgrounds considered

    Technical Requirements

    • Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, React Native, Node.js, and/or Python
    • Experience building modern frontend applications with strong product and UX considerations
    • Experience designing and building backend APIs and production services
    • Experience working with PostgreSQL or similar databases
    • Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or machine learning capabilities into products
    • Understanding of AI workflows including prompting, tool integrations, and agent-based systems
    • Experience building marketplace, recommendation, matching, or multi-sided platform systems preferred
    • Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and production engineering practices
    • Ability to work across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
    • Experience building products for non-technical users preferred

    Education

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical field from a top university preferred
    • Exceptional candidates with strong technical achievements, internships, or impactful projects considered

    Soft Skills

    • Strong product intuition and customer empathy
    • High ownership mentality
    • Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments
    • Self-directed and proactive
    • Strong communication skills
    • Excited to work closely with product, operations, and customers
    • Ability to prioritize independently and solve ambiguous problems
    • Strong learning ability and curiosity
    • Passion for building products with real-world impact

    Compensation & Benefits

    • Base Salary: $140,000 – $200,000
    • Competitive Equity Package
    • Fully On-site Environment (New York, NY)
    • Relocation Assistance Available
    • Visa Sponsorship Available
    • Opportunity to build AI-native marketplace products
    • Direct ownership of impactful product systems
    • Work with frontier AI technologies and agentic workflows
    • Collaborate with experienced startup leaders and engineers
    • High-growth environment with rapid career development
    • Opportunity to shape the future of workforce technology
    • Exposure to AI, marketplaces, logistics, and supply chain technology

    Why Join

    This is an opportunity to rebuild one of the world's largest industries through AI.

    You'll build intelligent agents, marketplace infrastructure, matching systems, and product experiences that directly improve how businesses find workers and how workers access opportunities.

    As a Product Engineer, you'll have ownership across the entire product stack, from frontend experiences to backend systems and AI integrations, while working in a high-performance environment where your decisions directly impact company growth.

    You'll join at a critical growth stage where engineers have the opportunity to define architecture, influence product direction, and build technology that transforms the future of work.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNew York (
    Remote
    )
    Websiterecruitingfromscratch.com

    Skills

    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Business Operationsunmatched
    • Career Developmentunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Demand Forecasting/Planningunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Electrical Wiringunmatched
    • Engineeringunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Kronos Workforce Schedulerunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Logisticsunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • Node.jsunmatched
    • PostgreSQLunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Product Designunmatched
    • Product Developmentunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Product Shipmentsunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • React Nativeunmatched
    • React.jsunmatched
    • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Software Agentsunmatched
    • Software Architectureunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
    • Startupunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • System Integration (SI)unmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
    • Technical Deliveryunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
    • Warehousingunmatched

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