Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer

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.

Title of Role: Senior / Staff Full Stack Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY (Hybrid)
Company Stage of Funding: Seed (~$2M raised, profitable, high-growth)
Office Type: Hybrid (3–4 days in-office or remote until NY office opens)
Salary: $200,000 – $250,000 + Equity (0.25% – 1%)

Company Description

Our client is an early-stage, high-growth startup modernizing immigration infrastructure through software. They are building a platform that streamlines and automates complex visa and legal workflows for global talent and companies.

With strong product-market fit, the company has reached ~$10M in revenue on minimal funding and is scaling rapidly. Their platform sits at the intersection of legal ops, automation, and AI—bringing much-needed efficiency to a traditionally manual and fragmented process.

With a small, high-performing team and ambitious growth plans, this is an opportunity to join a mission-driven company solving a critical global problem.

What You Will Do

• Build and scale full-stack systems across backend infrastructure and frontend applications

• Design and implement robust APIs, data models, and system architecture

• Own workflow orchestration systems and improve task/event-driven pipelines

• Develop and ship high-quality user-facing interfaces for customers and internal teams

• Work directly with users (legal ops teams, customers) to understand problems and iterate quickly

• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across the stack

• Build automation and agentic workflows to streamline complex legal processes

• Handle backend complexities such as access controls, permissions, and data integrity

• Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term system design

• Operate with high ownership in a fast-paced, product-driven environment

Ideal Candidate Background

• 5–9 years of experience as a full-stack engineer (backend-leaning)

• Strong experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end

• Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, and backend systems (Python/Node)