Fullstack Engineer

Allen Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Allen Recruitment is hiring for a hands-on backend/frontend engineer in San Francisco to join a fast-growing security and compliance software startup. You will ship quickly, own outcomes end-to-end, and help scale a product used by security teams to manage real-world workflows and data.

Must have prior startup experience and security software product experience. You’ll work with Go, React, and TypeScript to build robust APIs, dashboards, and data-heavy UI with strong observability and pagination.

Qualifications

• Must have startup experience: shipped product in a startup/high-growth environment.
• Must have security software product experience: built/maintained a security product (e.g., compliance automation/GRC, IAM, cloud security) as a core part of the product.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end product features across backend (Go) and frontend (React/TypeScript).
• Design and implement APIs that power dashboards, workflows, and reporting.
• Build UI components that present complex data clearly and drive user action.
• Implement robust error handling and fallback behaviour for upstream dependencies.
• Optimize performance end-to-end (caching, pagination, query design) for high-volume data.
• Add monitoring/analytics to track feature usage, success rates, and reliability.

Skills

Go (Golang)

React

TypeScript

API engineering

3rd-party integrations

Observability

Frontend debugging

Data-heavy UX

Job description

We’re hiring for a fast-growing, venture-backedsecurity and compliance softwarecompany building a modern platform used by security teams. This is a hands-on role in a high-ownership environment where you’ll ship quickly, own outcomes end-to-end, and help scale a product that handles real-world security workflows and data.

Important:for this search, we’re only prioritising candidates who have(1) prior startup experienceand(2) prior security software product experience.

Must-haves (hard requirements)

Domain + environment

• Startup experience:you’ve shipped product in a startup / high-growth environment (ambiguity, pace, ownership)
• Security software product experience:you’ve built or maintained asecurity product(e.g., compliance automation/GRC, AppSec tooling, IAM, cloud security, vulnerability management, audit/evidence workflows, security operations tooling) as a core part of the product

Technical

• Go (Golang):production backend services
• React:modern React UI work in real products
• TypeScript:strong TS (not just JavaScript)
• API engineering:production REST APIs (gRPC also relevant)
• 3rd-party integrations:reliable integrations with external SaaS APIs; handling upstream failures gracefully
• Production observability:monitoring/logging (bonus for metrics/tracing)
• Fullstack debugging:able to diagnose issues across backend + browser/UI
• Performance for data-heavy UX:pagination + caching (and evidence you’ve handled volume)

What you’ll do

• Build end-to-end product features across backend (Go) and frontend (React/TypeScript)
• Design and implement APIs that power dashboards, workflows, and reporting
• Build UI components that present complex data clearly and drive user action
• Implement robust error handling and fallback behaviour for upstream dependencies
• Optimize performance end-to-end (caching, pagination, query design) for high-volume data
• Add monitoring/analytics to track feature usage, success rates, and reliability
• Collaborate closely with engineering/product/design and iterate based on real usage

Nice-to-haves

• Data visualization experience (dashboards, tables, charts, complex data UI)
• Workflow engines / async job orchestration
• Deeper information security background

Job Ref:BBBH26102