Product Engineer, AI-Powered Global Trade (Hybrid SF)

Recruiting From Scratch; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Hybrid SF in-office three days/week

Direct collaboration with founders

Visa sponsorship support

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch is seeking a Product Engineer in San Francisco (Hybrid), offering substantial influence on product direction and technical architecture. You will own features end-to-end, work with real customer data, and design systems for AI-powered workflows in a compliance-heavy domain.

The role emphasizes building full-stack features, collaborating closely with founders, and shaping engineering culture within a small, high-impact team.

Qualifications

• 2--5 years of professional experience in full-stack product engineering.
• Strong product engineering background.
• Strong full-stack software development experience.
• Experience owning features end-to-end.
• Experience working in startup or high-growth environments preferred.
• Experience working within strong engineering cultures preferred.
• Experience taking ambiguous product requirements through implementation and production.
• Experience working directly with customers or end users preferred.
• Experience working with complex data or operational workflows.
• Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated execution ability.
• Strong product mindset and customer orientation.
• Comfortable making technical decisions independently.
• Comfortable working closely with founders and senior technical leadership.
• Ability to operate effectively in a small engineering team.
• Strong interest in AI-powered products and modern software development.
• Experience with fintech, trade, logistics, compliance, or other complex operational domains preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack product features across the platform from initial concept through production deployment.
• Work directly with customer data to connect product capabilities with real-world use cases.
• Process and transform messy, fragmented trade data from documents, CSVs, APIs, and other sources.
• Build systems that convert unstructured and semi-structured trade data into clean, structured, actionable information.
• Design and model PostgreSQL databases supporting complex global trade workflows.
• Build reliable data models that can evolve as the company's customs-centric data graph expands.
• Shape product direction alongside founders and technical leadership.
• Work directly with users to understand operational problems and customer requirements.
• Push back on product specifications when necessary and help determine the best technical and product approach.
• Own features end-to-end from ambiguous requirements through architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Build customer-facing applications and workflows for importers and trade professionals.
• Develop agentic AI workflows on top of the customs-centric data graph.
• Build AI-powered systems that help customers identify duty recovery, tariff, and trade opportunities.
• Design reliable AI workflows with appropriate safeguards for a compliance-heavy domain.
• Build APIs, backend services, frontend experiences, and data workflows across the full product stack.
• Integrate external APIs, customer systems, and third-party data sources.
• Work with large volumes of documents and structured trade data.
• Build systems that maintain accuracy, reliability, transparency, and traceability.
• Collaborate closely with founders and the small engineering team on technical strategy.
• Operate effectively in an ambiguous environment where requirements are not always fully defined.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing product velocity, correctness, and maintainability.
• Identify product opportunities based on customer feedback and operational needs.
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and user experience.
• Help establish engineering practices, technical standards, and product development workflows.
• Continuously evolve the platform as the company expands into new trade advisory products.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Product engineering

End-to-end ownership

Strong communication

Customer-oriented

AI/native product interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Redis

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch is seeking a Product Engineer in San Francisco (Hybrid), offering substantial influence on product direction and technical architecture. You will own features end-to-end, work with real customer data, and design systems for AI-powered workflows in a compliance-heavy domain.

The role emphasizes building full-stack features, collaborating closely with founders, and shaping engineering culture within a small, high-impact team.