Software Engineer (Growth)

Recruiting From Scratch; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Hybrid SF team

Direct leadership exposure

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch is seeking a Software Engineer (Growth) to own and evolve our web platform focused on user acquisition, activation, onboarding, experimentation, and conversion. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales to drive features that directly impact revenue.

The role requires 3–7 years of full-time software development experience, with strong React/TypeScript and Node.js skills, and a track record of growth-focused SaaS work.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of full-stack software engineering experience.
• Experience building customer-facing SaaS products.
• Experience at early-stage startups (Series A or earlier preferred).
• Experience owning features from concept through production.
• Experience building growth-oriented product experiences.
• Experience shipping measurable improvements to user acquisition or conversion funnels.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Marketing, and Growth teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the company's React and TypeScript web application.
• Build high-converting signup flows, onboarding experiences, and product activation journeys.
• Design and develop frontend features using React and TypeScript.
• Build backend APIs and services using Node.js.
• Architect analytics instrumentation across the customer lifecycle.
• Build experimentation frameworks supporting A/B testing and rapid iteration.
• Design dashboards and event tracking using modern analytics platforms.
• Optimize customer acquisition funnels, activation, retention, and conversion metrics.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Growth to launch high-impact features.
• Improve frontend performance, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality.
• Translate business metrics into product improvements through rapid experimentation.
• Continuously iterate on growth initiatives using quantitative data and customer insights.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

SaaS

A/B Testing

Analytics

API-first

Cross-functional

Product analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Segment

Amplitude

Mixpanel

PostHog

Job description

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.

Software Engineer (Growth)

Location - San Francisco, California (Hybrid)

Compensation - $200,000 -- $260,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa - Visa Sponsorship Not Available

Company Stage - Series A ($24M Raised)

Industry - Artificial Intelligence, Voice AI, Conversational AI, Developer Infrastructure, Growth Engineering, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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About the Company

The company is building one of the most advanced voice AI platforms for enterprise customer experiences, enabling businesses to deploy highly realistic AI voice agents that drive measurable business outcomes across sales, customer support, and contact center automation.

Its proprietary speech models help organizations automate customer conversations while delivering human-quality interactions at scale. The platform has demonstrated significant improvements across customer acquisition, sales conversion, IVR containment, and operational efficiency for both high-growth startups and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Backed by Unusual Ventures and Alumni Ventures with a recent $24M Series A, the company is rapidly expanding its engineering organization while building the next generation of production-grade voice AI infrastructure. As product adoption accelerates, the company is investing heavily in product-led growth and customer acquisition.

As a Software Engineer (Growth), you'll own the web platform responsible for user acquisition, activation, onboarding, experimentation, and conversion while partnering closely with Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales to build experiences that directly impact company revenue.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join an AI-native startup where engineers own products end-to-end, influence company growth strategy, and build software that directly impacts customer acquisition at one of the fastest-growing Voice AI companies.

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What You\'ll Do

• Own and continuously improve the company's React and TypeScript web application
• Build high-converting signup flows, onboarding experiences, and product activation journeys
• Design and develop frontend features using React and TypeScript
• Build backend APIs and services using Node.js
• Architect analytics instrumentation across the customer lifecycle
• Build experimentation frameworks supporting A/B testing and rapid iteration
• Design dashboards and event tracking using modern analytics platforms
• Optimize customer acquisition funnels, activation, retention, and conversion metrics
• Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Growth to launch high-impact features
• Improve frontend performance, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality
• Translate business metrics into product improvements through rapid experimentation
• Continuously iterate on growth initiatives using quantitative data and customer insights

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Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 3--7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience building customer-facing SaaS products
• Experience working at early-stage startups (Series A or earlier preferred)
• Experience owning features from concept through production
• Experience building growth-oriented product experiences
• Experience shipping measurable improvements to user acquisition or conversion funnels
• Experience collaborating closely with Product, Marketing, and Growth teams
• Strong startup ownership mentality with demonstrated engineering execution

Technical Requirements

• Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript
• Experience building scalable frontend applications with exceptional user experience
• Strong Node.js backend engineering experience
• Experience designing and building production APIs
• Experience with analytics instrumentation platforms such as Segment, Amplitude, Mixpanel, or PostHog
• Experience designing and executing A/B testing and experimentation frameworks
• Strong understanding of product analytics and growth metrics
• Experience building conversion funnels, onboarding systems, or self-serve SaaS experiences
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Experience working with API-first products or developer tools preferred

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical discipline preferred
• Strong engineering background with demonstrated technical excellence
• Exceptional candidates with outstanding startup engineering experience considered

Soft Skills

• Strong product intuition
• Data-driven decision maker
• Excellent communication skills
• High ownership mentality
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Systems thinker with strong analytical ability
• Bias toward rapid execution
• Growth mindset with customer obsession
• Passion for AI-powered products

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Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $200,000 -- $260,000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Hybrid Engineering Team (San Francisco)
• Opportunity to build one of the fastest-growing Voice AI companies
• Direct collaboration with founders and executive leadership
• Significant ownership across product-led growth initiatives
• High-impact engineering culture with exceptional career growth
• Fast-growing Series A company with meaningful early equity
• Opportunity to influence company-wide growth strategy through engineering

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Why Join

This is an opportunity to build one of the fastest-growing AI-native customer experience platforms in the market.

You'll work at the intersection of growth engineering, frontend development, product experimentation, analytics, and conversational AI while building experiences that directly influence customer acquisition and company revenue.

As a Software Engineer (Growth), you'll own critical growth surfaces, collaborate directly with leadership, and help define how AI companies scale through world-class product engineering.