About this role

Recruiting is the highest-leverage action any company can take. Hundreds of billions are spent on staffing and recruiting per year because of how difficult yet critical it is. Hiring the best candidate for any role should take days, not months, and we’re best positioned to solve this at scale with our AI-enabled recruiting marketplace.

What You’ll Work On

• Accurately match millions of candidates and recruiters to companies

• Hack away at creative ways to acquire liquidity in new industries

• Design incentives and tools to make Paraform a recruiter's full-time job

• Build a company experience that feels seamless yet white glove

Why You Should Join

• Thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments

• Build with proprietary data and shape how AI transforms recruiting

• Help scale a company with PMF while continuously innovating

• You're a product-minded engineer who loves talking to users

What We Look For

• High attention to detail in design and user experience

• Full-stack coding experience building products end-to-end

• Experience working at early-stage startups or hacking on projects

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Has immense drive and passion for the work you do

You’ll have end-to-end ownership and the chance to work with one of the most valuable data sets in recruiting to finally solve hiring at scale. Your work will directly affect the lives of millions and help us shape how industries are built across the world.

Our values and culture

• We work hard and enjoy being together in person.

• We are transparent about our work ethic and expectations because it enables us to have extreme ownership in building at a pace that is unmatched.

• Customers, customers, customers. We're customer-obsessed and always start with the customer first. We are the customer support team.

• Ship fast and break things. We believe great products come from lots of experimentation, so we value fast development. No one is going to wait around for us to make things, especially something that's perfect.

• Take care of each other. We trust each other and want to enable everyone to do their best work.

Perks: All food and transportation compensated, gym membership, unlimited PTO, global offsites, premium healthcare and a free bike.

Interview Process

1. Intro Call (30 minutes)

2. In-person lunch (1 hour)

3. Take-home assignment (3 hours)

4. Onsite / Work trial (1–2 days)

✅ Ideal Candidate

Experience: 3–8 years in software engineering (startup or product-focused)
Mindset: High ownership, product thinking, and strong design intuition
Culture Fit: Energy around recruiting/talent space, proactive communicator
Location: Open to SF-based or relocation (visa possible for exceptional talent)
Education: Bonus if from top-tier schools (Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc.)

🔧 Tech Stack

React.js · Next.js · TypeScript · Vercel · Postgres · Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

💰 Compensation

Salary: $120k–$230k
Equity: Competitive
Visa Sponsorship: Yes (case-by-case basis)

🎯 Top Signals

• Strong product/design sense

• Built end-to-end features or shipped own product

• Worked at product-led or design-forward companies (e.g. Notion, Stripe, Slack, Figma, Webflow, Superhuman, Duolingo, Retool, etc.)

• Startups or high-ownership environments (e.g. Ramp, Brex, Scale AI, Palantir, Anduril)