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.
We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
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Our Client
Our client is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants.
Accounting teams integrate our client as part of their team, delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.
We recently closed a multi-fold oversubscribed - and yet unannounced - seed round backed by top VCs.
Our client is already in use at several leading, large accounting firms in the US.
Location : NYC, Flatiron office.
In-person team.
Your role
Build
Engineer software systems around sophisticated ML models
Advance data architecture for accounting-related objects/concepts
Take ownership
Report directly to co-founders
Oversee significant parts of our tech and product
Lead technical decision making on accounting specific features and abstractions, as well as integrations with existing accounting tools
Set culture and practice
Shape our early engineering culture and processes
Serve as source of subject matter expertise for rest of engineering team
Evolve our approach on frontend infrastructure, web server design, abstractions, etc.
Wear multiple hats
Help hire and build out the rest of the early engineering team - there will be no shortage of responsibility
Balance long-term thinking and smart abstractions with shipping fast and iteratively
Are you the one?
We are in particular looking for engineers who either were accountants in their previous career and/or have experience working with accounting data.
We are open to a variety of backgrounds.
Essentials
Accounting background: CPA in past life, or spent time working on accounting data/software
Experience: 5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years but strong experience
Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
Flexibility: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
Team-first mentality: you are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored
Passion for vision : Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
Curious about latest AI: Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.
NYC-based: Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week
All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed.
We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
A little something extra You know it when you see it
Bonus points
Hiring : A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent
Data science : Hands-on experience with data science projects
Machine learning: Experience training models or building ML-ops systems
Fintech APIs: Experience with foundational fintech APIs e.
g.
, Quickbooks, Plaid, etc.
Product ownership : Experience owning a product end-to-end
We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles to fall healthily within the range based on these factors: Salary range: $100,000 - $200,000 annually
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recruitingfromscratch.
com/