Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack)
Recruiting From Scratch · San Francisco, CA
$200,000–$400,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior fullstack engineering role at a Series A consumer tech startup, focused on building and owning the company's web platform from the ground up. Day-to-day work involves developing consumer-facing applications in React and TypeScript, setting frontend architecture standards, and collaborating with product, design, and backend teams. Best suited to engineers with 5+ years of experience shipping polished, user-facing products at fast-moving startups.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 119,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 71,500–179,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job posting specifies on-site in San Francisco, CA (5 days/week), but the caller has declared this a fully-remote, national-pool role — metro and state have been left blank accordingly.
The compensation range of $200,000–$400,000 is unusually wide for a single Senior IC role; the upper bound likely reflects equity-heavy or exceptional candidate scenarios.
No degree is required — the posting explicitly states 'No specific degree requirement' and only notes a 'strong technical background' as preferred.
Skills such as animations/micro-interactions, responsive design, and component systems appear in the Technical Requirements section but describe qualities of the work rather than discrete named technologies; they are captured under the broader frontend architecture and performance optimization skills rather than emitted as separate vague entries.
The posting mentions consumer domains (gaming, digital collectibles, FinTech infrastructure) as context for the product environment, not as hard technical skill gates.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): frontend architecture, performance optimization.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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