Full Stack Engineer, Assessment Platform at Recruiting From Scratch
San Francisco, CA
$130,000–$400,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role focused on building and maintaining the assessment platform at an AI marketplace company. Day-to-day work spans backend services, APIs, and evaluation pipelines that blend AI scoring with human judgment, as well as frontend experiences for candidates and domain experts. The role suits engineers with solid full-stack fundamentals who are comfortable owning features independently in a fast-moving startup setting.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,200 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,400–4,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). 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 (5)
The compensation range ($130K–$400K base) is unusually wide, likely reflecting flexibility across seniority levels; the actual target band for this role is unclear.
AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) are listed in the requirements section with 'or similar' language, making the capability a hard gate while the specific tool is interchangeable — alternatives are captured accordingly.
The role is titled 'Full Stack Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3-year minimum and scope (owning features end-to-end on a team) support a Mid-level classification.
LLMs integration experience and distributed/event-driven systems appear under the 'Preferred' section and are marked accordingly.
The posting is from a recruiting firm ('We're representing…'), not the company directly; the employer is unnamed.
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