Software Engineer (SWE) at Recruiting From Scratch
San Francisco, CA
$180,000–$220,000from the description
Aug 15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Series A AI infrastructure company is hiring a full-stack software engineer to design and build scalable applications supporting AI evaluation, experimentation, and human-in-the-loop workflows. The role spans backend services, modern frontend development, and distributed infrastructure. It suits an engineer with 1–4 years of production experience who is comfortable owning projects end-to-end in a fast-moving onsite environment.
Mid level · 1+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,700 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,300–2,200
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 Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posted salary range ($180K–$220K base) is the compensation figure captured. The OTE of $350K–$600K reflects an uncapped performance bonus on top of base — this is unusually high for a software engineering role and may reflect the company's aggressive incentive structure or a recruiting firm's framing.
React, Next.js, and Node.js appear in the required responsibilities section with firm language ('using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js'), so they are treated as hard gates even though the qualifications section softens them with 'or similar technologies'.
Kubernetes and Kafka appear in both the responsibilities narrative and the preferred section; they are marked preferred because the qualifications block explicitly places them under 'Preferred'.
AWS and GCP are listed together as alternatives under 'Preferred'; one skill entry captures both with GCP as the alternative.
The 1–4 year experience range maps to Mid seniority. The title carries no explicit level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
This posting is placed by a recruiting/staffing firm (Recruiting from Scratch); the actual employer is an unnamed Series A AI infrastructure company.
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