Founding Engineer - Backend

Who is Recruiting from Scratch : Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

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Salary Range: $150,000-$200,000 base plus 1%-2% equity.

Job Description

This founding engineer role will be one of our first three hires. Our clients' office is in NYC. This role is 100% in-person, and they only plan on hiring people who are so smart/amicable that you’d go into the office on a Sunday just to hang out with them.

They are looking for a backend engineer who is obsessed with coding and loves hard engineering problems. Aptitude is more important than experience.

Role Responsibilities:

1. Index all of the blogs and newsletters on the Internet with perfect formatting.
2. Build an article recommendation engine. Of the millions of articles on the Internet, can we show users the best possible thing for them to read at any given moment as soon as they open the app?
3. Scrape, ingest, and organize third-party and meta data to improve those recommendations. Internal backlinks is one obvious example and Google’s core insight — if Paul Graham links to a blog post, it’s probably pretty good. But we’ll also want to leverage external backlinks (e.g. The New York Times) and other useful third-party data (e.g. how many people shared this article on X or Reddit?). And of course our own reading data (e.g. Did readers finish this article? Did they click on it? Did they share it? Did they bookmark it?).