Senior Software Engineer, Seed

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. https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/ 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

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 https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com

© 2026 Careerjet All rights reserved