Product Engineer

Squad is using AI to accelerate how the world's best talent finds the right problems to solve.

The bottleneck in recruiting isn't sourcing. It's data. Candidate data is poor and getting noisier (self-reported, outdated, now AI-inflated). But recruiters hold high-quality, real-time signal because they talk to candidates every day. That's why companies spend >$800B/year on recruiting. The problem is this signal is fragmented and unusable at scale.

Squad's first product aggregates signals from hundreds of recruiters and uses AI to instantly match their candidates to roles, giving companies unprecedented reach without the usual pain of managing external partners.

We give recruiters a business-in-a-box that lets them earn more while doing what they do best: building relationships and knowing their candidates deeply. In return, we get proprietary data. Our AI structures signal from real recruiter-candidate context that doesn't exist on LinkedIn or resumes. Every submission, every rejection, every hire feeds a self-improving AI matchmaking engine.

We believe the future of recruiting is human authenticity paired with AI efficiency. Great recruiters have a critical role to play, and Squad is built to empower them.

Long-term, Squad becomes the infrastructure layer for how talent meets opportunity.

Why you should join us

Squad is a generational opportunity to rethink how recruiting works, and our path to doing so is significantly de-risked. We have:

• Exponential growth: We have product-market fit and are growing rapidly. Squad supports hundreds of candidates, recruiters, and employers every day. We've grown 10x in under a year with a 3-person team.

• AI-first business model. Our approach is distinctly enabled by AI, and our business gets stronger as foundation models improve. We're building durability through cross-sided network effects that compound over time. Every submission, rejection, and hire feeds a self-improving matchmaking engine.

• Real ownership. It’s still ‘day 0’. You'll shape what Squad looks like and how far we get. Your input will define our vision, product, team, and execution. What you build now becomes the foundation for everything that follows.

• Top tier investors: We've raised over $5M from FJ Labs (Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox), Link Ventures (Mercor, Liquid AI), Golden Ventures (Faire, Boardy), and angels.

• Massive ceiling: The recruiting industry is >$800B and broken. We're building the infrastructure layer for how talent meets opportunity. The scope is as big as you want it to be.

Market demand is pulling us forward. We're looking for people who are excited about high ownership, high velocity, and high impact.

There's an enormous amount to build - and the scope only gets bigger. You will never be bored.

If we succeed, every company finds the right people the moment they need them. Every person finds meaningful work without friction. And the pace of innovation changes forever.

Why you should join us

The biggest bottleneck to innovation is getting the right people working on the right problems. And yet hiring is still broken - slow, manual, and full of noise.

Squad is a generational opportunity to rethink how recruiting works, and our path to doing so is significantly de-risked. We have:

• Exponential growth: We have product-market fit and are growing rapidly. Squad supports hundreds of candidates, recruiters, and employers every day. We've grown 10x in under a year with a 3-person team, spending almost nothing to get here.

• An AI-first business model: Our approach is distinctly enabled by AI, but our business will get stronger (not commoditized) as foundation models improve. We are building durability through cross-sided network effects that will compound over time.

• Top tier investors: With the traction and vision to support conviction in our model, we raised significant funding from top-tier investors to build an exceptional team of engineers and operators.

Our number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for engineers who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us ship faster and build better. We move fast and need to move faster.

While we have a specific initial focus, our long-term goal is huge in scope. We have an unbelievable amount to figure out and build in the next year, but there is also a near-infinite universe of challenges to dive into as we expand our view. You will never be bored.

About the role

As one of the first engineers at Squad, you will own our product end-to-end. You'll work directly with the founder to shape what we build, and you'll have the autonomy to make product decisions and ship fast.

We're looking for a product-minded engineer who cares as much about the customer problem as the technical solution. You'll have full-stack responsibility across our platform.

If you join, you will own problems and outcomes from start to finish, including:

• Designing and building products from first principles to production

• Working directly with recruiters to learn their workflows and build tools that make them 10x more effective

• Automating our internal marketplace operations to unlock scale

• Driving growth engineering initiatives - SEO, billing, signups, activation, and retention

• Collaborating with the team and CEO to make business decisions as we balance speed of growth and long-term profitability

We'll be most excited if you have:

• 4+ years of full-stack experience building products end-to-end - you thrive when you own a codebase top to bottom

• A product mindset: you care deeply about the customer and the business, not just the code

• Obsessive attention to detail in design and interaction - you push for experiences that feel easy and delightful

• Strong programming fundamentals and fluency across modern full-stack web technologies

• Engineering experience at fast-growing, product-driven companies where you had to figure things out without a playbook (ideally at early-stage companies)

• Clear written and verbal communication — you're effective in internal debates and external conversations alike

• A track record of moving fast, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver

• You're hands-on and want to stay that way — you're happiest when you're building, not managing

Working with us

• Squad is based in New York, with our team working out of a beautiful office in Flatiron.

• Lunch at the office every day and dinner at the office after 7 pm.

• We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity. Everyone who joins early will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

• $170K - $220K + equity

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Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company's size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Squad (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.

Squad is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Working with us

Squad is based in New York, with our team working out of a beautiful office in Flatiron.

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy and ownership. We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity to reflect that. Everyone who joins early will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We run a high-trust environment with real autonomy and ownership. We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity to reflect that. Everyone who joins early will be a major contributor to our success.

We also provide benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact:

• Health insurance

• Unlimited PTO

• Lunch at the office every day and dinner after 7pm (usually fresh healthy food from Eataly)

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Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company's size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Squad (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.

Squad is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.