Understanding Recruitment

I started out in the Java recruitment team in July 2019 and in March 2020, decided to set up the Python recruitment team as I saw a big opportunity for growth and to build out something for myself. I'm now managing a team of 5 recruitment consultants across AM and BD.Awards:🏆 2020 Trainee of the Year🏆 2020 Top UK Biller in my first year of recruitment🏆 2020 'UR' of the Year - voted by all employees🏆 2021 'UR of the Year🏆 2024 Manager of the Year01727 225 552 or at jsmith@understandingrecruitment.co.uk

Principal Recruitment Consultant

Managing Recruitment Consultant 

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Recruitment Consultant

Trainee Recruitment Consultant

My main responsibilities included social media management for both Twitter and Instagram, changing prices through using the Betfair exchange on a manual system, client portfolio building and risk management through hedging. I maintained the prices of horse racing throughout the day and Golf, Rugby Union, Rugby League & Football pricing for both current and future events.

Sports Trader

Running a daily sports trading twitter page in which I research both pre match and inplay markets in order to compile tips for over 1500 followers. The page has generated a 25% return on investment and is continually growing as a business.

Touch Rugby Coach

Centaurs Group Pte Ltd

Sports Intern

Josh Smith

Backend Engineer needed at Endex in NYC, on-site. Design/build backend systems for financial analysis platform. Must have strong GitHub, TypeScript, Python, experience at reputable startups. Architect scalable systems, work on data engineering pipelines. Confident, curious, well-spoken. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $200K-$250K.

Vladyslav Shuvalov

Timothy Zhu

Ashwin Pai

Varun K.

Dávid Réti

Yugam G

David W.

Aditya Arolkar

Kelvin Steven

Endex is on a mission to bridge the present to the inevitable by building the most sophisticated digital coworker for financial services (AI financial analyst function). We're recruiting a team to work on the frontier of agentic development and applied finance, in close collaboration with leading research labs. We just raised $50M round led by OpenAI.

Endex

As a Backend Engineer you will build the core systems that power our financial analysis platform. You'll design and develop robust APIs, services, and application logic that transform complex financial data into intuitive tools for investment professionals.We have large data engineering pipelines that ingest millions of earnings calls/SEC filings and an enterprise search function. You'll be building the infrastructure to do that as well as work on airflow pipelines and data pipelines.

Backend Engineer 

Full Stack Engineering Leader needed in San Francisco, on-site, 5 days/week. Must have 1+ years managing teams, 5+ years at big tech, and 2+ years building products from scratch. Strong frontend/backend skills, familiar with Kotlin, Ktor, React, Postgres. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $170K-$180K.

Austin Chandra

Dylan Zumar

Hou Chong Chan

Aditya Sadalage

Ali ibrahim

Layer provides embedded accounting software for vertical SaaS platforms and neobanks that serve small and medium-sized businesses.We’re building accounting software and bookkeeping services API-first so they can be integrated directly into the SMB software platforms where business owners already work. With Layer, small business owners get a radically better accounting experience with frictionless integration and the SMB software platforms increase customer engagement/revenue by solving this core pain point.

Layer

Looking for excellent full stack engineers passionate about Fintech or Vertical SaaS who want to accelerate their career and take on high levels of product ownership at Layer!We want engineers who can build a team and a company, not just a best-in-class product. We believe that certainly takes broad technical competence across our tech stack, but it also takes harder to find abilities, such as…<ul><li>Thinking forward from first principles and backwards from customer needs at the same time.</li><li>Curiosity about both technical and business problems.</li><li>Navigating competing priorities and tradeoffs using your own mental map of company goals.</li><li>A desire for ownership in product &amp; team decisions.</li><li>Loving people and wanting to make your teammates around you better at their own strengths.</li></ul>Role responsibilities:<ul><li>Plan and build full-stack products (API-first accounting software and bookkeeping services) with developers and end users in mind.</li><li>Perform testing, deployment, monitoring for the products that you build.</li><li>Act as a technical point of contact for customers in the implementation phase.</li><li>Collaborate with a team passionate about helping SMBs and the people involved.</li><li>Interviewing other new candidates</li></ul>

Fullstack Engineer

Open to H1-B transfer of TN, but no full sponsorship

Cardless in SF seeks Staff-level Backend Engineers. Must have fintech experience, strong ownership, Java/Python proficiency, AWS, No-SQL (DynamoDB), and API development. Avoid Scrum Masters. Lead scalable system design, architecture, and collaboration. Hybrid work; visa sponsorship available. Salary: $180k-$260k.

Pravin Kumaradhas Lalitha

Ilya Khrolenko

Cardless empowers brands to launch a fully integrated credit card experience in weeks. Unlike traditional co-branded card offerings, our efficient platform enables tailored card customization, seamless embedded application and account management, and comprehensive support—from underwriting and fraud detection to rewards and compliance. This all-in-one solution drives user engagement and rapid growth by integrating a complete credit card journey directly into your app or website.

Cardless

Cardless is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our exceptional team! This person will also be expected to set the technical direction and execution for our team on Fintech platform and can impact multiple domains spanning applications, accounts transactions, fraud, risk and rewardsAs the Staff Engineer for our team, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:Technical Leadership and Oversight<ul><li>Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance systems for co-branded credit card products</li><li>Work on both the 0 to 1 stage and the subsequent scaling of successful products</li><li>Lead by example with hands on execution in the more complex domains of our architecture&nbsp;</li></ul>System Architecture and Design<ul><li>Architect end-to-end solutions for our products, incorporating security, compliance and performance optimization</li><li>Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to meet the platform’s requirements and future scalability</li><li>Ensure the system design supports high availability, disaster recovery, and easy maintenance</li></ul>Communication and Collaboration<ul><li>Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure their successful implementation.</li><li>Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning</li><li>Communicate effectively with executive leadership, and provide updates on project status, technical challenges, and strategic direction.</li></ul>

Software Engineer

Looking for a high-energy, product-focused engineer with strong side projects, exceptional communication, and top school background (e.g., Harvard, Stanford). Must have worked at high-ownership companies (e.g., Palantir, Anduril). Location: San Francisco, North Beach. On-site work. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $130k-$200k.

Kai Lu

Ansh Aneel

Caleb John

Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects companies with specialized recruiters to fill their hardest roles. By centralizing this process, we enable faster and more cost-effective hires—turning months of hiring into days.Incredible teams at the most exciting companies are being built with Paraform; Including Scale AI, Ramp, Palantir, Applied Intuition and many more.We've grown extremely fast in the past year to more than 8 figures in ARR and are backed by Silicon Valley's finest like the founders of Canva, YouTube, Instacart, Eventbrite, Doordash, Twitch and more.We see the future of recruiting as being fractional and powered by AI and believe we're best positioned to finally solve it.

Co-founder 

Paraform

Recruiting is the highest-leverage action any company can take. Hundreds of billions are spent on staffing and recruiting per year because of how difficult yet critical it is. Hiring the best candidate for any role should take days, not months, and we’re best positioned to solve this at scale with our AI-enabled recruiting marketplace.What You’ll Work On<ul><li>Accurately match millions of candidates and recruiters to companies</li><li>Hack away at creative ways to acquire liquidity in new industries</li><li>Design incentives and tools to make Paraform a recruiter's full-time job</li><li>Build a company experience that feels seamless yet white glove</li></ul>Why You Should Join<ul><li>Thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments</li><li>Build with proprietary data and shape how AI transforms recruiting</li><li>Help scale a company with PMF while continuously innovating</li><li>You're a product-minded engineer who loves talking to users</li></ul>What We Look For<ul><li>High attention to detail in design and user experience</li><li>Full-stack coding experience building products end-to-end</li><li>Experience working at early-stage startups or hacking on projects</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Has immense drive and passion for the work you do</li></ul>You’ll have end-to-end ownership and the chance to work with one of the most valuable data sets in recruiting to finally solve hiring at scale. Your work will directly affect the lives of millions and help us shape how industries are built across the world. If this sounds interesting, email me at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:jeff@paraform.com">jeff@paraform.com</a>

Frontend/Product Engineer at Endex. Strong GitHub, ex-technical founder or frontend/product engineer at notable startups. Experience with TypeScript, Python, intuitive UI design. Prefer candidates from large tech; IBM/Ford okay. Work on AI financial services applications. NYC onsite, visa sponsorship available. $200K-$250K salary.

Kevin G.

Jeffrey Zhang

We're building a user-facing application, so as a Frontend / Product Engineer you will help us revolutionize how financial professionals interact with market data and make investment decisions.

Frontend / Product Engineer 

Founding Engineers in SF. On-site. No visa sponsorship. $200k-$300k. Build/improve AI agents for software support. Must-have: strong CS degree, Python, pre-college coding, startup experience, AI agents/workflows, 70+ hours/week. Avoid egos. Work closely with top software companies. Fast-paced, high ownership. Proven exceptional achievements required.

Yi M.

Parahelp is an AI support agent for software companies. Just like a teammate, it resolves support tickets end-to-end using your existing knowledge base, SOPs, and tools (like Slack, Stripe, Retool, and Linear).

Parahelp

Parahelp is the AI support agent for software companies. Our agent resolves support tickets end-to-end by working as a coworker using a company's existing infrastructure, including tools like Slack, Stripe, Retool, Linear, etc. We're building our founding team to shape how the best software companies use AI to move faster and build better products. You'll build and improve the AI agents powering Parahelp – applying latest techniques, running evaluations, building retrieval pipelines and optimizing for speed and cost. You'll also get to work closely with customers like Perplexity, Replit, Framer, HeyGen and more. You might be a great fit if:<ul><li>You've built production-grade LLM systems and agent architectures</li><li>You have strong software engineering fundamentals and deep AI/ML knowledge</li><li>You proactively automate your own workflow with AI tools</li><li>You're ambitious and thrive in fast-paced environments</li><li>You're always trying to move faster and find shortcuts</li></ul>

Founding AI Engineer

Founding Engineer (Fullstack) at Athina AI, SF-based, hybrid (2+ days in-person). Build AI-centric, backend-heavy systems. Experience in fast-paced B2B SaaS startups (pre-seed - Series A/B) required. Strong Node.js, Python, React, SQL skills. No visa sponsorship. Salary: $125K-$200K. Must have top university CS degree. Enthusiasm for GenAI essential.

David Zhan Liu

Athina is building an IDE for AI development.We want to define how teams will prototype, experiment, train, evaluate and monitor AI products.The next decade will enable AI-powered products and features that are radically different from the software we have been building until now.Athina is backed by top investors such as Y Combinator, Flourish Ventures, and founders of very successful AI / SaaS companies.

Athina AI (YC W23)

Athina helps teams build, test and monitor AI systems for production. AI is being integrated into every piece of software in the world. Athina is building the stack to enable AI-powered software in production.We’re growing rapidly, and need to hire a 10x founding engineer to keep up with growth. We’re in a market that moves really fast. As a team, we have to move even faster. This requires an intensity and commitment that is not for everyone. But if you have an intense drive to push the boundaries and shape the future, then this might be for you.What you can expect:<ul><li>Complete transparency</li><li>A team that works really hard and gets shit done</li><li>Work closely with some of the fastest growing AI companies in the world</li><li>Work closely with an awesome team</li><li>Opportunity to lead (if you’re up for it)</li></ul>

Founding Engineer / Senior Fullstack Engineer

About Athina AI
Athina is building an IDE for AI development.

We want to define how teams will prototype, experiment, train, evaluate and monitor AI products.

The next decade will enable AI-powered products and features that are radically different from the software we have been building until now.

Athina is backed by top investors such as Y Combinator, Flourish Ventures, and founders of very successful AI / SaaS companies.

Our founding team includes engineers who have built complex systems at Google and Swiggy, as well as a second-time founder who grew his last startup to $8M in revenue.

We are already working with some of the best AI companies in the world to reshape how they build products and we're looking to build a world-class team.

This is an open-domain, unsolved problem, and we’re looking for tinkerers, hackers, and creatives who want to build the toolkit for the next decade of software.

If you're interested in building the stack for the next decade of software development, reach out to us to join our team.

About the role
Skills: Node.js, Python, React, SQL
Athina is building an IDE to enable the development of AI-powered products.

We are on a mission to build the new stack for AI product teams. This means defining how teams will prototype, experiment, train, evaluate and monitor GenAI products.

The next decade will enable AI-powered products and features that are radically different from the software we have been building until now.

This is an open-domain unsolved problem, and we’re looking for tinkerers, hackers, and creatives who want to build the toolkit for the next decade of software.

Minimum requirements:

Min. 4+ years of experience as a SWE
Strong frontend + backend skills
Experience creating complex software systems from the ground up

Ideal requirements:

You are excited about GenAI and are tinkering and hacking
You are excited about the challenge of figuring out unsolved problems
You are based in SF, or willing to relocate
What we look for

We're a small team, so we’re looking for someone who can tackle complex problems end-to-end.

The job is not to write code. The job is to create a product that solves the problem and delights users.

About Us:

GenAI development is an open domain problem, and requires a lot of creativity, tinkering and experimentation.

We require a strong work ethic, and in return we promise you the same.

See our website at http://athina.ai

Technology
Problems we're solving
How to generate, curate and annotate data for training and testing
How to evaluate complex AI products
How to prototype and test complex AI agents
Stack
Postgres DB
(Node.js + Typescript) API server
(Python) Workers for running evaluations and background jobs
(Python) Open-source evaluations library
(React.js + Typescript) Frontend


Hybrid in San Francisco, in-office at least a couple days/week

Similar Recruiters

Start your search today.