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Software Engineer

Paraform
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2026
Paraform is a recruiting platform that enables elite recruiters to help companies fill their most critical roles faster. Since starting, we've enabled companies like Shopify, Palantir, Coinbase, Decagon, Ramp and hundreds more finally have a reliable way to hire top talent.

We are looking for a product-minded engineer to join us in revolutionizing the recruiting industry. We’re looking for someone who is excited by this challenge and influence the hundreds of billions spent on staffing and recruiter per year.

You’ll have end-to-end ownership and the chance to work with one of the most valuable data sets in recruiting to solve hiring at scale. Your work will directly affect the lives of millions and help us shape how industries are built across the world.

Some interesting problems you'll get a chance to work on:

  • Intelligently match millions of candidates and companies with our unique and proprietary data source driven by recruiters
  • Design monetary and social incentives to define how recruiters should work and help them earn more than ever
  • Build core tooling to power recruiter workflows and enable accurate candidate matching (AI notetaker, email sequencing, chrome extension, etc.)
  • Create a new paradigm for how candidates find their dream job via recruiters and lay the foundations to build the next LinkedIn
  • Hack away at creative ways to acquire marketplace liquidity in new industries like Legal, Finance, and Healthcare

About Paraform

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

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