About the role

As the first engineers at Squad, you'll own our product end-to-end - the tools recruiters use to find and submit candidates, the experience companies have when reviewing and hiring, and everything in between.

We've already solved the cold start problem. We have hundreds of users generating thousands of data points every day. The foundation is there. Now comes the fun part: endless room to build, and you'll shape what that looks like.

You'll take full ownership of the product at Squad - what we build, how it works, and how it feels. This isn't a role where you inherit a roadmap. You'll collaborate directly with the founder to figure out what to build, how to build it, and who else we need on the team.

You'll work on things like:

• Creating the product layer that makes our AI useful and usable
• Turning complex, manual workflows into flows that feel instant and effortless
• Building the platform recruiters run their entire business on - and shipping features that directly increase their placements and earnings
• Designing the experience companies use to review candidates and give feedback
• Talking to users frequently
• Building new product surfaces as we expand to new user types and verticals
• And much more which you'll define

We'll be most excited if you have:

• High ownership, comfort with ambiguity, bias toward shipping
• 3+ years of full-stack experience building products end-to-end
• A product mindset: you care as much about the customer problem as the code
• You're used to defining what to build, not only executing on specs.
• Obsessive attention to detail - you push for experiences that feel easy and delightful
• Experience in a high-intensity, high-velocity environment (e.g., seed or Series A/B startup, high-growth tech company, 01 product team)

We're hiring across levels - whether you have 3 years of experience or 10, what matters is the intensity and ownership you've demonstrated.
Working with us

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

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)

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.