Transparent Search Group
Software Engineer - Marketplace (Growth Infrastructure)
San Francisco, California, US
Role snapshot
Transparent Search Group is hiring a Software Engineer - Marketplace (Growth Infrastructure) on a full-time basis. This is a role based in San Francisco, California, US.
- Company
- Transparent Search Group
- Location
- San Francisco, California, US
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Posted
- Sep 24, 2026
Who this role suits
People with roughly one to three years of experience who can own small pieces of work with light guidance and want to widen their scope.
How to prepare your application
- Prepare two or three stories about work you owned end to end, including one thing that went wrong and what you changed.
- Read what Transparent Search Group publishes about its product or team, so you can say clearly why this role and this company.
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About the role
Software Engineer - Marketplace (Growth Infrastructure)
Company: Confidential — venture-backed technology company
Location: San Francisco, CA (FiDi office, Monday-Friday; half day or remote on Sunday)
Compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 base ($300,000 - $400,000 OTE) + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)
About the Company
The client builds the complex data infrastructure that frontier AI labs use to train and evaluate their models, and is becoming the go-to data infrastructure partner for Y Combinator companies. It has a talent-dense founding team from top investment banks and quant firms.
Founded in 2024 with about 85 people in San Francisco, the client recently raised at a $3.2B valuation, 10x its valuation in five months, making it the fastest unicorn in YC history.
The Role
The client is hiring a Software Engineer (2+ years) to build the core infrastructure behind expert acquisition, onboarding and matching at scale. This is not a traditional growth engineering role: you will build the platform and tooling the growth team uses to hire, assess, interview, onboard and retain domain experts, from outreach tooling and an AI interviewer to automated expert-to-project matching, with a path to building ML-driven recommendation systems.
What You Will Do
- Build and own the expert marketplace infrastructure: outreach, AI interviewing, assessments and onboarding tooling.
- Develop the hiring platform where experts are onboarded, managed and dispatched to projects by fit and availability.
- Create automations and internal tools that replace manual workflows and multiply the growth team's throughput.
- Partner with growth associates to find bottlenecks, instrument the funnel and ship high-leverage improvements.
- Eventually build ML-driven recommendation systems that predict expert needs for new projects.
What You Bring
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Full-stack skills across TypeScript/JavaScript, Next.js, React, Node.js and Python
- Comfort owning systems end to end with significant autonomy
- Ability to work in the San Francisco office Monday-Friday
Tech Stack
TypeScript/JavaScript, Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, GCP
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