Backend Developer

Help Shape the Future of AI-Powered Recruiting

About Us

Toro is revolutionizing the staffing industry through AI-powered solutions that transform how recruiting firms operate. Our SaaS platform analyzes conversational data and behavioral patterns to help recruiters work smarter and create exceptional candidate experiences.

The Role

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team as employee #8! You'll be a key part of our dev team, building and scaling the systems that power our AI-driven recruitment analytics platform — ingesting data from applicant tracking systems and communication platforms, processing it through LLM pipelines, and turning it into actionable insights delivered through our Next.js/React frontend to staffing agencies. The role is primarily backend, but at a startup, everyone pitches in across the stack when needed.

What You'll Do

• Build backend services and APIs that ingest, process, and serve recruitment data at scale
• Design data models and pipelines that handle complex, real-world staffing workflows
• Integrate with third-party platforms like Bullhorn ATS, Salesforce, and Dynamics
• Contribute to our AI/LLM processing pipeline — shaping how we extract insights from unstructured communication data
• Help shape our technical direction as an early team member

What You Bring

• 3+ years of professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Solid experience with MongoDB (schema design, indexing, aggregation framework)
• Experience integrating with large third-party enterprise systems — OAuth/token refresh, rate limits, and incremental sync of large datasets
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler)
• Experience with RESTful APIs and/or tRPC, and schema validation (Zod)
• Comfort with event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns
• Demonstrated production experience building with LLMs — comfortable with function/tool calling and structured outputs, not just freeform prompting
• A security-conscious mindset — you think about input validation, access controls, and safe data handling as part of building features, not an afterthought
• Bonus: Experience with staffing or recruiting technology

Why Join Us?

• Compensation: $80-120K + opportunity for company ownership as we scale
• Health & dental benefits with 75% of premiums covered by Toro, starting day one
• 14 paid holidays + flexible PTO
• 100% remote work with flexible hours — we provide your laptop and gear
• Access to AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) if you want them — we just ask that you understand the code you ship
• Ground floor opportunity at a fast-growing startup
• Work with cutting-edge AI technology in a real production environment

Location

Remote position open to candidates authorized to work in the United States. We primarily operate on Eastern time, and the team meets periodically in person with travel covered.