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Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own. In an industry where branded financial products usually mean shared logos and shared control, Cardless is built to disappear. Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.\nIn September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million. The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.\nWe're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.\nAbout the Role\nCardless has found product-market fit, has live card programs with brands like Coinbase and Bilt, and is growing fast. The next chapter depends on one thing more than any other: hiring the engineers, data scientists and technical leaders who will build the infrastructure behind those programs.\nAs one of the first technical recruiters at Cardless, you will own full-cycle hiring for our most critical engineering searches, from staff-level backend engineers to the leaders who will build out entire teams. You will work directly with engineering leadership, and because the team is small, the playbooks, interview processes and hiring bar you put in place now will become the template for how we hire for years to come.\nWhat You Will Do\nOwn the full cycle. Run every search end to end: intake, market mapping, outbound, interview loops, debriefs and close. You are accountable for the hire, not just the pipeline.\n\nHunt the best of the best. Find and engage passive engineers with sophisticated sourcing techniques and a white-glove candidate experience throughout.\n\nAdvise engineering leadership. Push back on requirements, bring market data on talent and comp, and act as a true partner to hiring managers on who to hire and how to win them.\n\nClose top talent against top offers. Build offer strategies, explain early-stage equity clearly, and win candidates who are weighing us against the strongest companies in the Bay Area.\n\nBuild the recruiting engine for scale. Design and improve structured interview frameworks, processes, programs and systems.\n\nReport on what matters. Track pipeline health, conversion and time-to-hire, and use that data to tell leadership where hiring is on track and where it isn't.\n\nWhat We Look For\nTechnical Recruiting Depth: 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, with a track record of closing senior and staff-level engineers.\n\nStartup Experience: You have recruited at a high-growth, venture-backed startup and know how to build process where none exists. Fintech or infrastructure experience is a plus.\n\nSan Francisco Network: You know the SF engineering market: who the strongest teams are, what they pay and how to get their engineers on the phone.\n\nSourcing Craft: You are an expert outbound recruiter. 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