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Slash, Inc.
Product Engineer: Core Banking
Product Engineer: Core Banking
Product Engineer: Core Banking
Full time
San Francisco
$175K – $250K
Strong builder/founder experience — ideally a founder or founding engineer with real traction and deployed projects
Willing to work in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup culture + articulate startup challenges they’ve navigated
Our Recruiting Pillars
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Growth Stage Startups

Growth Stage Startups

Growth Stage Startups
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Early Stage Startups

Early Stage Startups

Early Stage Startups
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Product-Led Teams

Product-Led Teams

Product-Led Teams
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YC-Backed Startups

YC-Backed Startups

YC-Backed Startups
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AI Labs & LLM Training
AI Labs & LLM Training
AI Labs & LLM Training
Hire in Days with Contrario
Hire in Days with Contrario
We help you avoid losing weeks or months chasing the wrong candidates. After a short intake, we lock in your exact hiring needs and quickly calibrate qualified profiles so your team can stay focused on building.
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Interview and Hire with Confidence
Record a quick intake video with our team. We’ll turn it into a structured job post with candidate requirements, ideal companies, and more—so recruiters can start sourcing right away.

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Record a quick intake video with our team. We’ll turn it into a structured job post with candidate requirements, ideal companies, and more—so recruiters can start sourcing right away.
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Record a quick intake video with our team. We’ll turn it into a structured job post with candidate requirements, ideal companies, and more—so recruiters can start sourcing right away.
Add Your Most Elusive Job Openings

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Built-in Advantages with Contrario
Work with world class recruiters
Whether you're hiring founding engineers or data labelers, we’ve built a vetted network of experienced recruiters to fill any role you need help with.
Whether you're hiring founding engineers or data labelers, we’ve built a vetted network of experienced recruiters to fill any role you need help with.






Flex based on your hiring urgency
Dynamically adjust the number of roles posted and the total firepower of sourcing you want for any given role.
Use a high-signal recruiting stack
Tap into the output of a full-stack recruiting team without overhead. Have one point of contact with streamlined execution.






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No added lift. We connect directly to your ATS, Slack, email, and calendar—so your workflow stays clean and familiar.
What Our Clients Say About Us
What Our Clients Say About Us
What Our Clients Say About Us
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
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Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
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Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Next.js


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Model Evals

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React Native


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Prompt Engineering


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RLHF

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iOS


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