Technical Recruiter at Middesk (San Francisco, CA)

Middesk· San Francisco, CA·5d ago

Role details

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

ABOUT MIDDESK

Middesk is building the data and intelligence infrastructure that helps businesses work together with confidence. We started by creating a comprehensive platform for understanding businesses, bringing together authoritative and proprietary data to help customers verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and manage risk throughout the customer lifecycle.

Today, Middesk is used by more than 700 banks and fintechs, and in 2025 we verified more than 7 million companies. We've also expanded beyond business verification to help companies form, register, manage, and maintain their businesses, supporting more than 50,000 companies in setting up over 100,000 accounts required to hire employees, run payroll, and stay compliant.

Middesk came out of Y Combinator, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi. We're proud to be named on the Forbes Fintech 50 and Best Startup Employers lists.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Middesk is looking for a tenacious and versatile full-cycle Technical Recruiter to help shape our future. We’re building the business identity platform that accelerates the economy. Your role is to accelerate our growth by building exceptional teams.

You're an experienced talent partner who brings a deep understanding of the market, and proven success embedding with technical stakeholders to source and close hard-to-fill roles. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to translate a business need into a full candidate pipeline - and ultimately to new hires who raise the bar for those around them.

Middesk has offices in SF and NYC. This is a hybrid role requiring 2+ days per week in our SF office.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own the full recruiting lifecycle - sourcing, qualifying, and closing - across multiple concurrent searches for Middesk’s Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams
Partner with hiring managers to define what great looks like, build structured interview processes, and sharpen how we position Middesk in a competitive talent market
Ensure a consistent, fair, and engaging candidate experience that demonstrates our values and why Middesk a great place to work
Help evolve our recruiting systems, tooling, and process as we scale

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

5+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with proven success recruiting technical talent
Curiosity and the ability to quickly learn and credibly recruit new profiles of talent
High ownership and the drive to succeed in an ambitious, fast-paced environment
Communication and collaboration skills to earn trust with both hiring teams and candidates
Proactive use of the AI-enabled recruiting tech stack, with a focus on continuous improvement
Team-first mindset and a positive attitude; no task is too big or too small

Why work at Middesk

Culture: Values transparency, ownership, and momentum. Core values include “Embrace ambition,” “Lead with curiosity,” “Win together,” and “Put customers first.”
Work model: Hybrid — employees are expected to be in the office at least 2 days per week (in San Francisco or New York). The company values in-person collaboration.
Perks & benefits:
- Equity (stock options) for all full-time employees.
- 3 months paid parental leave.
- Annual learning & development budget.
- Unlimited PTO (with encouragement to actually use it).
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
- 401(k) plan.
- Pet-friendly offices with free snacks and drinks.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
- Customized development tracks and promotion policies.
Engineering culture: Described as building “high-impact systems” with thoughtful, driven teammates. Roles include Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, Data Scientist, and Lead Data Scientist.
Recognition: Named America’s Best Startup Employers 2025, indicating strong employee satisfaction and company health.

About Middesk

Company Overview

One-liner: Middesk is a business identity platform that helps companies verify, onboard, and monitor businesses with confidence, replacing slow manual processes with automated KYB (Know Your Business) and compliance infrastructure.
Entity Type: Private (Series B, $77.5M total funding)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA (with a second office in New York, NY)
Founded: 2019
Founders: Kyle Mack (CEO) and Sean Higgins (CTO)

Core Business

Primary industry/industries: Business identity verification, Know Your Business (KYB) compliance, fraud prevention, regulatory technology (RegTech), and financial infrastructure.
Target customers: B2B; primarily banks, fintechs, lenders, marketplaces, payroll & compliance platforms, and any company that needs to verify and onboard other businesses.
Mission or purpose statement: “We’re building the foundation trust runs on.” The company aims to make business identity reliable, transferable, and usable at scale so trust can move faster across the economy.

Products & Services

Middesk Platform (Verification/KYB): An automated system that verifies business identity by pulling data from 400+ authoritative sources. It enables auto-approval decisions, reduces manual review, and surfaces fraud signals like synthetic identities and ownership networks.
Business Registration: Helps companies register for payroll taxes and ensure compliance with state and federal requirements.
Fraud Prevention: Detects synthetic identities, maps ownership networks, and surfaces risk before it becomes exposure.
Underwriting: Provides data and insights to support underwriting decisions for lending and financial services.
Monitoring: Ongoing business monitoring to ensure compliance and detect changes in business status.
API & Dashboard: Modular toolkit that integrates directly into onboarding, risk, compliance, and operations workflows.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
Key Metric: Total funding of $77.5M across 3 rounds. Annual revenue estimated at $5.0M (per LinkedIn data).
Notable Investors/Partners: Y Combinator (backed since 2018), Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners. Also named to the Forbes Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader by Liminal.
Growth Signals:
- Ranked in the top 20% of the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
- Named a 2025 Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Company.
- Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2025.
- 120 employees (+26.5% YoY growth).
- Over 500 customers across banking, fintech, lending, payments, and marketplaces.
- Customers see 30% higher auto-approval rates and 60–70% less manual review.
- Verifies and onboards over 5 million businesses annually.

Competitive Advantages

Data moat: Pulls from 400+ authoritative sources (government agencies, credit bureaus, etc.), creating a comprehensive and accurate business identity dataset.
Automation-first: Designed to handle the majority of verifications automatically, letting human analysts focus only on exceptions. This drives operational leverage for customers.
Audit-ready: Every decision is documented and audit-ready from the start, which is critical for regulated industries.
SOC 2 Type II compliant: Rigorous security controls protecting customer-sensitive data.
End-to-end platform: Covers verification, fraud, registration, and monitoring in one system across the customer journey, reducing the need for multiple vendors.

Strategic Focus

Scaling the platform: Continuing to expand the number of data sources and the breadth of business identity intelligence.
Deepening regulated industry presence: Specifically targeting banks, fintechs, lenders, and platforms where compliance and risk management are paramount.
Product expansion: Likely expanding into adjacent areas like enhanced due diligence (EDD), continuous monitoring, and more sophisticated fraud detection.
International growth: While currently US-focused, the platform’s infrastructure could expand to support global business verification.

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