YCombinator

If you're interested in learning more about startups, Y Combinator is hiring for a full-stack Product Engineer. Working at YC probably is one of the best ways to learn about startups. Everyone on the team gets to participate in the YC programming -- dinners, talks, and more. You'll get a unique vantage point to learn about startups, and to write software that has helped companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Instacart exist.

We're a team of 10 full-stack product engineers and have a pretty broad range of experiences -- from bigger companies like FB and Google, as well as former YC founders ourselves. Our stack is pretty straightforward (Rails, React, Postgres), but the last three engineers have learned it on the job. True to YC advice, our product engineers talk to our customers regularly (in our case, it's mostly founders) and ship fast. We also define our own roadmap. You won't be building software to scale to millions of users, but you'll be talking 1-1 with lots of founders to build stuff they need to help build and grow their companies, and that's a different kind of reward.

In particular, we're hiring for the Work at a Startup team. This is an opportunity to help YC companies build their early teams, and to help people launch their careers at great startups. We've helped hire over 1600 people in the last few years, and we feel like we're just getting started. We're doing so by building a combination job marketplace, ATS and community software for our YC founders and extended network. Check out https://workatastartup.com/ to get a better sense of all the things we (and our software team) powers.

If working on YC's software team and helping great startups sounds interesting at all, please apply. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Location

• We are headquartered in the Bay Area, with offices in San Francisco and Mountain View. Employees living outside the Bay Area will be required to travel for team meetings and company events. The frequency and length of travel are based on the specific role and responsibilities.

Benefits

• Our full benefits package includes medical, vision, and dental plans, infertility benefit, STD/LTD, life insurance, commuter benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, 401(k) + 4% matching, generous parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible sick and vacation policy.

Compensation

• $180,000 to $280,000 + target bonus (depending on skills and experience).

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