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Product Engineer

Salary

$180k - $270k

Min Experience

3 years

Location

San Francisco, CA, US

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Y Combinator is run by a small team that is committed to helping founders build their startup and make it take off like the next Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit or Doordash (all companies that previously went through YC). While YC is primarily known for it's batch program for founders (https://www.ycombinator.com/about), what's lesser known is that we have our own small-but-mighty software team. We build tools to help run YC, as well as to help our founders have an unfair advantage — through our unparalleled founder network, expert advice from YC General Partners, exclusive funding opportunities, and much more. Working at YC is a unique place to operating like a startup — talking to customers and shipping code rapidly — and also be surrounded and learning at the frontier of the new startup world. About the role While the software team itself is very small (~15 people), the impact of our software for our founders and for YC itself is quite massive. Some examples of the software you'd get to work on: YC's application software. Every batch, we review over 20K applicants, manage interviews with thousands of founders, and select just over 100 companies — all within 3 weeks. To accomplish this feat, we write serious power tools to help partners like Garry and Harj manage the process and make decisions, and we're constantly working to make the software better. Founder fundraising software. We've built the most critical tools for founders to raise a successful seed round: a leads pipeline from Demo Day, legal tools to execute YC safes (https://www.ycombinator.com/documents), and an all-in-one CRM to manage investor relations. Founders regularly tell us that this is the best part of YC. Investment software. YC manages over $6B in our fund, and we write software to help us manage it end-to-end: how to invest it, know where it's allocated, and even use AI to keep our records up-to-date with what founders need from us. Hiring platform. We've built a job marketplace with over 2M job seekers for founders to engage, as well a full suite of messaging and AI-assisted recruiting tools to help founders find great people and hire faster. And despite all of this, we still feel like we're just getting started. We have a lot of great ideas on every front to improve how YC operates and to bring tremendous value to our startups, and many of them are 🤫.

About the company

Y Combinator is run by a small team that is committed to helping founders build their startup and make it take off like the next Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit or Doordash (all companies that previously went through YC).

Skills

rails
react
postgres