Y Combinator

Product Engineer, Internal Tools

San Francisco Bay Area

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$500kDetected 194 days ago

ReactRailsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLProduct Management

About the role

Our particular team focuses on helping founders after the batch, including event software and engagement tools to help YC keep in touch with companies well after they go through the YC program.
We want to understand what's working/not working, and we focus on how continuous improvement over long periods of time can have huge outcomes over months or years.
Our whole software team is only 15 full-stack product engineers, and we enjoy working in a small team with high impact and knowing each other by name.

Design and build out new features in entirety. Our particular team focuses on helping founders after the batch, including event software and engagement tools to help YC keep in touch with companies well after they go through the YC program.
Work alongside YC Partners to build productivity software. We've built Gmail plugins and company dashboards for partners to quickly engage founders who email/ Slack them regularly.
Scope and prioritize the roadmap. We make trade-offs of effort and impact every day, and engineers help us decide what's most urgent and important to build next.
If you're interested in starting your own startup one day, eight former engineers on our team have gone on to start YC-funded startups.
If you want to start your own startup someday but aren't ready to do it now, working at YC could be an excellent way to get there.
We also define our own roadmap and often design our own products when needed.
Lastly: If you're interested in starting your own startup one day, eight former engineers on our team have gone on to start YC-funded startups.

Our needs as an organization require a large degree of flexibility, and people change teams quite often.

YC has a profit-sharing program, which is comparable to equity in an early-stage startup or carry in a VC fund.

We have a broad range of experiences from bigger companies like Meta and Google, and many of us have started startups ourselves.
True to YC advice, our product engineers talk to our customers regularly and ship fast.
Our stack is pretty straightforward (Rails, React, Postgres), and the last three engineers have learned it on the job.
That said, we've found that enjoying front-end software development is key to being successful here, so it's almost a requirement for the role.
To manage our operations at scale, we write lots of software for YC itself.
We offer generous relocation support for those who want to move to SF to work here.

Y Combinator is willing to sponsor certain employment visas in accordance with company policy.

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