Y Combinator
Investment Associate & Product Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$500kDetected 194 days ago
ReactRailsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLDesign SystemsResearchCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- using code to improve how YC evaluates companies, supports founders, and scales its impact after the batch.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack web applications for partners, founders, and investors
- Own features end-to-end: scoping, design, implementation, and iteration
- Build and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, or workflows that support investment decisions
- Write clear, structured memos and analyses for partners and our Investment Committee
- Likes talking to users and senior stakeholders to decide what to build
- Engineers have real autonomy and work closely with partners and founders to build things that matter.
- A pure investing or finance role with little hands-on building
Requirements
- Experience shipping full-stack web applications
- comfort with metrics and financial concepts
- Excellent judgment, integrity, and ability to work with sensitive information
- Not required, but helpful
- Experience with Rails, React, Postgres, or similar frameworks and databases
- If you've built strong full-stack products before, you can learn our stack.
Skills
- This is not two jobs stitched together.
- Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment
- Investing & Analysis
- Evaluate post-batch and growth-stage companies by analyzing business models, markets, teams, and operating metrics
- Contribute to diligence efforts, including reviewing decks and data rooms, benchmarking KPIs, and conducting market or customer research
Compensation
- $250K to $500K base salary, depending on experience.
Benefits
- YC has a profit-sharing program, which is comparable to equity in an early-stage startup or carry in a VC fund.
Company info
- Former founders or early-stage engineers
- Product-minded engineers who've worked closely with business or finance teams
- Engineers with prior exposure to investing, finance, or company analysis
Visa & Work Authorization
- Y Combinator is willing to sponsor certain employment visas in accordance with company policy.
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