Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Dec 19

Ready to start the new year with a fresh job search? Interested in interviewing with San Francisco’s and New York’s elite startups across AI/ML, crypto and fintech?

is a boutique firm representing SF’s and NYC’s engineers who want to join a startup. We work with each coast’s elite founders backed by T1 VC’s, from Seed —> Series C. Grab time below to schedule an introductory consultation call with our team in January:

What you can expect when working with us:

• Understand your career goals + motivations ✅

• Introduce you to founders + startups that align with your goals ✅

• Coach you on the interview process, each step of the way ✅

• Assist with all aspects of interviewing, from offer —> negotiation ✅

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Now - without further ado - below are top startups building their core engineering teams in SF and NYC:

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

Stripe for Stablecoins - Series A (Sequoia, Ribbit, Index)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is building the Stripe for Stablecoins; Their API’s allow developers to build applications and businesses on top of stablecoins.

• TLDR:

  • Since launching 18 months ago, they’ve provided millions with faster and cheaper access to cross-border payments; growing monthly payments volume to $1M/month 1 year ago to $500M/month today.

  • Fastest growing Series A startup in Sequoia’s portfolio.

  • Founding team has previously built financial infrastructure at Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb, etc

  • Recently acquired by Stripe

• Open Roles:

  • Senior / Staff Frontend Engineers

  • Blockchain Engineers

Leader in AI Legal Tech - Series A (T1 VCs)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is pioneering the application of AI in the legal industry, crafting solutions that redefine how law firms operate.

• TLDR:

  • Their platform empowers plaintiff lawyers in case work, leveraging advanced AI models, thoughtful design, and precise engineering

  • Small, mighty team led by seasoned founders

  • About to announce massive Series A by T1 investors

• Open Roles:

  • Senior/Staff Fullstack / Product Engineer

  • Staff Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

AI Video Generation & Editing - Seed (YC, Google Ventures)

• Mission/Vision: This startup builds states of the art tools to generate and edit humans in video

• TLDR:

  • Their models allow business leaders, creators, and Hollywood producers edit what is already spoken in a video so you do not have to reshoot it again.

  • Backed by YC + Google + won the AI grant from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

  • 0 to $1M ARR in <6 months; low-ego, savage founders building one of the coolest work cultures in the peninsula

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Senior Fullstack Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Applied AI/ML Engineer

  • AI/ML Research Engineer/Lead

Transforming Customer-Facing Software - Seed (Human Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This stealth startup creating an LLM-based platform to transform the customer-facing software industry (unify CRM, automate workflows, and eliminate data silos (taking on Salesforce).

• TLDR:

  • World-class founding team (ex-CRO of Brex, ex-Clari Founding Team, world-renowned CPO)

  • $15M Seed round by T1 investors

  • 75-100 day 1 customers in queue

• Open Roles:

  • Fullstack Engineers

  • Frontend Engineers

  • AI/ML Engineers

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Autonomous Cyber Defense - Seed (a16z, Nat Friedman)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is arming critical enterprises with autonomous cyber defenses.

• TLDR:

  • Their security platform combines data fusion and expert autonomy to deliver results to critical enterprises, augmenting their team at every level

  • Actively deployed at Fortune 100 customers, US Space Force and the US Navy

  • Technical team of alumni from Palantir, Shield AI, CrowdStrike, and the US Government

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack)

  • Applied AI/ML Engineers

  • Security Engineers

Optimizing Cloud Mgmt & Spend - Series A (Sound, Framework, Nat Friedman) - Chelsea

• Mission/Vision: Solving cloud complexity by monitoring infrastructure and using AI to automate management, optimize configurations, and tailor solutions to each client's unique needs.

• TLDR:

  • $24.3M Raised (Sound Ventures led $20M Series A)

  • AI Grant participant, supported by tech luminaries Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross

  • Landing massive, enterprise commercial contracts; $0 - 2M ARR in 3 months; $3-5 M by EoY 

  • Brilliant founders with a knack for enterprise SaaS; 8-person eng team in Chelsea 

• Open Roles:

  • Staff Frontend Engineer

  • AI/ML Engineer

  • Infrastructure Lead

Streamlining Patient Care - Series A (Accel, Bain Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This startup streamlines the initial steps of patient care, from confirming insurance coverage to verifying benefits and securing treatment approvals.

• TLDR:

  • Platform uses GenAI to parse clinical documentation and automatically out insurance forms for prior auth

  • Strong commercial momentum; 40% MoM growth + nation-wide healthcare customers

  • Founders are ex-Ramp, raised $27M from T1 investors

• Open Roles:

  • Junior Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend)

Revolutionizing financial research w/AI - Series A (Decibel, Point 72)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is revolutionizing financial research and workflow with AI tools.

• TLDR:

  • Accelerating Business Growth: $21M funded, growing customer base, and rapid expansion in AI financial tech.

  • Personal Impact: Work directly with leadership to shape direction of core products.

  • Innovative Product: AI tools to revolutionize financial research with advanced document analysis and efficiency.

• Open Roles: 

  • Founding Product Designer

Remote-First Opportunities 🌎

Leading L1 Blockchain - Series B (a16z Crypto, Jump Crypto, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Leading L1 blockchain creating infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • Founding-team highly regarded in the web3 space as true thought leaders, coming from Meta

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • T1 investors (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Staff Frontend Engineer

  • Senior Data Platform Engineer (Blockchain Data)

Hottest Newsletter Platform - Series B (Lightspeed, NEA)

• Mission/Vision: This profitable email distribution platform that is already home to thousands of the most popular newsletters in the world.

• TLDR:

  • Every day, the world's largest newsletters are migrating to beehiiv (check out Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robin Arzon and Josh Richards)

  • Send 1B+ emails / month

  • Founders with contagious energy, and a ship-fast engineering culture

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineer (Ruby experience required)

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Abby is awesome and was an integral part of my job search. She first helped clarify my own half-baked thoughts about what my next role should be and worked tirelessly to find opportunities that suited those requirements. She got those companies excited about me, to the point where I could clearly distinguish which opportunities she had sourced and which ones I had just by the initial tenor of the conversation - it literally felt like a cheat-code!

Navigating a bunch of disparate job pipelines is annoying at best, but Abby stayed on top of everything and knew exactly when to prod a company (or me!) to keep everything moving forward. When we got to the offer/negotiating phase, she walked me through exactly how it worked and how best to structure my asks to reach my targets.

Abby is quite literally the best at what she does - I would work with her again in an instant. I’ve already told all of my friends about how working with her felt like playing a game on easy mode and would encourage anyone and everyone to work with her.

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