Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Sept 29

David here, Co-Founder of Coastal Recruiting —a boutique group that helps top founders build their early engineering teams in NYC, SF, and remotely across the stack. Our startups are backed by the best (Lightspeed, Sequoia, Founders Fund, a16z), and we help them grow from Seed to IPO.

Why You? Our founders consistently say they’re looking for backgrounds just like yours. I’m in your inbox bringing you highly coveted early-stage engineering opportunities. Check out what a candidate has to say about us at the bottom of this email 👇

Why Coastal? We’re a small, but mighty team with 25+ combined years helping early-stage startups build engineering teams. We only partner with startups we’d want to work with ourselves, backed by T1 investors, have strong commercial momentum, and pass the ‘vibe’ test.

Not looking, but have a friend searching for their next early stage venture? Let me know!

Now - without further ado - check out the 4 startups below who are firing on all cylinders and are assembling world class teams.

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

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

• 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.

• Open Roles:

  • Sr/Staff Engineers (Fullstack, Backend)

  • Blockchain Engineers

Operationalizing Enterprise AI - Seed (Greylock, Founders Fund) - Fort Mason

• Mission/ Vision: Stealth startup operationalizing AI for enterprises who keep America running. They are building a self managing business for large services industries with expertise.

• TLDR:

  • Founding team early Scale AI engineering leaders with contagious energy 

  • Clients are large enterprises who deliver a domain expertise in the real world (e.g. automotive, home services, healthcare, etc)

  • Active deployments with enterprise customers, impressive ARR

• Open Roles:

  • Sr/Staff Engineers (Fullstack, Backend)

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Generative AI for Traditional Finance - Series A (Khosla) - Soho

• Mission/Vision: Fast-growing startup building Generative AI for financial services.

• TLDR:

  • Their financial AI platform aggregates the most important financial and customer data into a simple AI chat platform, then partners with clients to build their key workflows.

  • Exceptional GTM Traction: Top Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and PE funds are clients

  • Rapid MoM growth rate, with sizable ARR

• Open Roles:

  • Founding Product Designer

  • Sr/Staff Engineers (Fullstack, Backend)

Unifying Financial Data for the Enterprise - Seed (Founders Fund, Menlo) - Soho

• Mission/Vision: Building a unified data platform to make the dream of live, rich, comprehensive financial data a reality. Automating the manual and the tedious and giving super powers to the accounting & finance org.

• TLDR:

  • Raised $10M from Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures and 8VC

  • Hundreds of customers depend on them to close, monitor and report financials.

  • Clients range from series A startups to public companies, including Brex, OpenAI, Plaid, Braze, Wealthfront, and more

  • Experienced 4x YoY revenue growth since May ‘23; pacing for $XXM by EOY

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend, Backend)

Candidate Testimonial:

Working with Abby has been hands down the best experience I’ve ever had with a recruiter. From start to finish, she went above and beyond to ensure I was fully prepared for every stage of the interview process. She took the time to text and call with words of encouragement, helping to ease any nerves and making me feel genuinely supported at every turn. Abby’s commitment to my success was clear from day one — she didn’t just guide me through the process, she made me feel like I had a true partner in my corner. Her thoughtfulness, attention to detail, and unwavering support made all the difference, and I’m incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with someone so dedicated and invested.

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