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Quick heads up: I've got 6 startups below who need engineers, like, yesterday.
The numbers from last week? 89 engineers connected. 17 moved to onsites. 3 signed offers. If something here looks interesting, just let us know.
🔥 THIS WEEK'S HOT SEAT 🔥
🗽 It’s Open hiring season New York!
🏙️ Location: NYC (SoHo)
💰 Comp: Competitive (contact for details)
🚀 Stage: Series C, $140M raised
🏦 Backers: a16z, IVP, Lightspeed, Foundation Capital, YC
The Opportunity: This Startup is the 2nd fastest growing startup in a16z's portfolio— they grew 800% year-over-year automating healthcare's back-office chaos. While others tried to kill the fax machine, This Startup built AI that embraces it, processing referrals, payments, claims, and medical records for hundreds of practices. They need Senior Full Stack, Staff Full Stack, AI/ML, and Senior Back End engineers to scale the Eng team that went from $0 to $1M ARR in 8 months.
Why This Matters:
✅ 800% growth YoY - Open hiring season after explosive growth means prime time to join
✅ 2nd fastest growing in a16z's entire portfolio - You'd be joining a proven rocket ship
✅ Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, SQL - Modern stack solving uniquely hard problems
✅ Real impact - Your code directly helps doctors heal instead of fax
✅ $0 to $1M ARR in 8 months - Product-market fit that most startups only dream about
📰 What You Need to Know This Week
🎥 Librephone aims to de-Google Android, but the moat is deeper than people think.
The Free Software Foundation announced the Librephone: a push to replace proprietary firmware, drivers, and services on modern phones with truly free software.
Led by Rob Savoye, the mission goes beyond “Android is open-source” rhetoric—targeting binary blobs like camera drivers and Play Services that make phones usable.
History (Replicant) shows this is technically possible but user-hostile when Wi‑Fi, GPS, and cameras break.
Even if Librephone lands feature parity, the Apple/Google duopoly controls hardware, OS, app stores, payments, and policy, reinforced by government integrations like digital IDs—all compounding lock-in.
The project is ambitious and philosophically vital, but the practical path to mass adoption is uphill.
🔥 5 More Startups Hiring This Week
| Company | Role | Comp | Stage | Why Now |
| Autistic Adult Care 🏙️ NYC, Remote | Senior Full Stack, Senior Back End | 💰 Competitive | Series A, $16M | Double-digit millions in run-rate revenue in 18 months. Thousands of active clients, 150 clinicians. Targeting $50M ARR by EOY. Small eng team of 3—massive impact. |
| Pharma Access Platform 🏙️ NYC | Senior Back End, Staff Back End, AI/ML, Senior Full Stack | 💰 Competitive | Series A, $47M | AI platform accelerating medication access. Millions in ARR with major biopharma partnerships. Supporting thousands of patients weekly, projected 1M+ in 2025. Backed by Bain Capital, General Catalyst, Thrive. |
| Tax Document AI 🏙️ SF | Staff Infrastructure Lead | 💰 $300k + 1% | Seed, $6.3M (Acquired by Thomson Reuters) | Founded 2023, acquired by Thomson Reuters in under 2 years. Low 7-figures revenue, signed #5 accounting firm in nation. Repeat founder (sold 2 prior AI companies to Facebook). Startup agility + enterprise scale. |
| Prior Auth Automation 🏙️ NYC | Back End, Full Stack Engineer | 💰 $150k-$220k+ | Series A, $32M | GenAI platform automating prior authorizations. 30% MoM growth, $1M+ revenue, serving 50k+ patients. Ex-Ramp founding team backed by Accel and Bain Capital. |
💬 Why do we keep bugging you for a call…
…BECAUSE!!!
Most engineers wait until they're burned out to start looking.
That's backwards.
🧠 Here's the smarter play:
On the call, you get:
✅ Honest feedback on your profile
✅ Access to roles we don't post publicly
✅ Complete control — only intros you approve
What you won't get:
❌ Added to mass email lists
❌ Pressure to interview
❌ Generic LinkedIn InMails
🛠️ Startups #2-5 - Quick Hits
🤖 AI Logistics Platform | AI/Logistics
📍 SF | 💵 $200k-$265k | 🚀 Series B, $50M
AI operating system for logistics automating unstructured workflows across freight and cold chain operations. $0→$5M ARR in 2 years, customers include Estée Lauder and largest U.S. cold storage distributor—AI agents handling 300+ logistics docs daily.
Roles: Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Full Stack, Full Stack Engineer, Infra Engineer
🤖 AI Recruiting Platform
📍 SF | 💵 $170k-$260k | 🚀 Series A, $36M
AI recruiting platform with 2,500+ customers. Cash-flow positive, growing 30% MoM, mid 7-figures in revenue (5x'd this year). Backed by Sequoia, Coatue, Lux, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross.
Roles: Senior Full Stack, Senior Back End, Full Stack Engineer
☁️ Legal Tech Platform | AI/Legal
📍 NYC | 💵 $190k-$225k | 🚀 Series A, $24M
Reimagining Personal Injury law with AI agents and automation—vertically integrated legal ops from intake to settlement. CEO is early DoorDash leader applying marketplace playbook to law. 20+ design partners including national firms, $750/matter revenue. Backed by Sequoia (Alfred Lin), Redpoint, DoorDash CEO.
Roles: Senior Back End, Senior Full Stack, AI/ML, Product Engineer
💸 AI Search Analytics | AI
📍 NYC | 💵 $150k-$250k | 🚀 Series B, $35M
Analytics layer for the AI search era—helping brands stay visible as search shifts to AI-generated answers. $10M→$13M ARR in under a year, targeting $25M by EOY. 100M+ AI queries tracked monthly for Shopify, Uber, Ramp, MongoDB. Backed by Sequoia and NVIDIA.
Roles: Senior Full Stack, Senior Front End, Senior Back End, AI/ML Engineer
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⏰ Last Call for This Week
Look, you've read this far. That means something.
You're either:
🔥 Actively looking and need the right intros
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