Hot Startups Hiring, Feb 14

🌊 Welcome back to Hot Startups Hiring! For those new to the community, HSH is our weekly hiring newsletter bringing you startup engineering and product roles you won’t find anywhere else. Coastal Recruiting specializes in helping top technical talent like yourself land high-impact roles at T1 VC-backed startups. We work directly with founders backed by a16z, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Lux Capital, and more..

❤️ There’s love in the air this week — SF and NYC’s most eligible founders are hoping to match with the best talent in their city. In lieu of flowers, we’re seeing offers averaging well above $215k + equity. This Valentines Day, ditch the speed dating and say hello to streamlined interview processes.

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🚀 Most In-Demand Roles Across the Startup Landscape

Hot Off The Press

🔥 Careful, you’ll burn your mouth: These roles are fresh out the oven, so don’t wait. Be one of the the first to interview with these companies below!

AI / Developer Tooling - Series A (a16z, Accel) - NYC

• Mission/Vision: Accelerate software development teams by providing best-in-class tools for creating, reviewing, and merging code, enabling teams to ship high-quality software faster.

• TLDR:

  • Teams use them to boost velocity with better pull request discovery, “stacking” (managing dependent code changes), and AI-assisted review

  • Reached $5M ARR and have a strong foothold among tech-forward companies.

  • Long-term vision is to become the central platform (the “hub”) for developer collaboration, complemented by deeper functionalities such as continuous integration, AI-driven code reviews, and more

• Open Roles ($160-260k + Equity):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Back End

  • Senior Front End

AI / Healthcare Network - Series A (Thrive Capital, Bain) - NYC

• Mission/Vision: AI-driven network revolutionizing healthcare by helping patients access critical medications faster and at lower costs.

• TLDR:

  • Tackling one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare—streamlining the process to ensure life-saving treatments reach those who need them most

  • Exceptional organic growth. Already supports thousands of patients every week and is doubling physician user count every month. Will reach millions of users and targeting $20M ARR by EoY

  • Building a network of doctors, patients, and data to apply AI to every step of bringing new drugs to market.

• Open Roles ($150-250K + Equity):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Back End

  • AI/ML

  • Senior Front End

Leading Blockchain WaaS - Series A (Further, Coinbase) - Remote / NYC

• Mission/Vision: Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto.

• TLDR:

  • API-first approach has made them the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. 130 fintech clients, $1 billion in monthly transactions, 10+ million API calls per month

  • Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, they’ve created over 10 million wallets and secures 1 billion in transactions per month — zero hacks or lost keys

  • Small, lean, agile engineering team consisting of top blockchain, cryptography, and security leaders.

• Open Roles ($280-350K + Equity):

  • Principal Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco

Left your ❤️ in San Francisco? Seek immediate medical attention. Then checkout these startups hiring across the stack in AI, Crypto, and Healthcare.

AI / Dev Tooling - Seed (Felicis, Ion Stoica) - SF

• Mission/Vision: They are the platform to build stateful AI agents. Founded by the creators of MemGPT, which introduced memory management for LLMs to enable infinite context.

• TLDR:

  • Founding team has deep expertise in NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and AI systems - allowing them to have a strong sense of how the AI agents stack will evolve over time.

  • Established their own OSS agents framework for building agents with advanced memory management, reasoning, tool calling, and persisted state. 

  • Signing 6-figure+ customer contracts

• Open Roles ($200-290k + Equity):

  • Senior/Staff Full Stack

  • Senior/Staff Backend

  • Senior/Staff Frontend

  • AI/ML Researcher

Hot YC Healthcare - Seed (YC, Rebel) - SF

• Mission/Vision: Solving the most pressing clinical operations problems for health systems.

• TLDR:

  • Replaces legacy software at health systems to become the system of record for all schedule data for all nursing units

  • Did $2.5M ARR last year, going to triple this year and raise huge Series A

  • Company is blasting through traditional sales-cycles in the healthcare space.

• Open Roles ($160 - 220k + Equity):

  • Full Stack Engineer

  • Full Stack Back End Engineer

Leading Fintech / Crypto - Series A (Sequoia, Ribbit) - SF / NY

• Mission/Vision: Stripe for stablecoins. Their APIs 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 and recently acquired by Stripe

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

• Open Roles ($200-300k):

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

Remote-First

🥽 No VR-Goggles Necessary: Are we disappointed this isn’t the “future-of-remote-work”? Indeed. Are there still high-impact roles you can do from home? Absolutely. Check them out below:

DevTooling - Series A (Base10, Talldesk) - XX

• Mission/Vision: Every team and company can build a culture of quality—like bringing the best of CI, PRs, and QA beyond engineering to telemedicine, insurance, and fintech.

• TLDR:

  • By blending automated checks, manual reviews, and AI-driven insights, this startup enables teams everywhere to reduce errors, boost performance, and strengthen their organizations.

  • Hundreds of customers, $20M+ ARR, enterprises like Square, Staples, Draftkings, Etsy, Affirm and dozens of other public companies.

• Open Roles ($225-400k + Equity):

  • Senior Software Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Principal Engineer

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

Leading NFT Marketplace - Series B (Sequoia, Greylock) - Remote

• Mission/Vision: Be the one-stop shop destination for digital assets to supercharge web3 commerce

• TLDR:

  • Leading Multi-Chain NFT Platform - Pushing Boundaries on Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin

  • 22M+ Unique Monthly Users (largest on Solana) & 8K+ NFT collections, 100K+ daily wallet connections, $1.9 B secondary trading volume

  • Largest NFT trading platform in crypto

• Open Roles ($170-250k + Equity):

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Senior Back End

  • Mobile Engineer

AI Creator Tools - Series A (Tiger Global, Floodgate) - Remote

• Mission/Vision: Help teams of one (small businesses, agencies, entrepreneurs, creators) create on brand content (social media, blogs, emails, etc) in one click. Taking on Canva.

• TLDR:

  • Building a real-time document editor with collaborative editing and a Canva-like visual studio with thousands of templates and dynamic elements

  • INSANE commercial momentum: $0-10M ARR in < 8 months; 100K+ paying customers, 30% MoM growth

  • Small team of 20; full distributed work-force

• Open Roles ($140-170k + Equity):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Designer

Candidate Testimonial:

If you're an engineer looking to join a top-tier seed, Series A, or Series B company, Asher is your go-to guy. He works with a wide range of top startups, ensuring that you'll have access to an incredible selection of opportunities. One of Asher’s greatest strengths is his ability to match you with companies that align with your specific criteria—no matter how nuanced. He takes the time to understand what you're looking for and consistently delivers high-quality opportunities. Beyond just making connections, Asher is an excellent communicator who keeps you informed and prepared throughout the process. He truly looks out for your best interests, offering thoughtful advice that helps you navigate your job search with confidence.

If you're an engineer looking for your next great opportunity, I can't recommend Asher highly enough.

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