Hot Startups Hiring, Feb 21

👋 Welcome Back to Hot Startups Hiring: The weekly newsletter that finally gives you the chance to say “I know a guy” when your engineering friend wants a new job.

☄️ Asteroid Free Office: That’s what startups in SF and NYC are adding to their comp packages this week after NASA slashed the odds of a football-field sized space rock hitting Earth in 2032. Whew!
Know what isn’t dropping? The number of VC-Funded startups in those cities hiring elite engineering and product talent. We’ve got a brand new list for you below.

📝 Break it Down for Me: Curious what the engineering hiring market looks like for seed-stage to Series C startups? So was our good friend and writer Gergely Orosz. Our Founder Asher met up with Gergely to give his first-hand perspective on the state of the startup hiring markets. Check out our conversation with The Pragmatic Engineer.

Key Takeaways:

• 50% of hires are backend, 25% full stack, 10-15% AI/ML, and 5% are frontend.

• Why startups are increasingly request intros to ‘cracked’ engineers.

• Actionable steps for engineers to standout to recruiters on LinkedIn

It’s a value packed conversation, → Read the Full Interview Here

🚀 Most In-Demand Roles Across the Startup Landscape

If you’re one of the above - Schedule an introductory consult call with our team today so we can get a better understanding of what you’re looking for next in your career. If you’re not, um… 👋

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Now - without further ado - check out the startups below building teams in New York City, San Francisco, and fully remote.

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

No-Code Tooling - Series A (First Round, YC)

• Mission/Vision: No-code platform that lets anyone have the impact of an engineer through AI automation.

• TLDR:

  • Allows teams to build really powerful workflow automations that use AI without needing to hire an engineering team or be an engineer yourself.

  • Customers include Instacart, Webflow, Samsara, Rippling, Triptease, etc (to name a few)

  • Building a 10 person, billions dollar company. There are 6 spots left.

• Open Roles ($150-300k):

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Full Stack Engineer

  • Backend Engineer

AI Automation at Scale - Seed (Founders Fund, OpenAI)

• Mission/Vision: Automating all manual human processes using AI for the world's largest companies.

• TLDR

  • The product is a novel way to describe processes using just English while being precise enough to work at scale reliably to do essential operations.

  • Currently powering Coinbase’s most critical compliance processes, globally.

  • Founded by an elite team of engineers (early-Ramp, Scale AI, Retool)

• Open Roles ($150 - $250K)

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • FDE

  • Senior Backend Engineer

Personalized AI Clones - Series (Sequoia, Founders Fund)

• Mission/Vision: Creating a new form of conversational media enabled by digital minds by building a Human Intelligence company.

• TLDR:

  • They’re a multi-directional, interactive, personalized, and adaptive way to communicate. Connect to the best minds on the planet, and they can talk back.

  • Brilliant minds like Tony Robbins, Jay Shetty, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Codie Sanchez are using them to scale their 1:1 interactions - through call, text, or video chat.

  • $2M ARR (100% organic); pacing for $10MM ARR by EoY

• Open Roles ($200-300k)

  • Front End Engineer

  • AI/ML Engineer

  • Research Engineer

  • Designer

📍 NEW YORK CITY HOT STARTUPS HIRING🗽

AI/DevTooling Standout- Series A (Bessemer, YC)

• Mission/Vision: Help companies create great developer experiences, starting with API documentation and SDK generation, moving towards developer documentation.

• TLDR:

  • $10M+ raised from top VCs like Bessemer and YC

  • Customers like Square, ElevelLabs, Intercom, Webflow, Cohere, LaunchDarkly, and beehiiv are using them to generate their SDK’s.

  • A large share of the team are ex-founders and ex-Palantir

• Open Roles ($150-250k):

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Senior Front End Engineer

  • Deployed Engineer

  • AI/ML Engineer

LegalTech - Pre-Seed (Sequoia, Liquid2)

• Mission/Vision: Become the trusted consumer legal brand.

• TLDR:

  • Building software for personal injury law firms, focused on intake-through-demand personal Injury pre-litigation workflows

  • 20 law firms as design partners, including one national law firm

  • Opportunity to join the ground-floor of a Sequoia-backed startup

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • AI/ML Engineer

Leading AI/Healthcare - Series B (Lightspeed, a16z)

• Mission/Vision: Building automation solutions for the healthcare industry, focusing on insurance provider communication, and patient referrals.

• TLDR:

  • Incredibly strong strong PMF / commercial traction; 2nd fastest growing startup in a16z’s portfolio

  • Pacing for $20M+ ARR by EoY

  • 15-person eng team

• Open Roles ($220-250k):

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Engineering Manager

  • AI/ML Engineer

Remote-First Opportunities 🌎

Crypto/Web3 - Series B (a16z, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • $175M Series A (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • Decentralized, proof of stake blockchain with horizontally scalable throughput and storage

• Open Roles ($150-250k)

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Data Engineer

Leading NFT Marketplace - Series B (Sequoia, Greylock)

• 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):

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Senior Backend

  • Mobile Engineer

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

• 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):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Designer

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