Hot Startups Hiring (SF, NYC)

Happy Friday! 

David here from Coastal Recruiting - a boutique startup recruitment agency representing stellar engineering talent in SF + NYC (coast-to-coast, as they say). 

Popping in your inbox before the weekend to recap some of the hottest startups building their eng teams in NYC and SF. Many of these are still in stealth, backed by world-class investors, and pay top of the market.

What we look for in a startup:

• Founders like this one who live in ‘founder mode’ 

• Strong founding team with material traction, trending towards PMF

• Prioritize onboarding a world-class team of engineers above all else

Engineers best-suited to be repped by Coastal:

• Love working in / around startups, with 0-1 experience 

• Are looking for HIGH impact roles

• Want to join a startup at the ground floor in SF or NYC

Why Us?

What can you expect from us? We operate like sports agents. You’re the talent. We are the conduit to world-class opportunities. On average, the engineers we represent interview with 3-5 startups, helping manage their process from intro to negotiation. Peep the testimonial at the bottom of this email from a Senior Software engineer we helped land a job at beehiiv 👇

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Hot Startups Hiring in SF:

Bringing Autonomy to Software Engineering - Series A (Sequoia, Lux, Mantis) - SF

• Mission/Vision: Enabling organizations to automate and optimize the software development lifecycle with autonomous, AI-powered systems called Droids. 

• TLDR: 

  • $20M Series A led by Sequoia (with participation from Lux and Mantis) 

  • 20+ Enterprise customers 

  • Brilliant founders with an impeccable track record and grit / hustle to ‘get it done’ 

  • Small eng team in SF with top-tier backgrounds 

• Open Roles:

  • Software Engineers (BE, FE, Full Stack)

  • AI/ML Engineers (Applied + Research) 

  • Cloud Infrastructure Lead 

  • Security Lead 

Unifying Financial Data Across the Enterprise - Seed (Founders Fund, Menlo) - SF

• 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

  • 21 Person team in SF with a ‘ship-fast’ mindset

• Open Roles:

  • Full Stack, Product Engineers 

Hot Startups Hiring in NYC

Simplifying Healthcare’s Back-office Operations - Series A (a16z, Foundation, YC) - NYC

• Mission/Vision: Enabling healthcare practices of all sizes to optimize their backpack-office operations with enterprise quality automations.  They’re designed to work with the one tool every other startup has tried to kill: the fax machine

• TLDR: 

  • With $18M Series A led by a16z, this startup reads documents from incoming faxes passing through healthcare practices and automates essential tasks like scheduling and qualifying patient visits. 

  • Today, they’re used by hundreds of practices to drive efficiency, better service and reduce front-end billing eros by 98%

  • Small team with a beautiful Flatiron office, this company is assembling a brilliant team of engineers + operators and GTM professionals (pacing for $XXM ARR this year)

• Open Roles:

  • Software Engineers (BE, FE, Full Stack)

  • AI/ML Engineers (Applied + Research) 

Fueling SMB Financial Operations for Middle-America - Seed (Eniac, Indicator) - NYC

• Mission/Vision: Fueling small businesses across America with their industry-tailored credit cards and spend management platform.

• TLDR: 

  • Raised $10.5M Seed round, with looming Series A

  • This startup figured out a way to bring Silicon Valley financial technology to an underserved population: the 32.5M traditional SMB market. 

  • They’ve accomplished this by launching customized SMB expense management platforms via affinity partnerships with trade associations. They have partnered with 17 of the largest organizations in the US, giving them a 2M+ SMB audience (#1 player in the space).

  • Have grown from $0 to $2M in annualized revenues within 6 months (launched in February) by just launching 4 of their 17 signed contracts.

  • Founders (2 UC Berkeley dropouts) and small group of 5 building core engineering team in NC

• Open Roles:

  • Staff + Senior Software Engineers (BE, FE, Full Stack)

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Candidate Testimonial 

Highly Recommend!! Working with Asher was one of the best recruiting experiences I've had and helped me land my current role in record time. He did an incredible job with matching me to potential employers and was involved at every step of the way to help ensure a smooth interview process. Amazing communicator, knowledgeable, and sincerely cares about finding the best fit for his clients. He even continued to check-in with me after the signed offer to ensure I was happy and whether there was anything else he could assist with. Honestly, I had the chance to work with a handful of recruiters and none of those experiences came even close to how great it was with Asher.

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