Product Engineer, Bookface
Y Combinator10 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$250k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain software supporting YC’s batch operations, including Bookface, event programming, office hours, and pitch preparation.
- Develop forums, the alumni directory, the Demo Day investor portal, and Launch YC.
- Work directly with founders and other users to understand needs and ship product improvements quickly.
- Define the product roadmap and design products when needed.
- Work flexibly across teams as organizational needs change.
Requirements
- Enjoy front-end software development and product engineering work.
- Be willing to work in person five days a week at YC’s Dogpatch campus in San Francisco.
- Live in the San Francisco Bay Area or be willing to relocate.
- Be able to work with or learn Rails, React, and Postgres; the posting states that recent engineers learned the stack on the job.
Benefits
- $250K to $500K base salary depending on experience, plus a profit-sharing program.
- Medical, vision, dental, infertility, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance benefits.
- Commuter benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, and 401(k) with 4% matching.
- Generous parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible paid time off.
- In-person work at YC’s Dogpatch campus five days a week, with generous relocation support for those moving to San Francisco.
Tech Stack
Categories
Product Engineering
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator and seed investor that funds and advises early-stage companies in exchange for equity, running biannual batches and Demo Days. Founded in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, it has backed firms such as Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. YC also builds developer-facing products for the AI-native era, including open-source tools like gstack and gbrain and proprietary offerings such as Paxel.