Investment Associate & Product Engineer
Y Combinator10 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack web applications for partners, founders, and investors.
- Own product features end to end, including scoping, design, implementation, and iteration.
- Work across frontend, backend, and data layers on founder tools, analytics, workflow systems, and internal platforms.
- Make independent engineering tradeoffs in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.
- Evaluate post-batch and growth-stage companies across business models, markets, teams, and operating metrics.
- Support diligence by reviewing decks and data rooms, benchmarking KPIs, and conducting market and customer research.
- Build and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and workflows supporting investment decisions.
- Write structured memos and analyses for partners and the Investment Committee.
Requirements
- Experience shipping full-stack web applications.
- Ability to design systems and reason independently about tradeoffs.
- Strong analytical thinking and comfort with metrics and financial concepts.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent judgment, integrity, and ability to handle sensitive information.
- Helpful experience with Rails, React, Postgres, or similar frameworks and databases.
- Helpful prior experience in venture capital, growth equity, banking, consulting, corporate development, founding, early-stage startups, internal tools, analytics platforms, or workflow software.
Benefits
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or relocation required.
- Medical, vision, and dental plans.
- Infertility benefit, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Commuter benefits, flexible spending account, and health savings account.
- 401(k) with 4% matching.
- Generous parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible paid time off.
- Y Combinator operates with a small, high-trust team, organic roadmaps, and substantial autonomy.
Tech Stack
Categories
Full StackProduct 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.