Product Engineer, Applications Operations
Y Combinator8 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack applications supporting YC’s admissions pipeline, events, and internal tools.
- Develop and extend event systems covering registration, coordination, and media handling.
- Integrate external systems such as Google Calendar, Slack, email, and data pipelines.
- Build semantic search, embeddings, and natural-language query systems across large datasets.
- Automate admissions workflows including scheduling, notifications, status tracking, email triage, and deadlines.
- Develop LLM-based copilots and workflow automation tools.
- Create dashboards and analytics for pipeline health and operational metrics.
- Work directly with partners and operations teams to understand workflows and improve processes.
Requirements
- Experience shipping full-stack web applications.
- Strong system design, independent decision-making, and product judgment.
- Comfort designing user experiences and owning products end-to-end.
- Ability to work directly with non-technical stakeholders.
- Clear communication skills, judgment, and integrity.
- Preferred experience with Rails, React, Postgres, LLMs, prompt engineering, agent-based systems, workflow automation, integrations, founding, or early-stage startups.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with a 4% match.
- Parental leave and flexible PTO.
- Work location is the San Francisco Bay Area, with relocation willingness accepted.
- Y Combinator is willing to sponsor certain employment visas in accordance with company policy.
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.