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Software Engineer – Early-Stage Tech Startup
Location: San Francisco, CA – Onsite 5 days/week
Seniority: 0–5 years (Backend/Full-Stack)
Salary: $130K–$240K + Equity 0.05%–0.20%
Visa Sponsorship: Yes (TN, OPT, H1B Transfer)

Why this role is exciting:

  • Join an early-stage startup with proven product-market fit, hundreds of paying customers, and strong recurring revenue.

  • Solve hard technical problems in a massive, underserved industry by building real-time integrations across legacy systems.

  • Work on core backend infrastructure, scaling distributed systems, and developing APIs that unify fragmented data.

  • Have high impact immediately—your work goes straight into production and affects real business outcomes.

  • Shape the engineering culture in a small, high-output team with low ego and flat hierarchy.

Ideal Candidate:

  • Education: Undergraduate CS degree from a top 30 US/Canada school

  • Experience:

    • Recent experience at a small tech startup (Seed–Series C)

    • Comfortable working independently on backend systems

    • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

  • Soft Skills: Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego, thrives in fast-paced environments

  • In-person readiness: Excited to work onsite in San Francisco

Traits/Profiles to Avoid:

  • 5 years experience

  • Primarily AI/LLM-focused

  • Long tenure in big tech or consulting/finance

  • Contract-only experience

  • Graduate degrees or bootcamp graduates

  • Job-hopping (<1 year per role)

  • No undergraduate CS degree

 

Why Candidates Love It:

  • Opportunity to own critical infrastructure and shape system architecture

  • Work on real, high-scale engineering challenges

  • Collaborate with experienced founders and engineers from high-performing startups

  • Make immediate impact on a product that hundreds of paying customers rely on

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