Founding Full-stack / Product Engineer
HiringCafe, Cupertino
- Pay
- $130K–$300K / year
- Work type
- Onsite
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- May 20, 2026
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About the role
Job discovery is broken. Indeed and LinkedIn want to keep it that way. Join our team and help millions of people put food on the table by finding the perfect job.
HiringCafe.com https://hiringcafe.com is building a 100× better job search engine — fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.
We don’t believe in hype. We believe in shipping product and listening obsessively to users. In 12 months, we grew from 0 → 1 million+ monthly active users in 12 months. So everything you ship goes directly to real people.
OUR TEAM
- Hamed Nilforoshan - Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & Snapchat
- Ali Mir - SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDash
- Jure Leskovec - Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest
WHAT WE’RE BUILDING
- AI agents that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own
- A two-sided marketplace connecting every job on earth to the best candidate
- Scalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform
- A product where engineering, data, and design decisions directly shape how people find their next chapter
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- You want ownership, leverage, and responsibility from day one.
- Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems design
- Able to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problems
- Obsessive about details, quality, and correctness
- Relevant experience shipping full-stack product (ideally one of the below) - Building polished React / Next.js interfaces - Owning backend API routes and data flows across Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe - Building large-scale data pipelines using LLMs
PERKS
- Competitive pay & equity
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team
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