About this 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 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 teamHamed 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 buildingScalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform
Web crawlers that scrape every job on earth, in real-time
Recommender systems that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own
A product where engineering, data, and design decisions directly shape how people find their next chapter
What you bring to the tableYou 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
Experience with Node.js and Python
Preferred: an interest in security and reverse-engineering
PerksCompetitive pay & equity
Flexible PTO & family leave
Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team