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Product Engineer, Admissions at Y Combinator

Location
Remote (US) / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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About the role

Admissions is the team that designs the startup selection process at
YC. If you're interviewing at YC, your application has likely been
read by someone on admissions and there is likely an admissions team
member on your interview panel. While other executives participate in
the admissions process, our team is the only one that's fully
dedicated to it. It's a very high-impact, cross-functional group of
engineers and operators who also make investment decisions.

We're hiring another product engineer who's interested in learning
how YC chooses which startups to fund, and translating that into
software. This means building better tooling for YC reviewers and
also improving how we programmatically triage applications. We work
primarily in Ruby on Rails and React (learning on the job is fine
though) and are open to people 2+ years out of school or even 10+
years of experience.

This is a good role for someone who likes working on fast-paced,
small teams where they have a lot of autonomy. While everyone on the
team enjoys collaboration, most projects are led by individuals who
ask for feedback when needed. The users of most of what you build
will be your teammates, group partners and executives, which means
the feedback loop is fast. Everyone on the team has worked at a small
startup at some point, either as a founder or early employee. Most
engineers on the team also read applications and interview founders
and tend to be interdisciplinary in their interests, but this is not
necessary.

Why you should join Y Combinator

Y Combinator has a small ~6 person team that makes the software that
runs YC. Hardly any investors write software, but YC was started by
programmers so it's natural for us to solve our problems that way. We
believe our software is a key competitive advantage and we are
investing aggressively in new software products.

YC has ambitious plans to create more innovation in the world, and
the only way to reach that level of impact is to scale through
software. What we've built so far is probably only 10% of what we
will eventually need.

As a member of the software team, you'll get full access to the YC
program, just like founders do. You'll learn the ins and outs of how
YC works, and you'll get to follow and learn from hundreds of
companies. You'll meet some of the most successful people in the
startup world and get exposed to the best startup ideas. And of
course, if you ever want to start your own company, you'll learn a
lot about that from working at YC.

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