Short Story
shortstorybox.com
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Funding and backers
Team
121
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +25% in a year
Hiring now
10
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
4 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Short Story hires
Truth index
D 46/100
Ghost roles
90%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Short Story scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 90% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Short Story over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
79/100
Languages
Python
SQL
Node JS
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Cypress
Jest
Next.js
React Query
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Figma
AWS
GitHub
GitHub Actions
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Full Short Story tech stack
23 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$133k
Typical range
$72k – $200k
Open positions
8
5
Jobs
Middle
20%
Senior
80%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $80k | $80k |
| Senior | 4 | $200k | $115k – $200k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (San Francisco)
$200k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~16 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
100% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
Plant / site
6 open roles 50% engineering 33% remote 10-50 est. staff $164k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, HR, Operations
South San Francisco
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $95k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, HR
Jobs
$150k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
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≈ $97k – $189k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
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≈ $153k – $255k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Webpack
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
Yarn
React.js
React Query
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Netlify
CI/CD
Git
AWS
GitHub
Analytics
A/B Testing
Design
Figma
QA
Cypress
Jest
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$150k – $200k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
QA
Pytest
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