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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Team
1–2
French register · Dec 2023
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Soma Capital
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 22, 2023 On the Hacker News front page Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine · 378 points Aug 4, 2023 On the Hacker News front page Add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT-4 · 208 points Jun 29, 2023 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4 Jun 2022 Went through Y Combinator May 5, 2022 On the Hacker News front page Windmill.dev · 245 points Jan 3, 2018 Founded per the company register
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.37%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
144 points
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity WINDMILL recherche-entreprises
Registered 3 Jan 2018
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Erik HaenelDirecteur Généralcompany register
Pierre HayesPrésident de SAScompany register
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Windmill is a software technology company that provides an open source platform for building and running workflow automations and internal tools. Its main product enables teams to create, deploy, and manage automation scripts and applications with a focus on developer productivity and collaboration.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Windmill over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Rust
TypeScript
Python
C#
Frameworks & libraries
Svelte
Dagster
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Cloudflare
Figma
GitHub
Replit
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Windmill tech stack 27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

People

Erik Haenel
Directeur Général
Pierre Hayes
Président de SAS
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
84 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Backend
75% ▼
Sales
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
Removed Rest API from stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack Sep 2026
Added Reddit to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026
Added Discord to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added Docker to stack Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added Structured Outputs to stack Aug 2026
Added Replit to stack Aug 2026
Added n8n to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Paris
Paris France
HQ
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $109k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
seen since Apr 2026

Jobs

$56k – $112k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
Cloudflare
GitHub
Management
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Discord
Marketing
YouTube
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$56k – $106k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Paris
Rust
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Tool Use
Machine Learning
Frontend
Svelte
DevOps
Cloudflare
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