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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 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
Dec 13, 2017 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
210 points
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Overview

Work at a Startup is a job platform run by Y Combinator that connects candidates with engineering, product, design and business roles at companies backed by the accelerator. Job seekers create one profile, browse openings and message founders directly, while startups use it to recruit their early teams. The platform is free for candidates and is operated from San Francisco, where Y Combinator is headquartered.

News

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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Work at a Startup over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
74/100
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
Practices & domains
CI/CD
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$165k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Staff 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Staff 1 $165k $165k
Highest paying role Technical Product Manager, Software $165k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Backend
50% ▼
Product
25% ▼
Marketing
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seattle
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Seattle United States
Regional office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff $153k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product
seen since Sep 2026

Jobs

$115k – $165k per year · Equity · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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