If you're interested in learning more about startups, Y Combinator is hiring for a full-stack Product Engineer. Working at YC probably is one of the best ways to learn about startups. Everyone on the team gets to participate in the YC programming -- dinners, talks and more. You'll get a unique vantage point to learn about startups, and to write software that has helped companies like Airbnb, Stripe and Instacart exist.
We're a team of 10 full-stack product engineers and have a pretty broad range of experiences -- from bigger companies like FB and Google, as well as former YC founders ourselves. Our stack is pretty straightforward (Rails, React, Postgres), but the last three engineers have learned it on the job. True to YC advice, our product engineers talk to our customers regularly (in our case, it's mostly founders) and ship fast. We also define our own roadmap. You won't be building software to scale to millions of users, but you'll be talking 1-1 with lots of founders to build stuff they need to help build and grow their companies, and that's a different kind of reward.
In particular, we're hiring for the Admissions software team. This is an opportunity to help YC write software that selects companies for YC interviews and ultimately for our batch. We're hiring for both an IC and/or a tech lead who has done mentorship, code review and helped define systems previously. While no past experience in reading applications/building review software isn't necessary, an interest in learning more about startups (and possibly having worked at one) is a huge asset in this role.
Lastly, we pay competitively (both in salary and stock-like benefits), offer reasonable work-life balance, and we're fully remote at this point, with some center-of-gravity in SF and NY.
If working on YC's software team and helping great startups sounds interesting at all, please apply above OR email me at ryan AT ycombinator.com.