Founding Backend / Infra Engineer

Reposted One Month Ago
Cupertino, CA, USA
In-Office
160K-300K Annually
Entry level
Big Data • Consumer Web • HR Tech • Software
The Role
Founding Backend/Infra Engineer responsible for building a scalable job search engine, including web crawlers and recommender systems. Requires strong programming skills, particularly in Node.js and Python, and attention to detail.
Summary Generated by Built In

Job discovery is broken. Indeed and LinkedIn want to keep it that way. Join our team and help millions of people put food on the table by finding the perfect job.

HiringCafe.com is building a 100× better job search engine — fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.

We don’t believe in hype. We believe in shipping product and listening obsessively to users. In 12 months, we grew from 0 → 1 million+ monthly active users in 12 months. So everything you ship goes directly to real people.

Our team
  • Hamed Nilforoshan - Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & Snapchat

  • Ali Mir - SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDash

  • Jure Leskovec - Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest

What we’re building
  • Scalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform

  • Web crawlers that scrape every job on earth, in real-time

  • Recommender systems that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own

  • A product where engineering, data, and design decisions directly shape how people find their next chapter

What you bring to the table
  • You want ownership, leverage, and responsibility from day one.

  • Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems design

  • Able to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problems

  • Obsessive about details, quality, and correctness

  • Experience with Node.js and Python

  • Preferred: an interest in security and reverse-engineering

Perks
  • Competitive pay & equity

  • Flexible PTO & family leave

  • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits

  • Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team

Skills Required

  • Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems design
  • Experience with Node.js and Python
  • Obsessive about details, quality, and correctness
  • Able to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problems
  • Preferred interest in security and reverse-engineering
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The Company
6 Employees

What We Do

HiringCafe is an AI-powered job search engine that delivers highly relevant, up-to-date, and scam-free job listings by scraping data directly from company websites. The platform aims to improve the job search experience for professionals by eliminating ghost posts and providing a more efficient, transparent way to discover legitimate career opportunities tailored to user preferences.

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