Founding Full-stack / Product Engineer

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. Hiring.Cafe 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 AI agents that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own A two-sided marketplace connecting every job on earth to the best candidate Scalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform 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 Relevant experience shipping full-stack product (ideally one of the below) Building polished React / Next.js interfaces Owning backend API routes and data flows across Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe Building large-scale data pipelines using LLMs 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr HiringCafe