Founding Backend / Infra 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.

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