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Product Engineer, Applications Operations

Y Combinator
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$250k - $500kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Full-stack product engineer role focused on building production software for YC’s admissions, events, and internal tools, with emphasis on automating processes and integrating AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship full-stack applications powering YC’s admissions pipeline, events platform, and internal tools
  • Develop and extend YC’s events platform (Demo Day, meetups, recruiting events, office hours, investor events) including registration, coordination, and media handling
  • Integrate with external systems (Google Calendar, Slack, email, data pipelines) to coordinate internal teams, external founders and more
  • Build deep AI and search systems (semantic search, embeddings, natural language queries) across large datasets
  • Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment
  • Build systems that automate YC’s admissions workflow (scheduling, notifications, status tracking, email triage, deadlines)
  • Improve how applications are routed, interviews are coordinated, and information is surfaced to partners
  • Develop internal tools and copilots using LLMs (email classification, workflow automation, natural language interfaces)
  • Eliminate manual work so the team can focus on high-leverage decisions
  • Work directly with partners and ops teams to understand workflows and build better systems
  • Create dashboards and analytics to track pipeline health and operational metrics
  • Contribute to process improvements during admissions cycles

Qualifications

  • Experience shipping full-stack web applications
  • Strong system design and independent decision-making
  • Strong product sense and comfort designing user experiences
  • Ability to work directly with non-technical stakeholders
  • Clear communication skills
  • High judgment and integrity

Skills

Required:Full-stack web developmentSystem designProduct sense / UX designStakeholder collaborationCommunication

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision
  • 401(k) + 4% match
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • and more
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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