Founding Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Founding full-stack engineer role at Y/n, a YC-backed app for interactive stories. Own major portions of the app surface and personalized recommendations infrastructure, with significant ownership across product.
Responsibilities
- Own most of the app surface and our personalized recommendations infrastructure
- Build actual infrastructure (not just deployments to hosting platforms)
- Contribute across product with a strong ownership mindset
- Collaborate with founders and CTO on roadmap and execution
Qualifications
- Experience building meaningful infrastructure (beyond simple deployments)
- Prior startup experience or meaningful side projects
- Interest in fandom, reading, and fanfiction
- Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate
Skills
Required:Full-stack engineeringInfrastructureStartup experience
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Y/n
Interactive Stories
Y/n is an interactive stories app. For example, you can play a story and escape a desert island with Sherlock or be a student at your favorite fictional school.
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