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HiringCafe

Founding Backend / Infra Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States

Location
Cupertino, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$160K – $300K a year
Posted
5 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $300K a year, is 1150% above the median of $24K for engineering jobs in Cupertino (middle half $24K – $160K, 23 jobs that state pay).

26 engineering jobs open in Cupertino: 0% remote, 0 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

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

Source

Posted by HiringCafe on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:57 UTC; the original is the reference.

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