Offstream (YC S24)
Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Denver, CO (Hybrid, 3 days/week)
hn · San Francisco, CA or Denver, CO (Hybrid, 3 days/week) · $120k-$190k
Jose is a founding engineer with exceptional 0-to-1 product experience, demonstrated mastery of the exact tech stack (TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL), and 12 years shipping systems where failure is expensive—including IoT/real-time infrastructure at scale. His experience architecting real-time voice platforms, data pipelines from messy inputs, and serving production systems across multiple countries directly maps to Offstream's needs. The only gap is limited explicit IoT/industrial systems experience, though his infrastructure work (emergency response systems, geospatial analysis) shows capability in complex real-world data challenges.
Hook: You've built production AI systems handling messy real-world data at scale with the exact tech stack Offstream uses—from voice infrastructure to compliance-grade reliability.
Missing: industrial IoT systems experience, hardware integration experience, environmental compliance domain knowledge
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Offstream (YC S24) | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Denver, CO (Hybrid, 3 days/week) | $120k-$190k + equity | Full-time Offstream is building the infrastructure for the environmental compliance market, think compliance software meeting real-world industrial hardware. We're expanding from pure web application work into physical hardware and real-world infrastructure, and we need a senior engineer to help drive that. You'd be our 5th software engineer, with the opportunity to make a real impact across our entire stack, from data ingestion systems that turn messy real-world inputs (unstructured PDFs, IoT sensor data) into structured compliance data, to the product surfaces our customers use every day. Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL What we're looking for: - 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally at early-stage startups - Comfort working with technologies behind real-world industrial/IoT systems - Track record building 0-to-1 products or systems - Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted development (we're an AI-native team) If you don't check every box but think you can grow into this fast, we still want to hear from you. We're optimizing for high-slope individuals. Apply here based on your location: - SF: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/offstream/jobs/Zz3OPtN-senior-software-engineer-san-francisco - Denver: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/offstream/jobs/3EvEolP-senior-software-engineer-denver I'm Zach, Offstream's CTO and co-founder. I personally read every single application that comes through, so don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure you're a fit