String (https://www.usestring.ai/)
Founding Engineer #5 | ONSITE - NYC
hn · ONSITE - NYC
Jose is a founding engineer with proven 0→1 product shipping experience, strong full-stack capabilities (Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Next.js), and infrastructure expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP). His experience building scalable data pipelines (Trino, S3, ETL at IPSDI and Rubercubic) and working on high-volume systems directly applies to String's web scraping infrastructure needs. However, he lacks specific web scraping/antibot expertise and his recent focus has shifted toward AI agents and voice rather than data infrastructure, which is String's core domain.
Hook: Your founding engineer experience shipping complex infrastructure at scale, combined with your data platform and ETL expertise, makes you a natural fit for building String's web scraping backbone.
Missing: Web scraping technologies and antibot evasion techniques, Distributed crawling frameworks, Specific experience with large-scale web data collection infrastructure, Data quality and reliability systems for web-sourced data
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String (https://www.usestring.ai/) | Founding Engineer #5 | ONSITE - NYC | 75th percentile for geo and experience + market leading equity | Will sponsor any visa Collecting data from the web is painful with custom scripts everywhere, antibot blocks, and pricey infrastructure. I’m Rohit, the CEO at String, where we are building the first web data platform that just works. In the last 2 years, with a small team of less than 10, we have: - Acquired dozens of enterprise customers generating 7 figures of ARR - Built infra to reliably scrape 50M+ pages per week - Raised a seed round from leading VCs/angels in the space while being profitable Our engineering culture emphasizes speed, ownership, and autonomy. We are building at the forefront of web data and AI and would love to meet you if this sounds interesting to you. Apply here: https://usestring.notion.site/Founding-Engineer-String-135ee1632e3080d2a67cd977e7306f8a