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Compensation
$12K - $24K
- Salary period
- yearly
- Equity
- employee-owned
Tech stack
Required
Nice to have
Location
Remote (Global)
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Junior
- Remote policy
- 100% Remote (Global)
- Remote scope
- worldwide
- Visa
- US citizenship/visa not required
- Authorization
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Process petabytes of data monthly through web crawling in a high-scale environment
- Work across multiple areas of the product depending on interests
- Deploy to production multiple times per day and iterate quickly
- Contribute to a codebase written primarily in Python, Rust, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Nix
- For the Junior role: gain mentorship and work across databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more
- web applications
- data mining
- machine learning/data science
- data transformation/ETL
- data modeling
- database scaling
- infrastructure
- devops
Requirements
- Passion for computing and programming (programming as something you genuinely love to do)
- Curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects
- For Junior role: 0–3 years of professional software experience
- For Junior role: 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects
- Highlight what makes you unique (passion, curiosity/side projects, work ethic, niche research, how you think/build)
- Ideally graduated (or may apply with one or more years left of school)
Application
Apply via the provided Y Combinator links for the respective role.
- Portfolio
- not required
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- not required
- Apply flow
- ats
Company context
- Product
- go-to-market intelligence data products built on web crawling and large-scale data processing
- Industry
- data startup
- HQ
- US-incorporated
- Stage
- YC S11
- Funding
- no dependence on outside funding
Contact
Kiran
Description
MixRank (YC S11) is a fully remote, globally distributed (20+ countries) and employee-owned data startup processing petabytes of data monthly through web crawling. Hundreds of customers including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe use its data products across industries such as finance, recruiting, sales, marketing, and security. The company is growing and profitable with no dependence on outside funding, and welcomes applicants from all geographies and backgrounds. The posting describes an open-ended set of hiring needs and a custom role design philosophy based on candidate interests. It emphasizes mentorship, automated development environments, frequent production deployments, and scale (two self-built datacenters, distributed file system, full-scale web crawls, and static analysis of published Android APKs and iOS IPAs). The codebase is primarily Python, Rust, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Nix; core technologies to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git. Junior Software Engineer (Remote, Full-Time): Entry role for remote junior engineers with 0–3 years of professional software experience and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. Mentorship and diverse opportunities across databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, and data modeling. Applicants should highlight what makes them unique (passion for computing, curiosity/side projects, work ethic, niche research, and how they think/build). Ideally already graduated, but those with 1+ years left of school may apply; the schedule can be accommodated. Software Engineer (Remote, Full-Time): Hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, DevOps, and more. The role is tailored to interests. Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, and experience with frontend/backend web development and data mining. The posting includes an application link for each role and notes that the hiring is global with a fast-moving team and real ownership/impact. It also identifies Kiran as Chief of Staff at MixRank.
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