Coastal Recruiting - Eng Candidate Spotlight, Nov 18

0-1 engineers in SF + NYC

Author

David Friedman
November 18, 2024

Hey Everyone - David here from Coastal Recruiting…

Welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate spotlight - where we highlight candidates in SF and NYC, who are looking for their next startup opportunity. As reminder, we’re a boutique startup recruitment agency representing stellar engineering talent in SF + NYC, across the stack.

Last week, we brought our team together for our quarterly offsite in Palm Springs. We sourced, we hiked, we swam, and we laughed as a team — and most importantly, we reflected on how far we’ve come as a unit. Our first offsite - less than a year ago - it was Abby, Asher and myself in a small Airbnb in San Diego. Now we’re 7 strong - and building something special.

Last quarter, we overhauled our internal systems - building our own home-grown CRM, lead management system and established a strong marketing automation foundation. This quarter, we’re launching a strategic initiative to further identify, engage and retain a talent network of elite engineers in NYC and SF. More to come here 👀

Now - without further ado, peep the 6 engineering profiles below (split b/w NYC and SF) looking for early-stage teams in NYC and SF. Respond to this email if interested in learning more.

Palm Spring Aerial Tram.. highly recommend

  1. Back End/Product Engineer (NYC)

    • She is a standout engineer with a Cum Laude degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. After nearly three years at Stripe, she is now looking for new opportunities to continue her professional growth. 

    • At Stripe, she has owned an entire project from start to finish, building endpoints that enabled their backend APIs to accept Canadian payments. Additionally, she worked on infrastructure projects, successfully transitioning from an unsharded to a sharded system, enhancing disaster resilience and operational efficiency.

    • She is targeting small to mid-stage startups where she can make a tangible impact as a backend engineer or in a product-facing role. Her technical expertise includes Java, Ruby, Kafka, and MongoDB, positioning her well for the challenges in dynamic startup environments.

  2. Front End Engineer (NYC)

    • She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a major in Computer Science. She is a frontend engineer, most recently at Brex, where she led the revamp and scaling of the mobile app, contributing to enterprise deals with Coinbase and DoorDash. She also worked on the frontend product-facing team. 

    • Before Brex, she was at Clio, where she built the 0-1 product for an expense manager app for SMBs and enterprises. She developed features for uploading PDFs and receipts, added memos, and scaled the main lawyer app to manage client cases, enabling lawyers to comment on cases and upload documents.

    • Her top motivations include collaborating with customers, iterating on app improvements, and working under leadership that prioritizes the growth and development of their team members.

  3. Full Stack Engineer (NYC)

    • After interning at Google and graduating from Purdue University with a CS degree, he began his career at RideOS. He joined RideOS during its Series A funding round, where the company was later acquired by GoPuff after a deal with Ford fell through. His work primarily involved Java, gRPC, and API development, focusing on route planning algorithms that improved latency by 90% through a clustering algorithm.

    • At a Series C startup, he was part of the team of 50 to over 300 employees, owning the exports infrastructure from 0-1, which was essential for customers to download their data. As a full-stack engineer, he contributed to various projects, including insights, exports, virtual cards, and vendor management features that facilitated enterprise deals.

  4. Full Stack Engineer (SF)

    • He is a graduate of UC Berkeley. As a Founding Engineer and Lead Frontend Engineer at a T1 VC backed startup, he played a pivotal role in various areas across the tech stack. He has a history of working in several startups that were acquired, including Yammer by Microsoft, Urbandoor by Airbnb, and Alibaba. 

    • He founded his own startup that faced challenges securing seed funding due to the impacts of COVID. Currently, he is co-founding a stealth startup focused on creating innovative and scalable B2B web solutions, leveraging extensive experience in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and other frontend technologies. With over a decade of experience, he has successfully built and launched SaaS platforms aimed at enhancing productivity and collaboration.

  5. Back End/ Full Stack Engineer (SF)

    • He graduated from UC Berkeley and co-founded a startup that developed sales software similar to Outreach or Salesloft, specifically designed for partnership teams. In this role, he managed everything from platform development to go-to-market strategy and sales.

    • He spent two years at Databricks, where he worked on notebook infrastructure and Spark query execution. He contributed significantly to scaling the engineering team from 9 to over 50 members.

  6. Blockchain/Security/Distributed Systems Engineer (SF)

    • An accomplished engineer with a low ego approach, having served as one of two Principal Engineers at Brex when the company had 150 employees.

    • As the Chief Architect at a blockchain security startup., he has played a critical role in developing a machine learning platform for blockchain network security from the ground up. His previous experience includes senior engineering positions at Brex and Cisco, where he contributed to initiatives in blockchain, security, and distributed systems.

    • He has developed a new L1 consensus protocol capable of handling 1 million transactions per second and holds 21 patents, with more pending.

Give me a shout if any of the profiles catch your eye!

P.S. Coastal Recruiting helps the top 1% of founders hire 0-1 engineers in SF + NYC