Coastal Recruiting - Eng Spotlight, Aug 2

Happy Friday, everyone - 

Popping in your inbox going into the weekend with our engineering roundup. For those new, this is  Coastal Recruiting’s weekly newsletter where we highlight top engineering profiles we’re working with - mainly in San Francisco and New York City. All engineers are actively interviewing, ideally looking for a high-growth Seed or Series A startup where they can have expanded ownership, impact, and ship quickly. 

As always, feel free to share this email with any founder or hiring manager you know building their engineering teams… And of course reply directly to learn more.

Founding Engineer / Early Engineer (SF)

• Ideal candidate profile for small engineering team; he was as a  founding engineer at TeamBridge -- overall 2nd engineer behind the CTO, currently making him the longest tenured engineer 

• He’s grown into a leadership role over the last few years (IC work with a focus on mentorship / player coach), acting as a defect lead engineer / head of engineering

• His speciality is thinking about product, architecture and platform decisions based on feedback / input from customers - and implementing (both himself as an IC and guiding the team). 

Founding Engineer / Early Engineer (SF)

• She checks a number of  boxes any founder wants to see from an early engineer; UC Berkeley - BS, at Berkeley she was a part of the honors society and President of their Launchpad (Connecting research in AI, ML, and Computer Vision).

• She’s spent the last 2+ years in the Accel Scholar program, in addition to working at Scale AI. She’s deeply passionate about AI and is looking for a small team with tangible use case, where she can have expanded ownership and impact

• Superb communicator (comfortable engaging with clients) will launch her own company in the future.
  

Staff / Tech Lead (SF)

• He’s currently a Tech Lead of 6 at Faire. He built the 1st ads platform from 0-1 and they are now updating to GenAI and transformer based platforms. His team is currently building out an agent for commercial products where they do fine tuning of LLMs for product query balance and for the shopping assistant itself they use prompt engineering.

• Before that he was a Senior Engineer at Meta on the marketplace and news feed where he learned building ranking ML.

Founding / Early Engineer (SF)

• He was the 1st hire and Founding Engineer at Readyt - YC S20 - he joined while they were still at YC. He built their entire FE, BE, Infra, etc as the co-founders were not technical. During that time period, he owned all of engineering and grew the team from 1 --> 40 engineers. When he started they had 0 sales and helped to grow the ARR to 19 million+.

• He recently started a project called Code Accelerator, an AI software creation engine with development, deployment, and sharing features. He launched a private beta that allows users to create client-side HTML/CSS/JS applications using only the English language.

• Looking to join an early-stage AI startup - ideally pre 10 people - where he can make material contributions and influence the roadmap

Founding / Early Engineer (NYC)

• Masters from Cornell - Founding Engineer @ Instalily - With two years of experience, the candidate has strong backend development skills, particularly in API design, scalability, and security, using technologies like Python, Java, and various cloud services (Azure, GCP).

• He joined as engineer #1 at his current startup and has led engineering teams, scaled operations, and contributed significantly to revenue growth.

• He has expertise in managing devops deployment, ensuring data privacy, and working on fintech products.

Founding / Early Engineer (NYC)

• Ex-Amazon & previous Founding Engineer @ Bezel. He also has experience @ Valstro - fintech startup focused on next generation of trading technology.

• @ Bezel he led backend initiatives. He values roles in AI startups that offer complex and interesting work, involve smart and hardworking colleagues, and have strong momentum toward product-market fit.

• He has three years of experience in startups, two years at Amazon AWS, and recent roles focused on backend development in fintech, including trading solutions and data engineering.

• Proficient in Typescript, Node, and AWS, Rajat’s X factor is building high trust within his teams, and successfully taking products from ideation to production.

Founding / Early Engineer (NYC)

• This candidate is currently is a co-founder of Light RFP, a b2b SaaS startup based out of NYC where they are building a procurement platform for commercial real estate.  He’s a full stack engineer, slight frontend lean.  He built the entire front and backend of the company and handled anything product-related.  He loves being close to product and working full stack or working frontend.

• He’s a high energy person and definitely a "startup" personality.  He’s looking for a company where he can grow his skillset with a well-funded startup (ideally with an in-office culture).

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

Have a great weekend.

David