Founding Product Engineer ($140k-$250k + Equity) at MochaCare YC W26

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Job Title

Founding Product Engineer

Salary

$140k-$250k + Equity

Company Description

MochaCare YC W26 is a Y Combinator-backed startup building the operating system for home care, backed by the same investors behind Airbnb. Founded by Stanford and UIUC engineers with deep industry experience, the company provides an AI-powered platform for hiring, scheduling, and intake, currently serving over 600 agency locations.

Job Description

As the Founding Product Engineer at MochaCare YC W26, you will architect and build the core hiring, scheduling, and intake systems from their infancy. You will work directly with the founders in San Francisco, shipping AI-driven features like agentic scheduling and hiring intelligence to real users across hundreds of locations on day one.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

High-impact founding role with significant 1-2% equity stake in a YC W26 company tackling the massive challenge of elder care access.

Direct involvement in architecting sophisticated "agentic scheduling" systems that use AI to match caregivers and clients based on personality and skills.

Proven traction and immediate scale, with the product already embedded in two franchise systems totaling over 600 locations across the country.

What You Will Do

Architect and build full-stack systems for hiring and intake using Next.js, TypeScript, and Supabase, moving from initial concept to production in days.

Develop intelligent data pipelines and agentic scheduling features that optimize complex, geographically-dispersed operations for home care agencies.

Collaborate directly with customers on-site to design and deploy custom solutions, ensuring the product deeply addresses the needs of agency owners.

The ideal candidate

Scrappy full-stack builder with "codebase design" skills who can ship fast using tools like Claude Code while maintaining high-quality patterns.

Prolific developer who has previously built and launched software for real users, ideally with experience as a founder or at an early-stage startup.

Mission-driven engineer with design taste and a commitment to solving the operational complexities of the home care industry through user-obsessed product development.

Who are Jack & Jill?

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And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.

How does this work?

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If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.

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