Founding Product Engineer at MochaCare YC W26
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Compensation
- $140k-$250k + Equity
Join MochaCare YC W26 as their Founding Product Engineer to build the operating system for the $100B+ home care market. Backed by Y Combinator and early investors in Airbnb, this SF-based startup is already deployed across 600+ locations. You'll own the architecture for agentic scheduling and hiring intelligence systems using a modern stack of Next.js, Supabase, and LLMs.
If you're a scrappy full-stack builder who wants to solve the massive challenge of elder care access while earning significant equity and shipping to real users on day one, this is your chance to shape a company from the ground up alongside a world-class founding team.
What's the next step?
MochaCare YC W26 are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
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.
About MochaCare YC W26
Home Care · 1-10 employees
MochaCare is an agentic management service for home care and other care organizations. We provide AI-powered staffing and workforce management tools, including human virtual assistants supercharged by AI, to handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake—end-to-end managing these back-office and operational tasks. MochaCare enables agencies to spend less time on administration and more time on building relationships in their communities and growing their businesses.
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.
Who this is a fit for
- 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.
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.
How Jack & Jill work together
What happens next?
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If your profile’s a match and MochaCare YC W26 wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.