Work at a Startup Scraper - Y Combinator Jobs, Salary & Equity

Extract job listings from Work at a Startup, the hiring board run by Y Combinator for its portfolio companies. Each row combines the role with the company behind it, including batch, team size, industry and founders, which makes it as useful for startup research as it is for job hunting.

What you get per job

Field	Example
jobTitle, roleType, jobType	Senior Software Engineer, Full stack, Full-time
salary, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency	"$150K - $250K", 150000, 250000, USD
equity, equityMin, equityMax	"0.25% - 1.50%", 0.25, 1.5
minExperience	"6+ years"
remote, location	true, "US / Remote (US)"
sponsorsVisa	"US citizen/visa only"
companyName, companySlug, companyWebsite, companyUrl	Instawork, instawork, http://instawork.com, .../companies/instawork
companyDescription, companyIndustry, companyIndustries	one-liner, "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", ["B2B Software and Services","Recruiting and Talent"]
techStack	"Django, React, React Native, AWS, Neo4J"
companyTwitterUrl, companyFacebookUrl	social profile links
ycBatch	S15, W24, ...
teamSize	500
founders	name, LinkedIn, bio, past companies
interviewProcess	plain-text interview steps, where the company published them
applicationQuestions	custom questions asked on the apply form, where the company set any
tags, postedAt, jobUrl	skills/stack tags, posting date, link to apply

Search filters

• roles - role families to include, e.g. ["eng", "sales", "design"] (valid values: eng, design, product, science, sales, marketing, support, operations, recruiting, finance, legal). Leave empty to pull from every role category.
• remote - only roles that can be done remotely
• ycBatches - restrict to specific batches, e.g. ["W24", "S24"]
• includeCompanyDetails - enrich each job with the full company profile
• maxResults - how many jobs to save

Example input

{
  "roles": ["eng"],
  "remote": true,
  "includeCompanyDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Use cases

• Startup recruiting and job hunting - see every YC company hiring for a role, with pay, equity and visa status attached
• Compensation benchmarking - build salary and equity ranges for early-stage roles across currencies, which are otherwise hard to source
• Tech stack research - filter companies by techStack to find who is hiring for a specific language or framework
• Startup and investor research - use open roles, team size and industry as growth signals across YC batches
• Sales prospecting into startups - find companies scaling a function you sell into, with founder names and LinkedIn
• Application prep - read the real interview process and application questions before you apply

Why Work at a Startup

YC companies publish compensation and equity ranges on this board far more consistently than startups do elsewhere, and every listing is tied to a verified portfolio company with its batch, team size and tech stack. That combination, pay plus company stage plus stack in one record, does not exist on general job boards.

Notes and limits

• Salary and equity are published as ranges; salaryMin/salaryMax and equityMin/equityMax are parsed where the format allows. Non-US listings carry their own currency (GBP, EUR, INR, ...), captured in salaryCurrency.
• Work at a Startup shows an anonymous visitor only the newest batch of jobs per role category (no login), so the Actor fetches every role category by default to cover as much of the board as a logged-out view can see; ycBatches then filters that pool. Setting roles to a single value narrows this to just that category.
• interviewProcess and applicationQuestions are only present where the company filled them in on Work at a Startup; most listings leave them empty, which shows up as an empty string or array, never invented.
• teamSize, techStack and companyIndustry describe the company at the time of scraping and change between runs, which is exactly what makes a repeated run useful.
• Turning off includeCompanyDetails produces a leaner, faster export when you only need the roles.