Working Remotely at a Startup

Data in this page is from venture-backed companies hiring remote Software Engineering roles, based in the US.

However, most trends hold true for non-remote jobs too, the numbers are typically higher for non-remote roles.

Our hiring observatory continues trending positively as we close the first quarter of 2025.

As of , the trend has been steadily positive with more than 250 monthly posts every month for the past six months:

2024 closed on strong with more than 700 job postings in November and December. In just the first quarter of 2025, we’ve already recorded new job postings.

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1. Hiring trend

We are tracking job opening trends over time to gauge the startup hiring climate. An increase in job postings suggests a growing job market, while a decrease points to a slowdown.

As of the trend shows the market with job openings published just this month and jobs posts from March are still open.


2. Most active portfolios

This section examines the Venture Capital firms with the most active portfolios based on job opportunities. It focuses exclusively on remote-friendly positions at US-based companies.

As many of Software Engineers experienced firsthand, there was a significant hiring slowdown throughout 2023 that persisted into early 2024. However, the market began its recovery in January 2024, gaining substantial momentum by the third quarter as confidence returned to the ecosystem.

This positive trajectory continued seamlessly into 2025. The first quarter of this year has maintained and even strengthened the hiring momentum we observed in late 2024, creating numerous opportunities for engineers looking to join venture-backed companies.

Among the firms analyzed Accel 🥇 has the most active portfolio.

Followed by:

Q1 2025 was strong terms of hiring. The data suggests that the job market for Software Engineers at VC-backed startups has been of steady these past six months.


3. Hiring landscape

In this section, we explore VC-backed companies that have been actively hiring.

In the past 90 days, companies from the portfolios of the VCs mentioned in the previous sections published a total of new remote jobs.

We’ve seen a lot of changes in this list for the past quarter, notable missing are Abridge, Aledade, Maven Clinic, Returnly and Tecton, who had a strong hiring spree for the past six months.

New on the list are EventUp, Humio, Metronome, Omada Health, Shippo, TRM Labs, and Vercel. Ramp, Vanta and Temporal Technologies are back in the list hiring again.

Airbnb, Atlassian, Cribl, CrowdStrike, Discord, Instacart, reddit and Stripe have been in the list for the past six months. They are a very stable, solid choice for anyone looking for a new challenge.


🥇 Top Remote Hiring Startups


✨ Highlights

AirBnB and Discord

Both well known, also have a high number of positions. The two are well-established, and highly regarded engineering-wise.

Opportunities at either company are solid opportunities for engineers looking for scale.

Metronome

Metronome is building usage-based billing infrastructure that helps companies implement and scale complex pricing models. They just raised their Series C ($50M).

This is a perfect opportunity for engineers passionate about fintech infrastructure who want to work with modern backend technologies.

Huntress

Huntress is a cyber-security company founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators.

They are looking for Sr./Sr+ Engineers with Backend focus (Go or RoR) and DevOps, and are backed by strong VCs like Sapphire and Kleiner-Perkins.

Tecton

Tecton automates and orchestrates data pipelines to power IA and ML models.

The perfect opportunity for engineers that want to work on the intersection between Data and IA.


4. Top paying companies.

The demand for Software Engineers in VC-backed companies is growing, bringing attractive salaries across various industries. In the past 90 days, these companies published highly competitive positions for remote jobs with a base salary of over USD 150,000.

This list excludes Staff and Principal roles which usually have very high salary bands and just a handful of positions. Our listings page include all openings.


Detailed list

Big tech and software companies have a strong presence, but we see diverse industries hiring, offering attractive salaries from FinTech, Health, Infra, and Back-office.