NYC founders calling for engineers
Several NYC‑focused founders and advisors posted hiring calls this week seeking founding or senior engineers for seed‑stage AI and DeFi startups, including Dan Tase, Nathan Miranda and Alan Seong's posts listing NYC, SF and US‑remote roles. The social posts highlight active hiring channels for engineers interested in early‑stage opportunities. (x.com) (x.com) (x.com)
New York startup founders and advisers spent this week posting direct calls for engineers, pointing candidates to seed-stage roles in artificial intelligence and decentralized finance. (x.com) Dan Tase posted on X on July 10, 2026, seeking engineers for early-stage companies and listing New York City, San Francisco and remote options. Nathan Miranda followed on July 11 with another hiring post aimed at startup engineers. (x.com 1) (x.com 2) Alan Seong added a third post on July 11, pointing engineers toward senior and founding roles. Across the three posts, the common pitch was early ownership, small teams and direct contact with founders or advisers rather than a standard corporate application funnel. (x.com) A founding engineer is usually one of a startup’s first technical hires, joining before a large engineering team exists and taking on product, infrastructure and hiring work at the same time. Seed-stage companies often use personal networks and social feeds to fill those jobs because they have small recruiting teams and want candidates comfortable with ambiguity. (ycombinator.com) (wellfound.com) The geography in these posts was also broad. New York City remained the anchor, but San Francisco and United States remote roles appeared in the same recruiting stream, matching a startup job market where companies mix office hubs with national hiring. (x.com) (startupjobs.nyc) (ycombinator.com) The sectors named in the posts reflect two active corners of startup hiring. Artificial intelligence startups continue to advertise large numbers of engineering openings, while decentralized-finance job boards still show thousands of crypto and blockchain roles, many of them remote. (topstartups.io) (web3.career) For engineers, posts like these function as an informal hiring channel: a founder or adviser publishes a short note, candidates reply or send a direct message, and the process can move faster than a formal job board listing. For startups, the tradeoff is reach versus verification, since social recruiting also attracts scams and impersonation attempts. (wellfound.com) (consumer.ftc.gov) The immediate takeaway from this week’s posts is simple: some New York-connected founders are still hiring the old-fashioned way, in public, by asking engineers to raise their hands. (x.com 1) (x.com 2) (x.com 3)
