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Independent and bootstrapped startups hiring now
The independent and bootstrapped startups hiring the most right now are AAA Club Alliance, Canonical and SHI. 32% of their open roles are in engineering. 15% of these companies hire mostly remote. Most are based in Paris, New York City and London. Every role here comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
32%
of roles in engineering
8%
of roles in data
7%
of roles in sales and gtm
5%
of roles in product and design
5%
of roles in ai and ml
Companies
Who is hiring
AAA Club Alliance
Wilmington, US
AAA Club Alliance provides roadside assistance, insurance, retail, and travel services. It offers financial products such as insurance, automobile and personal loans, and online savings accounts and credit card services.
278 open roles34% remote
Canonical
London, GB · Bootstrapped
Canonical provides open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform Ubuntu is used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
277 open roles98% remote
SHI
somerset, US
SHI supplies hardware, software and technology services to organizations. It helps customers buy technology and design IT systems.
225 open roles82% remote
The Aerospace Corporation
Chantilly, US
The Aerospace Corporation provides aerospace engineering, research, and technical services to government and defense organizations.
210 open roles2% remote
Point72
Stamford, US
Point72 manages alternative investments. Its investment strategies include venture capital and institutional private investments.
163 open roles0% remote
AMERICAN SYSTEMS
McLean, US
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor that delivers IT and engineering solutions to national priority programs. The company provides strategic solutions in Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training. Its focus within the government sector is on Defense, Federal Law Enforcement, and Federal Healthcare.
157 open roles19% remote
Meritis
Paris, FR
Meritis is a French technology consultancy specialising in the digital transformation of organisations and information systems.
151 open roles2% remote
DRW
Chicago, US · Bootstrapped
DRW trades across traditional and newer financial markets. It provides liquidity to counterparties across a range of asset classes.
128 open roles22% remote
Optiver
Amsterdam, NL · Bootstrapped
Optiver is a global electronic market maker that uses its own capital to trade on major financial markets. It provides liquidity by offering two-sided prices for a wide range of financial instruments across global exchanges.
120 open roles32% remote
IMC
Amsterdam, NL · Bootstrapped
IMC is a research-driven trading firm that provides liquidity across global markets.
114 open roles0% remote
Mozilla
San Francisco, US
Mozilla makes the Firefox web browser, which blocks over 2000 data trackers automatically.
100 open roles100% remote
MARGO
Paris, FR
MARGO is an international technology engineering and AI consulting group that solves highly complex IT challenges.
91 open roles33% remote
InterSystems
Boston, US · Bootstrapped
InterSystems delivers data platforms that solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations.
88 open roles33% remote
WorldQuant
Old Greenwich, US · Bootstrapped
WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. The firm seeks to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through its proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies.
85 open roles
SKELAR
Kyiv, UA · Bootstrapped
SKELAR is a venture builder that creates international IT companies according to the guidelines of venture capital investment. Together with founders, it creates consumer businesses across EdTech, Mental Health, Petcare, FashionTech, and beyond.
81 open roles40% remote
Pear VC
Menlo Park, US
Pear VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. It provides capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network to help founders build companies.
79 open roles22% remote
Jump Trading
Chicago, US · Bootstrapped
Jump Trading is a globally-positioned, proprietary trading firm that trades across all major asset classes in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm uses its own capital to generate profits through algorithmic trading and market-making activities. Its subsidiary, Jump Crypto, focuses on the cryptocurrency market.
75 open roles11% remote
Entrust
shakopee, US
Entrust provides identity verification solutions for organizations. Its tools support digital onboarding, account recovery, biometric authentication and protection of high risk transactions.
71 open roles8% remote
Cottingham & Butler
Dubuque, US · Bootstrapped
Cottingham & Butler brokers property and casualty insurance and employee-benefits solutions for businesses and employers.
69 open roles40% remote
Tower Research Capital
New York City, US · Bootstrapped
Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm that has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams.
69 open roles0% remote
Beast Industries
Greenville, US
Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast. It operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
66 open roles25% remote
Sensor Tower
San Francisco, US
Sensor Tower’s digital intelligence platform provides unparalleled insight into market trends, advertising, competitor’s strategies, and consumer/user audience across mobile, web, and gaming.
65 open roles41% remote
Neuralink
Fremont, US · Series E
Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interfaces that decode neural signals to enable users to control digital devices using only their thoughts. Its first product, the N1 Link, is a coin-sized device implanted by a surgical robot that wirelessly transmits neural data to a computer.
61 open roles
Team8
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Team8 is a venture fund with $1.5B in AUM that builds and invests in companies tackling the world’s biggest challenges in cyber, software infra, fintech, and digital health. Team8's proven methodology spans from vision to impact.
58 open roles9% remote
Hyland
westlake, US · Private Equity
Enterprise content management
58 open roles77% remote
Hudson River Trading
New York City, US · Bootstrapped
Hudson River Trading is a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity on global markets and directly to clients. The company researches and develops automated trading algorithms using advanced mathematical techniques.
58 open roles25% remote
CannonDesign
Buffalo, US
CannonDesign is a global architecture, engineering and consulting practice. It provides services for project types including hospitals, corporate headquarters, education facilities, and sports facilities.
49 open roles83% remote
Caylent
Irvine, US
Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, it combines deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic's Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.
47 open roles100% remote
HarbourVest Partners
Boston, US · Bootstrapped
HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm that provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit. The firm invests in all types of private equity funds, including venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, and also directly in operating companies.
45 open roles0% remote
West Monroe
Chicago, US
West Monroe is a digital consulting firm that was born in technology but built for business—partnering with companies in transformative industries to deliver quantifiable financial value.
45 open roles11% remote
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What independent and bootstrapped startups build
Privately held with no venture or private-equity owner. AAA Club Alliance: AAA Club Alliance provides roadside assistance, insurance, retail, and travel services. It offers financial products such as insurance, automobile and personal loans, and online savings accounts and credit card services. Canonical: Canonical provides open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform Ubuntu is used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. SHI: SHI supplies hardware, software and technology services to organizations. It helps customers buy technology and design IT systems.
The roles they hire for
Across the roles open today, the mix is engineering (32%), data (8%), sales and gtm (7%), product and design (5%) and ai and ml (5%). Engineering roles here often ask for hands-on work with the product's hardest part, so a portfolio or a shipped project counts for more than a long resume.
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Frequently asked
Which independent and bootstrapped startups are hiring the most?
Right now: AAA Club Alliance, Canonical, SHI, The Aerospace Corporation and Point72. The list above ranks every company by the roles it has open today.
Do independent and bootstrapped startups hire remotely?
15% of the companies here hire mostly remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do independent and bootstrapped startups hire for?
The most common are engineering, data and sales and gtm.
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