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Developer tools startups hiring now

The developer tools startups hiring the most right now are AgileEngine, Cognition and Baseten. 30% of their open roles are in engineering. 37% of these companies hire mostly remote. Most are based in San Francisco, Austin and Palo Alto. Every role here comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.

30%

of roles in engineering

18%

of roles in sales and gtm

10%

of roles in product and design

8%

of roles in data

3%

of roles in ai and ml

Companies

Who is hiring

AgileEngine

AgileEngine

boca raton, US

We’ve helped 300+ clients in 17+ industries — from VC-backed startups to Fortune 500 brands — build software that solves real-world problems and drives measurable impact.

1,273 open roles50% remote

Cognition

Cognition

San Francisco, US · Late Stage Venture

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. Its flagship product, Devin, is the first AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code autonomously. Cognition also operates Windsurf, an agent-native IDE with its own enterprise customer base.

85 open roles13% remote

Baseten

Baseten

San Francisco, US · Series D

Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment.

83 open roles17% remote

Temporal Technologies

Temporal Technologies

Bellevue, US · Series D

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. Temporal Cloud, the company's enterprise managed service, serves 2,500+ customers globally.

68 open roles88% remote

Lovable

Lovable

Stockholm, SE · Series B

Lovable lets individuals and teams build production-grade web applications using natural language. It generates a working application that includes frontend, backend, database, authentication, and integrations, all backed by editable code.

66 open roles3% remote

Docker

Docker

Palo Alto, US · Series C

Docker’s suite includes Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. The platform is used by over 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls.

64 open roles100% remote

Quantum Machines

Quantum Machines

Claymont, US · Series C

Quantum Machines is looking for a Quantum software Engineer to work closely with customers to design, optimize, and troubleshoot advanced quantum control workflows on real quantum hardware.

59 open roles46% remote

ion design

ion design

San Francisco, US

ION is an AI growth team for ecommerce storefronts that continuously runs agents to find, build, and test ways to increase traffic and conversion. It also offers a design-to-code platform that learns from existing code to write components.

56 open roles0% remote

Replit

Replit

Foster City, US · Series D

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. It provides a cloud-based development platform that enables users to write, run, and deploy applications in browsers.

53 open roles8% remote

Factory

Factory

San Francisco, US · Series C

The platform is used by enterprise engineering organizations including MongoDB, EY, Bayer, Zapier, and Clari.

52 open roles20% remote

Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns

Colorado Springs, US · Series B

Defense Unicorns builds open-source, airgap-native technologies that enable secure development, delivery, and sustainment of mission software across cloud, on-premises, and tactical edge environments. The company's UDS platform makes approvals, vulnerability scanning, and compliance simple for military systems.

50 open roles98% remote

Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab

San Francisco, US · Seed

Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company.

43 open roles0% remote

SingleStore

SingleStore

San Francisco, US · Series F

SingleStore is a distributed SQL database built to power intelligent applications. It is delivered as a SaaS data platform (SingleStore Helios) available in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

43 open roles82% remote

Wing

Wing

Tel Aviv, IL · Seed

Wing Cloud develops the open-source Wing Programming Language (Winglang), a programming language that unifies cloud infrastructure and application code into a single programming model that works across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, serverless, and more. The Winglang compiler produces a ready-to-deploy package that includes both infrastructure-as-code definitions for Terraform, CloudFormation, or other cloud provisioning tools.

41 open roles8% remote

JetBrains

JetBrains

Amsterdam, NL · Bootstrapped

JetBrains is also known for creating the Kotlin programming language, a cross-platform language used by more than 5 million developers worldwide yearly and recommended by Google as the preferred language for Android development. JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools consistently used and trusted by 11.4 million professionals and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies.

39 open roles47% remote

CloudBees

CloudBees

San Jose, US

CloudBees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.

36 open roles26% remote

Dev Tools AI

Dev Tools AI

San Francisco, US · Pre Seed

Dev Tools AI assist in the rapid development of web and mobile app tests. It offers an AI-powered automation service that uses AI to automate testing of web and mobile applications without requiring access to page source code.

36 open roles21% remote

n8n

n8n

Berlin, DE · Series C

n8n is an open-source, low-code workflow automation platform that combines AI capabilities with business process automation.

35 open roles91% remote

Nominal

Nominal

Los Angeles, US · Series B

Nominal provides a connected test and operations platform for hardware engineering teams. Its products, Nominal Core and Nominal Connect, help teams manage, monitor, analyze, and automate test data and operations.

32 open roles0% remote

Sparkles

Sparkles

San Francisco, US · Seed · YC W26

Sparkles is a safe online development environment that lets everyone on your team, not just engineers, take part in shipping software. Agents work on your existing repositories in isolated sandboxes, and every change comes back as a pull request.

31 open roles19% remote

Redis

Redis

mountain view, US · Series G

Redis provides database products, services, and tools that help users operate Redis databases.

30 open roles60% remote

Code Metal

Code Metal

Boston, US · Series B

Code Metal provides an AI-enabled platform for verifiable code translation and optimization, converting high-level code into production-ready formats for deployment across varied hardware targets. Its platform accelerates deployment of DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal processing algorithms onto heterogeneous compute targets including GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs.

30 open roles90% remote

Aalyria

Aalyria

Livermore, US · Series B

Aalyria develops network orchestration software and optical communication technologies for space and terrestrial connectivity. It offers Spacetime, a managed PaaS for developers to orchestrate networks in motion, and Tightbeam, a laser-based communication technology for high-bandwidth data transmission.

30 open roles70% remote

Digital Asset

Digital Asset

New York City, US

Digital Asset provides the Canton Network, a public layer-one blockchain with institutional-grade privacy for tokenized real-world assets. It offers Daml, a smart contract platform for building regulatory-grade blockchain applications on Canton.

30 open roles0% remote

Striveworks

Striveworks

Austin, US · Series B

Striveworks develops machine learning operations platforms designed to build, deploy, and manage AI models in production environments.

28 open roles32% remote

Bunch

Bunch

New York City, US · Series A

Bunch provides a social gaming platform that makes it easier for gamers to socialize, before, during, and after games. With Bunch's social gaming SDK, game developers can easily add social features similar to Discord to their games, and incent longer game sessions.

27 open roles30% remote

The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group

London, GB

The Adaptavist Group offers consulting, software licensing, managed services, and professional services across technology ecosystems like Atlassian, AWS, Slack, monday.com, and GitLab.

26 open roles81% remote

Adept Solutions

Adept Solutions

Adept Solutions is a software firm that offers software, website development, training, licensing, and technology consulting services. It provides IT training and certification courses from vendors such as CompTIA, Cisco, Oracle, and Microsoft.

23 open roles0% remote

Coder

Coder

Austin, US · Series C

Coder is an AI software development company that provides a self-hosted AI Development Environment for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. Its platform provides secure, standardized, and governed workspaces for autonomous coding agents and human developers to build software.

22 open roles100% remote

Retool

Retool

San Francisco, US · Series C · YC W17

Retool is a platform for building internal tools that connect to business data and enforce enterprise policies.

22 open roles5% remote

Open roles

Newest roles at these startups

What developer tools startups build

Companies working in developer tools. AgileEngine: We’ve helped 300+ clients in 17+ industries — from VC-backed startups to Fortune 500 brands — build software that solves real-world problems and drives measurable impact. Cognition: Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. Its flagship product, Devin, is the first AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code autonomously. Cognition also operates Windsurf, an agent-native IDE with its own enterprise customer base. Baseten: Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment.

The roles they hire for

Across the roles open today, the mix is engineering (30%), sales and gtm (18%), product and design (10%), data (8%) and ai and ml (3%). 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 developer tools startups are hiring the most?

Right now: AgileEngine, Cognition, Baseten, Temporal Technologies and Lovable. The list above ranks every company by the roles it has open today.

Do developer tools startups hire remotely?

37% of the companies here hire mostly remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.

What roles do developer tools startups hire for?

The most common are engineering, sales and gtm and product and design.

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