GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers

Summary

About Us GoGoGrandparent is a digital caregiving platform helping older and disabled adults stay independent, safe, and supported at home. We adapt on-demand APIs (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, etc.) into a concierge-style experience tailored for people with cognitive, mobility, or vision challenges. We’re a profitable, fast-growing, YC-backed startup (S16) with a deeply mission-driven team. Everything we build directly impacts real families who rely on GoGo every day. Our engineering team is fully remote, tight-knit, and moves fast. You’ll work closely with founders, ship meaningful features weekly, and have real ownership over architecture, reliability, and product direction. FULLY REMOTE | Able to work 4+ hours overlap with mainland US | $100k – $160k (based on location, experience and seniority) Tech Stack Back-end heavy: Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, REST + GraphQL Front-end: Vue.js (nice to have) Deployment: AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (nice to have) Requirements 6+ years of professional experience (primarily in Node.js and Vue.js) Able to work US timezone or 4+ hours overlap with mainland US If you're passionate about improving the lives of older adults and people with disabilities, we would love for you to apply! We built GoGo for our own grandparents and were amazed to see it grow to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of seniors across the United States and Canada. What shocked us then and it still does now, is that between 30 - 40% of our new signups have smartphones. We didn’t understand why. When we called and asked a few, they told us that Uber and Lyft had 'stopped working' for them. After puzzling over that for months, we realized what the problem was. Managing transportation - on Lyft, Uber, cab companies, etc is not easy. It’s a ‘self-serve’ experience. The ride requester has to be aware of things like the driver cancelling, getting lost, the driver arriving, the driver not-quite-being-lost-just-down-the-street-a-couple-houses. Then add the comple...