Scan the YC Board for Junior-Friendly Roles

Startups rarely label roles 'new grad' — but the junior-friendly ones are findable. Thirdwatch's YC Jobs Scraper reads Y Combinator's Work at a Startup board and returns every listing with the two fields job boards usually hide — salary range and equity range.

Skip the setup: Run this as a ready-to-go task on Apify — pre-loaded with the configuration from this guide.

Why scan for junior roles

Entry-level candidates get filtered out of startup hiring by signal, not by a 'junior' checkbox. A keyword scan over titles and descriptions surfaces the roles that actually welcome juniors.

query filters the board's text; comp fields still come back on every row.

The scraper parses the board's embedded data, so every row arrives fully structured — comp ranges included.

How does this compare to the alternatives?

Why this Actor

• Salary AND equity ranges on every listing — the fields other boards hide.
• Company context bundled: batch, one-liner, logo, last-active date.
• Direct applyUrl per job — no intermediate listing page.
• Filter by free-text query or role type.
• Cheap and fast — the whole board in one HTTP run.

How to do it in 3 steps

Step 1: Configure the input

Set the inputs as shown below — query takes the targets, free-text filtering plus a role type filter; leave both empty for the full board.

Step 2: Run the Actor

Run it from the console, the API, or the linked saved task. One dataset row is written per job.

Step 3: Use the output

Each row carries the role plus company name, batch, one-liner, location, remote flag, salary range, equity range, and the apply URL.

{
  "query": "junior",
  "maxJobs": 40
}

Each dataset row looks like:

{
  "jobId": "12345",
  "title": "Full-Stack Engineer",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/acme/jobs/12345",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/acme/jobs/12345",
  "companyName": "Acme",
  "companySlug": "acme",
  "companyBatch": "W24",
  "companyOneLiner": "APIs for logistics",
  "location": "Remote",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "roleType": "engineering",
  "salaryMin": 140000,
  "salaryMax": 190000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "equityMin": 0.1,
  "equityMax": 0.5
}

What to watch for

Comp ranges are as published by each company — some listings omit salary or equity. The board only shows live postings, so expired roles disappear rather than aging out.

Related use cases

• Pull Every Engineering Role Across YC Startups
• Find Remote-Friendly Roles at YC Startups
• Benchmark Startup Salary and Equity with YC's Job Board
• Track Product and Operations Roles at YC Companies
• All Thirdwatch use-case guides

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