This week’s edition tracks a massive surge in the developer tools space, headlined by a staggering $60 million seed round for a GitHub veteran’s new venture and a multi-billion dollar milestone for AI-native data infrastructure. We are also highlighting brilliant new launches that transform autonomous agents into reliable, production-ready teammates capable of triaging alerts and managing complex codebases in parallel.
First up….
⚒️ DevTools Job Opportunities of the Week
Frontend Engineer (up to Staff) | Hybrid, Bay Area | Competitive Base + Equity
Join a well-funded AI developer tools company solving one of the hardest problems in software: helping engineers work effectively inside massive, complex codebases. With over $250 million raised and approaching Series C, this team has strong enterprise traction and fast-growing developer adoption. You will own and ship high-quality, developer-facing experiences using TypeScript and React, working closely with product and platform teams to shape workflows used by thousands of engineers. This role suits a Frontend Engineer with deep modern experience and a track record of building impactful products for technical users in high-bar engineering environments.
Contact: Becca Combe MIRP CertRP | +52 998 939 9191 | becca@develocity.io
AI Product Engineer | Hybrid, SF Bay Area | Base up to $300k + equity
Join a Series B devtools startup experiencing phenomenal growth and trusted by leading tech companies. This hands‑on engineering role focuses on translating product needs into intuitive, reliable AI experiences, from prompt design to system integration. You will contribute across frontend, backend, and integration layers to build tools that developers love. This position is ideal for a Product Engineer or Applied AI Engineer with strong coding skills in Python, Go, Node.js, or Java, experience with API integrations, and a deep familiarity with prompt engineering for LLMs.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
Applied AI Engineer | Hybrid, Bay Area | Up to $300k Base + Equity
Join a well-funded AI company building developer tooling for engineers working in large, complex codebases. Backed by top-tier investors, this team is focused on making advanced AI systems practical, reliable, and usable in real-world software development workflows. You will build and integrate LLM-driven product features, focusing on prompt design, system integration, and production-quality code across frontend, backend, and services. This hands-on role sits at the intersection of product, AI, and systems, allowing you to shape AI integration across a production-grade stack alongside a high-caliber team of researchers and senior engineers.
Contact: Becca Combe MIRP CertRP | +52 998 939 9191 | becca@develocity.io
PLUS Louise Ogilvy has been posting some super fresh, high-impact roles worth a look, including a Head of Engineering in the UK/Europe and Inference and Scalability Engineers across Europe and the US East Coast.
🏆 DevTools Funding Wins
AppFactor Amasses $4 Million For Autonomous Maintenance
AppFactor secured a $4 million seed round to scale its agentic orchestration platform for enterprise software maintenance. The company is building an orchestration layer of specialised AI agents that handle high‑volume tasks like bug fixes, vulnerability remediation, dependency upgrades, and Rust migrations through standard pull requests and approval flows. The platform discovers where applications run, maps dependencies and infrastructure, and uses that context to remediate issues automatically without requiring developers to open an IDE. As CEO Keith Neilson says:
“Enterprises have brilliant engineers spending the majority of their time maintaining the past instead of inventing what’s next. AppFactor changes that by turning software upkeep into an autonomous, closed-loop process.”
💡 Brilliant news for engineering leads, read more about AppFactor on BusinessWire.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million For MCP Infrastructure
Manufact (formerly mcp-use) secured $6.3 million in seed funding to build the connective tissue for the Model Context Protocol. The startup provides the infrastructure developers need to link AI agents with various services and data sources without building custom integrations. By standardizing how context flows between models and third party applications, Manufact helps teams deploy more reliable agents faster. The funding will help the team expand their platform as MCP gains traction as the industry standard for agent communication. For developers, this means a modular way to build agentic workflows that don’t break when the underlying stack evolves.
🧩 Great news for agent builders, explore Manufact here.
Databricks Bags Big $7 Billion For Agentic Data
Databricks raised over $7 billion at a $134 billion valuation to accelerate its vision for AI native data infrastructure. The team are doubling down on Lakebase, a serverless Postgres database designed for AI agents to read and write operational data. They are also expanding Genie, a conversational tool that lets any employee query company data using natural language. With a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, the capital supports deeper research and strategic acquisitions. The goal is to transform the lakehouse into a full operational fabric where agents act on live workloads with high accuracy.
📊 Incredible milestone for the team, read the press release on Tech Funding News.
Entire Emerges from Stealth with Staggering $60 Million Seed
Entire emerged from stealth with a $60 million seed round at a $300 million valuation to manage the explosion of AI generated code. Thomas Dohmke (CEO), formerly of GitHub, is building a platform designed for an era where agents work on multiple projects simultaneously. Their first open source tool, Checkpoints, captures the full context behind every AI change, including prompts and reasoning, so humans can audit the output. Dohmke explains that “Our manual system of software production was never designed for the era of AI.” By providing a semantic reasoning layer, Entire helps teams maintain quality as agentic contributions outpace human understanding.
🚀 Amazing news for the open source community, read the full article on TechCrunch here.
🚀 New DevTools Launched
21st Launches 1Code Control Panel For Coding Agents
The team from 21st (Sergey Bunas and Serafim Korablev) has launched 1Code; a control panel that turns Claude Code into something teams can actually run in parallel at scale. The desktop app spins up multiple agents in separate branches with visual diffs, while the web UI runs long tasks in remote sandboxes. On top, Automations let Claude review PRs, tackle Linear tickets, and fix CI failures on its own, all wired into your existing Git workflows so agents feel like extra engineers, not chaos.
⚙️ Big step for Claude heavy teams, explore 1Code on 1code.dev.
Sonarly Launches AI Engineer For Production Reliability
Sonarly (YC W26), founded by Dimittri Choudhury and Alexandre Klobb, has launched an AI engineer that lives within your production monitoring stack. By connecting to Sentry and Datadog, Sonarly triages noisy alerts and investigates root causes in the background to cut mean time to repair. It runs a coding agent that uses logs, traces, and metrics to propose and ship fixes for production bugs automatically. This proactive approach ensures critical issues are addressed 24/7 without waiting for a human to start the investigation.
🛠️ Amazing news for DevOps teams, read the full write up here.
Tines Launches Starter Edition For Intelligent Workflows
Thomas Kinsella announced on Product Hunt this week that Tines is bringing its intelligent workflow platform to the Product Hunt community with the debut of Starter Edition. While the company has powered security teams at Canva and Dropbox since 2018, this new tier makes their enterprise-grade orchestration accessible to smaller organizations. It allows lean teams to move away from brittle scripts by combining deterministic logic with AI agents. The platform remains resilient, ensuring that mission-critical workflows don’t break when system inputs or edge cases change.
✨ Brilliant news for innovators, support the launch on Product Hunt.
Got launch news or funding to share? Send it to Natalie Harper.
Want more details on the opportunities here or want to register your resume with us, reach out to Becca Combe MIRP CertRP and Louise Ogilvy directly.
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