# JustBacked Startup Jobs (remote · justbacked.com)

Search and track open roles at venture-backed startups that raised in the last six months.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- remote · `justbacked.com`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://justbacked.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-23.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation check failed: no authorisation is required to call this server, and it exposes a tool marked destructive (remove_from_list).
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2584 tokens (~184/item across 14 items; 14 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 50/100
  - Stability observed for 15 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 95/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 86% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 2 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 15 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server?

JustBacked Startup Jobs is a hosted endpoint at https://justbacked.com/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-justbacked-jobs 'https://justbacked.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-justbacked-jobs": {
      "url": "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-justbacked-jobs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-justbacked-jobs]
url = "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-justbacked-jobs": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-justbacked-jobs --url 'https://justbacked.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-justbacked-jobs:
    url: "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-justbacked-jobs": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-justbacked-jobs -t streamable-http -u 'https://justbacked.com/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-justbacked-jobs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://justbacked.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-22 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-19 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-15 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-13 (score 66, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-12 (score 65, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-10 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (14)

### `search_jobs` (~840 tokens)

Search startup jobs

Search open roles at startups that raised venture money in the last six months. Same filters as the justbacked.com board. Members see roles the day they are posted. Returns jobs with title, company, location, pay, latest round, investors and apply link, plus total matches and a board_url to share.

Input parameters:

- `cities` (array): Metro areas: sf (SF Bay Area), nyc (New York), la (Los Angeles), bos (Boston), sea (Seattle), aus (Austin), den (Denver / Boulder), chi (Chicago), dc (Washington DC), mia (Miami), atl (Atlanta), sd (…
- `company_sizes` (array): Headcount bands: 1-10, 11-50, 51-250, 251-1000, 1000+.
- `countries` (array): Country codes: us, gb, de, ca, fr, in, sg, au, es, nl, il, se, ch, ie, ae, jp.
- `employment` (array): fulltime, parttime, contract, intern.
- `exclude_title_words` (array): Drop roles whose title contains any of these words, e.g. ["senior", "manager"].
- `functions` (array): Job function: engineering (Engineering), product (Product), design (Design), data (Data & ML), sales (Sales & BD), marketing (Marketing), customer (Customer), operations (Operations), finance (Financ…
- `has_pay` (boolean): Only roles that publish a salary range.
- `hiring_fast` (boolean): Only companies that added 10+ roles in the last 30 days.
- `include_non_venture` (boolean): Include debt, grants, PE and corporate rounds (default: venture rounds only).
- `industries` (array): Industry keywords, e.g. ["fintech", "climate"].
- `investors` (array): Investor names (any of), e.g. ["Sequoia", "a16z"].
- `limit` (number): 1-50, default 20.
- `list_id` (string): Only companies on one of the user's lists (id from list_lists).
- `location` (string): Free-text location match for places outside the metro list, e.g. "Portland".
- `min_pay_usd` (number): Minimum published annual pay in USD (roles without published pay are excluded).
- `min_raise_usd` (number): Minimum size of the latest round in USD, e.g. 20000000.
- `offset` (number): For paging.
- `posted_within_hours` (number): Only roles posted in the last N hours (24 or 48 shows the newest roles).
- `query` (string): Keywords matched against job title, company and department, e.g. "product designer" or "founding engineer". Supports quotes and -exclusions.
- `raised_within_days` (number): Only companies whose latest round is at most this many days old (e.g. 30).
- `search_descriptions` (boolean): Also match query inside full job descriptions (broader, noisier).
- `seniority` (array): Level: intern, entry, mid, senior, staff, manager, director, exec.
- `sort` (string): new (default), relevance (with query), raised (most recent round first), amount (biggest round first).
- `stages` (array): Company's latest round: preseed (Pre-seed), seed (Seed), a (Series A), b (Series B), c (Series C), growth (Series D+), venture (Venture (series unknown)).
- `work_modes` (array): remote, hybrid, onsite.

### `get_job` (~77 tokens)

Get job detail

Full detail for one role: description, pay, the company's latest round and investors, hiring velocity, apply URL, which hiring system (ATS) it uses, and whether it is already in the user's tracker.

Input parameters:

- `job` (string, required): The job value from search_jobs (a slug), or the role's justbacked.com/jobs URL.

### `get_application_form` (~91 tokens)

Get application questions

The role's application questions (labels, types, required, options) read from the company's public Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby job board, so you can draft answers for the user to review. Read-only: it never submits anything. The user applies at apply_url.

Input parameters:

- `job` (string, required): The job value from search_jobs (a slug), or the role's justbacked.com/jobs URL.

### `get_company` (~55 tokens)

Research a startup

A startup's profile: latest round, amount, date, lead investors, headcount, HQ, hiring velocity by function, and every open role.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string, required): company_slug from search_jobs, or the company name.

### `track_application` (~187 tokens)

Add to application tracker

Add a role to the user's JustBacked tracker (shown at justbacked.com/saved) or update its status. Statuses: saved, applied, interviewing, offer, rejected, withdrawn, archived. Use "saved" for roles the user is considering; use "applied" only after the user confirms they submitted. For a role found elsewhere, pass title + company + apply_url instead of job.

Input parameters:

- `applied_at` (string): Date applied, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today when status moves past saved.
- `apply_url` (string)
- `company` (string)
- `job` (string): The job value from search_jobs (a slug), or the role's justbacked.com/jobs URL.
- `notes` (string): Free-text notes (replaces existing notes).
- `status` (string): Default applied.
- `title` (string)

### `list_applications` (~56 tokens)

List tracked applications

The user's application tracker: every saved or applied role with status, applied date and notes, plus counts by status.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Default 100, max 200.
- `status` (string): Only this status.

### `update_application` (~90 tokens)

Update a tracked application

Change a tracked role's status (e.g. interviewing, offer, rejected, withdrawn), replace its notes, or append a dated note.

Input parameters:

- `append_note` (string): Adds a dated line to the notes.
- `applied_at` (string): YYYY-MM-DD
- `job` (string, required): The job value from list_applications.
- `notes` (string)
- `status` (string)

### `list_lists` (~39 tokens)

List company lists

The user's company lists (target companies) with each company's open roles and new roles this week. A list id also works as list_id in search_jobs.

### `add_to_list` (~83 tokens)

Add company to a list

Add a startup to one of the user's lists. Pass list_id, or list_name (an existing list's name, or a new list to create). Lists with alerts on email the user when a company posts a role or raises.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string, required): company_slug or name.
- `list_id` (string)
- `list_name` (string)

### `remove_from_list` (~34 tokens)

Remove company from a list

Remove a startup from one of the user's lists.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string, required)
- `list_id` (string, required)

### `list_saved_searches` (~25 tokens)

List saved searches

The user's saved searches (email alerts) with their filters and board links.

### `save_search` (~791 tokens)

Save a search as an email alert

Save a search with the same filters as search_jobs. JustBacked emails new matching roles instantly (as soon as they reach JustBacked), daily or weekly.

Input parameters:

- `alert` (string): Default instant: an email as soon as new matches arrive.
- `cities` (array): Metro areas: sf (SF Bay Area), nyc (New York), la (Los Angeles), bos (Boston), sea (Seattle), aus (Austin), den (Denver / Boulder), chi (Chicago), dc (Washington DC), mia (Miami), atl (Atlanta), sd (…
- `company_sizes` (array): Headcount bands: 1-10, 11-50, 51-250, 251-1000, 1000+.
- `countries` (array): Country codes: us, gb, de, ca, fr, in, sg, au, es, nl, il, se, ch, ie, ae, jp.
- `employment` (array): fulltime, parttime, contract, intern.
- `exclude_title_words` (array): Drop roles whose title contains any of these words, e.g. ["senior", "manager"].
- `functions` (array): Job function: engineering (Engineering), product (Product), design (Design), data (Data & ML), sales (Sales & BD), marketing (Marketing), customer (Customer), operations (Operations), finance (Financ…
- `has_pay` (boolean): Only roles that publish a salary range.
- `hiring_fast` (boolean): Only companies that added 10+ roles in the last 30 days.
- `include_non_venture` (boolean): Include debt, grants, PE and corporate rounds (default: venture rounds only).
- `industries` (array): Industry keywords, e.g. ["fintech", "climate"].
- `investors` (array): Investor names (any of), e.g. ["Sequoia", "a16z"].
- `list_id` (string): Only companies on one of the user's lists (id from list_lists).
- `location` (string): Free-text location match for places outside the metro list, e.g. "Portland".
- `min_pay_usd` (number): Minimum published annual pay in USD (roles without published pay are excluded).
- `min_raise_usd` (number): Minimum size of the latest round in USD, e.g. 20000000.
- `name` (string): e.g. "Series A design, NYC"
- `posted_within_hours` (number): Only roles posted in the last N hours (24 or 48 shows the newest roles).
- `query` (string): Keywords matched against job title, company and department, e.g. "product designer" or "founding engineer". Supports quotes and -exclusions.
- `raised_within_days` (number): Only companies whose latest round is at most this many days old (e.g. 30).
- `search_descriptions` (boolean): Also match query inside full job descriptions (broader, noisier).
- `seniority` (array): Level: intern, entry, mid, senior, staff, manager, director, exec.
- `stages` (array): Company's latest round: preseed (Pre-seed), seed (Seed), a (Series A), b (Series B), c (Series C), growth (Series D+), venture (Venture (series unknown)).
- `work_modes` (array): remote, hybrid, onsite.

### `delete_saved_search` (~26 tokens)

Delete a saved search

Delete one of the user's saved searches by id.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `get_account` (~21 tokens)

Account

The user's membership, API usage today and tracker/list/search counts.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 70
- 2026-10-22: 70
- 2026-10-21: 69
- 2026-10-20: 69
- 2026-10-19: 69
- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67
- 2026-10-14: 66
- 2026-10-13: 66
- 2026-10-12: 65
- 2026-10-10: 64

## Common questions

### What is the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server?

JustBacked Startup Jobs is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.justbacked/jobs. Search and track open roles at venture-backed startups that raised in the last six months. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://justbacked.com/api/mcp).

### Is the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server safe to use?

JustBacked Startup Jobs scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server expose?

JustBacked Startup Jobs exposes 14 tools: search_jobs, get_job, get_application_form, get_company, track_application, and 9 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,415 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to JustBacked Startup Jobs without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the JustBacked Startup Jobs MCP server still maintained?

JustBacked Startup Jobs is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://justbacked.com/api/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://justbacked.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/mcp
- Website: https://justbacked.com/agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-justbacked-jobs/api-mcp