In my opinion hiring a motivated junior is a good decision. Onboarding new developers is the harder part of the process, regardless of experience level. If you

In my opinion hiring a motivated junior is a good decision. Onboarding new developers is the harder part of the process, regardless of experience level. If you are just in a new established startup, the risk might be that the whole development process is still unstable and tasks you might assign to them are going to hit a bunch of unknowns/undocumented parts for the hire and you. When I was a junior hire I think it took me somewhere close to a year to get fully competent for the role that I was hired (not needing oversight for my work anymore) and the platform we were developing. When picked up later in my career on other projects, it could take me somewhere from 3-6 months to operate at full capacity.