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Posted by whoishiring 1/2/2026

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com, https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....

Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466073

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kachow6 1/2/2026||
Beatdapp | Vancouver, Canada | ONSITE (Hybrid) | Full-time

Beatdapp is a venture-backed ML/music startup based in Vancouver, Canada. We're a relatively small company of ~50 people that works with media companies to solve data intensive (TB/PB scale) problems using ML and classic data systems engineering.

We're looking for a:

- Cloud Infrastructure/Data/MLOps Engineer

to work on our ML recommendation systems, but you'll probably get the opportunity to work on other data systems and the rest of our ML platform as well.

The team pretty great, lots of collaboration and no egos. If you like video games or tabletop games you'll fit right in. Your stack would probably include a lot of GCP (BigQuery, GCS, ...), K8s, Airflow, datastores (Redis, BigTable, etc.) and Python.

Full job posting: https://beatdapp.breezy.hr/p/570e4959dd9f-ml-devops-engineer...

If that sounds interesting you can reach me at kevin [at] beatdapp.com

benwerd 1/2/2026||
ProPublica | Director of Product Engineering | Remote (US only) or NYC | Full-time

ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of trust in the public interest. Journalism we published last year shed light on the impact of DOGE and ICE, investigated right-wing militias, told stories about the US medical system, and more. Here were our most-read stories in 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-most-read-stor...

I'm the Senior Director of Technology. I'm hiring a pragmatic, mission-driven Director of Product Engineering, who will report to me, in order to provide more support for our product engineers who work on our publishing and data products. (This is not a reporting position.) You'll directly lead and manage a small team of engineers and help us to create and maintain great engineering processes.

More about the role here, including a direct route to apply:

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4623874006?...

Or get in touch with me at ben.werdmuller [at] propublica.org if you'd like to have a conversation about it.

The expected salary range for this position is $170,000 to $180,000. We cannot sponsor visas and must hire in the US. The role is almost fully remote: we have two in-person week-long summits a year.

suydp 1/2/2026||
Stealth | Software/AI Engineer | Remote Anywhere | Full Time

Hello, I am bootstrapping an AI companion startup. I believe that within 10 years, more people will date AI than humans. I think this is neither good nor bad, just interesting, and I want to build something in this space.

I am looking to hire someone with strong technical and problem solving skills. You will be seeing a lot of problems for the first time and need to just figure out how to hack a solution. Sometimes that involves writing code but not always. It is ok if you don't have prior AI experience.

Interesting problems we will work on:

- extreme latency issues while providing a fully multimodal experience (audio, video, text)

- building models that predict when to interrupt in a conversation

- building models and control systems for emotion

- generating avatar response in real time

- custom 3d models from input image

- real time or very fast video generation with custom characters

- llm memory

As I am bootstrapping this, I can only offer up to $4,000/mo ($50,000/yr) at the moment. If you are interested, please email James at gcyiuqy1 [at] gmail.com

bill_duckduckgo 7 days ago||
DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178,500 - $320,000 USD + equity

Senior Backend Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/abb953ee-5bb7-4637-9f6...

Senior Privacy Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/72ec81ce-54a2-447a-9a8...

Senior Android Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0499efdf-2de5-4e4e-8c3...

Senior iOS Engineer - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/a1239b43-0c9a-45a4-b35...

Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform - $178,500 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/12b7b49c-ee06-4d70-850...

Senior Software Engineer, Windows Desktop App (New Positions) - $178,500 USD + equity — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/47e569c6-f995-4955-a89...

Engineering Director, Browser Platform - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/0541f1f3-4302-4b76-93a...

VP, Business Development - $320,000 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/276ae352-55b5-4fb2-9b9...

Director, Product Management - - $243,800 USD + equity https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duck-duck-go/2a379a3e-ee10-45d2-927...

bum_mik 6 days ago|
Hi bill, I have Perl experience but I don't meet the required years of experience for the backend role. Are there similar roles that are also more Perl and backend focused?
positron26 1/2/2026||
Positron | Bootstrapping Startup | South Korea | Co-founder

Equity-only co-founders. If you must take a salary position, send us a resume with "Salary only" and we'll check back later.

We're developing an efficient social-decision model so that communities can organize social-finance campaigns and effectively administrate funds without being beholden to one creator. Keeping funds in the hands of backers creates accountability and is one key to taking social finance to the next level.

We say that our social tech "makes the money smarter." It will do this by making communities smarter. How we do social will change how every future social platform gets built and will upset every social product on the market. Society will benefit tremendously from the more coherent discourse.

To bootstrap our platform, we are developing an music visualizer called MuTate. It will soon be powered by our in-house machine learning tricks, which do not rely on back-propagation in order to enable radical forward architectures that are smaller and easier to develop and train. This work directly impacts our mission and aligns us both with consumer enthusiasm for small & local AI to run outside the cloud and with people working on hard problems that need AI tool-kits they can embed their own world models within.

We are using PrizeForge as a better kind of Patreon while we finish our crowd cognition implementation and start to integrate social decisions with our existing social finance.

Our entire tech stack is Rust where possible. We use Leptos, Axum, Postgres with SQLx. It's like a full-stack typescript setup, but with Rust and WASM. MuTate uses Rust, the Vulkan API, and Slang.

Anyone who materially accelerates the trajectory of the company will participate proportionately in the rewards. Our work on MuTate will put us default-viable. Our work on crowd cognition and community-organized campaigns will likewise make use default-viable.

Prototype two-dimensional fund raising: https://prizeforge.com Career listings with more details: https://positron.solutions/careers MuTate Github repo: github.com/positron-solutions/mutate

Korean language skill is optional but anticipate learning business Korean and translating a lot. Same timezone is as far as will be considered remote unless you're physically stuck in Ukraine etc and begin by contributing on MuTate.

sebselassie 7 days ago||
telli (YC F24) is hiring across engineering, design, and sales. [On-Site, Berlin]

More here: https://hi.telli.com/join-us

sam_corgi 1/4/2026||
Corgi Insurance (YCS24) | San Francisco & London | 7 days a week ONSITE

Taking on the entire insurance industry.

Full stack software engineers. Python and typescript.

https://calendly.com/sam-corgi/session

corgi.insure

furtimmodus 7 days ago|
Furtim Modus | Hiring Java Developer (Full-Time) | NYC (HYBRID) | https://www.furtimmodus.com/software-engineer

We are currently seeking a talented and driven Java Developer to join our team full-time. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute your skills and expertise to a fintech venture with emphasis in capital markets tech based out of the New York City and in exchange we’ll provide you with base comp $125k-200k, full benefits, cash bonus, and equity.

Requirements:

- Electronic trading server-side software development experience

- Experience in Open Source technologies such as Aeron Transport, Aeron Cluster, Aeron Archive, Artio, Agrona, or CoinTossX is a big plus

- Experience with Adaptive Hydra trading platform is a big plus

Benefits:

- Flexible hybrid schedule to accommodate other commitments

- Collaborative and supportive team environment

- Relocation assistance to NYC Metro area

If you are passionate about Java development and interested in joining a fintech venture, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume if interested to agency@furtimmodus.com in this opportunity.

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Furtim Modus | Hiring DevOps Engineer (Full-Time) | NYC (HYBRID) | https://www.furtimmodus.com/devops-engineer

We are currently seeking a talented and driven DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute your skills and expertise to a fintech venture with emphasis in capital markets tech based out of the New York City and in exchange we’ll provide you with base comp $125k-$175k, full benefits, cash bonus, and equity.

Requirements:

- Electronic trading DevOps engineering experience

Plus:

- Experience in Open Source technologies such as Aeron Transport, Aeron Cluster, Aeron Archive, Artio, Agrona, or CoinTossX is a big plus

- Experience with Adaptive Hydra trading platform is a big plus

Benefits:

- Flexible hybrid schedule to accommodate other commitments

- Collaborative and supportive team environment

- Relocation assistance to NYC Metro area

If you are passionate about DevOps engineering and interested in joining a fintech venture, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume if interested to agency@furtimmodus.com in this opportunity.

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