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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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thothmind 1/2/2026|
Thothmind | Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend) | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | https://thothmind.ai

  What we're building:
  - Strategy simulation engine with real market data
  - AI-powered agents for strategy generation and analysis
  - High-performance data pipelines and analytics

  We're hiring:

  Backend Engineer:
  - Python or C++, API design (REST)
  - Database design (SQL/NoSQL), data processing at scale
  - Interest in financial systems/trading is a plus

  Frontend Engineer:
  - TypeScript, React, Next.js
  - LLM/AI integrations (OpenAI API, LangChain, or similar)
  - Performance-focused, clean UI architecture

  Why join:
  - Fully remote, anywhere in the world
  - Work on non-trivial problems—trading simulations, AI agents, real-time data
  - Small team, high ownership, real impact
  - Competitive compensation

  Apply: https://thothmind.ai/careers
kirill_python 1/13/2026||
Great, this looks aligned with my background.

I’m a Python engineer with experience in fintech systems and high-throughput data processing: APIs + pipelines + async workers (Kafka/Redis/RabbitMQ), with a focus on correctness, latency, and observability. I’m also comfortable collaborating on Next.js/TS when needed, I have frontend work experience with real task solving.

Based in Asia; can overlap Pacific Time.

GitHub: https://github.com/sensensation Email: mr.rodionov.official@gmail.com

beetlejuice_98 1/15/2026|||
Great opportunity. I applied. Spent a few years building trading systems for a crypto trading firm in APAC. Would love to hear back from you
SunVirgo 1/8/2026|||
Senior backend engineer with long-term experience building performance-critical, data-intensive systems and simulation backends. Strong in Python and C/C++, REST APIs, and handling real-time and historical data with an emphasis on correctness and determinism. Prefer working close to system behavior, data pipelines, and infrastructure rather than abstraction-heavy stacks. Applied
thothmind 1/9/2026||
Thanks, we are reviewing the applications!
Jessy432 1/13/2026|||
Is the team looking to hire Product or Application security engineers in the near future. Thank You!
Egidius 1/5/2026|||
The /apply POST request hangs. Has been pending for minutes now. Is there any other way I can reach out?
thothmind 1/9/2026||
Please try again, the page is live. Thanks!
ibnballo1 1/11/2026|||
Hi, I have applied to the frontend role
thegeekyb0y 1/8/2026|||
Whats your email??
thothmind 1/9/2026||
You can apply using the careers linke provided in the post.
nasaeclipse 1/3/2026||
Looks great! Applied
thothmind 1/4/2026||
Thank you for applying. We will begin reviewing all applications starting Monday. The team is on vacation for the New Year.
imzeeshanc 1/17/2026||
I have 4 years of experience in Algo Trading, built https://lucrumbot.com/ from the group up - Options, Futures, Stocks. Overall 20 years in tech.

Applied via the website. Lets talk if there is an interest.

zetier 1/2/2026||
Zetier | Multiple US locations (VA, PA, FL, TX, CA, NY) | ONSITE | Full-Time

Zetier develops real-world tools and capabilities to secure our nation in the short- and long-term. If you’re excited to delve deep into low-level systems, exploit dev, and more alongside a group of passionate hackers, then we’d love to hear from you.

Open-sourcing our work as much as possible is integral to Zetier and what we stand for. As folks who learned to hack on platforms like Linux, we aim to give back to the OSS community. Not only do we encourage our engineers to contribute, but we go a step further, adding monetary incentives to do so.

We’re looking to find the right people for a range of roles, including:

+ Vulnerability Researcher

+ Android Security Engineer

+ CNO Embedded Engineer

+ CNO Software Engineer

+ IT Security Engineer

+ Senior Technical Lead

+ Business Developer

+ Program Manager

All open positions: https://zetier.breezy.hr/

Our approach and benefits: https://zetier.com/careers/

Different skill set? Drop us a line at hello@zetier.com

varsis 1/2/2026||
Freetrade | London, Budapest (ONSITE) | Full-time | https://freetrade.io | £75k-£140k

Freetrade is a commission-free investing app used by over 1 million people in the UK. Our team is expanding, and we’re seeking software engineers to evolve and scale our core investing platform.

In this role, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining reliable and trustworthy systems for trade execution, clearing and settlement, asset servicing, and internal operational tools.

You will also play a key role in shaping our technical direction and mentoring other engineers as our team grows. Tech we use: TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and GCP

Note: We are three days in the office We don’t sponsor visas at the moment.

We are hiring across the board in engineering, data, people, marketing, risk & compliance and finance.

See all of our opportunities here: https://freetrade.io/careers

sunkencity 1/2/2026||
teenage enginering | senior backend developer | full-time | stockholm ONSITE | https://teenage.engineering

hello, as head of it, i'm looking for another top backend developer to expand our it team. the it team builds and runs the tech infrastructure for teenage engineering, supporting all parts of the product journey for the worlds best products. onsite only (no relocation - you must already live in stockholm).

apply here: https://careers.teenage.engineering/jobs/6907741-senior-back...

ngcazz 1/6/2026||
Can you clarify the no relocation requirement? I would consider moving to Stockholm for this role, and have the right to work there as I'm a EU citizen.
jwhiles 1/5/2026|||
I won't be applying, due to my lack of a swedish work permit - but I love to see Vim or Emacs listed as a hard requirement in a job advert.
bjornarv 1/5/2026||
teenage engineering is such an awesome company, cool to see you here!
polvi 1/5/2026||
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association | Engineering Leader

Location: Frederick, MD or REMOTE (US), ET timezone

AOPA is a nonprofit that supports and advocates for general aviation pilots through safety programs, training, advocacy, and digital platforms used by hundreds of thousands of members.

You would lead a team of 6–10 engineers and various consultants working on AOPA’s core digital platforms.

Stack: TypeScript, Swift, iOS, Astro, Cloudflare Workers, .NET, Azure

Looking for: former senior engineer turned engineering leader, strong people leadership with solid technical judgment, clear communicator aligned with business outcomes.

If you love general aviation and supporting the GA community, this role is a strong fit. Perks include free flight training.

Email alex.polvi@aopa.org if interested. I am a former YC founder (Cloudkick W09, CoreOS S13), active pilot.

johnmoberg 1/2/2026||
Tandem Health | Software Engineers | On-site in Stockholm, Sweden | Full time

At Tandem Health we're building a clinician copilot to allow clinicians to focus on care rather than administration. We’re building, launching and iterating quickly, and are already rolling out across some of the largest care chains across Europe, including most of the NHS.

Our first product listens in to the patient-clinician encounter to generate medical records, allowing clinicians to save 5-10 minutes per patient. No longer do clinicians have to catch up on administration after hours.

We’re expanding our Stockholm team with exceptional engineers in a wide range of roles, from security to product.

More info at https://www.tandemhealth.ai/recruitment

Feel free to reach out to john.moberg@tandemhealth.ai if you have any questions!

JulianWasTaken 1/2/2026||
Quantum Rise | Chicago or NYC (preferred), Remote for the right candidate | Full-time | No visa sponsorship | https://www.quantumrise.com/

Quantum Rise is an AI-forward consulting startup serving the middle market, across multiple industries. Clearly many companies are struggling to understand how to leverage artificial intelligence in their day-to-day operations, to understand what their existing workforce now needs to know, or to understand whether they're about to be disrupted. Many have business problems which "traditional" machine learning could help with even before the current GenAI hype cycle, but for whatever reason hadn't prioritized doing so until now. We try and help getting a handle around these issues and designing outcome-driven solutions.

Agentic AI Solutions Manager: You'll work directly with clients to benchmark, train and deploy agentic systems for industry-specific problems. We're looking for someone deeply curious about agentic systems across vendors and platforms. Companies are looking for ways to leverage agentic systems to upskill their practitioners. This is a front-facing development role for someone who loves both tech and tackling real business problems. To apply, send me an email at julian.berman at quantumrise.com, mentioning HN and including your CV.

Data Engineer: You'll work directly with clients and application developers to design and build data solutions for AI-enabled applications, Lakehouses, Warehouses, and analytics that solve industry-specific problems. We're looking for someone passionate about delivering outcomes that combine best practices for deterministic data management and governance with AI functionality across tools, vendors, and platforms. Our clients need to leverage AI to solve specific problems using data. This is a client-facing development role for someone who loves to work with data technologies and tackle real business issues through genuine innovation. To apply, send John an email at john.swift at quantumrise.com, mentioning DE and including your resume/CV.

bocadan 1/9/2026||
I’m exploring a new venture at the intersection of content provenance, fingerprinting, and AI usage attribution (audio initially, potentially expanding to voice, animation, and other media). The problem we’re evaluating is how to reliably attribute creative works when they are used, transformed, or learned by AI systems not enforcement or takedowns, but provable attribution and auditability that could later support licensing or royalties. Before building anything, we want to have a deep technical conversation with someone who has hands-on experience in areas like: • Audio or media fingerprinting / perceptual hashing • Robust similarity detection under transformations (compression, pitch/tempo changes, partial usage, synthesis) • Watermarking vs fingerprinting tradeoffs • False positives / false negatives in real-world systems • What is actually feasible vs academic or marketing claims This is not a job post (yet). We’re looking for paid consulting or advisory conversations to sanity-check an MVP approach before we pitch a pilot to talent agencies or studios. If you’ve worked on fingerprinting systems (music, video, speech, ML training detection, etc.) and are open to a conversation, I’d love to hear from you feel free to email me @ dmschultz1964@gmail.com Thanks in advance.
harshasi 1/15/2026||
Microsoft Azure Data | Senior Software Engineer (Vector DB) | US Redmond/Remote

We build the engine (https://github.com/Microsoft/DiskANN) that brings vector search capabilities to Azure Databases and most other at-scale search/RAG systems at Microsoft.

Looking for Rust developers to join our team of researchers and engineers. Experience with performance engineering, OSS developments, Database internals, or numerical methods a plus.

https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers?query=200019455&...

christian_gral 1/19/2026|
Full-Stack Engineer in Co-Founding for AI-driven pairing engine that automatically extracts menu data to create personalized coffee-pastry experiences.

*2. The Problem (Why now?)* Specialty coffee shops struggle to increase their average order value (AOV) because they lack digital tools to suggest pairings. Currently, menu data is "trapped" in PDFs, static websites, or Instagram images. Manually entering this data into a system is a bottleneck that prevents scaling.

*3. The Solution (How it works)* We build a bridge between B2B inventory and B2C taste. Our platform uses:

- *Automated Crawling:* Pulls data from shop URLs/socials. - *Computer Vision/NLP:* Standardizes messy menu items into a structured pairing-ready format. - *The Engine:* A hybrid ML/Rule-based system that suggests the perfect pastry for every bean profile.

*4. My Background (The Non-Tech Value)*

- *Domain Expertise:* Deep understanding of the specialty coffee B2B landscape. - *Customer Validation:* (Mention if you have spoken to X shops or have a waitlist). - *Execution:* I handle sales, marketing, and the B2B dashboard logic. I need a partner to own the data extraction and recommendation pipeline.

*5. What I’m looking for in a Co-Founder* A *Full Stack Engineer* who is excited by:

- Web scraping at scale. - OCR and NLP pipelines (turning images of menus into data). - Building "scrappy" MVPs that solve real problems for small businesses. - Ideally, a fellow runner or coffee lover who values high-intensity work and clear communication.

Personal: Achievement of 50 half marathons last year while managing a full-time project

vamsimyla 1/29/2026||
Hi Christian, this problem (OCR/Extraction from messy menus) is exactly what I specialize in. I have been building extraction pipelines for unstructured data and I would love to help you build the scraping/NLP engine.

I couldn't find your email in your profile, could you please drop me a note at mylavamsikrishnasai@gmail? I would love to show you how I would approach the menu standardization.

Please find my website here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/vamsimyla/personalwebsitevm

AhmedAli9991 1/26/2026|||
Hi christian I am a FullStack developer with over four years of experience building high-impact, real-world applications in both enterprise environments and fast-paced startups and also have a strong understanding of the entire product lifecycle.

feel free to reach out

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-ali-a8b415215 website: https://ahmedthedev.vercel.app email: ahmedalibalti2000@gmail.com github: https://github.com/AhmedAli9991

emots_dev 1/27/2026|||
Hi. I'm Esau and would love to chat to know more about the project. Checkout my availability at https://emots.dev/meet

You can checkout some of my work at https://emots.dev // github.com/esau-morais // linkedin.com/in/emmorais

nitinkanna10 1/20/2026|||
Hi Christian,

I’m a full-stack engineer (~2 years) with hands-on experience building OCR + NLP pipelines that turn messy PDFs/images into structured data, along with FastAPI backends and React dashboards to ship scrappy, real-world MVPs. I’ve built rule + LLM query hybrids for extraction and evaluation.

I’d love to chat about owning the menu extraction + pairing engine side. Coffee fan too.

Email: nitinkanna89@gmail.com | GitHub: https://github.com/nitink100 Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitink8/

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