Posted by whoishiring 4/1/2026
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
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I am building a real-time fantasy soccer platform launching June 10th with the World Cup.
I have an open source scoring engine as the base. I need a backend engineer to adapt it to our custom rules and integrate it with our live data feed.
This is a flat-fee contract — $3,000–$4,500 for a defined deliverable. Paid in two tranches. Front-loaded work, most of it done in the first 30 days. U.S.-based, 1099.
What I am looking for: — Comfortable working inside an existing open source codebase — Node.js background — Understands event-driven architecture — Enough soccer knowledge to sanity-check scoring logic — U.S.-based with a legal entity to receive 1099 payments
If this is you: send me a link to one open source project you have worked with and two sentences on your Node.js background. Email: hire@343.football
343 game|QA & Backend Engineer|Remote(US)|contract
I am building a real-time fantasy soccer platform launching June 10th with the World Cup. Development team is in Eastern Europe and moving fast. I need a U.S.-based QA and backend engineer on a paid contract to supervise daily execution through launch.
This is not a full-time role. It is a 70-day paid contract on 1099 — $4,000–$6,000/month depending on experience. Milestone-linked. If everything goes well there is a longer conversation after launch.
What I am looking for: — Shipped at least one consumer product end-to-end — Managed or supervised a distributed or outsourced team — Backend engineering background, mobile experience a plus — U.S.-based with a legal entity to receive 1099 payments — Available to start this week
If this is you or you know someone: send me two sentences about the last product you shipped. Email: hire@343.football.
No recruiters please.
Open Roles (REMOTE, non US):
Animators (2D/3D or hybrid—experience with AI tools a plus) Writers Programming interns
Why join us?
Fully remote, async-friendly Ship real things that impact how kids learn Fast, creative, zero-corporate-BS environment
Direct access to founders; real ownership
Opportunity to shape our tools and shows from the ground up
To apply: Email jobs [at] studyturtle.com with your background, a few sentences about why edtech is important to you, any feedback on our episodes, and why this mission excites you. Please include links to any relevant work.
We are the hiring company and will reply to all genuine applicants. No recruiters, no agencies, please.
Ando provides flexibility for hourly workers starting in restaurants, changing the lives of 80M+ people. Backed by Zero Capital, Slow Ventures and Blitzscaling.
- algorithms/AI, ideally with production experience in scheduling and assignment and also reasoning LLMs.
- product mgmt, ideally with early stage startup experience in enterprise SaaS and restaurant IT systems e.g. 7shifts, toast, etc.
https://www.ando.work/careers or DM me
DM me for intro with resume/linkedin. I'm #proudinvestor and experienced with OR algorithms.
Common Prefix is a science-first blockchain consulting company. Our vision is to make blockchains usable for mainstream users and everyday people – paying at the supermarket, remittances, moving money across borders, saving, investing – and solving the real problems of usability, scalability, and interoperability that come with it.
We're a 30-person team, half scientists (cryptographer PhDs, post-docs, and professors) from renowned universities, half engineers with long web2 experience. A lot of our field is broken and we're trying to make a small contribution in fixing it, by introducing provable security and proper engineering practices across the board.
What we're looking for: Software engineers who can solve problems, are smart, get things done, and enjoy working on the bleeding edge, learning about cryptography, and working from first-principles. Auditors who can write and read code, especially low-level cryptographic implementation code (zero knowledge verifiers, signature schemes, etc), consensus (PoW, PoS), or smart contracts (everything DeFi). Support engineers (junior to early-mid) who enjoy being on the front line of production support (monitor live systems, respond to partner/user issues, triage/debug, and escalate). Formal Verification Engineers with hands-on experience in formal methods to work on machine-checked proofs of blockchain protocols and smart contracts.
Tech stack: Doesn't matter, we'll teach you. But we work mostly with Rust.
Open roles:
* Software Engineer, https://commonprefix.notion.site/sw-folk
* Auditor, https://commonprefix.notion.site/auditing-folk
* Support Engineer, https://commonprefix.notion.site/support-folk
* Formal Verification Engineer, https://commonprefix.notion.site/fve-folk
We offer:
* $80,000–$171,000 / year cash
* Local from Athens, Greece, or remote
* Conference participation in exciting scientific and engineering venues, 2-3 times per year
* The opportunity to work and learn from world-class scientists from major universities in the field of blockchains, cryptography, and consensus
We are hiring two Product Engineers to join us in our newly opened office in SF. We're small and early and you'll help shape team culture.
Kinelo solves "context myopia": autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents don't know what they don't know, so they can't search or find the background information required to accomplish tasks accurately and effectively. The result looks like slop but it's not due to model performance, more due to workflow integration. From there, we're rapidly moving into organizing humans together with autonomous "AI coworkers" into workflows that span both. Our goal is to change how organizations are run and structured.
Our #1 hiring criteria for this position is immense software wisdom, the kind not yet encoded in the weights of an LLM. We are not looking for artisans to meticulously craft single lines of code. We're looking for software engineers excited to use the leverage that AI offers for code production to permit focus on higher order technical architecture, product requirements, and user needs.
We're looking for enough experience that indicates accumulated wisdom in shipping and maintaining reliable, scalable software, solid CS fundamentals, experience taking products from 0 to 1, and versatility.
Our current tech stack includes TypeScript, a managed container service, Postgres, and Redis. But we are adaptive and you should be too. We highly value software engineering and computer science fundamentals and experience with other languages like Go, C++, Python is valued.
Competitive salary, meaningful (~first batch of hires) equity, founder previously exited to Apple, strong fundraising history (~$10m).
Please email us at jobs@kinelo.com. If you want to stand out, tell us how you think the job of a software engineer is changing. There's also a full JD here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kinelo/jobs/4205846009
We are Baseten, the team that powers mission-critical inference for the world’s most dynamic AI companies such as Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. We’re growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock and Conviction. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production.
Apply Here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten?utm_source=gkzEP29VD4 or email Jason.dupree@baseten.co
We are hiring for multiple core roles:
1. Solution Architect: You will partner closely with sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers. This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial, customer-facing technical professionals who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale, and who enjoy working across technical discovery, solution design, demos, deployment scoping, and hands-on customer implementations, in close partnerships with Sales and Engineering
2. AI Solutions Engineer/Forward Deployed Engineer: You will partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform. You’ll own the journey with customers from initial exploration to production deployment. To be clear, this is a technical engineering role with hands-on coding and software dev that also includes aspects of product management, technical customer success and pre-sales solutions engineering mixed in. We’re language agnostic but strong Python and ML experience is a big plus.
3. Customer Engineer: You'll partner closely with Solutions Architecture, SRE, Infra, Product, and Forward Deployed Engineering, but you own the customer outcome end-to-end: from first response to root-cause analysis to the follow-up that reinforces trust. This role blends deep infrastructure debugging, AI/ML performance expertise, incident command, and proactive account ownership. You'll triage and resolve issues across Kubernetes, GPUs, networking, and model serving, lead war rooms during P0 escalations, and translate recurring pain points into product improvements.
The Offer:
Compensation: Very competitive, we’re looking for folks with a breadth of experience
Equity: This is an opportunity to participate in the ownership of a fast-growing AI Infrastructure platform
Location: We are based out of San Francisco with offices in New York. We are also open to remote employees for these roles.
Process: If you’re interested, please apply here https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten?utm_source=gkzEP29VD4 or email me direct at Jason.dupree@baseten.co
At Volcore, we model the electricity system to do proprietary trading that helps balance the grid and facilitate renewables integration. Our technical roles are a blend of Software Engineering and Data Science, wherein we solve problems end-to-end, from data ingestion and analysis to optimisation and deployment. Often these require novel solutions, drawing on original research and experimentation. We are a profitable and ambitious scale-up looking for people who can both crack these kinds of problems and continually improve our shared libraries, tooling and workflows to ensure they are fast, accurate and a delight to work with.
Our team are close-knit, with minimal hierarchy and almost zero meetings. We work together in-office to whiteboard solutions together and everything we build is used by people sitting next to us.
Typically these positions attract talented people looking to build a career out of solving challenging computational problems; and/or people who have outgrown their previous role and are seeking more responsibility or more challenging subject matter. Every team member owns important projects very early on, and if you can deliver value in a particular area, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for it, regardless of job title.
Our tech stack includes Python, backend Typescript, Postgres and Rust.
We review all applications personally. For more info, including our requirements and salaries:
- Junior Software Engineer: https://www.volcore.co.uk/junior-software-engineer-2026
- Junior Data Scientist: https://www.volcore.co.uk/junior-data-scientist
- Junior Quantitative Developer: https://www.volcore.co.uk/junior-quantitative-developer
- Forecasting Model Developer / Statistician: Electricity Trading: https://www.volcore.co.uk/forecasting-model-developer-statis...
- Software Engineer: https://www.volcore.co.uk/software-engineer
- Data Scientist: https://www.volcore.co.uk/data-scientist
- Quantitative Developer: https://www.volcore.co.uk/quantitative-developer
We build real-time civilian threat intelligence for conflict zones — and we just landed our first operational pilot. Multi-model AI pipeline (Gemini 3 Pro / Flash) ingests OSINT from verified sources, runs it through a gated verification system, and pushes geolocated alerts to offline-first mobile clients. Think of it as a personal intelligence analyst for non-combatants — on a phone that works on 2G.
This is not a pitch deck. We have a working system: Django backend is live, Flutter apps are approved on both App Store and Play Store, multi-gate AI pipeline is processing real OSINT, admin console has human-in-the-loop verification for high-severity alerts. Since our last HN post: 93 candidates vetted across two months, 1 Senior AI/Backend Engineer hired (now owns the verification pipeline), and we've begun an operational pilot with Winrock International for counter-trafficking intelligence in Southeast Asia. Pre-seed is imminent with multiple NGO grant applications under review (WFP, IRC Airbel, DRK Foundation).
*We need one person:*
*Founding Product Engineer / Systems Architect* You will own the Django backend, MongoDB schemas, and the Flutter UI that connects them. Our AI pipeline lead handles the Gemini orchestration — your job is to own the data layer, build the API surface, and wire it directly into the offline-first client. This is not drawing backend diagrams. You must be an end-to-end builder who cares about how a civilian interacts with the system on the ground in a crisis. A bug in this system isn't a 500 error — it's a missed warning in a conflict zone.
Must have: Python/Django, MongoDB, Flutter (or high competence to pick it up fast), and system design thinking. Strong plus: DevOps (Docker, AWS), LLM integration, OSINT, geospatial.
We also welcome strong full-stack implementation engineers who ship fast and want founding-team equity. Same stack.
*Compensation (No BS):*
- Now: Sweat equity (12-18% SA / 5-10% FSD, 4yr vest, 1yr cliff). This is founding-team ownership. - Pre-Seed (closing): $3,000/month + equity. - Seed (6-12 months): 75% market salary + equity. Increases from there.
If you need full salary today, this is not for you. If you want to build something where the stakes are real and you're willing to bet on yourself to get there — we should talk.
*Stack:* Python 3.9+, Django 4.1.13, MongoDB, Flutter, Vertex AI (Gemini 3 Pro Preview / 2.5 Flash / 3 Flash Preview), Docker, AWS.
*Apply:* Email PeterJFrancoIII@gmail.com with subject line `[SENTINEL-BUILDER] - HackerNews Application`. To prove you read this, include the word "Atlas" in your first sentence. Include your Resume or GitHub + what you'd build in your first week. (Emails without the exact subject line are auto-archived.)
We have roles open for a principal software engineer:
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join as a founding engineer. You'll work directly with the founders to build the core of our agent security runtime. This is a high-autonomy role - you'll shape architecture, engage with early customers, and make the trade-offs that define the product.
You will build the layer between agentic reasoning and system execution — intercepting, classifying, and validating every agent intent against security policy before it runs. Design systems that capture and cryptographically verify every instruction and action, maintaining ground truth in environments prone to hallucination and injection. Architect fine-grained, time-scoped primitives that allow least-privilege permissions, with the ability to escalate under controlled, auditable conditions. Work with research to stress-test our security primitives at scale. Turn emerging threat vectors (prompt injection, tool misuse, privilege escalation) into adaptive defences.
https://www.alwaysfurther.ai/careers/principal-swe
Staff solutions engineer:
We're looking for a Solutions Engineer join as a founding engineer and to sit at the intersection of our open source community and our growing base of enterprise design partners. You'll spend your time contributing to Nono, helping shape its architecture, and working directly with customers who are integrating it into proof-of-concept and pilot programmes. This is a hands-on role - early on you'll be deep in the code, reviewing pull requests, triaging issues, and experimenting with deployment architectures, all while being a trusted technical voice for both community members and enterprise stakeholders. Over time, the role will evolve toward solutions architecture and customer-facing engagement, as you build the domain expertise and relationships that make you the go-to person for designing how Nono fits into complex enterprise environments.
What You'll Do" Contribute directly to the Nono open source project - code, documentation, and architectural proposals. Experiment with different deployment architectures for Nono across cloud environments, on-premise infrastructure, and hybrid setups and share your findings with others at Always Further, and often with the community, via our blogging platforms or YouTube channel. Work closely with early design partners to integrate Nono into proof-of-concept and pilot programmes, gathering feedback and translating it into engineering priorities. Produce technical content - blog posts, architecture guides, demos.
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Atlanta, US engineering roles (semi-onsite, requiring 1 day per week in office):
* Senior Software Engineer, Web Capture - $145~170k + up to 10% bonus - JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Go (golang) - https://www.fullstory.com/careers/jobs/76e583a9-74c0-42d4-ae...
* Senior Software Engineer, Data Pipeline - $160~180k USD + up to 10% bonus - Go (golang), Kubernetes (K8s), GCP - https://www.fullstory.com/careers/jobs/a786962d-68c1-48fa-8b...
Bogotá, Colombia:
* Senior Software Engineer II, Guides & Surveys - $90~93k USD + up to 10% bonus - https://www.fullstory.com/careers/jobs/073bfc41-0ac6-4e59-a5...
We have additional roles for sales, consulting, HR, accounting, and customer support open in Atlanta, London, and some Remote (US) options. See the full list at https://www.fullstory.com/careers?utm_source=092xpqyAkV
For US roles, you can expect regular raises & bonuses, equity, and benefits including: health insurance, 401k matching (Vanguard), annual learning stipend, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and more. I take about 4-5 weeks vacation a year, in addition to ~3 weeks worth of company holidays (federal holidays + the week of Christmas to New Years.)
Folks in other countries can also expect a strong benefits package, but I'm not as versed on the details.
Additionally, you get a 5-week sabbatical after 5 years of employment - I took mine about a year ago, and it was fantastic.
To apply, please submit your info on the website, and our recruiting team will get in touch with you. If you have questions, feel free to reply here or contact me directly. (I'm an engineer on the iOS team, but I'll do my best to answer questions.)