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Posted by whoishiring 4/1/2026

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 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 replying 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://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, 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=47601858

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dlarson2 7 days ago|
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urrmim 4/2/2026||
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Kiran_MixRank 7 days ago||
MixRank (YC S11) | Software Engineers | 100% REMOTE (Global) | Full-Time MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries including Finance, Recruiting, Sales, Marketing, and Security. We’re a fully-remote company with a global footprint in over 20 countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome. We are looking for passionate individuals for whom programming is not just a job but it’s something they love to do. We're obsessed with computers, programming, big data, databases, compilers, hardware, math, data science, and the internet. Does this sound like you? Please apply to join our team. Our code base is very friendly to new contributors. You'll have a fully-functional development environment within hours (fully automated) and be pushing commits on your first day. Deployments to production happen multiple times per day and finish in less than 2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript/TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git. We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate two datacenters with high performance servers we've built that are capable of dealing with the volumes of data we process. We've implemented our own distributed file system. We do full-scale web crawls. We download and perform static analysis on the entire universe of Android APKs and iOS IPAs that are published. Unlike a typical startup where you'll spend half of your time in meetings, and the other half fixing bugs from Jira tickets— at MixRank you'll get to challenge yourself with difficult technical problems that will help you to grow as an individual.

We're hiring continuously for the positions below— they aren't singular positions that will close once filled. Our philosophy on hiring is that the candidate is more important than the position. For each new member of the team, we design a custom role and responsibilities that are specialized to their interests. Other companies will come up with a long list of specific requirements for a position with the expectation that you'll exactly replace someone from the team, or that you'll be the perfect tetris piece that satisfies the job requirements decided by a committee. MixRank is more pragmatic: we'll first get excited about having a unique individual on the team, then we'll figure out the best way to accommodate their specific talents.

-- Junior Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time

We're looking for remote junior engineers that have 0-3 years of professional experience in software, and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. This is an open-ended entry role with mentorship and diverse opportunities to work on all areas of our product: databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more. To stand out, please highlight what makes you unique: passion for computing, curiosity and side projects, work ethic, niche research, etc.

Ideally you've already graduated, but if you still have one or more years left of school, please feel free to apply anyway, and if you're the right fit for the team we'll figure out a way to accommodate your schedule. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mixrank/jobs/Fnwsojk-j... --

Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time

We're hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, devops, and more. We'll cater the role to whatever subset of these areas match your interests.

Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, frontend/backend web development, and data mining.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mixrank/jobs/RXQspen-s...

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I’m Kiran, Chief of Staff (CoS) at MixRank, a fully remote data startup building go-to-market intelligence. We’re US-incorporated but hire globally, and we’re bringing on new teammates to join a fast-moving team with real ownership and impact.

ILoveHorses 1 hour ago||
I've been seeing this post since September last year. Are you even hiring? I've applied multiple times but never received any response, not even an automated rejection. I have a feeling this is just a bot post.
delecti 7 days ago||
Is the listed salary monthly? For a contract term? Missing a digit? The high end listed ($48k) works out to about $25/hr, which isn't much higher than minimum wage in SF ($18.45) which is your listed location.
mixmastamyk 6 days ago||
Same question every month. They're looking for people in the third world for whatever reason and don't want to come out and say it.
_puk 4/1/2026||
Duel | Tech Lead / Staff Engineer | Bristol, UK (Hybrid)

Tech stack: Angular moving to React | Node / Bun | ECS | Mongo | Snowflake

Small team doing big things.

We've taken the team AI native, the platform will be there withing a few months. An existing v1 platform built with "boring" technologies allows us to make sure money and data remain safe whilst ensuring the frontend can be built at the speed that AI enables.

One of our team is taking everything they've been playing with for the last couple of years and stepping in to a YC principal role with our blessing. We're looking for their replacement to help continue bringing the team to the same level.

We've spent years creating the brand advocacy category, and are now seeing huge growth in all areas. We took Series A last year, are seeing massive growth, and still finding the time to have fun.

You need to back yourself. We'll expect a lot form you, but you'll be given the autonomy you need to do your best work. We focus on hiring bloody brilliant, utterly lovely people.

No recruiters. The role is being opened as we speak (I'm on holiday, spotted the who is hiring!); for now, please reach out to: joe via duel.tech.

DANmode 4/1/2026||
> You need to back yourself.

Does this mean candidates should be self-starters, or willing to bring money to the table / work for equity?

Thanks.

_puk 16 hours ago||
Sorry, was on holiday.

Self-starters. Idioms indeed!

madhuvats0311 6 days ago||
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dhatch387 4/1/2026||
North Island Ventures | Software Engineer | NYC (4x / wk in office) | ONSITE

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused investment firm. We are hiring a 2nd engineer to join our CTO in building out an AI investment stack using Python, Typescript, and React. We built out an investment agent that our research team is already using for hours a day, and finding it much more efficient than using Excel for modeling.

The role will involve full stack work and working closely with our investment team - who sit next to you - to figure out how to best integrate LLMs into a real business.

If this sounds interesting please apply here, and mention you found us on HN!

https://form.typeform.com/to/WDaBGW33

You can also email me at david [at] northisland [dot] ventures

Read more on us: https://northisland.ventures/ and https://tech.northisland.ventures/

kaliades 4/1/2026|
BetterDB (https://betterdb.com) (https://github.com/BetterDB-inc) | Founding Engineer | Remote | Full-time

BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. We're starting with observability — historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export — so you can debug what happened at 3am when you wake up at 9am.

Stack: TypeScript, NestJS + Fastify, React, Valkey, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.

We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS: https://betterdb.com/login In the last two months we've averaged more than one release per week across multiple products and channels. That's what "moves fast" looks like in practice.

We hired our first engineer last month and are looking to expand the team — no pressure on timeline, we'd rather find the right person.

To apply, first run BetterDB and use your email as the license key for npm/docker, for cloud just register with the same email you are applying. Pick whichever is easiest:

  Cloud (no setup): https://betterdb.com/login

  Via npm (includes a built-in installer):
    npx @betterdb/monitor

  Via Docker:
    docker run -d \
      --name betterdb-monitor \
      -p 3001:3001 \
      -e DB_HOST=your-valkey-host \
      -e DB_PORT=6379 \
      -e BETTERDB_LICENSE_KEY=your@email.com \
      betterdb/monitor:latest
Then email kristiyan@betterdb.com with a bit about yourself and why this is interesting to you.

I reply to everyone. It might take a day or two given volume, but you'll hear back.

FireBeyond 4/1/2026|
> To apply, first run BetterDB and use your email as the license key for npm/docker, for cloud just register with the same email you are applying.

I get why people want someone to use their product to see if they'd want to work on it, but as an observation, see this as an increasing trend and seeing half of a "I'm hiring" post dedicated to "Hey, install our product, here's how" gives hints of companies who are basically harvesting potential job candidates for DAUs...

hbjkhgkytfkytv 4/2/2026||
I get you but I think it's fair to ask. You have no idea how enraging it is to dedicate a whole hour to someone for interview only to ask at the end (you know at this stage) if they used the product and they say "no" and look slightly ashamed and retarded.

Every single place I've ever applied to, I've used their product DEEPLY

But like, you can't ask - you just gotta wade through a million retards.

FireBeyond 4/2/2026||
I definitely do feel that. And I think it's fair to ask/check in, and I agree, there's potentially a big value unlocked when someone is a deeply passionate user of the product.

But when the bulk of your ostensible job ad is making sure you've installed the product, then hmm.

kaliades 6 days ago||
I completely understand your point and have had similar feelings when I've applied to previous companies.

There are 2 points I can make to try and make it make sense (a lot of makes...)

1 - The moment a job post goes live, there are hundreds of applicants. It is an absolute spam. Several have been honest enough to admit they used an AI automation to apply everywhere. This aims to both filter some of the spammers, and also legitimately give people the option to see what they'd work on. Everyone running our product with an email as a license key is assumed a job applicant, and removed from all statistics.

2 - The last time we hired was in February. The moment the role was filled, I left a comment for transparency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075520 We are now looking to expand a bit more, so I posted again. I know that the filtering might be frustrating, but try to be on the other side too.

And also, since I am the hiring, interviewing, and everything else person, I don't ghost. It's not much, but it is honest work as the old meme went