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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

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.

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://www.remotenbs.com, https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev, https://hnresumetojobs.com, https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com.

Don't miss these other fine threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739027

cube2222 · 2 years ago
Spacelift/OpenTofu | Remote | Europe/Americas | Full-time | Open Source Software Engineer

We're a VC-funded startup building an automation platform for Infrastructure-as-Code, adding a Policy-as-Code layer above it, in order to make IaC usable in bigger companies, where you have to take care of state consistency, selective permissions, a usable git flow, etc.

We are also one of the companies behind the OpenTofu[0] initiative and now hiring engineers to the OpenTofu core team. We're looking for self-sufficient mid-to-senior software engineers, ideally with experience maintaining open-source projects. Your work will be 100% OpenTofu-related.

You can apply here[1], if that sounds interesting to you!

[0]: https://opentofu.org

[1]: https://spacelift.teamtailor.com/jobs/3187873-open-source-en...

nickbaum · 2 years ago
Storyworth (YC W11) | US/Canada | Flexible hours | REMOTE | Full Stack Product Engineer

Storyworth is a meaningful business with a lean team and a big emphasis on work/life balance. We’re looking for experienced, full-stack engineers with strong product skills who are interested in flexible hours (20-30 hours/week) with good pay.

Storyworth helps people record their family stories and print them in beautiful hardcover books. We’re profitable with no need to fundraise. We’re a small team by choice, with low overhead and few meetings. Everyone is remote and works flexible hours, including our leadership team.

We’re hiring a couple of engineers who enjoy building products end to end, from the UI to the database query. We’re looking for optimistic, self-motivated people, who value working at the top of their craft AND having time for the other things they care about. Our stack is Python (Tornado), Mongo, Svelte and Tailwind.

We rarely have open roles, so if this sounds interesting, please read the full role description and follow the instructions to apply:

https://www.notion.so/Full-stack-product-engineer-for-Storyw...

PS: If you’re a customer, add a comment!

aboodman · 2 years ago
I'm a friend of Nick's and have been following Storyworth for like 10 years.

This is a great opportunity for a product engineer that has kids, a life, a band, or something like that.

It's not "you have a 0.01% chance of becoming a billionaire" but "you have a 100% chance of making a great living doing work that's meaningful with good people".

redstonefreedom · 2 years ago
Huh I was not expecting to find something that matched the work environment I was looking for, so much gung-ho mania out there. A couple of my friends worked at Wonderbly, which at first glance looks to be a similar business model & is similarly swell in terms of culture & ethics. I'll shoot over an application.
cdeutsch · 2 years ago
I did this with my Mom and really enjoyed it! Learned a lot.

I also applied for this role. ;) I love that you're using Svelte!

macintux · 2 years ago
I tried to be a customer, but alas the family member who I bought it for was reluctant to revisit her childhood. Some traumatic memories she preferred to leave behind.

Storyworth was very understanding and refunded me promptly, which I appreciated. Definitely seems like a great company.

nickbaum · 2 years ago
Thanks for the kind comment. While I'm sorry that the service wasn't the right fit for your family member, I'm glad that our support team handled it gracefully.
bojo · 2 years ago
Matanuska Telecom Association | Software Engineer - Systems Engineer | Full-Time | Alaska (UTC-9): REMOTE

MTA is an Alaskan ISP serving the southwest area of the state. The software team consists of 7 devs who support a relatively complex business enterprise environment. We're looking to add another Software Engineer and a dedicated Systems Engineer (DevOps) to our team.

As the hiring manager I want to be clear about a few things:

- This is a 70 year old enterprise telecom, not a high speed startup

- This job may interest you if you want great benefits and long-term job stability

- We have an existing environment running onsite on VMWare; the Systems role is designed to support, improve, and make adjustments to our tech stack over time

- Our core backend language is F# these days (replacing Haskell after 5+ years in production), frontend is React

- Our DevOps tooling is built around Terraform, Chef, Nomad, Vault, Concourse CI, Sensu, Prometheus, etc

- Must be authorized to work in the US

Software Engineer: https://mta.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/59...

Systems Engineer: https://mta.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/60...

all2 · 2 years ago
Can you talk a little about why you replaced Haskell as your language of choice?
bojo · 2 years ago
The short version: The team had no problems with the language when I introduced it back in the day, but after writing over 300k+ SLOC of production code over 6 years we bumped hard into a lot of the typical ecosystem problems that tend to crop up in discussion. We still have systems we support written in it which won't be phased out for years, but no new projects will be written with the language.

If the team had been full of diligent Haskellers they'd have stuck with it, but they aren't really the type to align with a language/paradigm, and so a slow pivot into F# was decided ~2 years ago via a well documented RFC process.

I'm personally still a Haskell fan, but my hand isn't on the keyboard anymore. Not my place to make the tooling choice for them.

No one above me cares about this type of choice since we're a small backend department to internal customers. As long as the team is delivering results by the deadlines we commit to we get a lot of freedom to use whatever tooling we think makes sense.

lrx · 2 years ago
I'd love to hear how Haskell fell out. Someone important rotate out?
DylanSp · 2 years ago
This looks interesting, but I'd like to double-check something - both job postings say "at our Palmer HQ facility", as opposed to your post mentioning that it's remote. Is remote allowed, or is it on-site?
bojo · 2 years ago
Remote is fine. I think that's a consequence of how HR posts it.
boltzmann-brain · 2 years ago
Are you open to applications by senior devs from outside the US? You mention US work authorization, but on the other hand, this post has been up for a while now.
bojo · 2 years ago
One must be physically present and eligible to work in the US.
ejanus · 2 years ago
I have worked F# before while supporting fantomas and F# lint. What does authorise to work in the US mean(for global remote)?
bojo · 2 years ago
It means we require people to physically be located in the US, but no citizenship requirement.
timgl · 2 years ago
PostHog | Full-Time | Distributed systems engineer lead, full stack and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build better products. we launched on HN during a YC batch in 2020 and have been growing very fast ever since.

* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.

* we are a real business... nearly at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital

* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.

* we are under a ton of pipeline pressure due to how much we've grown usage (~5x per year at the moment) - we need help rewriting our ingestion for the next 2 years of scale whilst dealing with 1 million events/minute being ingested. this will be very hard, but it is the _biggest_ challenge our company faces. revenue and growth are coming easily.

* goal is to build a company worth $10s of billions, by building wide first (we are the all in one platform with lots of tools) then going upmarket way later (similar product and go to market to Atlassian). we grow entirely through word of mouth and content marketing, not from outbound sales.

* we need: a distributed systems engineer to lead our pipeline team. you'll be working alongside experienced people who've worked at places like datadog/meta/twitter in this small team (currently 4 people).

* we are also hiring: ex technical founders and front-end oriented full stack engineers!

posthog.com/careers

dirtbag__dad · 2 years ago
Your comp docos are something to aspire to. Thank you for your thoughtful and public approach. You will be remembered and referenced!
codethief · 2 years ago
> goal is to build a company worth $10s of billions

As a potential applicant for one of your positions, I gotta say I find this a rather uninspiring company mission. On the other hand, I do appreciate the honesty.

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pirate3215 · 2 years ago
Interesting product.

The website can be more transparent. The careers page say "we're hiring all over the world." when in fact you're looking for people within 9 hour timezone.

Also, the about page says "We're a team of 35 from all over the world."

jsr0 · 2 years ago
Flight Works | Irvine, CA | Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer | Full-time, Intern | US-Person | ONSITE

Flight Works, Inc. is a growing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) of advanced components and systems for aerospace, medical, and other applications. We are seeking a dynamic, result-focused, hands-on embedded software engineer to focus on the development of our space electronics products: controllers for brushless motors, valves, and sensors. Preferred qualifications include experience with high-reliability programming in C/C++ on ARM Cortex platforms, as well as experience with RTOSes.

The position provides the opportunity for exposure to many disciplines, systems, and technologies in a fast-paced environment, where you will be working with others in all aspects of the product development cycle, starting with our space products. We are currently producing hardware and software to go out to cislunar space!

We require applicants to be a “US Person” eligible to receive technical data controlled under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR).

Apply here: https://www.flightworksinc.com/our-company/careers/ or email me at james.robertson _at_ flightworksinc.com

mikebabineau · 2 years ago
Turnstile (https://www.tryturnstile.com) | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Engineering | $155k-250k salary + equity

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We're a small (23-person) team of repeat founders and seasoned operators building a usage-based revenue platform that helps SaaS companies price however they want. This is a tight-knit and senior crew — most of us have 10-25 years' experience, much of it together.

The last company we started, Second Measure (YC S15), scaled to 70+ people and tens of millions in revenue, received multiple “best places to work” awards, and was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg in a landmark deal.

We're looking for extraordinary builders to play a foundational role in a company designed for scale:

  - Billing Platform Engineer (Staff or higher)
  - Fullstack Engineer (Staff or higher) 
We're well-funded by top investors (led by First Round Capital), fully distributed, and known for building intentional, inclusive culture. We offer competitive global rates (SF salary + equity), equal pay by level, work flexibility (including a 4-day core schedule), and comprehensive, family-friendly benefits.

I'm Mike, one of the founders— if interested, apply here (https://tryturnstile.com/about) and mention this post.

kevlarr · 2 years ago
Out of curiosity, what skills or experience are your recruiters optimizing for while reviewing resumes?

Having a decade of experience and nearly 100% match with a fullstack job description (even down to microservices/event-driven systems) and getting a rejection without even a screening call means I either presented myself poorly or there's something else they're looking for that might not be advertised (or emphasized). In either of those situations, I would appreciate even a hint so I could improve my odds in the future, because rejections are getting tiring.

carlolatasa · 2 years ago
Sigma360 (http://sigma360.com) | Senior Software Engineer (Backend) | Golang | 100% REMOTE | Full-Time | $120,000 - $175,000

Sigma360 is a VC-backed startup that builds compliance software for banks, retail, and fintech companies to better manage all kinds of risk. Things we work on include complex search, entity resolution, ML-powered NLP, graph analytics and more.

We're using Golang / Postgres / Neo4j / Elasticsearch, on a distributed architecture on AWS to process terabytes of data on billions of records.

Typically, our backend team works on building new features on top of our powerful search tools, scaling up our applications, and improving our product. We are looking for a developer to help us vastly scale up for the future as the company and product matures.

Successful candidates will have experience designing distributed backend architectures in a cloud environment, and scaling existing applications. Experience with strongly-typed languages is a must, and experience with Go itself is a big plus.

More info at https://wellfound.com/jobs/884165-senior-backend-engineer-no... or email your resume to backend-team@sigma360.com

Shehroz_Ali77 · 2 years ago
I applied and even got a request for a intro call last month, but the given google meet link never worked, exchanged a few messages then got ghosted. I I think the call was scheduled with you @carlolatasa.
mparnisari · 2 years ago
Canada too or just US?
notpushkin · 2 years ago
Also interested in LatAm (same timezone) and the rest of the world.
abhimathur · 2 years ago
Figma | https://www.figma.com/ | San Francisco, New York City, Seattle and US remote | Full Time

Selected job postings here (all compensation in annual base salary range for SF/NY hubs): - Engineering Manager - Machine Learning ($233,000—$372,000 USD): https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/4962442004

- Engineering Director - Machine Learning ($280,000—$381,000 USD): https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/4953079004

- Engineering Director - Editor ($282,000—$381,000 USD): https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/4904866004

- Rendering Engineer ($175,000—$350,000 USD): https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/4916730004

- Software Engineer - FigJam ($168,000—$350,000 USD): https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/4339815004

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frellus · 2 years ago
Free feedback: I applied a few weeks back to a position, and was rejected. In the application form you ask for someone to write why they want to work at Figma. Maybe a fair question, although I think it's something saved for a f2f interview, as it takes time to think about that and write something meaningful to try to stand out.

Then I get a generic rejection e-mail. As with everyone. Fair enough. But if I had to write why I wanted to work there, I want companies to start giving feedback on why they don't want to hire me. I'm a big boy, I can take feedback - I want to improve, I want to learn and maybe it'll help me get further along for the next opportunity I apply for.

Or maybe someone just doesn't have a good reason to reject me, they never read my application, something arbitrary.. and they just click the "reject" in Greenhouse, and go about their day.

Sorry, I'm just tired of applying places and getting the standard, "We've unfortunately decided not to move you forward in the hiring process.. (blah blah blah)." 2023 sucks.

balian1 · 2 years ago
I can help explain based on experience. It's likely because you lost out to someone cheaper and more skilled. Any company in the world operates on the business principle of spending the least amount of money to make the greatest profit. So there was probably someone considered smarter and cheaper

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felipefar · 2 years ago
Do you offer US visa or allow engineers to work from Canada?