Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
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·July 1, 2025philip1209
Chroma | ONSITE - San Francisco | Full-time | https://trychroma.com
Chroma is building retrieval database for AI applications. It's an open-source database with vector, regex, and full-text search. We support local, single-node, and cloud hosting. Help build the future of context engineering!
We're hiring for these areas:
- Product design
- Production engineering
- AI tools engineering
- Go to market
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trychroma/9ed3aee8-07dd-44e3-9ca1-d...
More details at: https://careers.trychroma.com
veryfastfourier
Vola Dynamics | Data Engineer | Full-time | Hybrid (2 days/week) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voladynamics
Vola Dynamics (https://voladynamics.com) is the world's most sophisticated software and quant research company for advanced options analytics. Our volatility fitter and ultra-fast option pricers are the market standard, powering decisions at the world’s leading hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and global banks.
We’re hiring our first Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing and developing our next-generation data and analytics infrastructure from the ground up.
Stack: Python, Dagster, Clickhouse, Kubernetes, Polars, and Grafana.
Work style: Hybrid in NYC/CT. In-office on Tuesday and Thursday.
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voladynamics or email us at "resumes [at] voladynamics [dot] com" and mention HN in the subject.
vnchr
GoodParty.org | Multiple Roles | REMOTE (US) | Full-time & Part-time | https://goodparty.org
We're on a mission to disrupt the corrupt two-party system by building tools that change the rules—and we need your help. GoodParty.org is not a political party; we're a fully remote, US-based team united around making democracy more accessible, transparent, and fair. If creatively disrupting politics for good sounds like a challenge you're up for, check out the roles we're looking to fill right now:
- Analytics Engineer • Engineering • Full-time
- Campaign Assistant • Politics • Full-time (Contractor)
- Content and Communications Director • Growth • Full-time
- Growth Marketer (Contractor) • Growth • Full-time (Contractor)
- Marketing Operations Manager • Growth • Full-time
- Part-time Finance & Operations Manager • Gifted Savings • Part-time
- Product Design Manager • Design • Full-time
- Product Marketing Manager • Growth • Full-time
- Senior Full Stack Engineer • Engineering • Full-time
- Senior Product Manager • Product • Full-time
- Social Media Account Manager • Growth • Full-time
- User Success Manager • Product • Full-time
Work with us: https://goodparty.org/work-with-us/
Taikonerd
When I read "disrupt the corrupt two-party system," I wondered if you were pushing for voting reforms such as ranked-choice voting that make it easier for third-party candidates to win.
It seems like that's not the main focus of your org, but I was pleased to see a reference to RCV in your blog: [0]
[0]: https://goodparty.org/blog/article/final-five-voting-explain...
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manish_gill
ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes | Remote (US / EU preferred)
ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.
What we are looking for:
Cloud / Kubernetes Operator engineers to build the AutoScaling infrastructure. We also maintain our own ClickHouse-based Data Infrastructure. Bonus points if you've worked on autoscaling or other data-driven forecasting challenges in the past.
Can work in an early stage startup environment. Proactive and hands on.
Senior/Staff+ Engineer. You must be independent and self-organized.
Good at Go, Kubernetes (Understanding how to manage stateful services in a multi-cloud environment)
We have a Python service in our Recommendation pipeline, so some ML/Data Science knowledge would be good.
SQL / ClickHouse SQL (goes without saying)
You'll need to be able to do On-Call - debugging production infra or db issues
If you can do low-level database programming (C++, ClickHouse) that's added bonus.null
matthewmoss
Locket | Backend Engineer | San Francisco (Remote Friendly) | https://locket.camera
Locket is building the platform that puts real friends first. Since launching in 2022, Locket has grown to 10s of millions of active users and is one of the fastest-growing apps amongst Gen Z around the world.
We're looking for talented engineers to continue scaling the Locket backend. When Locket launched three years ago, we scaled from 20 beta testers to 1M+ sign ups in a few weeks time. If scaling this fast sounds exciting, we want to work with you.
As one of our first ten engineers, you'll be able to touch all parts of the stack, have the opportunity to ship to millions of daily users from day one, and be given ownership over large parts of the product.
Some of the backend challenges we have today include:
- Optimizing performance, reliability, and costs of our micro-services infra, which serves 1B+ requests per day.
- Designing AI data pipelines to process billions of data points.
- Designing a next-generation backend architecture that will support our growth for the years to come.
Our tech stack is built on NodeJS and Typescript along with a wide variety of GCP products including Firebase, Firestore, Bigtable, Bigquery, Redis, Cloud Run, Vertex AI.
We care more about what you've done than your resume, so tell us the thing you've built that you're most proud of.
- 3+ Years of Relevant Experience: We are looking for a range of skill levels as we value execution, creativity and passion.
- Strong background in Computer Science.
- Remote friendly for anyone within +/- 3 hours of PST
Apply at https://locket.camera/jobs
PeopleOpsX
Appwrite | Remote | Platform Engineers, AI, Interns | https://www.appwrite.careers
Appwrite (https://appwrite.io) is an open-source backend platform that helps developers build secure web and mobile apps faster.
We’re hiring engineers across multiple teams to improve infrastructure, expand developer tooling, and scale our platform. Open roles:
Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer – Database
Platform Engineer – Functions
Platform Engineer – Integrations
AI Engineer
Engineering Interns (Platform & Product)
Stack: PHP, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, AI/LLMs, Terraform Work style: Remote-first, async-friendly
Apply here: https://www.appwrite.careers
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markbao
Goody | Remote (US & Canada preferred) | Multiple Roles | Full-time
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Principal Software Engineer — Lead our platform end-to-end, guide cross-functional decisions, and ship at a startup pace. Ideal candidates have previous startup experience as a founding/early engineer or founder.
$250K – $300K + equity
https://jobs.ongoody.com/principal-swe
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Senior Software Engineer — Ship a startup pace and with an eye for exceptional UI/UX.
$170K – $230K + equity
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I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. Despite being something everyone does, gifting is one of the areas of commerce yet to be disrupted. Our goal is to make people's days by making gifting easy, while building a sustainable business on that market opportunity.
We're looking for engineers who like to build at a startup pace, have a critical eye for detail and user experience, and thrive when given autonomy and ownership.
Our product is used by Google, Stripe, Anthropic, Meta, NBCUniversal, Notion, and others, and we also offer a developer API for commerce. We’re 5 years old and post-PMF.
Check out our jobs minisite at https://jobs.ongoody.com/ and feel free to email me at mark@ongoody.com.
jmccarthy
StrongDM | [Staff, Senior, Junior] AI Agent Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto) | Full-Time | ONSITE StrongDM applies deep tech to hard problems for demanding cybersecurity customers. Our embrace of large language models continues that tradition, achieving useful and reliable outputs from ambiguous and non-deterministic inputs.
Join me (Justin, co-founder & CTO) and our newly-formed AI Agent team to help our global customers secure their most critical systems.
Ideally: if you've already decided you need to be working on the edge of this technology wave & you're open to doing so in person at a physical whiteboard, e-mail me a few words to that effect (justin@strongdm.com).
Optionally: read more at http://strongdm.com/careers
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jcutrell
Garner Health | Data Engineer II | Full-time | NYC Onsite / Hybrid (4 days/week) | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/garnerhealth/jobs/552040000... Garner Health (https://getgarner.com) is revolutionizing healthcare economics through advanced doctor performance analytics and innovative incentive models. Our platform is reshaping how organizations access high-quality, affordable care, powering decisions at leading healthcare systems and enterprise clients. We’ve doubled revenue annually for 5 years running, making us the fastest-growing company in our space. We’re hiring a Data Engineer II to play a pivotal role in building our enterprise-grade data platform from the ground up, ensuring secure data access across our rapidly scaling organization.
Stack: AWS, Snowflake, Argo, dbt, Terraform, Airbyte, JetStreamWork style: Hybrid in NYC. In-office up to 3 days per week.Target compensation: $120,000 - $160,000 + equity
Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/garnerhealth/jobs/552040000... or email Jonathan.Cutrell [at] getgarner [dot] com
jwoodbridge
Phoebe (https://phoebe.work/) | Founding Engineer | ONSITE
Phoebe is building AI teammates for home health agencies. We are growing fast with paying customers and real revenue Backed by Slow Ventures (https://slow.co/about/) and other great investors.
Based in NYC (Chinatown).
About the team - I'm Justin (CEO). I'm a multi-time, technical founder. My last startup, Bayes, went through YC in 2019. It was acquired by Airtable in 2021. Before that, I built a bootstrapped fundraising tool that processed >$100M of GMV. Other members of the team include ex-Airtable engineers and an exited healthcare platform founder.
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