Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

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·December 1, 2025

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=46108940

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zukee

Clerq | Staff Engineer | Onsite 3 days (New York City) | https://clerq.io Clerq is a NYC based fintech startup building a next generation platform payments platform that delivers a seamless checkout experience for high-ticket transactions. By leveraging modern bank rails, the platform offers the conversion and UX benefits of cards with risk and money movement infrastructure purpose-built for large purchases. Clerq replaces outdated manual payment methods like cash, checks and wires and expensive card surcharges with a smooth, integrated solution that helps merchants convert more customers without sacrificing margins.

We have started with the $1T+ U.S. auto vertical, where our platform is growing rapidly and already powering payments for several of the most recognized brands in the industry including multiple Fortune 500 companies. With proven traction, the company has expanded into high-growth adjacencies including high-ticket e-commerce, private travel and powersports.

We recently announced our series A and are breaking records every month, so are looking for a Staff software engineer who is excited to scale out the future of bank payments. Currently we are primarily looking for backend engineers to focus on our core payments engine.

Stack: Python/Django, Postgres, Temporal, React, AWS Comp: $225k-260k + Equity

Email me at nick@clerq.io if you are interested in hearing more!

dvcoolarun

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but to everyone commenting here saying they’re hiring and asking people to send their CVs —

please have the basic decency to send a simple acknowledgement or revert after receiving them.

This has happened repeatedly over the past few months after sending dozens of emails from these threads, sometimes 10+ at a time. Not getting even a basic response feels extremely disheartening.

I know it’s a tough time for everyone searching for a job, and we all understand if things are slow —

but a small confirmation like “Received, we’ll check” or “Not hiring anymore” takes 5 seconds and makes a world of difference.

Let’s be kinder to each other. It’s been a very hard year

ericmcer

I felt the same way until I saw a friend (engineer not a recruiter) post an opening for a hybrid job on LinkedIn. There were literally 100s of comments from people who didn't even live in the same country. Not to point fingers but they were all from India, had the same rhetoric and the few I clicked on didn't seem qualified.

I am not blaming anyone, I can imagine making >100k in India enables you to take care of your whole family. At the same time do you really expect companies to treat applicants with as much care when they have gone from ~100 applicants per job to several thousand?

Aurornis

I posted jobs in the monthly thread a few times. I tried to respond to everyone who seemed real and then schedule at least a phone intro and screen. Some observations from the other side that might help applicants increase their response rate:

1. The majority of application emails I received obviously had not read the job description. They applied with a resume that didn’t have any relevant experience or, if they had experience, didn’t explain it in the resume. If you’re applying to a job, send a resume that shows why your experience is good for the job you’re applying for.

2. Check your email. I would say that most of the people I responded to either never followed up or waited weeks to respond. Of those who scheduled calls, many were no shows. This no-show rate was higher on HN than for my other job postings.

3. Make it easy for the hiring manager to believe you’re a real person and you are who you say you are. This will make some people angry, but when hiring remote you get a lot of scam applicants, overemployed people, and I even know one friend whose company accidentally hired two North Korean people pretending to live in the US. Do yourself a favor and make it easy to believe you’re real. Spend 30 minutes making a LinkedIn profile and updating it right before your job search (and then never check the site again if you prefer). Make sure your resume states the same location you tell the hiring manager. Use the same phone number everywhere. Make it easy to verify past employment even if you have to do a little extra work. There are so many scam applicants that you can easily get filtered out if something looks a little bit off.

4. Do not submit an AI resume and AI application letter! Hiring managers see these all day long and can recognize them.

teeray

It would be nice to have minimum standards for being allowed to post for things like you mention. Identification of violations and enforcement is, of course, the challenge.

seneca

Most job openings are receiving several hundred, if not thousands, of resumes as soon as they're posted thanks to AI powered resume mills. Most resumes don't even get reviewed, let alone acknowledged. It's basically impossible to keep up with. Recruiters aren't ignoring people because they're cruel, they are being drowned by AI slop and resume mills.

doctorpangloss

haha, i'm pretty sure ignoring job applications has been pervasive long before AI.

the better question is why Gmail sucks so much - it could be a rich productivity application, such as supporting workflows for auto-replying to e-mails, but no.

samdoesnothing

God forbid these poor hiring managers take 5 whole minutes out of their day to have some basic human decency. Half of these roles are fake or have been posting here for months looking to hire a unicorn for pennies on the dollar.

botglen

At Profitmind, we're building massive-scale ecommerce datasets to use in AI training/inference, and we need a junior engineer to help develop the scraping infrastructure for product data. You'll be reverse-engineering undocumented APIs, handling anti-bot systems, and dealing with edge cases like pagination limits, rate limiting, and sites that change their protection schemes without warning. It's fun work! The technical side involves analyzing a site's network requests, deobfuscating and reading obfuscated javascript, and implementing simple HTTP request scraping to full browser automation. You'll also work on the infrastructure layer: state management for resumable scrapes, deduplicating products, data integrity, and monitoring systems to detect when sites change.

The work you'll be doing is in the hot path of our company, so the systems you will build need to be performant and maintainable. You should have solid Python skills and experience scraping ecommerce websites and APIs. You should also like the slightly-obsessive investigative nature of the work.

If you worked in scraping or botting in the past, please hit me up!

Reach out directly - gray at netail.ai

nastya_geller

We are consistently hiring backend engineers ranging from Senior level to Staff / Lead / Director / Principal Go engineers. If you have experience with a different tech stack, we offer a 10-week onboarding program to train you in Go, scaling and other key topics: https://tinyurl.com/2u5x9f9w

We’re also hiring for:

* Staff Python Engineer – (Open Source Video/Voice AI Library)

* Senior Solutions Engineer

* Staff Backend Developer (Go)

At Stream, we use Go for our video SFU, chat API, Moderation and Feeds, serving high traffic from major apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, and Midjourney. Our tech stack: Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis.

Why Join Stream?

* High scale/ difficult engineering, we have customers using our products with millions of users

* Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue

* All managers are hands-on and capable engineers

* Edge network of servers around the world

* Great opportunity to learn and grow

Remote: our roles are primarily NL, US, North Macedonia, or CA-based (hybrid), but exemptions for remote work within the EU may apply to specific cases.

Visa Sponsorship: Available for the Netherlands

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r

smada

Natera, the leader in cfDNA testing, is expanding the EMR (electronic medical records) engineering team with a Staff Software Engineer (L5) role. The team consists of 8 engineers mostly on the senior side with a heavy focus on interoperability, scalability, resilience and building net new capabilities. We are a hungry group of hackers who value quality, confidence and sensibility. You'll be joining the team to help level us up to a world class EMR platform.

We have a mix of off-the-shelf EMRs and interoperability engines (Epic, Mirth, etc) and greenfield cloud native solutions. We are looking for an engineer who has deep experience in the world of EHR and EMR workflows and knows how to build systems from the ground up. Our tools of choice are often React, Typescript, Postgres but we have a wide variety of cloud native and other applications in the mix.

You'll be helping lead day to day through shipping code, reviewing code, designing applications and systems, building, deploying, releasing. If you're an enthusiastic engineer who's ready to take the next step reach out below!

The usual benefits include unlimited PTO, RSU grants, medical, dental, vision, 401k, bonus, etc. Send your resume via email to astruthers AT natera dot com or reach out on LI https://www.linkedin.com/in/code-lorde/

ivanhapaz

Jam.dev | Staff Fullstack Engineer & AI Product Engineer | Typescript/React | Remote (+ in person in SF, Austin, NYC) | Full-time

Dev tools company with 200,000+ users in 2 years. $10M in funding from Vercel CEO, GitHub CTO, Cloudflare CEO, etc.

We’re building a flight recorder for web apps – so anyone can report issues to engineers in a way that's actually debuggable (w/ console, network, websockets debugger, etc).

Small, senior team – several ex-engineering directors turned ICs (mostly ex-early Cloudflare). Looking for staff-level engineers with experience building highly performant front-end apps.

Stack: React/Typescript and MobX (MST) on the frontend, and Node/GraphQL across our backend.

The challenge ahead: Scaling. Usage 10x’ed last year, and our users are in 176 countries, on all sorts of devices, network conditions, etc. Our bar for quality is high.

As a dev tool, developers at Jam are directly connected and involved with the product. Your usage of the product will directly inform the direction of Jam’s future.

Apply here (we read and respond to every submission): https://jam.dev/careers

klinquist

Verkada | Senior/Staff Frontend (React) Software Engineer | ONSITE San Mateo, CA | Full-Time

I am the hiring manager. Job posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/verkada/jobs/4959350007

Verkada is fast growing enterprise physical security company (Cameras, Access Control Systems, Alarms, Sensors). Engineering is 300-400 people. Pre-IPO with a $4.5B+ valuation.

We have many other engineering positions open, DM me for an internal referral if you meet qualifications: https://www.verkada.com/careers

philippstelzer

WEFLOW | Revenue AI | Full-Time | REMOTE (EU) | 70-110k EUR + Equity depending on experience / location / seniority

Hey! I am Philipp, Co-founder at Weflow - a 100% remote B2B SaaS app that focuses on automating as much work as possible for people in sales jobs (leadership, account executives, account managers, customer success, etc.).

We have found product-market fit, have serious funding available (Gradient Ventures, Cherry Ventures + a few more), and are looking to grow carefully yet quickly.

Our full-stack engineering team is a group of very senior people who enjoy building meaningful technology used by hundreds of real customers. Our tech stack includes next.js, node.js, typescript, AWS.

You can find our open positions here https://www.getweflow.com/company#hiring or email me directly at philipp stelzer at getweflow dot com

felix-h

eventfirst | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Berlin, Germany | REMOTE (CET) | Full-time

We are applying AI to organize corporate events.

We are looking for a senior engineer with at least ten years of full stack experience, a strong focus on product and UX, and optionally some experience building LLM based products. Currently we are focussed on building tooling that enables us to capture domain knowledge from experts to streamline prompt creation and evaluation. Our tech stack is Typescript, React, Next.js and Tailwind. On the backend we use Drizzle with Neon, deployed and monitored via Vercel. We have pre-seed funding from a major US VC and are experienced founders. You’ll be working alongside the founders (ex-Apple, ex-Airbnb, ex-Tulip, ex-Tourlane) and will have a chance to shape the company, product and of course the engineering culture.

Apply here: https://taskwise.jobs.personio.com/job/1646275

mikebabineau

Turnstile (https://turnstile.ai) | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Fullstack Engineer (Tech Lead)| $190k-225k salary + equity

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We're a small (23-person) team of repeat founders and seasoned operators building a next-gen quote-to-cash platform. This is a tight-knit and senior crew — most of us have 10-25 years' experience, much of it together. The last company we built, Second Measure (YC S15), scaled to 70+ people and tens of millions in revenue, and was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg in a landmark deal.

We've built a category-defining product and are now gearing up to scale. We're looking for a Tech Lead with early-stage startup experience to help architect our platform and mentor a small team of talented engineers.

We're well-funded by top investors (First Round) and just raised our Series A, are fully distributed, and recognized for building intentional, inclusive culture. We offer competitive global rates (SF salary + equity), equal pay by level, and comprehensive, family-friendly benefits.

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

EmilLondon

Citymapper by Via | London, UK | Onsite or Hybrid (London, UK and New York, USA) | VISA

Our mission: making cities usable. Award-winning navigation app.

Read more about Citymapper For Cities: https://ridewithvia.com/solutions/citymapper

- Engineering Manager or Director (London): https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/via/jobs/8001882002 - Director of Engineering (London): https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/via/jobs/8074378002

This and more roles - see: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/via

Tech stack: AWS, Python, some C++, some Rust, EKS, Terraform.

beautiful-ai

1. Senior Platform Engineer | 160k - 200k Base salary + Equity | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4802989007

2. Senior Software Engineer | 160k - 200k Base Salary + Equity | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4802854007

3. Software Engineer | 120k - 160k Base Salary + Equity | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4802768007

4. Staff Platform Engineer | 200k - 250k Base Salary + Equity | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4803038007

5. Staff Software Engineer | 200k - 250k Base Salary + Equity | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4802916007

6. Account Executive | 140k - 180k USD Base Salary + Uncapped On-Target Commission at 50/50 Split | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beautifulai/jobs/4955956007