Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

Modal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com

Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun...

I am one of the hiring managers here, hiring for the Product Engineering team that builds the observability tooling for our developers. Modal is the cloud for many of our customers and we help them reason about what's happening in their systems, help them expand their use and generally have a good experience.

If you are interested in a product engineering role, please feel free to reach out directly via email at can@modal.com with a recent resume. This role is NYC based and is on-site, so please mention your current location also. I am especially looking for folks with deep ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Python experience.

Product Engineering Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be...

For all other roles, please apply from our website.

All roles: https://modal.jobs

Elsewhere | Engineering Lead | San Francisco

Ever wanted to build indie video games at a startup? Let's talk. Elsewhere is a San Francisco-based company building a new kind of multiplayer social video game, inspired by indie roguelike deckbuilding games like Slay the Spire and CCGs like Magic: The Gathering. We're using generative AI in a creatively interesting way to build the first AI game that doesn't suck. We're backed by top Silicon Valley investors, and graduated from the first cohort of a16z's SPEEDRUN program, which is kind of like YC for games.

Ideally, you:

* Have worked as a software engineer before, ideally on a small team.

* Have built and shipped games before, either professionally or on your own time.

* Have experience with full-stack web development, using TypeScript, React, etc.

* Love games yourself, and have always wanted to work in the games industry.

If you're interested, reach out to info@elsewhere.zone or apply here: https://app.dover.com/apply/Elsewhere/4cec0e86-d654-46a7-bb7...

Youth Inc. | Staff Engineer / Technical Lead | Hybrid Boston, Hybrid Chicago or Fully Remote (US) for exceptional candidate

Youth Inc. is a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace focused exclusively on youth and high school sports.

- Backend: Elixir / Phoenix - Data: PostgreSQL - Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, CI/CD

What you'll do

- Primary technical authority for the engineering team - Own architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and long-term technical direction - Lead design discussions and write clear design docs - Guide the evolution of data models, APIs, and system boundaries - Design, build, and maintain Elixir/Phoenix services in production

What We’re Looking For

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience - Strong backend experience with Elixir (or deep experience in another functional or concurrent language with willingness to go deep in Elixir) - Outstanding communications skills

To apply, please send your resume to jbutler@youth.inc.

OmniAI (YC W24) | https://getomni.ai | Full Stack Engineers | SF In-Person | Full Time | $125k–$200k • 0.50%–1.50%

Tech stack: TypeScript | Node | React/Next.js | Postgres | Docker | K8s | LLMs

We’re building the AI-powered infrastructure layer for small-business lending. Banks and fintechs use Omni to automate document collection, financial modeling, public-record research, and ongoing borrower communication.

You’ll work on:

1. Wrangling messy PDFs into usable data (we built a major open-source extraction library: https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox)

2. Aggregating millions of datapoints from 50+ public sources (UCCs, liens, licenses, tax records) + credit/KYC/AML data

3. Building real-time financial models that combine OCR, LLMs, and rule-based systems into predictable outputs

We’re early, you’ll have a huge impact. Email me (my name at the URL) or apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai/jobs/Dr0GIaE-fu...

Prequel | Software Engineers (backend or full-stack) | NYC (ONSITE) | $170k-$210k | prequel.co

Prequel enables software companies to sync data to their customers' data environments, at massive scale. With the rise of agents, syncing data to customers' data environments is becoming table-stakes for a lot of software companies. We make that incredibly easy for them.

We're a team of four engineers based in NYC. We're cash-flow positive and growing fast. We're solving a number of hard technical problems that come with syncing hundreds of billions of rows of data every day with perfect data integrity: building reliable & scalable infrastructure, making data pipelines manageable without domain expertise, and creating a UX that abstracts out the underlying complexity to let the user share or receive data. We're powering this feature at companies like Stripe (Metronome), Gong, Iterable, and more.

Our stack is primarily Golang/K8s/Postgres/DuckDB/React/Typescript and we support deployments in both our public cloud as well as our customers' clouds. Due to the nature of the product, we work with nearly every data warehouse product and most of the popular RDBMSs.

Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prequel/jobs/VNoKffl-s... or email jobs (at) prequel.co and reference this post.