Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

Second Nature (https://secondnature.com>) is redefining professional property management with fully managed Resident Benefits Packages. We're a Resident Experience Platform helping 1,000+ property management companies automate resident onboarding, credit-building, renters insurance, utilities, and other resident services—creating "Triple Win" experiences for residents, property managers, and investors.

We're the only 5-time national NARPM vendor of the year!

Tech Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Python. CI/CD with GitHub Actions/CircleCI. Domain-driven design and event-driven architecture.

Culture: We move fast ("Pirate Ship, Not a Cruise Ship"), take extreme ownership, and focus on outcomes. Currently exploring AI integration across our workflows.

Benefits: 100% remote (US), medical/dental/vision, 401K, open PTO, equity.

Open Roles:

Director of Engineering ($200K-$230K) - Lead cross-functional engineering teams building world-class software at scale. Shape technical strategy and grow our engineering org. https://www.secondnature.com/careers?ashby_jid=704ec05c-96ce...>

Engineering Manager ($180K-$200K) - Player/coach role: hands-on coding + people leadership. Lead 5-10 engineers, drive architecture decisions, ship production code. Experience with TypeScript, React/Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL. https://www.secondnature.com/careers?ashby_jid=6ac49e4d-9541...>

Software Engineer - Full-stack roles across our platform. JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL, CI/CD experience. https://www.secondnature.com/careers?ashby_jid=cc1a9853-779e...>

Estuary is a VC-backed, post–Series A startup powering right-time data replication and transform — from sub-second CDC replication to terabyte-scale OLAP data flows.

We’re open-source, developer-first, and focused on making data movement radically simpler across both our Platform and Applications layers.

We’re hiring for:

Head of Applications Engineering

Own strategy, people, delivery, and SLOs across our Applications stack (SaaS integrations, transformation UX, AI enablement).

Partner directly with the CTO to shape roadmap, sequencing, and engineering standards.

You’ll build and support a healthy engineering org, improve how we plan and deliver work, strengthen incident response, and step in to code when it helps the team move faster.

Great fit for someone who’s led multi-team groups, grown senior engineers, and shipped complex, data-heavy products.

Senior & Staff Backend Engineers (Integrations)

5+ years backend experience; Go required, Rust a plus. Own core systems powering real-time data pipelines. Build complex API/database integrations, improve connector frameworks, and tackle deep challenges in performance, reliability, and developer experience.

To apply: careers@estuary.dev

Perpay, a certified B-Corp, is the most meaningful growth-stage startup in Philadelphia. We’ve spent the past decade growing from an early idea to achieving strong product market fit, and becoming one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the country as we march toward half a billion in revenue. Today, more than 500,000 customers rely on Perpay, and we are driven by this mission that meaningfully improves the financial stability of everyday Americans. We’re in a special moment of building, scaling, and deepening our impact, and are eager to find teammates that want to join us on the journey.

Our venture partners include First Round Capital and L Catterton.

We're looking for:

- A few Senior Full-stack or Backend Engineers across our 3 product engineering teams. We highly value product-mindset, experience building production web apps for real users, and ability to coach and support more junior engineers.

- A technically hands-on Engineering Manager. Ideally, you have at least a year or two of experience leading people and being accountable for a team's execution, roadmap, and performance. You would be the fourth "line manager" on our team, and so there's ample opportunity to grab org-wide initiatives that are interesting and impactful.

Our stack includes AWS, Postgres, Python/Django, React/Redux/Typescript, Datadog

Some other company notes / benefits: NYC-level total cash comp, meaningful equity, open PTO policy, full health/dental/vision with solid buy-up option, remote weeks around major holidays, high quality catered lunch 3 days/wk, 4% 401k match, cell phone plan, gym subsidy, and some student loan repayment match.

Check out the full JDs here https://perpay.com/careers#open-roles , and feel free to reach out directly! karl at perpay dot com

We're building a unified platform for credit and financial data to power financial inclusion globally. Our mission is to unlock economic opportunities for consumers historically excluded from traditional credit systems by transforming diverse data into actionable risk insights. We are YC company backed by investors from Canapi Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, and Index Ventures

-> Hiring software engineers from Mid-Level to Staff

-> Tech stack: Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS

You'll work on enterprise-grade APIs, data integrations, advanced analytics, and seamless user experiences. We're looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and want to make a meaningful impact on financial inclusion.

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