Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

    Location: Paris, FR
    Remote: full remote
    Willing to relocate: no
    Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker
    Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant (github https://github.com/jnpn)
    Email: johan.ponin.pro@gmail.com
    Schedule: Part-time (10/20h per week)

Currently employed but looking to build relationships with teams that value craftsmanship and velocity. I'm offering competitive rates ($70-90/hr) prioritizing team culture and interesting problems over maximizing income. I also enjoy procedural repetitive testing, so QA could do too (lower rates apply)

Summary:

- 12+ years shipping production code

- Dev tooling expertise (recently: custom Babel AST analyzers for faster debugging)

- Proactive problem-solver who likes to improve processes

Ideal projects:

- Teams with strong engineering culture who build ambitious things cleanly and fast

- Greenfield development or systematic refactoring

- Bonus: Highly formal/industrial model-driven environments and FP/Logic Programming environments (Clojure, Haskell, Prolog)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: in EU

Technologies: TS/JS, Python, React, React Native, NestJS, Angular, Git/github, Docker Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HcDUroEa58ruBLope54emPOkN3E... Github: https://github.com/biscuitdelicious Email: vladelinschii05@gmail.com

Junior backend dev, 1 year at a sub-10-person company — working with a small team with nice communication and time/tasks managements learnt on the way. Recently built Nexus, a platform to monitor the alarms and events from a infrastructure with sensors - making it easier for the engineers to solve the events.

I'm looking for a team with (some) senior engineers I can learn from, since I like working in this domain and exploring.

Remote: Yes, that's what I'm looking for. I'm GMT+5, which covers Gulf hours fully and European mornings. I've done partial US overlap before and can again.

Willing to relocate: Yes, if you sponsor the visa. Gulf, Europe, Japan, Singapore all work.

Technologies: C++, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Rust (learning). FastAPI, SQLAlchemy async, Celery, NestJS. PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch. Docker, Linux, Terraform, AWS, GCP. LangChain and RAG plumbing, some PyTorch and OpenCV.

Résumé/CV: https://www.abdulrafayzahid.dev/resume.pdf

Email: sarbzga@gmail.com

Backend and systems engineer, ~3 years. Two things worth pointing at:

I scaled a C++ TLS WebSocket gateway from 200 to 5,000 concurrent clients on a zero-trust network access product, through connection pooling, network I/O, memory work and a threading redesign. Same job, I got the C++ client running on Solaris for a banking client after the task had stalled between a few engineers. The vendor's tunnelling API documentation was wrong, so somebody had to sit down and find out what those calls actually did against the real OS.

At my current job I built an email infrastructure platform on my own, 131K lines in about two months. FastAPI, Postgres, Redis and Celery for the control plane, driving KumoMTA edge nodes across several regions, plus the agent daemon that runs on each node, plus the DNS and deliverability automation (SPF/DMARC/DKIM publishing, warmup cycles under a Redis lock, blacklist monitoring). It runs at 200K+ emails a day across 1,000+ domains and beat the Salesforce tool it replaced on campaign response rates.

The work I like is where something is measurably too slow or too fragile and the fix turns out to be a few layers down, in the connection pool or the event loop or the index. Also happy to talk about Kafka pipelines feeding ML training and inference, which I built for a multi-tenant device profiler.

On logistics: I can invoice directly as a contractor, or go through whatever EOR you already use. Deel, Remote and Oyster all cover Pakistan.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, PHP, AWS, Docker, Postgres, MySQL, Sqlite, Redis, Linux, Node.js, React, Angular, Git, GraphQL, WebAssembly, WebRTC, gRPC, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus

Résumé/CV: https://matx.dev/cv

Email: hey.malves@gmail.com

I'm a software engineer with 4+ years of professional experience, 8+ years of total experience in software development. Focused on backend and asynchronous systems. I’m fluent in English and Portuguese, and seeking roles in backend, fullstack and general systems engineering.