Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)

Watchful | Software Engineer Generalist, SRE, Designer | Full-time | ONSITE only | Auckland, New Zealand | Visa sponsorship + relocation support provided

Watchful is disrupting the security monitoring sector with AI-accelerated camera monitoring. We’re currently growing rapidly and are looking for talented individuals to help scale up our capacity, deliver excellent user experiences and ensure our systems are air-tight and resilient.

Get in touch if you’re interested in joining a burgeoning startup that is quietly disrupting the security monitoring market and growing rapidly.

Join a team of 5 engineers!

Hiring for the following roles:

Software Engineer Roles (>= Intermediate): 5+ years experience as SWE - Generalist, product-minded software engineers that can switch between FE, infra, BE and more. High impact role, directly influencing both product and engineering direction. Self-driven, shows initiative, autonomous.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): 5+ years of experience. Expert at terraform, cloud services, observability and CI/CD - Able to take initiative to secure, lock down and make reliable the parts of the platform you see fit - Opportunity to drive the SRE culture and make the platform bulletproof.

Send your resume to young-ju.lee [at] watchful.co.nz to apply. If you are concerned about lack of experience, get in touch anyway - happy to entertain taking bets on younger, talented engineers.

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Adalat AI | https://www.adalat.ai | Remote (India, but open to global for exceptional candidates) | Go, React, Next.js, k8s We're Hiring at Adalat AI: Join Us in Building the Future of Justice

Adalat AI is on a mission to transform India’s judicial system with cutting-edge AI — reimagining courtroom workflows from transcription to summarization, just as UPI transformed payments and Aadhaar revolutionized identity verification. Deployed across 10 states and recently launched at the Delhi High Court, our platform is backed by global foundations and built by a team with roots at Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and IIIT-Hyderabad.

Roles:

- Senior Frontend Engineer – Lead and build complex, scalable UIs with Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and rich-text/audio features: https://www.adalat.ai/careers/senior-frontend-engineer

- 2 X Fullstack Engineer – Own end-to-end feature delivery across React/Next.js, Go services, with Postgres as your database: https://www.adalat.ai/careers/full-stack-engineer

- Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Manage Kubernetes clusters, streamline complex deployments with ArgoCD, and ensure reliability for a system processing sensitive, real-time data: https://www.adalat.ai/careers/site-reliability-engineer

Why Adalat AI?

- Mission-driven: Your work has real-world impact—helping untangle India’s court backlog, improving access to justice for millions.

- Remote-first: Work from anywhere.

- Unlimited PTO: Yes, seriously.

- Unique environment: Co-design with judges, legal experts, and researchers. Publish, learn, grow. We value tech, law, and impact equally.

Send your resume and cover letter to careers@adalat.ai, using the subject lines:

- Senior Frontend Engineer - Platform | [Your Name]

- Fullstack Engineer | [Your Name]

- Senior SRE engineer | [Your Name]

Analogy Group | Founding Engineer; Founding Product Designer | Remote | Full-time

Analogy Group is an early-stage startup building AI-enabled political intelligence tools. We ingest data from across the news, web, and social media and create in-depth reports and visualizations. We are mission-driven, working with nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and companies working on of the world's most pressing challenges, including democracy, climate, and AI policy. We are currently hiring for a Founding Engineer (https://app.dover.com/apply/analogygroup/9379bd18-a8e5-4f6f-...) and Founding Product Designer (https://app.dover.com/apply/analogygroup/a91b7e28-4fda-4b79-...) as we scale our business to help more organizations make sense of messy and complex data.

Location: United States (Remote world) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Anywhere outside USA too !)

Roles of Interest: Data Analyst | Data Engineer | Business Intelligence Analyst | Analytics Engineer | Junior AI Engineer / AI Data Scientist

Technologies: SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, Excel, DAX, Pandas, NumPy, ETL, Data Modeling, Power Query, APIs, Dashboard Development, Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow), Data Cleaning, Data Warehousing, NLP, Model Evaluation

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumerpatil Email: sumerpatil4599@gmail.com Phone:+1 2142283285

Introduction: I’m a Data & Analytics professional with experience spanning data analysis, business intelligence, and data engineering. Skilled in designing ETL pipelines, optimizing data workflows, and developing interactive dashboards that turn complex data into actionable insights. I also have hands-on experience applying machine learning techniques for prediction, classification, and NLP-based tasks.

Currently exploring opportunities for junior AI / AI data scientist roles, as well as data and BI-focused positions where I can contribute to data-driven problem solving and scalable analytics solutions. Open to full-time or contract roles in fast-paced, innovation-driven environments.