Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

Spruce lets users control their data across the web. Instead of users logging into platforms, we believe platforms should request to access data vaults controlled by users.

The demand for trusted digital ID is accelerating as AI deepfakes begin to destroy most of the ways we use to verify identity today. How private or secure is it to hold your driver's license or passport up to a webcam to get a bank account? Was it ever private or secure? Stable diffusion can break so much of this already. Society will need trusted digital IDs and credentials. Our mission is to allow them to be controlled by individuals, with safeguards to prevent descents into surveillance states and checkpoint societies.

We are the main implementers of category-defining initiatives such as the digital ID program for the California DMV, and the verifiable digital credentials program in Utah. We are private sector participants in NIST's National Cyber Security of Excellence initiative for privacy-preserving digital ID.

We are hiring skilled engineers who care about making a real impact in improving public services, digital autonomy, and user privacy for the world. We work closely with public sector agencies, and have high regard for public servants. We have a strong engineering and customer-oriented culture, and are not simply a SaaS product or AI wrapper. Our roles are not for the faint of heart: you will be expected to work hard and learn a lot in this role.

Our engineers are ambitious to get outcomes for our customers and their constituents. On any given day, they may write great Rust/C#/TypeScript, deal with mainframe dumps, read policy documents, respond to technical RFIs/RFPs, manage on-prem environments, implement new NFC + Bluetooth protocols in Swift/Kotlin, create CI/CD processes that enforce W3C accessibility guidelines and i18n requirements, rewrite lost specs from disassembled binaries, figure out stablecoin payments, and design new protections for public key infrastructure. It is a team effort, and people with T-shirt shaped skills are able to collaborate and learn a ton from each other every day.

We are interested in candidates who want to be proud of the meaningful impact they make for society, even if it takes time to get right. This is not the right job for someone who wants to "join a cool new AI startup" that implodes or exits in under a year.

See our roles here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spruceid

CoVar is a small R&D company specializing in machine learning and software development for defense and healthcare. We're looking for a jack-of-all-trades who can: prototype computer vision algorithms, build Python web services, wrangle large sets of data from disparate classes of sensors, ... any or all, with the only hard requirement being eagerness to learn.

Visit covar.com for more information on our current openings!

We run the platform behind 10,000+ Odoo instances and we're looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join us.

Stack: Symfony/PHP, Ansible, Linux, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Python.

This is a senior role that spans both sides of the platform: backend work in Symfony/PHP, and ownership of the Linux + Ansible automation underneath. You'll be the person making sure the whole thing keeps humming as we scale.

We're a small team with high ownership and very little bureaucracy — if you like shipping over slide decks, you'll fit in.

Remote is fine as long as you can overlap with CET, or you're welcome to join us in Brussels.

Full role and application: https://cloudpepper.io/careers/platform-engineer/

I'm Ryan, an EM and engineer here at YC. We have a small, 18-person software team with no PMs -- engineers own everything end-to-end.

We build the software behind YC's $6B in investments: tools that help partners evaluate thousands of startups per batch, AI-powered apps that founders use every day, and platforms like Work at a Startup that connect candidates with YC companies. Engineers get unlimited AI tokens -- both for development and to build AI-powered products. What wouldn't you build to help founders + YC with that much firepower?

What makes this different from other roles:

* You'd learn more about startups here than you could possibly imagine. Every batch brings hundreds of founders building things across every industry, and you're right in the middle of it.

* We attend Demo Day, founder dinners, and work directly with partners and many of the companies. (They make great products!)

* We pay well, offer carry in the fund (like equity), and provide generous relocation support if you're not in SF yet.

Two roles open:

* Product Engineer -- full-stack, own the product lifecycle. Rails/React stack. Build tools that power how YC invests in and supports startups. It's a wide range, and sometimes it feels like labs-like work, other times it feels like a supersuit to power founders and our Partners like Garry and Jared.

* Community Builder and Software Engineer -- hybrid role. Run YC's talent-facing programs (meetups, tech talks, career expos) AND build the software that makes them scale. You need to be a great engineer and LOVE to build and support communities.

Checkout more about the roles, and email me directly if you're excited to learn more about startups than you will anywhere else - ryan@ycombinator.com

https://www.ycombinator.com/careers

Scholarly is building the HR operating system for higher education. We've built a software platform that enables our customers to make data-driven decisions and to automate essential processes like performance reviews, tenure processes, leave workflows, and more. We are a venture-backed seed stage company of experienced, motivated, and collaborative folks. We are backed by leading investors in the industry and working with some of the best universities in the US.

We're looking for a full-stack candidate without about 5 years of experience building web applications. We write Ruby and Rails, but we are considering candidates with other stack experiences. Engineering is based in Seattle and on site in Pioneer Square. Looking to get back to a collaborative, in-office culture post-COVID? Let's chat.

If interested, please apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Scholarly/d4c84468-fd4b-4dd7-9b22-2...