Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

news.ycombinator.com

71–80 of 594 posts

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#71

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but to everyone commenting here saying they’re hiring and asking people to send their CVs — please have the basic decency to send a simple acknowledgement or revert after receiving them. This has happened repeatedly over the past few months after sending dozens of emails from these threads, sometimes 10+ at a time. Not getting even a basic response feels extremely…

Speaking from experience, I get hundreds of of applications per month. 90%+ of them are either templated or less than 20 words. 50%+ of them have no indication they even read the job post, applying for technologies or positions not included in the job posting, or containing no indication of who or what they’re applying for, let alone why they are interested or would be a good fit.

I write all my responses by hand, that’s just how I like to do things. If it is going to take me longer to write the rejection than the applicant spent on the application, I’m not going to do it. It would be unmaintainable to keep up with, and it’s hard to feel that someone deserves a few minutes of my time because they copy pasted an email address (if that).

I can’t speak for everyone’s practices, but genuine applications with effort put in are met with the same level of effort in the response. I’ve interviewed dozens of people solely on their level of effort put into the application (as opposed to the content of their resume). I’d rather spend an hour interviewing a bad fit that cares than responding to 20 people who couldn’t even name the company they applied to.

I think those struggling would find better luck with quality over quantity wrt applications. It takes shockingly little to stand out from the flood of applications you get on here. Including things like the name of the company, why you’re interested, and why you’d be a good fit are exceedingly rare (and imho the bare minimum for an application). If you can convey even a modicum of excitement or competence, it basically guarantees you at least a response, if not an interview.

Also, I’ve never responded to an AI generated application. That is not a solution, as it’s impossible to tell whether you’ve even seen the job ad or just signed up for some service. If you’re a non-native speaker, don’t worry about grammatical errors. If you’re really concerned and must use it, disclose your use of it if you want any hopes of a response

Just my two cents from the other side of the conversation.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#72
FusionAuth | Senior Java Engineer, Senior Security Engineer, Account Executive | Varies between REMOTE and ONSITE in Denver, CO, USA, details in job desc | Salaries listed on job req, but for the Java Engineer it is 140k-180k

Our mission is to make authentication and authorization simple and secure for every developer building web and mobile applications. We want devs to stop worrying about auth and focus on building something awesome. We also just acquired a fine-grained authorization company ( https://fusionauth.io/blog/fusionauth-acquires-permify ) and are going to be building in that area as well.

There are a lot of companies in the auth space, but we feel like we have something special:

* a unique deployment model (self-host on-prem or in your cloud or run in our cloud)

* A well designed API first approach; one customer compared our app to petrichor

* a mature product (the code base is nine+ years old and we've found and fixed a lot of the sharp edges around core login use cases; there are plenty more features to add)

* the CTO is the founder and still writes code

* a full featured free-as-in-beer version which makes the sales cycle easier; prospects often come in having prototyped an integration already

Our core software is commercial with a "free as in beer" version. We also open source much of our supporting infrastructure. Technologies and standards that you will work with: Modern Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, OAuth, SAML, OIDC.

Learn more, including about benefits and salaries, and apply here: https://fusionauth.io/careers/ ( Click/tap the 'View open positions' orange button. )

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#73
Moment | Distributed Systems Engineer, Product Engineer | ONSITE NYC | Full-time | https://moment.com | $200k–$325k + equity

Moment is building core infrastructure for fixed-income, the world's largest asset class (4M+ instruments, $150T total market). We work with some of the largest financial institutions to bring all of their fixed-income operations into a single platform.

Cool things we've built include a liquidity-aware portfolio optimizer, high-cardinality market data pipelines, and a best-in-class trading system and ledger. Backend stack is generally Go/Kafka/Postgres on ECS, though some of the quant-ier services are built in Python. Frontend stack is NextJS. Company stack is Slack/Linear/Notion.

Roles:

- Distributed systems engineer: build features + scale systems to model, optimize, and support an idiosyncratic, complicated domain

- Product engineer: build beautiful, powerful interfaces that put these new capabilities in the hands of asset managers, financial advisors, traders, and more.

See more + apply at https://moment.com/careers.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#74
The General Intelligence Company | Senior Product Engineer | Build the OS for Autonomous Agents | Full-Time | NYC | $260K - $300K + 0.3-0.41% Equity | cofounder.co

The Upside & Opportunity: Join the founding team building Cofounder, the autonomous agent platform designed to run entire business workflows (Slack, Notion, GitHub, etc.) end-to-end. We are building the operating system for one-person, billion-dollar companies. High ownership, zero bureaucracy, and maximum impact.

About The General Intelligence Company Founded in 2024, our mission is to automate business tasks. We are focused on solving the hard problem of reliable, end-to-end agent execution, turning complex LLM capabilities into dependable, real-world workflows.

You'll own the end-to-end agent experience, building and scaling Flows and Integrations. You will ship across the stack: React/Next.js (TypeScript) for novel humanagent UX and Python FastAPI on the backend, focusing on performance and reliability. We need someone who can make powerful agent systems feel simple and reliable for users.

Stack: React/Next.js (TypeScript), Python FastAPI, Background Workers, Postgres.

If you're interested please submit an application here: https://generalintelligencecompany.cookd.dev/jobs/senior-pro...

We're also hiring an applied AI engineer! https://generalintelligencecompany.cookd.dev/jobs/applied-ai...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#75
Metabase | https://metabase.com/ | REMOTE | Full-time | Frontend and Backend Engineers

Metabase is an open source (https://github.com/metabase/metabase) business intelligence software that lets anyone in your company rummage around in the databases you have. It connects to a number of databases / data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, etc).

Here's a dashboard about us: https://stats.metabase.com/public/dashboard/92d6b7ea-7526-48...

People rather like the product (https://metabase.com/love). We're a remote team full of people who care about user experience, making complicated things as simple as possible and building things. We have a deeply pragmatic engineering culture and value building things that people actually use vs whatever closes a deal or makes for a good press release.

Tech stack: Clojure on the backend, Typescript and React on the frontend

We've posted in several "Who is hiring" threads in the past with good success, we hired quite a few folks from these posts!

Frontend Engineer role:https://jobs.lever.co/metabase/8f02d3fa-edf4-4433-a6d1-4f9e5...

Backend Engineer role: https://jobs.lever.co/metabase/85f454d8-e795-4978-8a2b-4b8bf...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#76
Vibrant (https://www.vibrantpractice.com) | Founding Engineer | Full-Time | SF (hybrid) or Remote with frequent travel to SF

We're building Cursor for doctors. At Vibrant, we've picked the expensive, high-touch, data-heavy subspecialties of functional, integrative, and longevity medicine, and we've created AI agents that reduce hours of clinical work to minutes.

We're a world-class team of health tech founders, AI builders, and clinicians from Meta, Stride Health, Peloton, and Hinge Health. In just five months, we've built notetaking/scribing, Clinical Decision Support, and some of the integrations a clinician needs to run their practice with Vibrant as their AI Operating System.

In the words of doctors using our product already in production: "I have goosebumps, this is really incredible. Very accurate." "Seeing the patient overview AI-generated summary come to life after placing a couple notes is AMAZING. I'm losing it over here."

Our stack: Typescript, React, NextJS, React Native, Expo, AI SDK, custom AI agents, RAG, tools, and agentic workflows.

It's still early days for us, and we're looking for folks who ship fast and are curious and resourceful. If that's you, shoot me an email at pedro [at] vibrantpractice.com or just book an intro with me: https://book.vimcal.com/p/pedro/quick-chat

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#77
post #31

Lovable | Multiple Roles | ONSITE | https://lovable.dev At Lovable, we empower the 99% of people who can't code to build software as if they had a product team at a stellar tech company. We're one of the world's fastest growing startups in history. You'd be joining a small, passionate team of serial entrepreneurs (ex-YC founders), competitive programmers, physicists, and people who care deeply about building exceptio…

How flexible are you on locations for diff roles? E.g., if listed for Stockholm and Boston, would you consider SF or London?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#78
trufflepig.ai | Founding Engineer | Full-Time | SF, CA | $150K - $200K + Meaningful Equity

Join as the 4th team member to redefine the most universal interface in business: the spreadsheet. We are building an AI spreadsheet that automates knowledge work, allowing users to describe tasks in plain English and get immediate, trustworthy results. We launched a few months ago, already have paying customers, and are backed by top investors like Base10 (Brex, Figma). This is a massive opportunity to take the interface for this market shift.

Compensation & Equity: $150,000 - $200,000 + meaningful early-stage ownership

We're building the tool that saves users hours of manual work (data cleaning, formula building) currently required by legacy spreadsheets. Our team includes engineers who shipped production AI and distributed systems at Microsoft and VMware. We intend to replace Excel and Google Sheets by building the spreadsheet that truly understands what users want.

Why We’re Hiring a Founding Engineer You will own the core product end-to-end, building AI agents that reason over data and evolving our spreadsheet engine for correctness and scale. You'll ship critical UX that allows non-technical teams to get analysis in plain English. We need a generalist who moves fast across the full stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Rust + WASM. High agency, high ownership, and a focus on user trust are essential.

Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, Rust + WASM, AI Agents, Data Reasoning.

If you're interested please apply at https://trufflepig.cookd.dev/jobs/founding-engineer

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#79

Metabase | https://metabase.com/ | REMOTE | Full-time | Frontend and Backend Engineers Metabase is an open source ( https://github.com/metabase/metabase ) business intelligence software that lets anyone in your company rummage around in the databases you have. It connects to a number of databases / data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, etc). Here's a dashboard about us: https://stats.metaba…

Are you guys looking for SREs

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

#80
DL Software | godelterminal.com | full Stack, front-end, and back-end engineers | New York, NY ONSITE

DL is the maker of Godel Terminal, a browser-based financial research platform that provides users with data and analytics on global markets. We just raised a $5 million seed round and are looking to scale up our engineering team. Please see the roles below and contact us if you feel you are qualified and interested in the work we are doing!

https://godelterminal.com/careers-senior-full-stack-engineer

https://godelterminal.com/careers-frontend-engineer

https://godelterminal.com/careers-backend-engineer

Post reply on HN