Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

Ichi is building an AI-powered professional toolset to transform construction permitting and code compliance. We're helping municipalities, plan examiners, architects, and construction professionals streamline the permitting process to reduce bottlenecks—ultimately accelerating construction timelines in an $11T global industry.

We're a small team (you == employee #6) backed by Costanoa Ventures looking for a high-ownership Senior Software Engineer (8+ years exp) who can build from scratch and deeply cares about product quality. You'll design and implement product features that integrate intuitive UX and powerful multi-modal (and multi-model) LLM pipelines, working directly with users to refine our approach.

Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, Python, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS.

Must have: Full stack experience, product intuition, and interest in LLMs.

CS degree or equivalent preferred; we work on hard problems and first-principles thinking and attention to detail are essential.

Our name "Ichi" (Japanese for "city", and "one") reflects our mission to improve the physical spaces around us through never-before-possible technology and bridging a fundamental information asymmetry.

Apply: https://www.ichiplan.com/senior-software-engineer

At Source, we aim to revolutionize developer data management for the open web. Our mission is to simplify data handling for edge devices, local-first software, and distributed infrastructures, allowing developers to unleash their creativity and build world-changing tools that realize the open web’s full potential.

Our suite of new technologies work together to make it easy for developers to ship edge and local-first software. We empower developers to create software and devices that seamlessly communicate, offer granular data control, and secure data cryptographically to ensure trust. Join us in shaping the future of data management and the open web.

We’re growing fast and are looking to fill the below positions:

ENGINEERING

-Protocol Engineer (Distributed Systems) - https://bit.ly/3WxBgRQ

-Software Engineer, Backend (Database) - https://bit.ly/4iiqOaZ

See all our open positions here: https://careers.source.network/

We are a team of passionate technologists, engineers, and problem-solvers driven by a mission to build impactful digital solutions. As a fast-growing IT company, we specialize in custom software development, web and mobile applications, cloud solutions, and cutting-edge technology consulting.

Responsibilities: 1. Develop high-quality software and web applications 2. Analyze and maintain existing applications 3. Write scalable and testable code 4. Identify and fix bugs efficiently

What We’re Looking For: 1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 2. Solid experience in modern programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, etc.) 3. Good understanding of SQL or relational databases A proactive mindset and attention to code quality 4. Fluent English and communication skills

Email: DenysInoue@outlook.com

Thank you for your time.

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We're building the first end to end web scraping platform powered by AI. We help businesses collect web data without the hassle of maintaining code, infra, and anti-bot evasions.

We're a small team of four that recently raised a seed round from leading VCs and angels to keep up with revenue growth. We ship fast and have signed up several enterprise customers including the largest hedge funds in the world in less than a year. This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor of a product that will be used by thousands of enterprises.

I'm Rohit, one of the founders - if interested, apply here (https://string-ai.notion.site) and mention this post.