Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

My name is Marius and I am the CTO at AREO (https://goareo.com/).

AREO, founded in January 2023 by a team with 20+ years of combined experience in retail and startups, is a young startup specializing in developing innovative solutions for supermarkets and grocery retail stores. Our cutting-edge B2B SaaS platform optimizes workflows for employees by providing real-time access to inventory, product information, and customer inquiries. We serve large supermarket chains in Germany and across the EU.

About a year ago we brought a backend developer on board through "HN - Who is hiring" and are now seeking a Lead Product Engineer / Engineering Manager and a Senior Android Developer with a minimum of 8 years of experience (preferably in startups) as we just closed another 1M+ ARR contract with a major retail chain and are growing quickly.

For the Product Engineer / Engineering Manager (but not the Android Developer) role professional knowledge of German is highly preferred.

If you're passionate about building innovative retail products from scratch, these roles are for you.

Backend Stack: Ruby / Rails (8.x), StimulusJS / Hotwire / Turbo, AlpineJS, Postgres, Docker, DigitalOcean, OpenAPI, LLMs

Mobile Stack: Kotlin, Room, Jetpack Compose, Hilt

Perks: Fully remote roles (Europe), work where you are most productive, sizeable equity in a rapidly growing company, flat hierarchies, no-ego work environment, work in a lean but highly experienced team

Apply here: marius[at]goareo.com and mention “HN - Who is hiring?” and the role you are applying for in the subject.

Northstar is a seed-stage cybersecurity startup building an agentic platform to help security teams understand and defend the complex environments they're responsible for. Our semantic layer integrates data from the fragmented security and IT tools that teams have to deal with and allows for an AI-native approach to reasoning over a company's security posture.

We're looking for someone with hands on experience building modern AI systems who wants to join an early startup (Contact me if you're interested - alex@northstar.security

Cosuno is a fast-growing tech startup reshaping the construction industry with a digital platform for procurement. We use AI to analyze millions of price points, helping construction companies create bids based on real market data. We're looking to expand our team with creative minds who want to solve real-world problems and impact a massive industry. We are an open-minded, collaborative, and international team.

Currently, we're hiring for two key senior roles:

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Senior Full Stack Developer (TypeScript)

Location: Remote (EU) / Berlin

Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Cypress, Kubernetes, AWS

Mission: Take full ownership of features, shaping both the frontend and backend of our product. You'll have the responsibility to extend and build upon our platform to make it more valuable, reliable, and maintainable. We value a trunk-based development workflow with daily releases, comprehensive end-to-end testing, and a solid CI/CD pipeline.

You have: 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, substantial expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with Node.js (React is a plus).

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Senior AI Engineer – LLMs & Agents

Location: Remote (EU) / Berlin

Mission: You will build agentic workflows using state-of-the-art LLMs. Lead the technical development of an agent that helps construction professionals process, improve, and validate complex construction documents. A key part of your role will be establishing and enforcing MLOps and LLMops best practices.

You have: 5+ years of engineering experience, with at least one year working with LLMs. You possess strong Python skills, a proven track record of deploying containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes), and deep expertise in at least one of the following: deep learning (PyTorch, Transformers), ranking/matching algorithms, or LLMops (RAG, evals, fine-tuning).

Interested? To apply and for more detailed information, please see the full job descriptions on our careers page: https://www.cosuno.com/en/company

We’re building the Account Intelligence layer, the brain that connects enterprise systems and execution to drive onboarding, adoption, and renewals.

Why Cora:

- Work on cutting-edge applied AI: voice agents, knowledge graphs, multi-agent systems, simulations, and more

- Real users, real impact, high autonomy

- Fast, fair interview loop — no BS

- Fully covered healthcare for you and your dependents

- 401(k) plan

- Flexible time off

Learn more: https://www.cora.ai/

Interested? Email careers [at] cora.ai — these go straight to me, and I read every one.

We're building business-in-a-box software for landscaping companies, with mobile applications and an offline-capable web app. We're also doing custom AI (_not_ LLMs) to produce measurements from satellite imagery.

Our frontend is in React and React.Native, backend is in Go and Python. We're looking for someone who can lead the backend development and help us manage the data processing pipelines for AI training.

Job posting: https://jobs.lever.co/getduranta/50af551a-9a5c-498c-9729-6f2...

Contact: alex@getduranta.com (please put "HN" in the subject)