Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

Founding Engineer @ Conductor (San Francisco, ONSITE)

Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We launched in July through Show HN, and are used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and YC.

We’re on a mission to build the human interface to AI organizations. We’re a team of four looking for one or two more exceptional engineers or designers. No AI experience needed, just some enthusiasm for the awesome alien power of LLMs.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conductor/jobs/MYjJzBV...

Goody | Remote | $200–250K + equity and benefits | Full-time

Goody is hiring a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who likes to ship at a startup pace and has an eye for exceptional UI/UX.

I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. Despite being something everyone does, gifting is one of the areas of commerce yet to be disrupted. Our goal is to make people's days by making gifting easy, while building a sustainable business on that market opportunity.

We're looking for engineers who like to build at a startup pace, have a critical eye for detail and user experience, and thrive when given autonomy and ownership.

Our product is used by Google, Stripe, Anthropic, Meta, NBCUniversal, Notion, and others, and we also offer a developer API for commerce.

Check out our jobs minisite at https://jobs.ongoody.com/swe and feel free to email me at mark@ongoody.com.

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard @ rockbot dot com

Baton | Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Machine Learning / Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack / Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Data Platform | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Baton (baton.io) is Ryder's in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. With $10B in freight under management, our technology reaches every part of the U.S. economy.

We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers—including some of the world's most well-known brands—to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Our work includes everything from customer-facing software to the data platform that will power the next era of innovation at Ryder.

Baton's mission: enable supply chain on autopilot.

Ryder acquired Baton in 2022 to power its next wave of digital products. We operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach. If you have a passion for solving complex problems and creating impact for the engine of the American economy, you'll love it here.

Current openings at Baton:

* Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Machine Learning (Technical Lead, $200,000 - $250,000): https://grnh.se/2f33dr0p7us

* Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Machine Learning ($250,000 - $330,000): https://grnh.se/sdu5uj7i7us

* Staff Software Engineer - ML Ops, Technical Lead ($250,000 - $330,000): https://grnh.se/r0zdjmtk7us

* Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, Technical Lead ($200,000 - $250,000): https://grnh.se/wkmk2d0e7us

* Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Data Platform ($162,000 - $216,000): https://grnh.se/d6s6od6w7us

Hatchet | Founding Engineer | NYC or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run

Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale.

We're hiring engineers who are excited to build the next class of engineering primitives, starting with queues, background tasks and durable execution. We started in early 2024 after launching our distributed task queue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136).

Hatchet is currently used by thousands of engineers for all kinds of workloads: log ingestion pipelines, code review agents, video encoding, GPU scheduling, etc. Our target customer is fast-growing startups who have a strong need for background jobs system. These days, that tends to be AI companies, though we're general-purpose and not exclusively targeted for AI workloads.

Stack: Postgres, Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes

Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hatchet-run/jobs/SNpCm...

Or email me at alexander [at] hatchet [dot] run