Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

Obie | Chicago, IL (Hybrid Tue/Thu) or Remote (US) | Full-time | Product Manager; Technical Project Manager (TPM) | https://ats.rippling.com/obie/jobs/76234395-2934-4746-a421-5..., https://ats.rippling.com/obie/jobs/4891a38c-9a69-47fa-9cc7-8...

Obie is an insurtech building modern software and tooling for a heavily regulated industry. We ship customer-facing product and internal platforms that handle complex workflows, partner constraints, and real-world edge cases — with a strong emphasis on systems thinking, product quality, and moving quickly without being reckless.

Roles: - Product Manager (platform with multiple surfaces/users/channels; strong product taste + technical curiosity) - Technical Project Manager (end-to-end delivery across engineering pods; scope/tradeoffs/dependencies/release readiness)

Apply via the links above. More info: https://www.obieinsurance.com/careers

SpruceID (YC W21) | REMOTE (US-Based Preferred) | Full-Time | spruceid.com

[NEW ROLE FOR EXCEPTIONAL NEW GRADS OPEN]

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.lever.co/sprucesystems/

Bookarang | DevOps/Backend developer | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | € 55-72k | Fulltime, Onsite

Bookarang (part of NBD Biblion) is using AI to build tomorrow's book recommendation technology. Book retailers and libraries use our technology to provide their readers with truly relevant and personal recommendations — not on the basis of popularity or other people’s behaviour, but by using the book’s content and the reader’s personal preferences as a starting point.

As a DevOps/backend developer, you'll ensure our technology runs smoothly across test and production environments, from in-house R&D servers to services used by schools and libraries nationwide. You'll handle monitoring, profiling, and designing scalable, robust solutions using technologies like Airflow, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, MongoDB, and MySQL. We're exploring Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, and new data engineering and database systems, and we're curious how you could contribute to these transitions. We're looking for a developer with strong, proven system design skills.

Does working on an innovative and socially relevant project excite you? Or do you have questions? Find out more here: https://www.nbdbiblion.nl/over-nbd-biblion/vacatures/vacatur...

Remote (US)*

Visa sponsorship available for extremely specialized (robotics) skillsets

Stream | Multiple Positions | Amsterdam (NL), Skopje (North Macedonia) | Boulder, CO (US) | Toronto (Canada)) | Remote possible | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship We are consistently hiring backend engineers ranging from Senior level to Staff / Lead / Director / Principal Go engineers. If you have experience with a different tech stack, we offer a 10-week onboarding program to train you in Go, scaling and other key topics: https://tinyurl.com/2u5x9f9w

Spotlight:

* Technical Director of Engineering

* Lead Backend Developer (Go)

At Stream, we use Go for our video SFU, chat API, Moderation and Feeds, serving high traffic from major apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, and Midjourney. Our tech stack: Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis.

Why Join Stream?

* High scale/ difficult engineering, we have customers using our products with millions of users

* Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue

* All managers are hands-on and capable engineers

* Edge network of servers around the world

* Great opportunity to learn and grow

Remote: our roles are primarily NL, US, North Macedonia, or CANADA-based (hybrid), but exemptions for remote work within the EU may apply to specific cases.

Visa Sponsorship: Available for the Netherlands

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r