Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

CivTiq | Lead SWE | Toronto | $130,000 – $180,000 CAD | Founder-level equity | Founder with 3x successful exits|

We are building enterprise-grade, white-label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America.

Full technical decisions

Multi-tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements Compliance framework buildout: SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, security standards relevant to Canadian municipal procurement

Technical hiring as team grows

5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineering with direct exposure to multi-tenant architecture, data residency, and uptime SLA commitments

Shipped production systems where a bug has legal or compliance consequences

Hands-on with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated environments

Can review and challenge AI-generated code and architectural decisions. Not threatened by AI tooling, not blindly trusting it

Can represent the technical platform for government IT evaluators

Comfortable inheriting existing TypeScript / Node.js / PostgreSQL codebase

Located in Toronto or willing to relocate

ben [at] civtiq [dot] com

Neo.Tax | Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Senior Data Scientist/ML Engineer | REMOTE (US, Pacific hours) | Full-time | $190K–$210K + equity Neo.Tax automates R&D tax credits and software cost capitalization for enterprises. We ingest data from project management, payroll, identity, and financial systems and use ML/LLMs to turn a process that used to take months into one that takes hours. Small team, real revenue, lots of hard problems in data extraction and pipelines at scale. Currently serving customers like Mercury, Brex, Notion, Adobe, and Capital One.

We're hiring two senior roles:

1) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (7+ yrs) TypeScript/Node + React on the front of the house; data ingestion pipelines processing millions of records and flexible schemas across wildly different company types on the back. You'll own projects end-to-end, scope with cross-functional partners, and ship both customer-facing and internal tooling. Bonus: GraphQL, GCP/AWS/Azure, Terraform/DevOps.

2) Senior Data Scientist + ML Engineer (6+ yrs) Own ML/AI problems from definition through production: classification, information extraction, entity resolution, ranking, anomaly detection, plus LLM systems (prompts, retrieval, tool-calling, eval). Python (NumPy/Pandas/sklearn/PyTorch), strong SQL, and real production deployment experience. Bonus: synthetic data, RAG, experience fine-tuning LLMs.

Both are senior, high-autonomy roles--you should be comfortable breaking ambiguous requirements into iterative deliverables and reading unfamiliar code. Not a fit if you want heavy mentorship or detailed specs handed to you.

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neo-tax/

Hevy | Lead/Senior React Native Engineer & Lead/Senior Backend Engineer | Barcelona, Spain | Hybrid | Relocation

Hevy is a multiplatform weight lifting tracker that lets athletes log their workouts, track progress and be part of a community of gym athletes. We are a bootstrapped fitness and technology company operating out of Barcelona, Spain.

Relocation to Spain: full relocation package, work permit + residence permit for spouse, hybrid (2-3 days in office/week), competitive salary + performance bonus. https://www.hevyapp.com/careers/

Forward Deployed Engineer - backend - python | REMOTE (UTC -3 to +3) | Full time

Small stealth team in the property management space, building AI agents that run real operations, where agents and humans work as one team rather than as user and tool. Funded, profitable, fully remote, competitive comp.

We want a senior backend engineer to own a client facing use case end to end: build the backend tools and workflows our agents call, handle the jurisdiction and client specific extensions, and talk to the client directly. Pull requirements, explain the tradeoffs, own the relationship. Take messy real world problems, turn them into something agents can actually use, then keep it alive in production.

You're probably a fit if:

- you've shipped serious backend systems in production

- you can hold your own on a customer call

- you've run LLM agents in production, or you'll ramp fast: tool calling, evals, knowing when a plain deterministic tool beats a model call

Bonus, not required: containers and CI/CD, RBAC and auditing, LangChain and LangGraph, prior customer facing or operator background.

We care more about what you've built and can build than a checklist, so skip the skills inventory and tell us about something hard you shipped.

Apply: email mercedes@kinxshn.com with "HN - Forward Deployed Engineer" in the subject , your CV attached and salary expectation.

Psiphon | iOS / Flutter Developer | Toronto (Hybrid) | Full-time

Psiphon is a VPN app used by millions of people to access the open internet in regions where it's restricted. Small team, software that matters.

We're building the next-gen client app in Flutter (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) and need someone who can work across both iOS native and Flutter. Split is roughly 65% Flutter, 35% iOS native (Swift, StoreKit, entitlements, network extensions). You'll have mentorship from a senior iOS specialist for the deeper networking work.

Day to day: Feature development in Flutter, iOS platform integration (subscriptions, permissions, App Store), and occasionally going deep into network extensions and packet tunnel providers. Small team (~3-4 core devs), high ownership, low ceremony.

Looking for: Strong Swift experience beyond just UIKit/SwiftUI app dev, comfort with the iOS ecosystem (App Store process, provisioning, StoreKit), and willingness to context-switch between Swift and Dart in the same day. Flutter experience is a strong plus but not required if you pick up frameworks quickly.

Contact: hr@psiphon.ca