Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

Location: Prague, Europe Open to: Remote opportunities worldwide

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling production-grade software across web and mobile platforms. I specialize in turning complex product requirements into reliable, high-performance systems that scale.

I’ve spent the past decade leading engineering efforts for a large two-sided, on-demand marketplace, owning architecture and delivery across customer and provider apps (iOS, Android, web) as well as backend systems. My focus has consistently been on building systems that are scalable, maintainable, and resilient under real-world production load.

Core strengths Full-stack architecture and development React, Next.js, React Native Android (Kotlin / Java) Backend & API design Large-scale marketplace systems Performance tuning & scalability Offline-first / resilient app architectures Technical leadership & system design AI-assisted development workflows What I bring

I enjoy working across the full lifecycle—from early MVPs to mature, high-scale products. I’m especially effective in environments where architecture clarity, pragmatic engineering decisions, and fast but sustainable delivery matter.

I focus on shipping software that works reliably in production and can evolve without technical debt bottlenecks.

Contact: jakub@pinchapps.com

Remote: Yes, hybrid in Montreal is also OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Infrastructure, networking, monitoring, Linux, BSD, C, Go, Perl, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.minmaxiste.com/files/cv-en.pdf

Email: info@minmaxiste.com

Senior Unix/Linux infrastructure consultant with 20+ years of experience, including SRE roles at Google, Two Sigma, and Reddit.

Available for short engagements (a few days to weeks, flexible scope) covering server deployment and hardening (Linux, *BSD), DNS, networking, configuration management (Puppet, Ansible), system health monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios), and backend service development in C, Go, Perl, or Python — particularly for automation and infrastructure tooling.

Vendor-neutral. Code delivered is yours under a commercial-friendly open-source license. Available in English or French.

Short-term engagements, no long-term commitment required — $175 CAD/hour.

Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in SF Bay Area.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Gen AI (both user and engineering side), TypeScript, React, Python, SQL, Rust, cloud infrastructure, video and audio engineering

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/madisonrickert

Email: m [at] madisonrickert [dot] com

Open to: Senior SWE, FDE, Solutions Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer.

Domain verticals: AI, video/film tech, audio/music tech, financial tools, realtime software (games, rich interactive UX), business process automation.

Open Source: https://github.com/madisonrickert

Hi, I'm Madison Rickert, a senior software engineer who has been shipping code to production for over 20 years. Experienced engineering leader, presently all-in on agentic engineering, shipping code daily and finding new ways to push the envelope on its capabilities.

I'm an active contributor to several open-source MCP servers, build agent-first CLI tools, solve computer vision problems, and maintain a growing library of agent skills and agent harnesses I rely on daily. For the past five-plus years I've been a partner and the in-house technical force at a creative studio. Before that, I was a senior IC and fractional engineering lead for a variety of startups and nonprofits, working across the full stack and mentoring teams of up to 5. I have a penchant for both business and personal finance. Across my businesses and clients, I've been responsible for managing organizational finances and countless projects with typical budgets in the 5 to 6 figure range. Over the years this led me into financial automation, and I have several open-source projects in my portfolio in areas around agentic financial automation and investment management. I'm also a working musician, and a hyper-organized Burning Man camp lead, best known around the Northern California festival scene for my saxophone performances for crowds up to 3,000 people.

I'm pivoting back to senior IC engineering after a long stretch as partner-operator. I'm excited to keep expanding the capabilities of AI, and my creative-tech and financial background will be a real asset to the right organization. If you're building software for creative work, media systems, music tech, financial tools, or AI tooling, I'd love to hear about it.