Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

Playit - https://playit.gg Eugene, Oregon. REMOTE okay. Oregon USA only.

Looking to hire our first full time engineer besides myself. High impact role, over 100k monthly active users. Cash flow positive.

We run a global network to help people host game servers at home. Most of our backend is in Rust with Postgres DB, website is React SPA in typescript.

Engineering work touches many areas: * low level AF-XDP networking * state synchronization across 20 datacenters * custom ddos mitigation logic * product feature development * front end website dev * front end TUI dev * reliability monitoring and alerting * so much, think creating cloudflare from scratch with focus on gaming and you’re not far off

Send resume over email to apply@playit.gg. Note I (a human with limited time) will read your email and resume. Please don't send me a tailored AI resume or email to waste my time. Please.

Perry Street Software | https://www.perrystreet.com | Remote | Full-Time | Global

Perry Street Software, the largest independent publisher of LGBTQ+ apps globally and creator of SCRUFF (www.scruff.com) and Jack'd (www.jackd.com), is hiring for Senior Ruby Developer.

In this role, you will help build our Ruby API powering our family of mobile dating apps. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about architecture and monads! (Ok just kidding about the last part -- but you can see more about our approach to API development in our Medium blog series at https://medium.com/perry-street-software-engineering, and you can see our contribution to Ruby architecture at https://github.com/perrystreetsoftware/Rubyzen). The position is 40 hours per week and ongoing/full-time.

Interested developers should apply at: https://rubyonremote.com/jobs/73278-senior-ruby-developer-eu...

Applicants should please read this 60-second blog post (https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/), which we believe applies equally to job applications as it does to generated code.

Purely AI-generated applications will not be considered for this role.

From a fellow Tennessean, thank you.

I know this is a high paying job for somebody brilliant – lots of respect in and of itself.

But this one is literally for the children.

Again, thank you to poster, co-workers, and future applicants.

Oklo | Remote (US) or Santa Clara or Brooklyn | Full time | https://oklo.com

Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! You'll leverage your software skills alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. You will work at the forefront of the nuclear industry, developing novel techniques to reach new levels of safety, efficiency, and resiliency. Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.

We are hiring for:

- Software Engineer: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/4018702004

- Senior Software Engineer: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo/jobs/5739483004

See more opportunities here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oklo

Please mention Hacker News in your cover letter!

Thank you!