Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

We’re a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace and media network for youth and high school sports. We’ve moved from zero to one with real revenue and are now looking for a Senior Engineer to help us scale to serve the 65M American families in this space.

Our Stack: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), PostgreSQL, Oban, Next.js, Meilisearch, Vercel and Claude Code.

What you’ll do:

Lead product/engineering initiatives and own outcomes end-to-end.

Design for scale: We handle high transaction volumes and need someone who can tune relational databases for millions of rows.

Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping speed and long-term system health.

Work in a high-trust, AI-assisted environment where you drive the vision.

What we’re looking for:

7+ years of experience building/maintaining high-traffic, full-stack systems.

Expertise in Elixir or an equivalent functional/concurrent stack.

Strong foundation in observability, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident response.

Clear communication—you can turn complex technical ideas into diagrams and strategy.

Compensation: $120k–$190k base + meaningful equity.

Note: You must be located in the US and you must be authorized to work permanently in the US to be considered for this role.

Interested? Send your resume (emails with no resumes will not be read) and a link to your GitHub or a project you're proud of to kfaham@youth.inc with "Senior Software Engineer — [Your Name]" in the subject line.

https://docs.ditto.live/home/about-ditto

I've been obsessed with CRDTs since I first saw them at Strange Loop years ago, and I still can't quite believe I now get to work on them for a living — in some of the most challenging environments there are: disconnected, degraded, contested, out where the cloud isn't. If that's your kind of problem, come build with us.

Ditto is the edge-native data platform that keeps distributed systems in sync when the network doesn't cooperate — an offline-first, CRDT-based layer syncing any device (phone, vehicle, sensor, server) over Bluetooth LE, P2P Wi-Fi, LAN, and tactical radio, with or without connectivity. Same core, commercial to defense; operationally deployed and network-agnostic. The problems are the fun kind: conflict-free replication with no server and no synchronized clock, multi-transport routing that never drops the connection, moving a coherent picture over links as thin as an HF radio shot, and human-in-the-loop robotics/autonomy where a detection may have to be physically carried by a moving node. Concept to field in days, not months.

Most roles are open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S.; Public Sector and forward-deployed roles require U.S. person status. Remote in the U.S. (hubs: Atlanta, Austin, SF, Seattle) unless noted.

Product — Senior PM: Cloud Database & Integrations; Cloud Infrastructure & Platform

Engineering — Engineering Manager, Data Sync

Public Sector (U.S. persons) — Senior SWE: Autonomy · Systems FDE · Portal (ATL/remote) · FDE (SF, on-site); SWE, Public Sector Application

Core Technologies — Senior SWE: Rust · Data Sync · Database · Networking · Bluetooth · React Native SDK · Android (ATL)

Cloud Services — Senior SWE, Cloud (x2)

Infrastructure — Staff SWE, Platform; Senior Platform Engineer, Operator; Senior SRE; Senior SRE, APAC (remote)

If interested apply above and mention Hackernews.July.26