Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

Pagelove | https://pagelove.com | Founding Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | $110k–$130k + early equity

Pagelove collapses the modern web stack into its simplest form: no databases, no APIs, no application servers. Just HTML that works like an app, scales like a CDN, and is AI-native by design.

The page becomes the application, API and persisted state. Humans and machines can read and update the same surface directly using CSS selectors over HTTP, rather than through separate HTML and API/MCP interfaces. With Pagelove, AI can finally build web applications without having to deal with the complexity of the full stack.

We’re seed-stage and well-funded, hiring our first non-founder engineer. The codebase is Rust, with work including distributed storage, HTTP caching/ETags, CRDTs, parser/DOM performance, CI and production infrastructure.

Our development process is heavily agentic: Claude Code and Codex do substantial implementation work, with humans focused on architecture, review and the hard problems.

https://ats.pagelove.com/roles/founding-software-engineer/

Shovels | Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) | Remote | Full-time

Shovels is the intelligence layer for the built world. We're venture-backed, trusted by some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in the world.

We have a lot of customers and a lot of technical needs from those customers. That's why we're hiring a true Forward Deployed Engineer: a real engineer who wants to work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers and turn their hardest questions into working solutions.

You'll embed into our most important enterprise accounts, understand what they're actually trying to do, and build the maps, models, and data products that make Shovels indispensable to them, working alongside AI agents the way the rest of our engineering team does.

This is not a hand-off role: you own the relationship and the build, from the first "what if we could see…" to the moment the customer says "wow."

Check it out: https://www.shovels.ai/careers/forward-deployed-engineer

Mattermost | Remote (US and Canada) | FT | Multiple roles

Mattermost (https://mattermost.com) is an open-core collaboration and workflow automation platform for air-gapped, on-prem and private clouds. Our customers are in defense, intelligence, security and critical infrastructure, including the USAF and NASA. Y Combinator led our Series B, their largest open source investment at the time.

Both openings are full stack on the core platform: Go backend, React/TypeScript frontend, PostgreSQL and Redis. The codebase is public (https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost), so most of what you build is too. We would rather hire people who ship and own complex software end to end than chase an exact stack match, so any systems or backend language and any frontend stack counts. What we look for in both roles: REST and WebSocket APIs with real networking fundamentals (HTTP, connection lifecycle), and relational databases including schema design and query optimization.

We use coding agents daily (Claude Code, Cursor, and others) for scaffolding, refactors, code review and test generation, and we treat that as core craft rather than a shortcut around the fundamentals. If you have a track record of shipping and owning complex software end-to-end, we want to hear from you.

*Senior Full Stack Engineer* $142,723 - $172,723 USD Architect and ship full stack features end to end, own the testing strategy for what you ship, and build internal tooling and testing infrastructure that makes the rest of the team faster. You will work without close supervision and hold the security and compliance bar our customers require. Nice to have: distributed systems and high availability architecture, regulated-environment security, open-source contributions, experience on remote-first teams.

Join our team: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mattermost/jobs/5379251008

*Staff Full Stack Engineer* $172,724 - $227,135 USD Set technical direction for the platform rather than for a feature area: architecture and roadmap across the stack, the standards for how the org uses coding agents, and the strategy for internal tooling and testing. You will influence direction across teams, partner with security and compliance on it, and mentor senior engineers. Nice to have: staff, principal or tech lead experience elsewhere, open-source maintainership, FedRAMP or ITAR familiarity, defense or critical infrastructure background.

Join our team: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mattermost/jobs/5405811008

Both roles have Canadian postings: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mattermost

Seeq | https://seeq.com | Staff/Principal Software Engineer (Full-Stack, AI, Backend, Platform) | REMOTE (Some crossover w/ PST required) | Full-time | $170k-$205k + annual cash bonus + equity. Salary range for US-based; local adjustments for other countries. Seeq creates cutting-edge data analytics software for industrial process data, serving sectors like pharmaceuticals, energy, and manufacturing. Our core product is a robust calculation engine capable of executing advanced math and machine learning algorithms on streaming time-series data. By leveraging generative AI, we enhance usability and accelerate outcomes for our users. We've built up a great remote culture (e.g. annual meetups, home office allowance, generous PTO, a remote office app we created to collaborate) and a dev team that enjoys tackling hard problems that make a difference for our customers (dev blog for more: https://geeq.seeq.com/).

Be sure to mention that you came from Hacker News in your application!

Staff/Principal Backend Software Engineer (JVM, Postgres): https://apply.workable.com/seeq/j/CDBF1AE73C

Staff Full-Stack (React, Python, AI Technologies): https://apply.workable.com/seeq/j/1378093793

Staff/Principal Full-Stack (React, JVM, Postgres): https://apply.workable.com/seeq/j/610FB07CEB

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Sr. Staff or Principal Software Engineer, Rust Genomics Infrastructure | Memphis, TN | ONSITE (2x/week onsite) or REMOTE | $125,840 - $238,160 | https://www.stjude.org/

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is hiring Rust software engineers to rebuild the genomics ecosystem in Rust. We work at the intersection of computer science and genomics, and we're trying to build a better foundation upon which genomics can be done using Rust. The primary project we’re working on is a bioinformatics workflow execution engine for local, HPC, and Cloud called Sprocket (https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs/sprocket). You can also check out the other projects we have going on at https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs.

NOTE that prior experience in bioinformatics or biology is NOT required for any of the positions below. You must be interested in learning though! If you'd like to get a sense of what you'd be learning, check out the guide we wrote to teach software engineers about genomics here: https://learngenomics.dev.

* Sr. Staff or Principal Software Engineer: https://talent.stjude.org/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Staff-Pri...

With any questions, email me at clay.mcleod@stjude.org. Please do not email me your application directly—be sure to submit it through the job portal.