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

Location: Seattle

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Nix/NixOS (multi-site homelab), Linux, Clojure/CLJS, Zig + others as needed

Resume/CV: email

Email: hn@psyclyx.xyz

Prior position: Senior SDE working on various parts of a Customer Data Platform/data deduplication system. Put together new product surfaces, maintained existing ones, took on large pieces of tech debt, found opportunities to improve relationships with important customers.

Recently, I've been hacking on github.com/psyclyx/fix, a fast Nix evaluator in Zig, which achieves meaningful (2-5x) evaluation time improvements on NixOS systems over CppNix and forks. I've also been working on a multiplayer CRDT-based text editor with a WASM plugin runtime, targeting something in between Emacs and Zed. Pre-release, but would make a good demo at the start of a call.

Neither of these are areas I had much experience in prior to working on them, I've just been going deep on problems that I wanted to be solved. I'm looking for a role where I can apply that to hard problems alongside driven people and have an impact. Early-stage companies preferred.

Location: Carrollton, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, FastAPI, Next.js, React, Node.js, Rust, Java, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Redis, AWS, Azure, Docker, AI agents, LLM workflows, RAG, pgvector, multi-agent systems, async architectures Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-taylor-a7b347424/ Email: david [dot] taylor02210 [at] gmail [dot] com

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable AI systems, backend platforms, and full-stack applications. In my previous role, I helped architect a multi-tenant agentic orchestration engine that enabled delivery of 10 production-grade enterprise platforms.

Recent work includes AI orchestration platforms, privacy-first voice and matching systems, async vision + LLM pipelines in health-tech, and deterministic compliance workflows replacing unreliable RAG systems. Strong across Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and production API design.

I’m most valuable in roles involving AI-enabled products, backend/platform engineering, full-stack product ownership, and early-stage 0-to-1 execution. Open to senior full-stack, backend, platform, or AI engineering roles.

location: Portland, OR Remove: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: LLVM/MLIR, Torch-MLIR, SST, RISC-V Resume: On request Email: cameronfdurbin@gmail.com

Location: Myanmar (UTC+6:30) Remote: Yes — worldwide Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Tokio, Axum, PostgreSQL/SQLx, REST/SSE, Solana/Web3, TypeScript, Next.js, React, Node.js, Docker, Linux, GitHub Actions GitHub: https://github.com/rock19380-ai Email: support.abbaaslabs@gmail.com

Rust backend/full-stack developer with 1+ year of sustained hands-on development. I’ve built substantial systems around non-custodial payment verification, async APIs, transactional state, PostgreSQL, Solana integrations, transaction handling, failure recovery, automated testing, and CI.

Selected work includes Basalt, Aether, Axum AI Starter, and the public NeuRust project: https://github.com/rock19380-ai/neurust-workspace

Looking for remote contract/freelance Rust backend, infrastructure, Solana/Web3 integration, PostgreSQL, or API work.

I work best asynchronously through written technical communication and prefer practical coding/work-sample evaluation rather than live voice/video interviews.

Crypto/stablecoin compensation such as USDC/USDT is preferred. I am specifically interested in contractor arrangements that do not require government-ID KYC.

Location: Joburg,SA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No but depends on certain factors. Technologies: C, ASM(ARM,X86), Rust, STM32, Kafka, MQTT and Docker. Résumé/CV: x64x2.github.io/ Email: erik.somto@yandex.com