Stealth Startup | Founding Engineer | NYC (in-person 5x/week) | Full-Time

The mission We’re building a best-in-class multi-modal AI agent product (voice + SMS + email) with the potential to disrupt deeply entrenched software businesses and unify a fragmented industry. We’re a tiny team with real traction pre-product, moving fast, and we care obsessively about craft.

Why this role This is a founding engineering seat: you’ll be an early builder shaping the product, architecture, and quality bar from day one. In the first 3–6 months, the role is highly IC-focused. As we scale (including our first in-person hub/site and new hires), this role has optionality (i.e., growing into a leadership role or staying on the IC track and owning the engineering roadmap) for the right person.

What you’ll do

Build real-time systems for voice (streaming audio, low latency, turn-taking), SMS, and email automation with robust state + memory. Design the foundation: architecture, data model, reliability, observability, deployment, and developer velocity. Set the quality bar: clean code, pragmatic abstractions, testing strategy, “don’t break prod,” and thoughtful product UX. Partner closely with the co-founders on product decisions. You’ll have real influence over what we build and how it feels + how it's designed.

What we’re looking for You should be able to work anywhere in the stack (frontend, backend, infra, integrations) and you know how to make smart tradeoffs.

Strong product sense: you’re obsessive about confusing UI and you want to make workflows feel magical. Systems thinking: you can design for latency, reliability, and iteration speed (especially for real-time voice + agent state). High ownership: you run toward ambiguity, unblock yourself, and care deeply about outcomes. Startup mindset: high-risk/high-reward energy, low ego, high pace.

Bonus points:

Experience with agentic systems: LLM orchestration, tool calling, RAG, evals, prompt/versioning, guardrails. Voice/telephony or streaming experience (WebSockets/WebRTC, audio pipelines, turn detection). Messaging + deliverability experience (SMS workflows, email sending, compliance/opt-in, bounce handling). Familiarity with modern stacks (examples): TypeScript/Node, Python, React/Next.js, Postgres, Redis, queues, Docker, AWS/GCP, observability.

KeyMe Locksmiths | IT Sysadmin | Remote | key.me

Fully automated self-service key duplicating kiosks can be found in over 7,000+ locations across the country in major retailers such as WalMart, Kroger, 7-Eleven, Menards, and many others.

We're hiring an IT Support Sysadmin to help manage and automate the hardware our employees use day to day, and the 7000+ kiosks we manage in the field. Linux, Windows, MacOS, SaltStack, Docker, AWS, with Terraform and Kubernetes.

Reach out to tim.mahoney@key.me and mention "IT Support Sysadmin" in the subject.

Parabola | Site Reliability Engineer | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | Full-time

Parabola is a no-code data workflow automation tool that helps operations teams move, transform, and automate their data without writing code. LLMs are a core part of our product — we use them to help users build and reason about their workflows — and they're increasingly part of how we run infrastructure too. We're a small, product-focused team and our infrastructure runs on AWS. We're looking for an SRE who's passionate about observability and keeping systems healthy and understandable. You'll own our monitoring and alerting infrastructure, drive incident response, and work closely with engineering to make sure we have deep visibility into everything that matters. We expect you to use LLMs heavily in your work — writing runbooks, generating alert configs, drafting postmortems, building dashboards — and we want someone who's already figured out how to make that feel natural. What you'll work on:

Observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, dashboards, alerting, and on-call workflows Incident response and postmortems — building a culture of learning from failures SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets — helping the team make data-driven reliability decisions Monitoring LLM-specific infrastructure: latency, token throughput, model error rates, cost attribution AWS infrastructure across our stack (Lambda, ECS, RDS, OpenSearch, CloudFront, etc.) CDK-based IaC and CI/CD pipelines as needed

What we're looking for:

Hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana (or similar — Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.) Strong instincts for what to instrument and what good alerting actually looks like Comfort debugging distributed systems across the full stack Experience owning on-call and incident response end to end AWS familiarity and enough IaC experience to get things done (CDK or Terraform) Someone who reaches for an LLM before writing boilerplate from scratch — and knows when not to

Nice to have: experience instrumenting LLM pipelines, familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js, startup experience, or a background in security and compliance.

Reach out at cj@parabola.io or apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/parabola-io/75141699-0666-4baa-b03f....

HelpMyCash | Senior AWS DevOps/SRE contractor | Remote EU/CET | Freelance + paid on-call

HelpMyCash is a Barcelona-based financial comparison platform. We're looking for a senior freelance DevOps/SRE to act as the operational safety net for a mature AWS production platform.

This is explicitly an insurance role: keep the platform reliable, no major evolution or greenfield work. The platform has run reliably for years (no critical outages unrelated to deploys/changes in 5+ years) — we want someone to keep it that way.

Engagement: ~4h/week retainer paid on-call for critical incidents planned/larger tasks quoted separately fully remote, EU/CET, reachable during Spanish business hours

Compensation: retainer + hourly rate + on-call premium for out-of-hours response. Exact structure and rates open to discussion based on your model.

Work: monitoring, alert triage, routine maintenance, incident response, certificates/security updates, and infrastructure decision-support. No application development or architecture ownership expected.

Stack: AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, S3, SQS, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch; MongoDB Atlas, Elastic Cloud, n8n, Metabase, Sentry, Bitbucket Pipelines.

Looking for someone senior who can handle incidents independently and is comfortable with a stable-platform maintenance/on-call role.

Apply: https://uilab-n8n.helpmycash.com/form/devops-application?sou... (full job description linked from the form).

Tech Mahindra | Full-time, all levels | India, USA, Canada, Mexico | techmahindra.com

Tech Mahindra’s Cloud Advisory division is hiring engineers and technical leaders to help enterprises modernize and operate at scale on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our work spans cloud migration, platform engineering, DevOps/SRE, IaC, DevSecOps, and FinOps. We’re hiring across all levels and geographies (India, Mexico, Canada, USA). Roles include: Cloud Engineers, Platform/DevOps/SRE, Cloud Architects, DevSecOps, Tech Leads, and Engineering Managers. Apply: Send your resume or LinkedIn profile to cprabala@techmahindra.com (mention HN – Cloud Advisory).

Steel | Applied AI Engineer + Infrastructure Engineer | Toronto, ON | ONSITE | $160k-$240k USD base + equity

Steel is open-source browser infrastructure for AI agents and apps. We make it easy for developers to ship products that interact with the web - without spending 80% of their time on browser pools, proxies, CAPTCHAs, and session state. In 2025 we grew 50x: 6,000+ GitHub stars, dozens of paying customers, millions of sessions served monthly. Dedicated chromium runs on Firecracker VMs for sub-second cold starts.

Stack: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js, AWS, Firecracker, Postgres, Redis. 4+ YOE for both roles.

--- Applied AI Engineer ---

Shape how AI agents interact with the web. Build open-source frameworks/demos on the Sessions API, run experiments on which models/prompts/harnesses actually work, build evals against real scenarios, and work with customers shipping agents to production. AI-native full-stack engineers with strong product sense.

--- Infrastructure Engineer ---

Design and operate the systems Steel runs on. Sample projects: VM snapshotting that restores full browser state in under a second, performance-tuning the Sessions API from kernel traces, orchestrating millions of sessions with sub-second cold starts. Distributed-systems experience, strong AWS/GCP and Linux/OS fundamentals. Rust is a plus.

Public referral bonus: $10,000 if your intro becomes a hire.

Apply: email careers@steel.dev with GitHub & resume, mention HN.

Elucid | Principal Platform Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE (hybrid) | $170k–$205k | https://elucid.applytojob.com/apply/BHpChxSggM/Principal-Pla...

Elucid builds FDA-cleared AI software that analyzes cardiac CT scans to characterize plaque and predict heart attack and stroke risk. The world's best cardiologists use our output to make treatment decisions for real patients. As such, our platform is regulated as a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) product by the FDA and we operate under HIPAA, ISO 13485, and ISO 27001.

We're hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure and developer platform: AWS, containers, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and the self-service tooling that lets our application teams ship quickly inside a regulated SDLC.

We are looking for: 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform roles, deep AWS, strong IaC, comfort with containers (ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes), and one language you reach for when building tooling (Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, C++). Healthcare or regulated-industry experience is a plus, but not a requirement.

On-call is a shared rotation, roughly 2–3 weeks per quarter, business-day coverage only (9am–midnight ET, no overnights).

Apply at the link above.

Sentinel Defense Technologies | Remote (Global) | Equity → Pre-Seed Closing

   We build real-time civilian threat intelligence for conflict zones — and we just landed our first operational pilot. Multi-model AI pipeline (Gemini 3 Pro / Flash) ingests OSINT from verified sources, runs it through a gated verification system, and pushes geolocated alerts to offline-first mobile clients. Think of it as a personal intelligence analyst for non-combatants — on a phone that works on 2G.

   This is not a pitch deck. We have a working system: Django backend is live, Flutter apps are approved on both App Store and Play Store, multi-gate AI pipeline is processing real OSINT, admin console has human-in-the-loop verification for high-severity alerts. Since our last HN post: 93 candidates vetted across two months, 1 Senior AI/Backend Engineer hired (now owns the verification pipeline), and we've begun an operational pilot with Winrock International for counter-trafficking intelligence in Southeast Asia. Pre-seed is imminent with multiple NGO grant applications under review (WFP, IRC Airbel, DRK Foundation).

   *We need one person*:

Founding Product Engineer / Systems Architect You will own the Django backend, MongoDB schemas, and the Flutter UI that connects them. Our AI pipeline lead handles the Gemini orchestration — your job is to own the data layer, build the API surface, and wire it directly into the offline-first client. This is not drawing backend diagrams. You must be an end-to-end builder who cares about how a civilian interacts with the system on the ground in a crisis. A bug in this system isn't a 500 error — it's a missed warning in a conflict zone.

   *Must have*:

Python/Django, MongoDB, Flutter (or high competence to pick it up fast), and system design thinking. Strong plus: DevOps (Docker, AWS), LLM integration, OSINT, geospatial.

We also welcome strong full-stack implementation engineers who ship fast and want founding-team equity. Same stack.

   *Compensation (No BS)*:

- Now: Sweat equity (12-18% SA / 5-10% FSD, 4yr vest, 1yr cliff). This is founding-team ownership. - Pre-Seed (closing): $3,000/month + equity.

- Seed (6-12 months): 75% market salary + equity. Increases from there.

If you need full salary today, this is not for you. If you want to build something where the stakes are real and you're willing to bet on yourself to get there — we should talk.

   *Stack*: 

Python 3.9+, Django 4.1.13, MongoDB, Flutter, Antigravity/Cursor IDE, Docker, AWS.

   *Apply*: 

Email: PeterJFrancoIII@gmail.com with subject line `[SENTINEL-BUILDER] - HackerNews Application`. To prove you read this, include the word "Atlas" in your first sentence. Include your Resume or GitHub + what you'd build in your first week. (Emails without the exact subject line are auto-archived.)

   https://www.sentineldefensetechnologies.co.za

Instinct Science (https://instinct.vet) | Multiple Roles | REMOTE (US) | Full-time

We're the AI platform for veterinary medicine — cloud-native EMR, AI scribing (ScribbleVet, acquired early 2026), clinical decision support, and Plumb's drug reference. Instinct is the operating system vet teams run their day on, from charting through clinical decisions to pharmacy. Real revenue, real PMF, scaling fast.

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | $150–175k Elixir (+ Ash) / Postgres / TypeScript / React / AWS. Own features end-to-end. https://instinctscience.applytojob.com/apply/1H156iuuzg

- Senior Software Engineer, React Native | $150–175k Embedded in ScribbleVet. Mobile app vets use during live appointments — audio capture, offline, AI-assisted clinical workflows. Expo + GraphQL. https://instinctscience.applytojob.com/apply/4Yj4DavJ6D

- Product Manager | $120–150k Translate vet workflows into roadmap. 3+ yrs PM in early-stage SaaS. https://instinctscience.applytojob.com/apply/uU7QfJpdSf

Fully remote (US) but not async. Equity, full benefits, 401k match, annual retreat.

Reach out to vinnydidonato at instinct.vet with [HN] in the subject. Thanks!

Brandfetch (https://brandfetch.com) | Senior Backend Engineer | Remote | Full-time

Brandfetch is the internet’s canonical source for logos and brand assets. Think GitHub for brand identity: a brand repo that auto-indexes public assets, lets brand owners “commit” changes once, then propagates them—instantly and immutably—through CDNs, plugins, and APIs used by companies like Google, Canva, Salesforce, and soon … everywhere.

Problems you'd work on:

- Nightly curation bot auto-fixing outdated assets across 52M+ repos

- Next-gen ingestion and partition-key schema to leap from millions to billions of assets

- MCP server that exposes structured brand data to any AI agent or LLM, letting them fetch brand context on demand

- Vector search: surface any logo with ≥90% similarity in <50ms

- Real-time metering that pings Stripe the instant a user tops their quota

Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3, CloudFormation), Serverless.

You:

- 8+ years of experience in backend software development.

- Proficiency with AWS tools (Cloudformation, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cloudfront, S3, IAM, OpenSearch).

- Experience with building REST APIs.

- Ability to write well-documented, clean code.

- Experience with building DevOps pipelines using Serverless.

- Great communication skills (we work across multiple timezones and document everything).

- Experience with Machine Learning.

Competitive salary + equity in a profitable, growing company.

apply: career at brandfetch.io (no recruiter please).

*Labor Solutions (YC-style) | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (India) | Full-time*

We run a worker wellbeing and compliance platform used by global buyers and their supply chain sites across Asia. We're in the middle of a meaningful migration and platform buildout — you'd be joining at a point where architectural decisions matter and your fingerprints will be on the system for years.

*The work:* Our stack is Django + Python on the backend, dbt for data transformation, React/Next.js on web, and Expo/React Native for mobile. We run on AWS and Azure. Right now we're migrating legacy services while simultaneously shipping new features — so you'll need to be comfortable holding both in your head.

*What we're looking for:*

- Strong Python/Django chops — you've built and maintained production APIs, not just tutorials - Comfortable with React/Next.js; bonus if you've touched Expo or React Native - You understand what a data pipeline actually does (dbt experience a plus, but SQL fluency matters more) - Cloud experience on AWS or Azure — not ops, but enough to not be blocked - You care about code quality without being precious about it

*What this isn't:* This isn't a greenfield startup with infinite runway. It's a real product with real users, real technical debt, and a migration in progress. If that sounds like a problem, this role isn't for you. If that sounds like the most interesting kind of work, let's talk.

*Details:* - Fully remote, India-based - Senior Software Engineer title

Apply: abhishek dot baddi at laborsolutions dot tech | mention HN in the subject

Stream | Amsterdam (NL), Skopje (North Macedonia)| Remote possible | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship

We power real-time Chat, Video, Activity Feeds, and AI Moderation for apps like Strava, Bumble, eBay, and Patreon - billions of API requests per month, millions of concurrent users.

We're looking for a hands-on Lead Engineer (Staff / Principal level) to own Platform & Infrastructure.

Reports directly to the CTO.

Small, senior team - you'll write code most of the time, not run a process org. First 6 months focus on three things with measurable outcomes:

* Cloud cost optimization (AWS/GCP) — tooling and guardrails, not reports

* Platform reliability and scalability — SLOs, observability, hardening

* Architecture decisions on Kubernetes, databases, and cloud provider strategy

Stack: Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis, Terraform.

Looking for: software engineering background (Go or Python, not scripting-only), production cloud cost optimization experience, real distributed systems depth, and active AI tooling use in your engineering workflow.

Not a fit if: you're security/compliance-heavy, scripting-only, or dependent on large-org support structures.

Full JD + apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream/cbabbb5d-0e34-486b-acf7-ce40...

Lucas Hage | Software Engineer (Backend / Full Stack) | Remote | Open to contract or full-time

5+ years building backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Currently at Flora Energia (São Paulo), previously at Colab and Terramagna.

Stack: TypeScript / NestJS · Python · Rust · PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ / SQS · Kubernetes · Docker · AWS (Lambda, EKS, RDS, Bedrock, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge) · OCI · GitHub Actions · Grafana / OpenTelemetry

Recent highlights: - Migrated AWS Lambda architecture to Kubernetes microservices (NestJS/TypeScript) - Participated in infrastructure migration from AWS to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) - Built an AI-powered SmartField system using AWS Bedrock with RAG and OCR for automated data extraction - Designed a serverless document processing pipeline with Step Functions and multiple Lambdas - Built a scheduled notification system using EventBridge Scheduler and Lambda, improving communication reliability

CS degree (Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei). AWS cert. English: advanced.

Email: lucashage1995@gmail.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lucas-hage-7b33bb194 GitHub: github.com/hage9998

Capital Technology Group (CTG) | Senior AI/ML Engineer | Remote (US Only) | $150K–$200K We build and deploy production systems for federal clients—focused on modernizing government software. Looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer who can take models from prototype to production in AWS.

What you’ll do: Build and deploy AI/ML solutions (POC → production) Work across Python, data pipelines, and cloud (AWS) Evaluate new tools and make practical tradeoffs Mentor engineers and lead small teams

Requirements: 7–10+ years experience Production experience in AWS Experience deploying ML systems (TensorFlow/PyTorch) Strong communication skills

Must have: US Citizen

Eligible for Public Trust If interested, send your resume to bhemphill@capitaltg.com and mention you saw this on Hacker News.

AutoPylot | Founding Engineer | REMOTE (US)(East Coast Preferred) | $125K to $185K + Equity

FAA authorized drone flight planning platform. Real revenue, real users, real infrastructure interfacing with federal aviation systems. One of the largest LAANC providers in the U.S.

Looking for engineer #1 to own the full stack. TypeScript, serverless AWS, React + Ionic, Mapbox. You'd work directly with the founder and have meaningful equity.

This is not a management role. You'll be writing code every week, shipping features, and making architecture decisions that take us from where we are to 10x. Eventually you'll build the team, but first you build the product.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4403753137/

Email: tauty@autopylot.io

Mobian | Technical PM + Senior/Staff Engineers (Systems & DevOps) | Remote US/Global | Full-time

Mobian is a brand safety, contextual intelligence, and measurement company working with the world's largest advertisers and publishers. https://themobian.ai/about

Hiring for three roles:

1. Technical Forward Deployed PM (Remote US) — Build and prototype client deliverables using the latest AI tools, working closely with engineering and GTM. Client-facing; must translate technical work into business value.

2. Senior/Staff Engineer — AI-First Systems + Rapid Prototyping (Remote, Global) — Two tracks: Core Systems (production APIs, data pipelines, ML deployments, cloud infra) and AI Prototyping (LLMs, browser automation, experiments → product). 10+ years experience. AI-first mindset. Strong ownership.

3. Senior/Staff Infrastructure Engineer — DevOps (Remote, Global) — 12+ years in production systems: cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, data pipelines, ML deployments.

Email careers@themobian.com with resume, LinkedIn, and GitHub (for eng roles).

BetterDB (https://betterdb.com) (https://github.com/BetterDB-inc) | Founding Engineer | Remote | Full-time BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. We're starting with observability — historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export — so you can debug what happened at 3am when you wake up at 9am.

Stack: TypeScript, NestJS + Fastify, React, Valkey, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.

We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS: https://betterdb.com/login In the last two months we've averaged more than one release per week across multiple products and channels. That's what "moves fast" looks like in practice. We recently started moving more and more into the LLM cache space via both observability and actual libraries.

We hired our first engineer in March and are looking to expand the team — no pressure on timeline, we'd rather find the right person.

Just email kristiyan@betterdb.com with a bit about yourself and why this is interesting to you. I reply to everyone. It might take a day or two given volume, but you'll hear back.

Happy Returns | Engineering Manager | Remote, USA | Full-time

Happy Returns is solving one of e-commerce’s biggest pain points: returns. We combine proprietary returns software with reverse logistics, including box-free consolidated returns, to make returns better for shoppers, retailers, and the planet. We’re a UPS company, growing quickly, and our shopper experience has a 93 NPS.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 6–8 engineers. You’ll manage day-to-day execution, coach and mentor engineers, improve team productivity and agile processes, partner closely with Product, participate in architecture and technical design reviews, and help recruit and onboard new engineers.

You may be a fit if you have:

* 6+ years developing and testing web applications * 2+ years as an Engineering Manager * Strong written and verbal communication skills * Experience coaching engineers toward high-quality, maintainable, well-tested code * Comfort collaborating closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and other stakeholders

Bonus points for experience with Go, Python, React, PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, e-commerce, logistics, or sustainability.

Remote role open to candidates in the United States. Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.

Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/engineering-manager-remot...

FranklinCovey | https://www.franklincovey.com/ | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time

We're in the business of leveling up managers and making workplaces great, in search of a senior software engineer who's looking to join a team and do good work architecting, building, and maintaining a web platform that facilitates learning both online and in-person.

Stack: Django, Python, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS

For more details, please check out: https://careers.franklincovey.com/virtual-usa/senior-softwar...

Maiven | Full-Stack Engineer, UX/UI Designer, Energy Modeling Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time

At Maiven Energy, we're working on real-world problems at the intersection of responsible AI and residential energy. Our aim is to make energy upgrades smarter, faster, and more accessible, while helping reduce carbon emissions. We're a small, mission-driven team punching way above our weight: we have large utility customers, contracts in multiple states, and a growing pipeline of programs launching later this year. We're venture backed and moving fast.

We're hiring for three positions:

- Full-Stack Engineer – NestJS, React, Tailwind, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, AWS, Lambdas. [1]

- Energy Modeling Engineer – Python, pandas, AWS, modeling frameworks (ResStock, OpenStudio, etc.). Experience with energy programs or building science is a huge plus. [2]

- UX/UI Designer [no link]

Looking for builders who want real ownership, thrive in early-stage startups, and move with urgency and care. More: https://www.askmaiven.com

To apply: email hiring _at_ askmaiven.com. Generic, AI generated cover letters and resumes are discouraged.

[1] https://climatebase.org/job/69488877/fullstack-engineer

[2] https://climatebase.org/job/69488878/energy-modeling-enginee...