Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

Snout | Multiple Engineering + Product Roles | Remote US or Ontario, Canada | Full Time. Join us at Snout on our mission to ensure no one ever has to make a health decision for their pet based on the cash in their bank account. Snout plans pay for 100% of routine veterinary care, unlimited visits, and additional member benefits - think pet insurance, that you will actually use every year. We're growing the team and hiring across the board. Featured role this month: Founding Data Engineer - be our first data hire: make sense of hundreds of millions of rows from vet practice-management systems and our own app, and turn our Postgres and dbt warehouse into a foundation the whole company trusts. Our tech stack includes Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Tailwind, and Python. We use both JavaScript and TypeScript heavily. Our team uses LLM-based tooling day to day, but we're fundamentally a human-centric team, and our product itself does not heavily feature AI components. Apply at https://jobs.gem.com/snout

Open Education Applications / Neon | Senior/Lead Platform & DevOps Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Utrecht, The Netherlands | HYBRID | DUTCH REQUIRED. Please note: working proficiency in Dutch is strictly required for these roles, and we kindly ask for no automated applications. The rest of this post will continue in Dutch. Wij zijn een non-profit die zich inzet om lesmateriaal voor scholen beter, betaalbaarder en flexibeler te maken, in zowel digitale als gedrukte vorm. Werktijden en kantoordagen zijn flexibel en worden in overleg bepaald op basis van de rol. Wij bieden een competitief salaris. Technologiestack: Git monorepo, TypeScript, Yjs en React, een beetje Python, OpenTofu/Terraform, Scaleway, managed PostgreSQL en managed Kubernetes. Openstaande rollen: - Senior/Lead Platform & DevOps Engineer - Senior Backend Engineer/Architect - Senior Frontend Engineer - Senior Full-Stack Engineer. E-mail jobs[at]openeducation.foundation met (HN) + de functienaam in het onderwerp, samen met een korte introductie en een link naar je LinkedIn-profiel en/of GitHub. Als er van beide kanten een goede match lijkt te zijn, plan ik graag een kennismakingsgesprek in. https://openeducation.foundation | https://www.neon.nl

We The Flywheel | Production Designer | REMOTE (async, global) | Contract, part-time to full-time | https://wetheflywheel.com/en/careers/production-designer-remote/ We're a small, agent-led studio. Most of our ops run through AI agents, and the people here direct them. We need a production designer who turns briefs into polished, on-brand marketing, social and ad creative, fast, inside an existing brand system. What we're looking for: - Real Figma experience (required) - You've wired Figma into coding agents like Codex or Claude Code (e.g. Figma MCP), so a design becomes working code without a hand-off - Strong typography and layout craft, and you can keep quality up across a high volume of assets - Clear written English for async work. Apply through the link. It starts with a short skills assessment, no cover letter needed. For other roles, see our careers page: https://wetheflywheel.com/en/careers/

PAGNOS | Cloud Engineer, AWS Serverless (TypeScript/Node.js) | REMOTE (Germany) | Full-time | €75k–80k | business-fluent German required. We build serverless applications on AWS for clients and for our own SaaS products. On client projects, we work directly with their developers and help them understand and maintain what we build. You’ll write backend code in TypeScript/Node.js, build APIs with Lambda and API Gateway, model data in DynamoDB, and design event-driven workflows and integrations. Infrastructure lives in code using AWS CDK, with CI/CD pipelines for builds and deployments. You’ll help decide how systems are designed and take testing, observability and security into account as you build. There’s some React/Next.js work too. We’re looking for practical experience building AWS serverless applications with TypeScript/Node.js, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD and event-driven design. The role includes working through requirements and technical decisions with clients, so you should be comfortable with that. We use coding agents daily and expect you to use them too, and to share useful approaches with other developers. AWS serverless development is the main focus of the role. We’re remote-first, use Scrum, and work with code reviews, pair programming, and unit and integration tests. We meet in person regularly, sometimes in Cologne, sometimes in Austria or Mallorca. We plan travel around family commitments. You must be based in Germany and speak business-fluent German and good English. We don’t offer visa sponsorship. €75k–80k, 32 days of vacation, hardware of your choice, and company-paid AI tool subscriptions. Send your CV to recruiting@pagnos.com – no cover letter needed. Questions before applying are welcome. Full job ad (German): https://germantechjobs.de/jobs/PAGNOS-GmbH-Cloud-AI-Engineer--AWS-Serverless-mwd

PrairieLearn (Remote US) — Full-Stack Software Engineer — TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI. PrairieLearn (https://www.prairielearn.com) is an open-source assessment platform used by universities across the US (Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, Illinois, and others). We power mastery-based learning and large-scale exams. We’re a small, profitable, early-stage company (bootstrapped, no VC) that is growing quickly. Our users love us and we have very high retention and rapid spread through word of mouth. As an early-stage hire, you’ll work across the stack and enjoy meaningful ownership from day one. Tech we use: Node.js / TypeScript backend, Postgres, AWS, React. We’re also developing AI tooling, including LLM agents to help instructors create content, and vision-language models to help grade student work. PrairieLearn is open core: https://github.com/PrairieLearn/PrairieLearn Details: - Location: Remote (US only) - Salary: $100k-$180k depending on experience - Benefits: Stock options (0.5% - 1.5%), unlimited PTO, flexible hours - Role: Full-time. (We’re not able to sponsor visas at this time.) Apply at https://www.prairielearn.com/jobs-ashby

Shepherd (Series B) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA & New York City, NY. At Shepherd, we're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting. Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered. The infrastructure behind the AI boom (data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets) has to be built and insured, but traditional carriers weren't built for this speed. We built Shepherd to solve that. We announced our $42M Series B earlier this year! That brings our total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. We’re looking for product-minded, high ownership engineers to join our team! The Engineering team is HQ’d in SF, but we’re growing in NYC now too! We’re hiring for 2 Senior Full Stack Software Engineers, 1 Machine Learning Engineer and 1 AI Product Manager in SF, and 2 Staff Full Stack Software Engineers in NYC. Engineers own projects end-to-end so full stack ability is expected. Check out our open roles here: https://shepherdinsurance.com/careers Our stack includes: Typescript, React, Next.js, GraphQL w/ Apollo, Node.js, Postgres & Redis – If you have experience building AI agents or multi-step reasoning systems, we’d love to hear from you. * In the form, be sure to mention that you heard about this opportunity via Hacker News. If you want to read more about our team and culture, check out our blog: https://shepherdinsurance.com/blog