Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

FUTO | https://futo.tech/ | Austin, TX | REMOTE(Worldwide) or ONSITE | Full Time FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through internal engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation. Our work consists of a combination of in-house engineering projects, targeted investments, generous grants, and multi-media public education efforts. Immich is on a mission to provide a secure and private home for your most precious memories through our high-performance, self-hostable photo and video backup solution. Roles currently available: Mobile Developer - Immich: https://futo.tech/jobs/mobile-developer-immich More listings here: https://careers.futo.tech/ We have now hired seven employees from these HN postings. We highly encourage people to mention that you came from here in your application.

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?utm_source=YeEJ5MAKk...

It's my duty again to point out the popular request of including a 4DWW tag in the description to communicate community interest in the Four Day Work Week Four characters more in the description is all we ask <bowing>

GiveDirectly | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE in select countries (listed here https://perfectwiki.page/p/iOeyfUha_9) | $181K base + 15% bonus index At GiveDirectly, we send cash directly to people living in extreme poverty, no strings attached. It's one of the most rigorously studied ways to address global poverty, with 20+ randomized controlled trials behind it, and we've delivered over $1B to more than 1.5 million people across 15 countries. Your work will translate directly into money in the hands of people who need it. We're in a phase of tremendous growth (aiming to 5X delivery YoY) and you'll help build the systems for offline data collection in low network rural villages, fraud detection and prevention, KYC, and payments. Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/givedirectly/jobs/455834900...

Curai | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://curaihealth.com We're building AI agents to expand access to affordable, and high quality healthcare. We run a vertically integrated primary and urgent care clinic and are actively building an agentic platform focused improving longitudinal care outcomes. We're hiring engineers to work across patient and clinician experiences, production AI systems, and the platforms that help people discover and access care. * Sr Software Engineer, Full-Stack: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/46e0dd2f-c1dd-4ca2-9095-5b45f477... * Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/cd31b67b-d83c-466a-ac55-cfa4c2ec... * Sr Software Engineer, Marketing Platform: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/b157298e-4dc7-4594-a9c4-29f0dec4... Tech stack: Agents SDK, Braintrust, Python, React, React Native/Expo, AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, Terraform.