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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

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  1. ashbyhq · · focus · HN ↗
    Ashby | YC 19 | REMOTE | Hiring Engineering Leaders | $200k–$275k Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform powering hiring at the world's most innovative companies. If you cmd+f "Ashby" you'll see that we're powering many of the job postings in this thread!

    We’re looking to scale our engineering leadership team with technical leaders who want to raise the impact of a high-performing organization.

    * Not Your Traditional "Jira-Manager": Our EMs are not classic delivery coordinators who shuffle meetings or build heavy processes. Instead, you will own people, hiring bar, technical judgment, and the health of our engineering systems.

    * High-Autonomy Team: Because 80%+ of our engineering team is Senior–Staff+ level, our engineers already possess a high degree of ownership. Your focus is less on day-to-day task coordination and more on coaching independent owners, managing ambiguity, and raising team impact.

    * Technically Credible Leaders: You will stay close enough to the work to challenge assumptions, review proposals, spot maintainability issues, and jump into the code to debug alongside engineers when needed.

    * Organizational Advocates: Beyond your immediate team, you will act as an advocate owning the health and metrics of org-wide areas—ranging from CI/CD health and developer productivity to customer success collaboration and on-call sustainability.

    * 100% Remote Async Culture: We maintain an even distribution of engineers across North America and Europe, optimizing for minimal process and maximum focus.

    * Here&#x27;s how we&#x27;re thinking about AI at Ashby:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;ai-ashby-engineerin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;ai-ashby-engineerin...

    * Full transparency on engineering levels + comp:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;leveling-and-compen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;leveling-and-compen...

    Stack: TypeScript (frontend &amp; backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis. (While you won&#x27;t always be shipping code, you are expected to hold a deep technical understanding of the system).

    Full list of open roles:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;careers?utm_source=HNwhoshiring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;careers?utm_source=HNwhoshiring

    1. nameless912 · · focus · HN ↗
      Just an fyi - your compensation link is broken :) should be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;leveling-and-compensation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashbyhq.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;leveling-and-compen...
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