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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

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  1. tarekabi · · focus · HN ↗
    River (rivergtm.com) | NYC, on-site | Founding Engineer + Product Engineer | Full-time

    River builds voice AI agents for B2B comapnies. Our agent talks with prospects in real time, answers hard questions, and demos the product by actually controlling a browser while it speaks. Every call runs on a sub-second loop: speech, a rendered avatar, several LLMs, and a live browser-use agent, in front of real buyers. $2M pre-seed backed by founders of Ramp, Kalshi, and JumpCloud.

    Hiring two roles:

    Founding Engineer (5+ yrs): own the live-call pipeline (real-time voice, avatar, browser streaming) and the infra behind it. Looking for strong backend/infra plus real-time experience (WebRTC, voice/video, websockets). Stack: TypeScript, Node, Next.js, Postgres, Redis, LiveKit.

    Product Engineer, full-stack (1-3 yrs or exceptional projects): build the services behind live calls, LLM workflows, and the browser-use agent that runs demos. Backend-leaning, TypeScript.

    Both on-site in NYC, working directly with the founders. Try the product yourself at rivergtm.com/start

    Email me (co-founder/CEO): tarek@rivergtm.com

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