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Startup jobs on Hacker News - Who is hiring, and how demand trends

How demand for Startup trended in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts since 2011: a live monthly mention chart in share and raw counts, plus the real job postings behind every bar.

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Postings mentioning it
16,553
This month (Jun 2026)
6
Peak month
Aug 2021 (311)
Mention remote
42%
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Job postings

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Monthly Startup job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

Startup job postings for June 2026

  1. meetalbert · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    ALBERT | REMOTE ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD| Hiring principal and distinguished engineers to build net new products | up to ~ $750k Hiring: exceptional consumer product engineers at Albert. We're a consumer fintech with 20M+ users who trust us to budget, save, invest, and bank…

  2. abelanger · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Hatchet | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https: hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We're hiring engineers who are excited to build the next class of…

  3. fiiico · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Matcha | REMOTE (US Canada Europe UK LATAM) | Full-time | https: matcha.fm Repeat founder building something new and putting together a founding team. This high ownership, high equity, ideally for people with prior startup experience or previous founder founding team: AI…

  4. francesohr · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Ohr | Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer | Remote (US, PST Preferred) Ohr is building critical chemicals without oil refining and reinventing the infrastructure behind chemical manufacturing. We're hiring a Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer to build AI-powered internal…

  5. i_stadnyk · hiring in Jun 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Noticing a pattern across this month's thread: companies want "AI engineers" but job descriptions break into two distinct archetypes: (1) people who can eval and fine-tune models, (2) people who can ship reliable agent pipelines in prod. Very few candidates can do both. At our…

Some popular Startup job postings

The Startup job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. vpfaulkner · hiring in Jan 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Blackbird | Dev Shop | Remote (US or Europe) | Contract Blackbird builds web + mobile apps for startups and innovative companies. We work on interesting, greenfield projects, and rely on small, veteran teams who have lots of autonomy. Everyone is a remote contractor, and our…

  2. theunixbeard · hiring in Mar 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Empire Flippers | Remote (no office), all timezones | Full-time | https: empireflippers.com Empire Flippers is a true global-remote company with travel in our DNA and employees scattered across 5 continents and all sorts of countries. Since I joined 6 years ago, I've personally…

  3. mnisjk2 · hiring in Mar 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Lithic ( https: lithic.com ) | Senior Software Engineer ; Engineering Manager | REMOTE Lithic is the modern API for issuing & processing payment cards across Visa, Mastercard, and Amex. We're a small engineering team building the infrastructure layer powering billions in…

  4. sakchhamcovu · hiring in May 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    COVU | Data Engineer, Full Stack Engineers (Sr & Staff Lead), Sr. Product Manager | San Francisco (Hybrid) or REMOTE (US) | Full-time COVU is an AI-first insurtech startup rebuilding the 20-year-old legacy infrastructure of the $365B+ insurance distribution industry. We recently…

  5. markbao · hiring in Feb 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Goody | Remote | $150–250K + equity and benefits | North South America | Full-time I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. We're building a gifting product that every business can use to recognize employees, retain customers, and accelerate sales. Despite being…

What the Startup hiring trend shows

This page charts how often Startup appears in the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread, one bar per calendar month across the whole history. Switch between share mode - Startup's slice of the market each month - and raw counts for absolute hiring volume, narrow the window to the last year, 5 or 10 years, and click any month to read the actual postings that mention Startup: the companies, the seniority, and the rest of the stack they ask for.

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