Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
by SunVirgo on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:10AM
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Systems-focused backend engineer with deep experience in databases, sync/state management, and production infrastructure.
Hands-on with SQLite, relational databases, replication-like workflows, and reliability under real-world constraints.
Long-term open-source contributor, comfortable owning complex backend systems end-to-end.
Applied.
PowerSync is a sync engine that keeps your backend database in sync with on-device SQLite. We support Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and SQL Server as source databases and have a plethora of client SDKS, many of which are integrated with popular libraries and frameworks on the client-side like TanStack DB, Drizzle, GRDB, Room, etc
If you're a database enthusiast and have a solid track record of building, deploying and maintaining backend systems on modern cloud stacks at scale, please check us out.
Detail: https://www.powersync.com/careers/senior-backend-engineer-an...
Our team is small and polyglot, but experience with TypeScript is a must.
Experience with OSS projects is also a must - either you've made significant contributions to popular devtool projects or, better yet, you have your own.
Culture: We're agile and devops purists (before those terms got coopted)