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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:02PM (#47988764)
Senior Backend Engineer (Architecture & AI Systems) | Vienna / Remote (Europe only!) | Full-time | Salary + equity

Early-stage startup building an AI platform that helps architecture and engineering teams reuse knowledge from past projects (documents, drawings, revisions) to reduce costly rework in planning and pre-construction.

You’ll work on multi-tenant backend systems powering hybrid search, document ingestion pipelines, and large-scale indexing across complex engineering datasets.

Stack / areas: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, distributed systems, async pipelines.

Looking for: 8+ years backend engineering experience, strong systems design skills, experience with distributed systems and production B2B SaaS.

Small team (currently <10 engineers), high ownership, real production users.

Backed by Pi Labs and DAR.

Full JD: https://howie.systems/careers Contact: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:53AM (#47248331)
Senior Backend Engineer (Architecture & AI Systems) | Vienna / Remote (Europe) | Full-time | Salary + equity

Early-stage startup building an AI platform that helps architecture and engineering teams reuse knowledge from past projects (documents, drawings, revisions) to reduce costly rework in planning and pre-construction.

You’ll work on multi-tenant backend systems powering hybrid search, document ingestion pipelines, and large-scale indexing across complex engineering datasets.

Stack / areas: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, distributed systems, async pipelines.

Looking for: 8+ years backend engineering experience, strong systems design skills, experience with distributed systems and production B2B SaaS.

Small team (currently <10 engineers), high ownership, real production users.

Backed by Pi Labs and DAR.

Full JD: https://howie.systems/careers Contact: [email protected]

Howie is an early-stage startup building an AI platform for the architecture and engineering industry. We help enterprise teams reuse knowledge from past projects (documents, drawings, revisions) to reduce costly rework during planning and pre-construction.

We already have a live product used by paying customers across Europe and are working closely with leading architecture firms. Backed by Pi Labs and DAR.

We’re hiring a senior hands-on backend engineer to help design and evolve the core infrastructure of our system: multi-tenant architecture, ingestion pipelines, hybrid search, and large-scale document indexing.

Key technical challenges: • multi-tenant enterprise architecture • hybrid search (Postgres + Elasticsearch + vector DB) • large-scale document ingestion pipelines • versioned data models for complex engineering projects • scaling to millions of indexed regions and embeddings • reliability and performance under enterprise workloads

Requirements: • 8+ years backend engineering experience • strong systems design skills • experience with distributed systems and async pipelines • PostgreSQL expertise • experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or similar

Nice to have: vector databases, retrieval systems, document processing, ML infrastructure.

Small team (currently <10 engineers), high ownership, real production users.

Location: Vienna or remote within Europe Comp: competitive salary + meaningful equity

Full JD: https://howie.systems/careers

Contact: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:12AM (#46599142)
Howie | Senior Engineer (AI Search / RAG) | Vienna / Remote (EU) Early-stage AI startup in AEC (knowledge management system for large planning teams/architects), live product, EU/UK customers, backed by Pi Labs & DAR.

Looking for a hands-on senior engineer to own AI search & retrieval in production (Python, RAG, vector DBs, cloud). Strong bias to shipping.

Salary + meaningful ownership. Apply: [email protected] (ewa- i am a founder&CEO, team 6 FTE atm, raising seed now and growing) https://howie.systems Full JD: https://bit.ly/4prjMTJ