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jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Found | REMOTE CANADA | Staff Platform/SRE | found.com

Company: Series C fintech. We're building the next generation of financial tooling to help business owners succeed. Our solution blends banking, bookkeeping, taxes and payments into an all-in-one solution to help save our users time, stress and money -- so they can focus on what matters to them; running their business.

Role: Small (~20 eng) team, 1-person platform function. You’d operate with immediate ownership across reliability, incident response, security/compliance (bug bounty, PCI/SOC2), CI/CD, observability (Datadog), and core infra on GCP (Mysql/Spanner/Redis/K8s/ etc). Also supporting launches end-to-end (from mobile app down to networking layer), and finding opportunities to improve developer velocity. It's a pretty broad role, but with that comes a lot of room to grow.

https://found.com/careers

I worked in this position for a few years, if it looks interesting send me an email -- left some clues how on prior months posts.

jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Got it! Will take me a few days to catch up through the backlog but will get back to you!
jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Found | San Francisco, NYC, REMOTE [CAN/US] | Engineering (EM and IC roles, platform and product teams), Data, Data infra, Product | found.com

We're building the next generation of financial tooling to help small business owners succeed. Our solution blends banking, bookkeeping, taxes and payments into an all-in-one solution to help save our users time, stress and money -- so they can focus on what matters to them; running their business.

https://found.com/careers , or you can reach me directly via jarred@

SWE Tech stack: Ruby on Rails (Kubernetes, GKE), React/Typescript, Capacitor, MySQL, Spanner

jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Found | San Francisco, NYC, REMOTE [CAN/US] | Engineering, Data Science, Risk Operations, Compliance | found.com

We're building the next generation of financial tooling to help small business owners succeed. Our solution blends banking, bookkeeping, taxes and payments into an all-in-one solution to help save our users time, stress and money -- so they can focus on what matters to them; running their business.

https://found.com/careers , or you can reach me directly via jarred@

SWE Tech stack: Ruby on Rails (Kubernetes, GKE), React/Typescript, Capacitor, MySQL, Spanner

jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
Found | San Francisco, NYC, REMOTE | Engineering, Data Science, Risk Operations, Growth, Compliance | found.com

We're building the next generation of financial tooling to help small business owners succeed. Our solution blends banking, bookkeeping, taxes and payments into an all-in-one solution to help save our users time, stress and money -- so they can focus on what matters to them; running their business.

https://found.com/careers , or you can reach me directly via jarred@

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails (Kubernetes, GKE), React/Typescript, Capacitor, MySQL, Spanner

jjhawk··on U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska
This is only for chinook salmon, which at least in BC has had relatively strict harvest restrictions historically.

The good/bad news: It's accepted that doing this sort of fisheries management is an effective strategy to replenish wild stocks, but does come with a serious set of tradeoffs in remote communities where the fishing industry is a large part of the economy.

This does tie back into farming being a more sustainable option -- unfortunately with the state of that industry it doesn't end up becoming a binary between the two;

Salmon farming practices tend to have adversely negative impacts on the wild fish population (disease spread, escape and genetic degradation of stock) due to how and where the farms are placed.

jjhawk··on Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
Excellent podcast on the topic:

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/the-police-4-starlight-to...

Also a part of a larger investigative series on policing in Canada

jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Found | San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, REMOTE | Engineering, Product, Design, Customer Experience | found.com

We’re building Found so self-employed people have the support, structure, and confidence to work for themselves. Our founding team has hands-on experience with taxes and accounting, financial services and FinTech, self-employment, and scaling startups. Our team is dedicated to taking care of business banking, expense tracking, and tax saving so self-employed people have more time to do what they do best.

In 2019, we started by identifying a real problem that we could solve—not a technology in search of a problem—and began building our v1 product. We launched in March 2020, and spent the rest of the year building out and validating a solid technical and operational foundation. We recently raised our Series A from Sequoia Capital, and today we are expanding and scaling a product experience that thousands of Found customers use to run their businesses.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/found , or email hiring@found.com directly.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, React, Javascript, Cordova, MySQL, Redis

More about us:

https://found.com/about

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/20/ex-square-execs-launch-fou...

jjhawk··on Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-cov...

Similar article which made the same case. This one provided a few more interesting stories about just how close we have come to potentially similar leaks in the past (and based in US labs).

jjhawk··on Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years
Salmon by Mark Kurlansky is a fantastic read on the historical + ecological history of of this.
jjhawk··on Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation
I'm a programmer by trade, so my knowledge of mathematics as a whole is limited by what I happened to learn doing my undergrad in CS, so a lot of the mathematic-specific examples in this post were lost on me.

What I found particularly insightful here is applying this mathematical notation to programming languages and their syntaxes. His notation described as ``` Notation:{well-formed expressions}→{abstract objects in 𝑋} ``` isn't too far off from what most programming languages implement at some level.

As a result of this, what properties do programming languages share with mathematical notations, and why are some languages deemed more "expressive" than others? How much does the "expressiveness" of a certain language in a domain lead to better understanding of the abstractions beneath them?

To answer your question; I don't think this post explicitly increased my understanding of notations (especially not in the context of mathematics), but rather led me to ponder the importance of them in communicating & extending abstract concepts effectively across domains.

jjhawk··on Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation
discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/hv6m2n/terry_tao_on_s...
jjhawk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
Postmates | Software Engineers (all levels), Engineering Manager | San Francisco, Bellevue | Full-time | https://postmates.com

My team (Operations Technology) at Postmates is hiring engineers across the stack at all levels, as well as engineering managers. We are full vertical owners of microservices, responsible for creating world-class self-service and support for our customers, including buyers, merchants and couriers.

We are looking for engineers passionate about providing excellence to customers and an interest in growing alongside the company. We are growing fast (https://blog.postmates.com/san-francisco-february-7-2019-pos...). As we grow and build new systems, you will not only be able to choose the technologies we use, but help define the strategic direction of these systems.

https://careers.postmates.com/openings for other teams, or email me jarred.hawkins@postmates.com for more information about these roles.

jjhawk··on Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/a2r4h4/whats_...

Appears to be the comment you are referencing in case anyone else is looking for it.

jjhawk··on Decline of Greyhound service mirrors rural Canada's plight
Looks like a misleading statement in the article. He was undiagnosed before, so there is no reasonable expectation he would be taking any medication at the time. See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-the-mental...
jjhawk··on Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing
Used this recently as a Skype replacement and had no complaints. Similarly rocket.chat is a good free and open source Slack alternative that is worth looking into if you wish to host it yourself.