Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

SerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Junior to Senior Fullstack Engineer positions | Customer Success Engineer | Talent Acquisition Specialist | Based in Austin, TX but remote-first structure | Full-time | ONSITE or FULLY REMOTE | $150K - 180K a year 1099 for US or local avg + 20% for outside the US

SerpApi is the leading API to scrape and parse search engine results. We deeply support Google, Google Maps, Google Images, Bing, Baidu, and a lot more.

Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for more Junior and Senior FullStack Engineers.

We have an awesome work environment: We are a remote first company (before Covid!). We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub.

We value super strongly transparency, do open books, have a public roadmap, and contribute to the EFF.

Apply at: https://serpapi.com/careers

SerpApi’s job postings show up every single month without fail in "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads. A quick search brings up 8 pages of results for SerpApi. For context, Tesla—a massive company with far more roles, market cap, and global operations—only has 14 pages. Even MixRank, another notorious repeat offender, only has 7 pages.

It’s crazy how often SerpApi posts here. What’s going on? Either they’re scaling faster than Tesla (spoiler: they’re not), or they’re constantly churning through employees. If you’re thinking about applying, do yourself a favor and ask questions like:

+ Why are there so many open roles so often?

+ What’s the typical employee tenure?

+ What’s the actual work environment like after onboarding?

Posting jobs every month like clockwork says a lot, and none of it screams stability.

We have been hiring around 1-2 employees per month.

You can check our team page (https://serpapi.com/team) against its WaybackMachine (http://web.archive.org/web/20220127075144/https://serpapi.co...).

It’s less than we were targeting and are still hiring. Around 40-50 this year.

Regarding onboarding and tenure, we have virtually 0% turn over so far - which is one of the strongest if not the strongest metric for management performance - outside of us terminating people.

Regarding activity on HN, I am genuinely on HN at least 4-5 times per day. Probably too much lol. It has been good to find like-minded people, our people, and HN has been instrumental in building a very-like-minded, highly trusted, highly motivated, and super smart team.

We do reject a lot of people. And I am sorry if we had rejected you in the past.