I know it's only been 17 days since the last one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215633) but the company I work for is awesome and has an opening, and it seemed pointless to post it to a dead discussion.
Primarily C/C++ on bleeding-edge silicon, fantastic people and work environment, and great management.
Joel Test score: 12/12
State College is located right in the middle of Pennsylvania and is the home of Penn State University. It's not bad for a college town, has great MTB trails everywhere and is not far from Philly or NYC.
Twilio (cloud telephony, San Francisco - SOMA) is hiring a couple engineers, a head of biz dev, an evangelist (that's what I just started doing a week ago) and a product manager: http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs
The engineering positions are definitely in house at Airbnb HQ in San Francisco. However, we accept (and encourage) applicants who are willing to relocate to SF.
I am totally in love with airbnb and emailed about the community support position. Willing to shout my love from the rooftops (also, to relocate to SF). If there's anything I can do for a friendly nod in my direction, name your price.
At American Roamer we're looking to find software developers that can take on big scalability infrastructure problems, do big data analysis with solr/lucene and hadoop, and javascript/front end developers.
We collect and sell information on the wireless industry. Among other things in this position you'd be building/supporting a "google maps clone" for displaying coverage data.
Small company, great team.
Send resumes and questions to jims at americanroamer dot com.
You can just email me directly - greg@dropcam.com. We code for the cameras and the server-side, mostly Python/C -- and there are many terabytes of data to work with. We also have an iPhone app and will possibly support more mobile platforms in the future.
We're looking for generalist engineers who know C like the back of their hand but prefer to code in a higher level language like Python 90% of the time. You should also have experience with IP/networking or a voracious enough learning appetite to get it fast: we work with protocols a lot, and not just HTTP. Linux knowledge will come in handy too ... understanding file systems, system calls, toolchains, etc a plus.
We've been too busy to write up a fancy jobs page, but there are ample sodas, salary, and equity :)
Christ, what a brilliant startup idea. I think this is the sort of thing people are looking for in terms of home surveillance -- simplicity, cost, access. Neat!
BioWare, Austin, TX. We make video games you might have played (Mass Effect? Dragon Age?) and the Austin office is working on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The web team has 2-3 contractor openings for web developers (senior PHP [Drupal] and just HTML/CSS/JS) and graphic designers to help us build out all the game-web integration.
Edit: the job listings aren't live yet, so you can email me at vito underscore biowarejobs at perilith dot com if you're interested. (I'm the interaction designer for the new features.)
Semi-related, but KOTOR and KOTOR II are my favorite games on Xbox (and probably of all time). Great job on the games. BioWare consistently releases excellent games.
I've strongly considered dropping an application at Bioware for a while now (been doing the business world development for a while, looking to move to games). Any idea on server side developer positions or "I have development experience but not game development experience" client positions (C, C++, .NET, Java aren't an issue)?
On another note, how are they on the game release crunch? Normal 1-2 month crunch if behind schedule and normal otherwise, or is it a constant state of emergency that ramps up to a worse emergency?
I think knowing your stuff is more important than how you know it, but game servers are essentially soft real-time, maintaining thousands of connections and arbitrating 3D movement and actions and physics with predictions to compensate for network lag for all of them, and if all you know is stateless HTTP, that's not going to cut it. Video games have been dealing with the C10k problem for a lot longer than web developers.
In addition, if you're only slightly better than someone who plays games or has game industry experience, I think they'll get the job over you, no question. I'm not much of a gamer, and there just isn't anything else some people here talk about, so I miss out on a lot of water cooler talk.
I don't know how the other offices do it, but the Austin office does SCRUM, and there's always some team that's crunching during any given milestone (this time it's us). Since we're making an MMO, our release date doesn't mean we stop working or making content, but the office is mostly cleared out by 7pm or so, most nights.
This kind of thread is exactly why I work at http://linkup.com/ - which is a job search engine that works by only including jobs found on company websites. Let me give a quick example of what that means:
The technology behind LinkUp takes a lot more work than your standard scrape because many companies make it difficult to get to a reusable link to an individual job, and there's no unified format to tell title from description from location. And right now we only have a hair over 20,000 companies, so I don't tell anyone that we're the only site a jobseeker should use - just the first;-)
That's a great idea. Here's a suggestion for an extra feature: let me group search results by company. Then I can quickly get an idea for who's hiring without paging though hundreds of results.
That idea is actually implemented - unfortunately you need to login to see it. Once you login (which supports OAuth & OpenID), under settings you can turn on the "Group By Company" feature.
Yes, it isn't intuitive. We're overhauling the search results and in the next release, slated for mid-June, these kinds of things won't be so buried.
It is possible for Indeed and SimplyHired to have job listings that link directly to the company's website, the company just has to provide the feeds that those two aggregators then index. (Us, for example: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=ReminderMedia) Your solution puts the trouble of formatting the data on your shoulders while they're offloading it to the companies themselves. I dig it.
So what's with the down-mods? Do you hate BitTorrent? Do you want me to do your work for you? I gave information that was asked for, and stated my lack of connection with the company, what more do you want?
I don't think you were down-modded because of hating BitTorrent, just your original comment could've used more... attention. Links & facts are great - vague statements aren't all that interested on HN and tend to be deloved.
But you're right that they're hiring - they've got 8 job openings and anyone interested can follow a RSS feed of their openings at http://bit.ly/torrentjobs
Interesting the different characteristics in different communities. I've just spent three weeks with people who love solving puzzles, working out stuff, and don't like to be given answers. I guess that attitude has stuck, and I'd forgotten that here on HN people like comments to have all the information.
Skritter is hiring paid summer programmers. We create a web-based tool to help students of Chinese and Japanese better learn and remember their characters. We're based near Cleveland Ohio and we're hunting for motivated, smart applicants, preferably with experience with python, actionscript, or django. I'm the CEO of the company and you can get in touch with me either via the site (skritter.com/contact) or my HN profile contact info.
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http://www.videon-central.com/careers/openings/98
Primarily C/C++ on bleeding-edge silicon, fantastic people and work environment, and great management.
Joel Test score: 12/12
State College is located right in the middle of Pennsylvania and is the home of Penn State University. It's not bad for a college town, has great MTB trails everywhere and is not far from Philly or NYC.
Note I work here too :)
At American Roamer we're looking to find software developers that can take on big scalability infrastructure problems, do big data analysis with solr/lucene and hadoop, and javascript/front end developers.
We collect and sell information on the wireless industry. Among other things in this position you'd be building/supporting a "google maps clone" for displaying coverage data.
Small company, great team.
Send resumes and questions to jims at americanroamer dot com.
Position: Senior Web Developer
Location: Palo Alto, CA
You can just email me directly - greg@dropcam.com. We code for the cameras and the server-side, mostly Python/C -- and there are many terabytes of data to work with. We also have an iPhone app and will possibly support more mobile platforms in the future.
We're looking for generalist engineers who know C like the back of their hand but prefer to code in a higher level language like Python 90% of the time. You should also have experience with IP/networking or a voracious enough learning appetite to get it fast: we work with protocols a lot, and not just HTTP. Linux knowledge will come in handy too ... understanding file systems, system calls, toolchains, etc a plus.
We've been too busy to write up a fancy jobs page, but there are ample sodas, salary, and equity :)
Edit: the job listings aren't live yet, so you can email me at vito underscore biowarejobs at perilith dot com if you're interested. (I'm the interaction designer for the new features.)
On another note, how are they on the game release crunch? Normal 1-2 month crunch if behind schedule and normal otherwise, or is it a constant state of emergency that ramps up to a worse emergency?
I think knowing your stuff is more important than how you know it, but game servers are essentially soft real-time, maintaining thousands of connections and arbitrating 3D movement and actions and physics with predictions to compensate for network lag for all of them, and if all you know is stateless HTTP, that's not going to cut it. Video games have been dealing with the C10k problem for a lot longer than web developers.
In addition, if you're only slightly better than someone who plays games or has game industry experience, I think they'll get the job over you, no question. I'm not much of a gamer, and there just isn't anything else some people here talk about, so I miss out on a lot of water cooler talk.
I don't know how the other offices do it, but the Austin office does SCRUM, and there's always some team that's crunching during any given milestone (this time it's us). Since we're making an MMO, our release date doesn't mean we stop working or making content, but the office is mostly cleared out by 7pm or so, most nights.
My company, BetterLesson has two open positions.
- http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sof/1679680393.html - http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eng/1679671213.html
Location: San Francisco (SoMa)
Properties: Gamespot, Gamefaqs, Metacritic
Position: Operations Engineer
Experience: Unix, Scripting, Apache + mod_rewrite, Memcached, MySQL, Redis, Sphinx, Solr, CDNs, Monitoring, RPM, JIRA
Responsibilities: Own it all, keep it running, make it run better, work with developers on a daily basis.
Contact: gml-ops@cnet.com
business development/seo/product etc.
Twitter has 34 job openings (http://twitter.com/positions.html). They, being Twitter, don't have a hard time finding people so their jobs aren't on CareerBuilder/Monster (http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?brd=1&cn=Twitte...). The other job aggregators, like Indeed or SimplyHired, only have the jobs that have been copied onto other sites (http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=Twitter - note the links don't actually go to the company website). We (LinkUp) have all their jobs - http://www.linkup.com/results.php#c=Twitter. Another HN-worthy list is http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups, but you'll have to guess what the link is...
The technology behind LinkUp takes a lot more work than your standard scrape because many companies make it difficult to get to a reusable link to an individual job, and there's no unified format to tell title from description from location. And right now we only have a hair over 20,000 companies, so I don't tell anyone that we're the only site a jobseeker should use - just the first;-)
Yes, it isn't intuitive. We're overhauling the search results and in the next release, slated for mid-June, these kinds of things won't be so buried.
ADDED IN EDIT:
OK, in response to getting downmodded I went to find where I saw it, and here's the reference:
http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs
So what's with the down-mods? Do you hate BitTorrent? Do you want me to do your work for you? I gave information that was asked for, and stated my lack of connection with the company, what more do you want?
But you're right that they're hiring - they've got 8 job openings and anyone interested can follow a RSS feed of their openings at http://bit.ly/torrentjobs
Check us out: http://www.dealer.com/careers
We're seed funded ($150K from Founder's Co-op) and approaching cash-flow breakeven.
Happy to discuss further with anyone interested, or read more here: http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look...
Here's a job posting: http://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33...
http://tripit.jobscore.com/list
Here's the current list of companies:
- ACL Systems - Software Developer
- IndustryNext - Software Engineer & ActionScript Developer
- Fantasy Interactive Inc - Senior Java Software Engineer-NYC
- LearnBat.com - Seeking talented developers on iPad, Flash, and LAMP
- Yodle - Software Engineer
- knowmore - R&D Hacker
- National Event Company - Senior Ruby Programmer
- TradeCard - Java Developer
- Arc90 - Web Application Developers, Designers, Engineers, and Sysadmins
See http://hirelite.com/companies for complete job descriptions.
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