Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

We're currently hiring a technical account manager, security roles, sales development reps and account executives, director level positions, and more; see https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/.

We're a remote only company so everyone can participate and contribute equally. GitLab Community Edition is an open-source Ruby on Rails project with over 1000 contributors.

We want to support information security research by inviting you on an all-expenses paid (incl. flights, villa, freshly cooked food) trip to the Canary Islands.

During the month there you will work on your own project, supported by us, the SRLabs team. We are a Berlin-based hacking research collective and consulting think tank and focus on everyday technology that expose many people to risk, most recently mobile communication, payment and travel booking systems.

How to apply?

All you need to do in preparation is to come up with a hacking target and send your application to beach@srlabs.de. For details, please visit https://hack-the-beach.com

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides software development teams with version control (Git and centralized), build automation, agile work management and social experiences in the cloud.

VSTS is built using Azure (SQL, Storage, Service Bus, Active Directory), .NET/C#, ASP.NET MVC, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, Knockout, and more. We ship new experiences at the end of every sprint (every 3 weeks), and we use VSTS to build VSTS which allows us to use everything before our customers.

We have open roles for Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Program Managers: http://aka.ms/vstsjobs

Check out http://takt.com/careers for more information. Here is the DevOps Engineer job description:

Takt is seeking DevOps Engineers to support the development of our flagship product. Our platform learns and adapts to people's preferences, habits, and feedback—orchestrating highly relevant experiences that are truly unique to each person. Our vision will change the way people engage with their favorite brands across multiple industries, be it retail, finance, or healthcare.

As one of the first DevOps Engineers at Takt, you will be able to contribute to a large scale environment and an early stage infrastructure in addition to influencing our culture and processes which we operate. You will capture the entire stack as code and provide tools and solutions that facilitate the release, maintenance, and monitoring of the platform. You will be working on a cross-functional team and collaborating closely with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers. As an early member of the DevOps team, you will help us build a culture and practice that leads improved product quality, cohesive collaboration, and integration between Operation and Development.

Phone2Action is the world’s fastest growing civic technology company. Millions use our tools to participate in public policy campaigns. As a member of the engineering team you will join a world-class engineering-driven company, where you'll have instant impact from day one. We have an open culture and flat organization where engineers sit just a few steps away from the founders. And we've raised over $5M in funding, including our $4.6M Series A funding round in 2016.

Our product has driven more than 18 million connections with elected officials since our founding in 2013 -- and we're just getting started. If you have great problem solving, analysis and design skills, and a true passion for quality – you will be a great fit for the Phone2Action team.

Salary ranges from $80K - $145K for engineering roles!

All jobs are listed at https://angel.co/phone2action/jobs Email me - luke@phone2action.com - prefixing the subject with "HN:", and include anything that will set you apart from the pack :)

DevOps Hypewords: AWS, Infastructure, Linux, CI, CD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, SQL, Ansible, SaltStack

Backend Hypewords: LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, APEX, Ruby, Java, Redis, API, Codeception

Frontend Hypewords: VueJS, ReactJS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Webpack, Jest, ES6

Third party systems: Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, MailChimp, NationBuilder

=== Who We Are ===

Thinknum is one of the fastest growing profitable SaaS companies in the world. Economic activity is coming online - companies are selling products, hiring employees, marketing and moving operations to the web. Thinknum captures the data trails that are created (e.g., How quickly is UberEATS growing on a restaurant-by-restaurant basis vs Grubhub?). We work with hundreds of financial institutions and corporations. We have a private office in Midtown and offer full benefits.

=== Who We Are Looking For ===

Web Crawling Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Python engineer that will extract and ingest data from websites using web crawling tools or APIs. You will need experience in Python and Javascript and to be familiar with the DOM and tools for parsing the DOM like Selenium and BeautifulSoup. At least two years of experience in web crawling is required.

Site Reliability Engineer

We’re looking for a SRE that will support enterprise level applications hosted in the cloud. You need to have extensive experience in web application development and exposure to Amazon Web Services, Redshift and Postgres. Experience with container management and micro-services architectures such as Docker is a requirement. Enthusiasm for security best practices is a major plus.

=== Interested? ===

Interested in any of these positions? Drop me a note at jzhen@thinknum.com with Hacker News and the position title in the subject line.

Learn more about us: https://www.thinknum.com/

Tapad is the true cross-device partner. By leveraging the power of our proprietary Tapad Device Graph™, we unify data across all devices to understand the interests, passions and behaviors of the audiences that matter most.

Tapad's Open Source tech stack (below) handle: 30+ PB of Data, Sub 10 ms response times.

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Distributed Applications... Scala, Python

Distributed Computing... Mesos, Kafka, Zookeeper

Distributed Databases... Aerospike, Cassandra, Vertica

Distributed Analytics... Hadoop (YARN), Spark 2

Distributed Storage... Ceph, Hadoop (HDFS)

Global Networking... VXLAN, BGP, EVPN, VPLS

Here are our open roles in Engineering:

Data Scientist (NYC) - http://grnh.se/6c1pdb1

Site Reliability Engineer (Oslo): http://grnh.se/hadlum1

Senior Software Engineer (NYC): http://grnh.se/5giaqb1

Senior Software Engineer (Oslo): http://grnh.se/v4bnl51

Our mission is to make it easier to experience the world. We provide an innovative travel service that actually saves people a lot of money on airfare and hotels. We are a group of improvers and frequent travelers. We believe consumers should have more power over how they spend their money. Information = power in our books. We grew tired of the inefficient and expensive process of travel planning so we sought to improve it by creating a lightning fast search portal. We also noticed there were no travel companies that truly worked for the consumers benefit so we changed that.

If you're interested email us your resume at apply@skiplagged.com

We are an established online music store (https://boomkat.com) specialising in experimental music. We’re currently in the process of building a new platform in order to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.

Encompassing a download store and ecommerce functionality for our physical sales, it’s a sizeable project. With over 100,000 customers and millions of releases, we operate at a scale which represents some unique challenges and opportunities. Our goal for the new platform development is to enhance our customer experience; making full use of data we house to help customers discover new music through an interface that’s beautiful and engaging. This will lay the foundations for an exciting second phase where we plan to break new ground in delivering novel and unexpected interactions with our music.

The new website is built in Ruby on Rails, and uses React.js and Redux heavily on the front end. The process of ingesting, analysing and preparing content is handled by a series of Node.js based micro-services.

We’re a small, fast moving team with a wide range of skills. We’re based in Manchester, with a number of team members working remotely. We’re looking for a skilled, detail oriented Javascript developer to join us.

Someone who would enjoy this role will have:

- A thorough understanding of React and Redux, and working knowledge of Ruby on Rails.

- Good working knowledge of responsive design processes and techniques and common tools such as Bootstrap 4

- Experience delivering cross-platform applications for the web; particularly in a mobile environment.

- Plenty of experience writing well structured and tested code, in a continuous delivery process.

- An ability to work quickly, whilst still maintaining a robust and stable codebase.

This is a freelance position with an optional retainer agreement.

How to Apply

If you’re interested please get in touch with us at bang@boomkat.com - please include your CV, Github link, average day rate, etc.

thanks!

We’re building software that is changing the construction process (think GitHub for construction). Our users love our app because it helps them build real things more efficiently. By joining our team you can influence product decisions and work on interesting technical challenges (our client apps work with GBs of blueprints and metadata). Our engineering teams are small; whatever team you work on, you'll have a chance to have a big impact.

We’re hiring across all of our engineering teams: Android, Web, iOS, Windows, Backend (Python).

You can see our job postings and apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/plangrid?lever-via=SzsN-_Jgq1

As an example, here's a detailed post about what working on the iOS team looks like: https://medium.com/plangrid-technology/working-on-the-plangr...

Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores, as well as being able to mix items from multiple stores into one order.

Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is magical. We aim to give our customers back their invaluable time so they can spend it doing the things they love with the people they love.

Hiring Process depends on the position, but will generally follow this flow: Phone screen + simple challenge / Take-home challenge / On-site. We're pretty flexible and can work with you on this.

We care that you can ship product and enjoy taking ownership over what you're working on. We don't really care where you went to school or what companies you've worked for.

Tech:

  • Ruby (and Rails)
  • ES6+ & CoffeeScript (which we are actively moving to ES6)
  • React.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch for search
  • Memcache / Redis

Learn more about us and apply directly at:

  • https://careers.instacart.com/
  • http://tech.instacart.com
  • http://stackshare.io/posts/the-tech-behind-instacarts-grocery-delivery-service

Elucd is a New York City based technology company that builds data products and software that enable cities to measure and manage towards safer neighborhoods and more trust between police + people. Our work was recently profiled on the front page of the New York Times (https://goo.gl/wCqepo).

We are backed by top-notch investors, including Y Combinator, and have the two biggest players in our space as early customers. If you join our team, (which already includes folks from Obama for America and U.S. Digital Service), you’ll have responsibility for building not only software - but culture and organization.

Interview process: 25 minute phone screen with a co-founder, 50 minute technical interview via Hangout, 3-4 hour onsite.

Join us as a Back-End Engineer if you love data pipelining, web scraping, API ingestion, and automation of infrastructure. Must have strong Python skills and expertise with Flask & Django.

Join us as a Front-End Engineer if you love data visualization (geospatial and/or time series visualization), and have expertise with Javascript, CSS, HTML and React (or can learn).

Join us as a Data Scientist if you love natural language processing (sentiment analysis, ontological analysis, general language modeling and word embedding) and deep learning (time series analysis and geospatial analysis).

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/elucd or email me directly at michael at our domain dot com with questions (prefix w "HN:". We move quickly, and will respond to all applications within 24 hours.

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We analyze wireless communications to extract weather data for state-of-the-art weather prediction. To do this, we process massive amounts of data in real time, at an order of magnitude higher spatial and temporal resolution than is possible with competing technologies.

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++Senior DevOps Engineer++

What it Takes: At least 2 years of industry experience: - Cloud platforms architecture (AWS/GCP) - Large-scale data processing platforms (Apache Spark, Hadoop) - Linux and shell - Automating deployment, continuous delivery, continuous integration (Jenkins, Ansible), virtualization and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant) - Knowledge of Node.Js, Python, MongoDB

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++FULL STACK SOFTWARE DEVELOPER++

You are a creative engineer that knows how to build amazing features and own the APIs and tools that power our web applications.

~~Apply on our website: https://www.climacell.co/careers/ or send your resume to jobs@climacell.co~~

Quobyte is working on a data center file system – a software storage system built around a parallel file system core that is scalable, fault-tolerant, and delivers high performance for all workloads. Our customers use Quobyte for scientific and commercial HPC clusters, container and OpenStack infrastructures, video, EDA, and CGI clusters, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products.

If you’re into systems, we’ve got it all: kernel, concurrency, network, distributed algorithms, and more. Languages are C++, Java, and Python. We do whiteboard interviews and value passion for coding. Roles: -- Senior/Junior Software Engineer -- Engineer in Testing/QA -- Support Engineer -- Sales Engineer Interested? Get the ball rolling and send your CV to: work@quobyte.com Note: We currently do not sponsor visas, so please only apply if you’re based in the EU.

AIR.TV is an online video platform and advertising solution.

We are small entrepreneurial team working in Culver City, and our business is growing quickly. We acquire new customers almost every day; they love our product and are eager for what we build next.

We are creating a lot of software, using the best technology available to solve challenging problems, and you are likely to make a huge impact here. The pace is quick, but with lots of individual flexibility.

Our tech stack currently includes: JavaScript (Angular), CoffeeScript (node.js), Python, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Chef and Ansible.

We are eager to hire a great engineer or two, particularly full-stack developers.

Learn more and apply: http://careers.air.tv

https://sigmacomputing.com/careers

Sigma Computing is an early stage startup building a new interactive analytics and visualization system. We are a small team of veteran programmers attacking hard problems in human-computer interaction. Sigma is making databases and data warehouses usable by non-programmers.

We're looking for strong computer science fundumentals, a track record of building and maintaining complex JavaScript front-ends and a desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work.

jobs@sigmacomputing.com

Unmade is the leading customisation platform for the fashion industry, directly connecting consumer choices to automated manufacturing.

The speed with which we are growing means we are looking for a senior python engineer to work with the development team to build upon existing systems and help shape the architecture of the platform. You will actively contribute to a positive working environment and care about sharing knowledge and are keen to help out fellow team members.

The Unmade technology stack covers everything from 3D modelling engines to order processing and systems integrations to custom language compilers for industrial knitting machines. We’re using innovative approaches to transform an industry suffering with a chronic lack of vertical integration and automation.

Apply here: https://unmade.workable.com/j/41806BF0A4 or email me directly if you fancy having a chat - stevie [at] unmade [dot] com

Varnish Software is the company behind Varnish Cache, a widely recognized open source HTTP proxy that significantly enhances web performance and enables digital content delivery. Varnish Cache has experienced tremendous growth since its inception and currently powers more than 2.8 million websites globally.

Varnish Software works with top global enterprises helping them use Varnish Cache to increase web performance and to build private CDNs, consumer CDNs, and advanced edge platforms. Over 100 top global brands and enterprises trust Varnish Software in helping them meet their application performance and content delivery needs. Varnish Software maintains its own proprietary branch of Varnish Cache and a line of Varnish based products and solutions.

At Varnish Software, we take pride in our software and products and we value innovation. We strive to hire team members who share these values. We offer an open, honest, and international culture in a laid back and stimulating work environment. You will be working with some of the most brightest and talented people in the industry. We offer competitive salaries, full benefits, generous vacation time, and company equity.

We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to join our teams in NYC, London, and Oslo. Remote will also be considered.

Job description:

* Create, develop and maintain Varnish products and solutions

* Provide technical guidance and industry best practices to customers

* Interact with prospects during the sales process

* Hacking on various projects (side projects encouraged)

* International travel for customer meetings, conferences, and office workshops

Desired skills and experience:

* Experience with Varnish Cache and VCL

* Experience with C, scripting languages, Linux programming

* Good understanding of TCP and HTTP protocols and troubleshooting tools

* Comfortable explaining technical solutions and details to a non-technical audience

* Public speaking or writing experience is a plus

To apply, please send your resume or questions to jobs@varnish-software.com

engageSPARK, a social enterprise, is the world's EASIEST Platform that empowers professionals (marketing, sales, hr, operations, project managers, etc) at NGOs & Businesses to easily & quickly build interactive Automated Phone Calls (IVR) and 2-Way SMS campaigns in any country. We're especially focused on emerging markets, where 66% have no Internet and another 15% who have smartphones can't afford data plans regularly. Interactive automated phone calls are the most cost effective and scalable way to engage anyone anywhere with any mobile phone. People opt in by sending an SMS, doing a Missed Call, sending a FB message or others, which trigger an automated call back to them.

Customers such as Google, Facebook, Intel, UNICEF, Noora Health (YC W14) Asian Development Bank, International Rescue Committee, Innovations for Poverty Action, MedAir, Mercy Corps, and US Institute for Peace use the engageSPARK platform to interact with people for a variety of use cases, including social change in the areas of Agriculture, Health, Finance, Elections, and Disaster Planning & Response, as well as for sales, marketing, customer feedback, and operations.

We've recently raised funding by 500 Startups and other investors. Forbes says we're "A Leading Startup" and a "Notable Social Enterprise". Since launch two years ago, engageSPARK has become the global leader in our space - we've already been used in 125+ countries.

Adventure Fellowship (1 year): https://goo.gl/YA8ENR | Senior JS-UI Dev: https://goo.gl/pXPUfx | Full-Time Full Backend-Stack Golang/Python: http://goo.gl/Pljcgr | DevOps / SysAdmin with AWS experience | Your dream job isn't here but you think think we should be interested anyway? Great, let's talk!

Our stack: Go (GoLang) Microservices, Python/Django, JavaScript, Docker, Redis, Thrift, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, AWS, Android, Java

Located in tropical Cebu Island, Cebu City is the second largest city in the Philippines. It’s a safe place to live with a variety of malls, restaurants, shops, beaches, and activities such as scuba diving, running, hiking, rock climbing, and snorkeling. It has a busy international airport with cheap flights to domestic and regional destinations. Check out Google Images: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&s...

Email us at Jobs at engageSPARK.com

We're a curated adventure travel marketplace looking to expand the team after investment.

We are looking for fullstack and frontend engineers to work on our current [Python/Django/React stack][1]

We are also looking for a lead product manager and lead product designer/UXer (first PM + UX hires) to whip us into shape.

Pay will be in the region of £40-60k for all roles, with 25 days holiday, plus the terrible task of testing out a few of our adventure trips each year.

On top of the job specific skills, We're looking for people who are into adventure travel and the outdoors: We all ski/snowboard/surf/cycle/run/paddle/hike in our spare time. We also understand if the surf's up or it's dumping and you might be late to work that day ;-)

Full job descriptions/application forms are in the works, the November "Who is Hiring" came round too fast to get them done in time.

If you'd like to be considered, please send me an email: guy+novwhoishiring@mbad.co with your linkedin/cv/website attached.

Subject line should be "Frontend job" / "Fullstack job" / "PM job" / "UX job"

Please ensure you tick the following boxes before emailing:

- Can live & work within the EU & can get to London once per month pretty easily (within half a day!) - If not UK based, can work as an independant contractor in your country. - Fluent level of English. - Love adventure travel. - At least 3 years experience in the relevant field.

[1]: https://stackshare.io/much-better-adventures/much-better-adv...

Blispay is a financial technology startup backed by FirstMark Capital, NEA, Accomplice and Founder Collective. Our first product is an everyday credit & financing solution that customers deserve and merchants need. Our founding team consists of experienced industry veterans from companies including Bill Me Later, PayPal, Bank of America, MBNA, Microsoft & Zynga.

As software engineer at Blispay, you'll be designing, building, and maintaining the software infrastructure and services that power Blispay. This position requires a passion for desigining elegant, scalable solutions to complex business and technical problems. The role is a full-time position, based in Baltimore, MD.

You Will

* Work collaboratively with product owners, designers, and other engineers to design and build features that users want.

* Design and build fault tolerant, highly available, scalable systems.

* Troubleshoot and diagnose system failures and recommend solutions.

Requirements

* Experience designing back-end software systems and services.

* Experience writing production code in a common server side language (we use Java).

* Experience with distributed, asynchronous, message driven systems a plus.

* Experience with batch processing and ETL systems a plus.

* Experience with common data modeling, machine learning, and analytics practices and techniques a plus.

Apply via https://jobs.lever.co/blispay.com

ASI is cloud software that transforms financial operations for enterprises by centralizing and automating financial controls. ASI eliminates the constraints of time, cost, and workforce and also ensures that an organization’s financial results easily stand up under audit.

http://atlantatechvillage.com/job/aggregate-singularity-inc-...

We are a blockchain start-up based in Hong Kong. Our business consists of cryptocurrency mining, ICO services, cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain technology consultancy. Our goal is to become a legitimate, regulated, go-to, global blockchain service provider. Our core values are based on high professional standards, where the ability to work effectively and independently is a must-have.

We are looking for developers with experience in some of these buzzwords: Solidity, truffle, Remix, web3.js, ERC20, ENS, uPort, Raiden, zkSNARKS, geth, parity.

$100k-$150k + equity. Onsite is preferred but not a must, relocation package is offered. Please send CV and short cover letter to jmpm@digitas.co

Come help develop the future of software used in industrial automation. In this position, you would join our core product development team. Together, we work to build our primary product, Ignition.

This position is focused on implementing and maintaining network protocols for communicating with industrial controllers (PLCs, RTUs, etc…) as well as the system responsible for bridging data from those implementations into the Ignition platform. Responsibilities include new feature and protocol development as well as the maintenance and enhancement of existing functionality.

Requirements - B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

- Minimum 5 years of programming experience

- Strong Java 8 skills

- Experience writing server and networking code

- Experience writing highly concurrent multithreaded code

- Modern toolchain and source control familiarity, e.g. Maven/Gradle and Git/Hg

Skills Not Required, But a Plus

- Experience with OPC Classic or OPC UA

- Experience with industrial automation fieldbuses or protocols such as Modbus, EtherNet/IP, Omron FINS, Siemens S7, Emerson/Fisher ROC, ABB Totalflow (DB/DB2), etc

- Experience with PLCs and/or PLC programming

- Any other relevant experience in industrial automation

You can also contact me at my email address in my profile.