Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

539 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

To search the thread, you can try kennytilton's https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, gadogado's https://hnhired.com/, or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

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GitLab | Engineering and Non-Engineering Roles | Remote Only | Full-time | https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

We're currently hiring site reliability engineers, product managers, marketing roles, developers, federal sales roles, 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.

Hi @chloe, can you hire in Spain? The country guidelines say no, but the country appears in contract_types.yml?

thanks!

Cash App | Software Engineer | San Francisco/New York/Austin/Melbourne AU/Kitchener/Waterloo CA | https://squareup.com/careers/jobs?team=Cash Cash App (by Square Inc) is hiring across ML, Backend, iOS & Android to work on features for the #1 Finance app in the US on iOS and Android.

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What we do:

Cash App is the easiest way to send and receive money. We make it easy to pay and get paid, spend safely, deposit your paycheck, buy/sell bitcoin and save while you spend. We're hiring engineers to help unbanked and underbanked customers around the country manage their money.

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Why it's cool:

Cash is the number #1 finance app in the US (and a top 20 free app overall). We're a full stack team, with opportunities to work on highly polished customer facing features, deep money movement infrastructure including blockchain, external integrations and risk & machine learning infrastructure. Cash's goal is to be an honest financial network, and millions of customers per month already manage their money with Cash. Our work environment includes lots of Silicon Valley style perks, and supports a distributed/remote team culture; we have engineering centers in Melbourne AU, Kitchener/Waterloo CA, San Francisco, New York, and Austin, as well as team members spread around the world from Kansas to Stockholm. We help with visas were necessary.

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Technologies we use and teach:

Java & Kotlin including JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, and OkHttp/Retrofit

HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers

MySQL/Vitess

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If this matches your background and interests, we'd love to talk to you -- email ayo+hn@squareup.com.

PlanGrid (YCW12) | San Francisco | Full-time, On-Site | Visa

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...

Sierra Wireless | Software Engineer | New York, NY (NYC) | Onsite | Full Time | https://sierrawireless.com

Sierra Wireless is developing an IoT-focused data orchestration platform internally code-named “Brooklyn". It offers intelligent data acquisition, end-to-end security, distributed stream processing, and full command and control capabilities. "Brooklyn" is not a data-pipe; it is a platform that ensures you get the the right data at the right time, with the right priority, to the right system of record. "Brooklyn" is engineered for IoT solution developers and operators, made to last, and built to accelerate transformation.

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to join our DUMBO-based development team. Responsibilities will include implementing new features in the areas of distributed data processing, access, and orchestration in a high-throughput, highly-available platform.

To apply, please send your resume to swirbk@gmail.com

Buildit @ Wipro Digital | Multiple Roles | Germany, India, Ireland, Poland, UK, US | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://buildit.wiprodigital.com

Buildit is a high-end technology consultancy organisation. We partner with our clients to design and build innovative products. We tend to work with very large, enterprise-level companies. Our offices are in Asia, Europe, and the US.

We are looking for:

- API Engineers

- Creative Technologist

- DevOps Engineers

- Front End Engineers

- Full Stack Engineers

- Java Developers

- Lead Front End Engineers

- Lead Platform Engineers

- Platform Engineers

- Senior Backend Engineers

- Senior Java Developers

You can apply online here: https://buildit.wiprodigital.com/careers/

Redash | Customer Success Manager | REMOTE

Redash [1] is a BI tool for people who <3 SQL. We let you connect to your database(s), query your data, visualize and share it (dashboards, API, etc). Redash is fully open source [2] with a SaaS offering.

We're looking for our first Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager your focus is creating and maintaining friendly relationships with our customers around the globe, maintain our knowledge base and write content.

Due to the nature of our product we're looking both for someone with strong communications skills but also some technical understanding. You don't have to be an engineer, but you do need to be able to write some SQL and understand what's the difference between MongoDB and MySQL.

You don't have to come with all the knowledge, but you need to be able to learn.

Full details (and how to apply) here: https://discuss.redash.io/t/redash-is-hiring/2604

[1] https://redash.io [2] https://github.com/getredash/redash

Passenger AI | Toronto | $100-160K + 0.1-1.0% equity | Full-time Onsite

I’m the founder/CEO. In 2017 I moved from startups in SF to Volkswagen in Detroit to learn about the trillion $ industry we know will transform over the next decade. I left this past April to start Passenger AI which is building remote monitoring tools for robotaxi operations. In the past 7 months, we’ve raised from top-tier VCs, built up a team of 8 (Mozilla, Lyft, Pivotal etc.) and brought on some great customers.

We moved into a new office today with a garage so we can touch/feel our product everyday.

We’re hiring engineers for DevOps, Media Streaming and ML/CV. (https://angel.co/passenger-ai/jobs)

Email me at martin@passenger.ai if you want to learn more.

No recruitment-type services please.

Slite | Paris or Remote (CET -2 / +2) | Full-time | https://slite.com

At Slite (YC W18), we're a friendly bunch excited to bring the power of notes to teams and change the way they share knowledge!

Meet the team here https://jobs.slite.com/.

Our team is distributed across 4 cities and counting. We believe in empathy, transparency, asynchronism and remote.

We run on React / Redux - Node.js /GraphQL / Docker / Kubernetes

We are hiring for:

- Lead Engineer — help build, manage, and scale Slite API, lead one of our squads — https://jobs.slite.com/lead-engineer/en

- Software Engineer — join one of our squads as a SE and help us deliver on our roadmap — https://jobs.slite.com/software-engineer/en

Hi! I've worked as a developer at Slite for 2 years.

I've had a lot of opportunities to learn and try things. The team is super friendly and positive. We managed to get a proper remote policy that works.

Thats awesome to hear. If possible can you share additional details about your successful remote policy? Our team is currently working on this as well. We have lots of ideas but it's always good to hear what has worked.
Working there remotely since 5 months, awesome team with an awesome product. Happy to answer any questions!
Is GraphQL experience a must have?
GraphQL is a nice addition but if you have a solid knowledge about JavaScript and REST APIs, learning GraphQL shouldn't be too hard.

So no, GraphQL is not a must have :)

Just finished sending in my Application! I like the responses from your team here!
We are going to review it. Thanks for applying!
Any Chance of visa sponsor/work permits for foreign candidates?
We are currently not sponsoring or giving work permits to foreign candidates. Where are you located so I can better answer?
Full disclosure: Current slite employee.

This is the first time that I have the chance to both have a blast doing what I like and grow as an engineer as much as I do here.

Come say hi, and let's chat!

Designer here working remotely at Slite. Feel empowered by the devs here who are all on the top of their game. It’s an equally laidback and intensely focused culture where you get things done all the time. Just wanted to recommend - don’t miss the chance to apply!
Applied! Just tried out the app and will be using it next week to keep track of my dev tasks. Looks and feels great so far
Cove | https://www.covemarkets.com | Chicago | Software Engineer | Competitie Salary Plus Benefits Plus Equity | Full-time | REMOTE ( USA )

Cove Markets is the Best Execution Crypto Platform. We find the best price and the deepest liquidity for any digital asset and ensure best execution at lowest cost.

1. Why Join Us? We want to create enormous value by dramatically lowering the total cost of trading digital assets. It's as simple as that.

2. Who we are looking for? Full stack engineers

Interested? contact us, careers at covemarkets dot com

We are interested in talking to all kinds of engineers - backend, front-end UI/UX experts and full stack.
Butterfly Network | NY | On-site, Full-time | Biotech/AI | VISA for US-based candidates | https://www.butterflynetwork.com/

Imagine a world in which cost and training are no longer barriers for access to life-saving technology. We're a rapidly growing, innovative, extremely well-funded start-up, that is changing the landscape of IoT/medicine. As we grow, we're seeking experienced engineers to help build & take ownership of several aspects of our cloud architecture, design and build visually beautiful iOS and android apps for our future products or develop new machine learning algorithms while also having a direct and immense, real-world impact.

• Senior C++ Software Engineer

• Senior Full-Stack Engineers and Technical Lead

• Senior Android Engineers

• Senior iOS Engineers

• Senior Product Designer

• Machine Learning Research Scientist

And more! Feel free to check our website (butterflynetwork.com) for more details or send me an email at: maria@butterflynetwork.com

Recursion Pharmaceuticals | SLC, Utah | Onsite, full-time | We have raised over $80M to apply machine learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - tens of millions of images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical perturbations, generated in our own labs - in order to find treatments for hundreds of diseases. Our long term mission is to decode biology to radically improve lives - we want to understand biology so well that we can fix most things that go wrong in our bodies. Among other awesome folks, Yoshua Bengio is one of our advisors, and helps our ML team come up with novel ways of tackling these problems.

We’re looking for:

* ML researchers: Looking for a highly experienced senior/principal-level machine learning researcher who wants a challenging problem, lots of rich data, and knowledge that their breakthroughs will seriously help people. No bio background needed.

http://www.recursionpharma.com/careers for more details and to apply.

Logistics: Salt Lake City, Utah. Hiking/running/biking is literally out our back door, and it's half an hour to 5 ski resorts. Great pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance (onsite is required), equity, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive impact.

Happy to sponsor/extend visas, but you need to already be authorized to work in the US--we can’t handle the lottery at this stage.

Tech: Data science: pydata stack (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, bokeh, tensorflow w/keras, etc), a cluster of GPUs for all your research ideas

Software engineering: python, clojure[script], javascript, go, react.js, kafka, kubernetes (GKE), GCE, AWS Our team of 104 so far: http://www.recursionpharma.com/team

Uken Games | Developers | Toronto | Full-time | On-site

https://www.uken.com

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Java, AWS, Spark, Scala but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is C# & Unity

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com

Coinbase | Payments Engineering | San Francisco, Chicago, London | Full-time | Onsite

At Coinbase (YC S12), our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system.

We’re looking for people to join our Payments Engineering team. Payments team is one of the most mission-critical engineering teams at Coinbase and is in charge of connecting our products with a wide variety of blockchain networks in a reliable, secure, and extensible way. In this role, you’ll be at the center of the team that connects the world’s largest crypto exchange to new assets and integrate new fiat payment rails to the Coinbase platform.

Questions or want to say hi? Reach out to us directly: namrata.ganatra+hn@coinbase.com

Here are some projects that you will be working on:

1)Integrating with cutting-edge Blockchain networks to add new Crypto assets on the platform

2) Scaling our real-time payments-processing platform that millions of users across the world rely on every day.

3) Building microservices for transactions processing and integrating with payment processors for international expansion

4) Implement self-correcting and fault-tolerant systems to provide reliability over unreliable providers.

5) Provide real-time balances and positions for accounts on the Coinbase platform

Tech Stack: Ruby, Rust, Java, GoLang, Postgres, Distributed systems, MongoDB, Redis, Docker

Apply for openings here https://coinbase.com/careers or Reach out to us directly at namrata.ganatra+hn@coinbase.com

How does this post stay on the top page despite being submitted 21 hrs ago ? :)
Open Source Jobs (www.osjobs.net) | Software Engineer | Remote | $80-110K + 1.0% equity | Remote

- Desire to be an expert in open source and passionate about making an impact in this field. - Ability to design and build scalable backend automation from the ground up using open source languages, libraries, and frameworks. - High familiarity with Python or Go or C++ - Excellent team software engineering practices - Good interpersonal communication skills

Email me at contact@osjobs.net if you want to learn more.

Kialo | Full Stack Web Developer | ONSITE | Full-time | Berlin, Germany | €55k-€90k

Kialo (https://www.kialo.com) is a privately funded, Swiss-German startup, developing a purpose-built tool for critical thinking, thoughtful discussion, and collaborative decision-making. Founded by academic philanthropists, we have been working on the system for 6 years before launching public beta in August 2017.

Our platform is built on a high-end, modern technology stack including Python 3.6, TypeScript, ReactJS, Redux, MongoDB, AWS, k8s and more. We are agile (Scrum, no -but), everyone has a tech background, we have a flat hierarchy, an open and friendly discussion culture (of course) and we have fun while working passionately to achieve our goal.

We are always looking for skilled full stack web developers who believe in building the next generation's discussion platform.

If you are interested or have any questions, check out https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/147695/full-stack-web-develop...

Good job! I really like the idea and the current implementation of it.

I once started implementing exactly something like this (with two panels "Cons" and "Pros"), but then as it is usually with my side projects, I abandoned it...

I still have some ideas you might like. Feel free to PM me if you are interested.

I see your ads on Facebook a lot. I found it very weird, even the slogan "Thoughtful. Friendly. Debate". Perhaps weird makes it more memorable tho...

Anyways, definitely something we need in the world but you guys seem to be just starting flamewars on. I wish you good luck with your company nevertheless.

FormAssembly | Web Software Engineers (PHP/JS) - REMOTE

We are looking for talented and passionate Web, Mobile and QA Software Engineers to join our team.

If you’re a genuinely nice person who is great to work with, respectful, and who will put the team and our customers first, we’d love to have you apply for a position with us. If you belong to an under-represented group in Tech, you’ll find a welcoming culture that thrives on diversity.

We're a remote-first, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing company - thanks to our impressive roster of customers. (We actually made the 2018 Inc. list of the fastest growing private companies in America!)

Our leading data collection platform helps organizations collect, use and be good stewards of the personal data entrusted to them.

To apply, go to: https://formassembly.workable.com

To learn more about us, and the team, go to https://www.formassembly.com/blog/category/company-culture/

Embryo Options | Senior Software Engineer, Junior Software Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE | Salary: 70k-140k | NO VISA

Embryo Options is helping fertility clinics manage their cryopreserved biological tissue, so they can focus on their patients. We're a profitable, bootstrapped startup, and we're looking to build-out our team as we ride the wave of the quickly-growing IVF market.

We're currently 2 full time engineers, so you'll have the opportunity to immediately make an impact and you'll have ownership of projects that directly impact our clinics and patients.

We currently use a mix of old and new technologies built on JavaScript, C#/.NET, SQL Server and deployed on AWS, and we're working on some new applications with .NET Core API and VueJS.

If you're a product-focused engineer, looking to join a fast-moving team in a real, growing business then we'd love to hear from you!

You can email me, Mike Gerbush (CTO), directly at mgerbush+hn@embryooptions.com.

Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails / Devops / Front End | REMOTE

Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to work on the Aha! product. We use Rails extensively, plus React for rich browser based experiences.

Aha! is also looking for a Devops engineer, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure. All of our operations is done by writing code first, so it is fully reproducible.

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/ES6/React.

Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.

http://www.aha.io | email: engineering-jobs@aha.io

Relayr | Berlin/Munich| ONSITE | Full time |https://relayr.io/

We enable The Internet of Things. Relayr is a well-funded and rapidly expanding start-up. We have an extremely international and very friendly team of 200 IoT experts in 8 cities across 4 countries on 2 continents! Our IoT platform development is driven by our engineers and built using recent technologies. We value good working relationships and engineers who stand up for their ideas. Using our tools both internal and external integrators are able to create valuable customer solutions.

We are currently looking for developers to join our teams in Berlin and Munich. Your outstanding passion for all things tech, combined with your desire to solve our customer’s biggest challenges with innovative solutions could make this the perfect job for you! We'd love to hear from you! Take a look at our job postings and see what's right for you.

Open Positions:

NodeJS Developer (m/f) - Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=39

QA Engineer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=37

Linux Software Developer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=110

Full Stack Solution Engineer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=71

DevOps Engineer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=5

Scrum Master (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=112

Agile Coach/People Developer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=7

Big Data Engineer (m/f) – Munich https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=81

Frontend Engineer (m/f) – Munich https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=104

Check out our career page for other open positions at https://relayr.io/about/join-us/ Any questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch! julia.rovnik@relayr.io

Rightcheck | Sr. Developer | Coventry, UK | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | rightcheck.io

We have successfully launched 'Rightcheck' - a compliance solution for businesses based on mobile technology and now need a full stack, Senior Developer to join our growing team to work in an agile environment. We are based on the Coventry University Technology Park CV1 2TT. You will be working on maintaining our existing mobile technology platform and delivering new server-side technology features. We have big ambitions and an exciting plans to get there; for the right person we can offer a great package including performance bonus, stock options and flexible hours/working from home - plus potential career progression to Lead Developer.

Ideal experience/skill-set: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL, AWS

How to apply: Please send your CV, including details of your current salary, to m.andrews+hn@rightcheck.io

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Silexica | Software Development Intern | Madison, WI | Onsite | Part Time | https://www.silexica.com

The internship has the potential to transition into a full time position, after which time you will go to Cologne, Germany for training.

Please reference hacker news in your application. I'm sorry, but we can't do visas. Preference will be given to folks who can start ASAP.

Job Description(https://silexica.workable.com/jobs/853675):

-You will be responsible for building a fully functional web front-end for our cloud product.

-You will help extend and maintain the "back-end" API and cloud orchestration system for our suite of products.

-You will have the chance to extend our core tools so that they can operate from the cloud.

About Silexica:

We believe that the growing gap between hardware and software development in embedded computing needs to be closed. Therefore, we develop state-of the-art programming tools to help developers build software that runs efficiently on intelligent products such as autonomous cars or 5G base stations

Silexica was founded in 2014 and has raised $28 million in funding so far. With its headquarters in Germany and offices in the US and Japan, Silexica is serving global customers across many rapidly transforming industries.

Silexica's team includes some of the best software tooling experts and embedded engineers in the world, complemented by experienced industry veterans and skilled business professionals. We are incredibly passionate about revolutionizing embedded programming and you can become an important part of our success story!

"I'm sorry, but we can't do visas"

What does this mean? For a TN-visa you only need an letter stating employment, not 'full sponsorship'...

I meant we can’t sponsor.
King & Union | Python developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE + HOME FULL-TIME

The point: We are an information security/threat intelligence company. Our goal is to make the threat intelligence process run more smoothly and help organizations share threat data better. Our solution pulls threat information (both our own and via external APIs) into a graph (visual and graph db) and enables real-time collaboration and sharing of the information on the graph. (If you're aware of the tools, think of combining Google docs with a graph editor like Maltego and mix in some process automation.)

What we're looking for: We're looking for a mid/advanced back-end developer for the back-end of our web-based application. Security experience isn't needed, we've got that covered already. Our backend is built with Django/Django Channels/Redis. Our UI connects to the backend with a mix of REST and WebSockets (we're using websockets for real-time collaboration work). Ideally, the person we're looking for would be comfortable doing both the Python and Django side of things as well as some command line work (we have a data repository that we also maintain). We will also be working on designing and implementing a (possibly quite large) graph DB in the near future.

Perks of the job: early round shares, competitive salary, 401k, & healthcare benefits. Also, we work from home a lot and our focus is on getting the work done, not on attendance or face time.

A bit about us: We are a pre-A-round startup. We have a working product and paying customers, so we're in a good spot financially. We are based in Alexandria, VA but do a lot of working from home, and tend to meet up in Alexandria once a week or so. We have staff doing some of these roles already but we're looking to accelerate our pace.

We encourage all who are interested to contact us. You can reach me at: aaron@kingandunion.com

Braze | Senior Engineers (Android / iOS / Back End / Front End / DevOps) | New York City, NY | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

Braze (formerly Appboy) is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, apps, and more. Our platform allows for real-time and continuous data streaming, replacing decades-old databases that aren’t built for today’s on-demand, always-connected customer. With data, technology, and teams working together in unison, the Braze platform makes marketing more authentic, brands more human, and customers more satisfied with every experience. Each month, tens of billions of messages associated with over 1.5 billion active users are managed through our technology.

Braze is a venture-backed company with hundreds of employees in offices located in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Singapore. We’ve been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Mobile Engagement Automation, Q3 2017 evaluation. We’ve been recognized by Forbes Cloud 100 at #85, ranked #225 on Inc.'s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies, named a “Top 10 Upstart” by Business Insider, in addition to being #21 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List.

* Senior Android Engineer: https://grnh.se/mcd7v31 * Senior iOS Engineer: https://grnh.se/b52nxi1 * Senior DevOps Engineer: https://grnh.se/h4psfq1 * Site Reliability Engineer: https://grnh.se/726bdea41 * Senior Backend Engineer: https://grnh.se/rh1uey1 * Senior Front-End Engineer: https://grnh.se/qn7v6a1 * Senior Full Stack Engineer: https://grnh.se/ea07c5a71 * Staff Engineer: https://grnh.se/4a7949431 * Engineering Manager, Messaging & Automation: https://grnh.se/56c2c14f1

To learn more about engineering and life at Braze please check out these links: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/braze https://www.keyvalues.com/braze https://www.instagram.com/braze/?hl=en

United States Digital Service | Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, Senior Designers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/

The best of technology. The best of government. And we want you. We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are, immigration, veterans service, students, health care, and more. We're especially looking for talented senior engineers to join us to help shift move government tech in the right direction.

See one of our Reports to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:

https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/

Apply here:

https://www.usds.gov/join

We've got a lot of impactful projects to work on. It turns out that government systems/technology need a lot of help, and USDS is well-positioned to assist.
It's too bad that there aren't intern positions. Lots of DC students would be interested I'm sure.
You might want to check out https://www.fedscoop.com/civic-digital-fellows-demo-day-2018... if you're looking for that!
Any nontechnical roles ever come up? I'm at the e-Residency program in Estonia leading a team but definitely want to come back to the States and serve at some point
Most of our work involves engineers, designers, and product managers. Under the product category, there's also the notion of a "bureaucracy hacker" who helps get things done and launched. Those folks might not always be super technical, but are good at pushing to make forward progress.
I’ve said it to you before, and I’ll say it again, thank you for your service Matt. Listened to you on the TWiT network and have followed your career ever since.

I’m on vacation this week, and while my wife reads, I spelunk data in the US Census and American Community Survey. I’ve been looking this week at polling proximity for voters based on demographics and RUCA coding, to see how fair access is to voting throughout the country. I’ve had to primarily use third party data sources because the government datasets are poor or non existent (thanks to Census Reporter, Google Civic API, and Google Distance Matrix API).

I hope other engineers like yourself take the challenge and seek to improve our technology. We need it, and it’s important!

Thanks again Matt.

It sounds like your current gig would keep you 100% busy, but if timing or life changes might allow for you to come do a tour, it sounds you've been bit by the same civic bug as us!
Definitely. Maybe need to get Google to buy my startup and I’ll go spend a couple years in service :)

If I’m ever in DC I’ll reach out. Would love to take a tour and learn more.

Best of luck to you and the team, Matt. Email is in my profile if I can ever be of assistance.

It's always been my daydream to work with a company like this and serve my country.

At my current job I joined because it directly helps people as well by helping them shed off debt they cannot handle. We all do what we can to help others. Kudos to you!

I applaud you for what you're doing. I also know you've heard this 100 times Matt, but maybe it'll be the 101st time that makes the decisions makers allow this. Allow remote.

This country spans a large area & a lot of it is full of people who would love to help their country do better, but few want to move to DC. The US "Digital" Service should be a shining example to others of how to work remotely.

I hear you. Right now a lot of our meetings involve sitting with or across from decision makers, and being in DC is really critical for that.

For what it's worth, some of our individual agency engagements (e.g. VA or DoD) might allow you to come to DC for a short while like three months and then work remotely after that. But most of our work is in DC, at least for now.

If that was something you promoted for the summer months when school is out & one could bring their family with, I think you would have a lot of takers.

Best wishes!

Just keep senior people there as code reviewers and 'account managers' who would sit down with stakeholders from DC. Then open source some of the other projects or at least add approved citizens that could work remotely on low-security projects. (Like some of the commenters above).
Is USDS doing any work with the IRS? I'm currently working at a tax policy think tank, and from what I can see I think the IRS could definitely use help on a number of fronts. Probably the biggest thing: they've got to finish rewriting their tax filing system to not be in assembly--don't know if they've made good progress on getting it into Java. Their SOI data could also use a better system for hosting/distribution along the lines of data.gov.
Just FYI the IRS is hiring directly. I keep seeing them advertising open software engineering positions in Austin, TX, though I'm uncertain about other locations.
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Please don’t help the irs.
Are you Libertarian or do you have a non-partisan objection to the IRS specifically?
I'm struggling to think of any legitimate objection to the IRS that could be non-partisan.
In my experience, "starving the beast" just means you're locked in a room with a starving beast. Bureaucracies can be awful to deal with. But if you strip them of resources, the laws that dictate their mission are unchanged. Any hope of expedient resolution of issues is gone. People who, often through no choice of their own, must deal with these bureaucracies will receive worst treatment and outcomes. Unpopular though the IRS may be, an IRS that can't function correctly is more dangerous to individuals and society than one that can.
I am impressed with the work your team is doing!
Has the current administration changed the work/mission/culture at all?
We work on non-partisan projects, and the way we prioritize projects hasn't changed. So we're still able to get important things done for Veterans, small businesses, doctors/patients, students, immigrants, soldiers, etc.

This is a recent overview of the sort of projects that we're working on: https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/fall/ It's all great stuff that you'd feel proud to tell your family and friends about.

> We work on non-partisan projects

As the existence and prioritization of executive branch projects is an outcome of partisan politics, that's only even possibly true in the sense that some government projects, even in this administration, aren't particularly subject to partisan controversy.

But while it would be possibly true in that sense, it doesn't seem to be actually true in that sense, as a review of the highlight projects at https://www.usds.gov/work shows that many serve goals that have been the subject of intense partisan controversy over the last couple years.

This is interesting. I’m a veteran and know first hand how terrible the system can be.

I’ve taight myself JavaScript and have recently learned Django with my current position. I don’t have any plans to leave the company now, but working on systems that can help out fellow veterans more easily is tempting.

Maybe in a year or two I’ll revisit this :)

You might consider applying. We're well-positioned to improve things at Veterans Affairs. I've had a Veteran say "I had trouble deciding about my GI Bill benefits. I'd like to build a tool to make it easier for other Veterans." And then they did!

Check out this GI Bill comparison tool that Marc (the Veteran I mentioned) built: https://www.vets.gov/gi-bill-comparison-tool/ . Seeing vets help out brothers and sisters who have served is really inspiring.