Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

157 points by bgentry ↗ HN
Please lead with the positions' locations.

--edit-- And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility! (thanks cperciva)

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(San Diego) Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC is looking for experienced Ruby developers in San Diego. Work on PSP and PS3 top notch titles!

Full time, onsite. etozzato at gmail

Think Computer Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

Our product makes the plastic cards in your wallet obsolete. (We're taking on PayPal and a few others: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc.) We're always looking for PHP, JavaScript and CSS pros. Remote is possible if you really know your stuff and have a portfolio of work to show for it.

http://www.facecash.com / http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs

I've always had a great interest in something similar to facecash ... I'll keep an eye on your site, if my company makes an exit I may well apply. seems promising
Web Engineer -- SeatGeek -- New York, NY

http://seatgeek.com/main/lamp_developer/

We're looking for a generalist web engineer who is super-hungry and sees building web apps as more than just a job. We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #PHP #MySQL #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a team that has a lot of fun together. Only looking for folks in NYC.

Our job application process involves a series of (hopefully) quick mini-puzzles. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/blog/hiring/henceforth-all-job-applicant...

dropbox (only sf positions, sorry!)

http://www.dropbox.com/jobs

love the product here and the job description was enticing ... if I were looking for a job this would be the first app i would fill out.
Boston & London

youDevise is a small financial-software firm with development teams in London, England and Boston, Massachussetts, committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software. We're hiring developers, QA staff, operations team members, and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

No remote working, but we do help the right people move to London or Boston.

I know a few guys who might be able to help out, but I can't find what languages you're working in on your site ;)

Your Developer site mentions Hibernate and Tomcat, so I'm assuming you're a java shop?

Android, iPhone, and Ruby engineers - Originate Labs - Los Angeles and San Mateo, CA

We specialize in staff augmentation and startup building through a venture resourcing model. We're looking for folks to fill positions working with the aforementioned technologies but competent engineers do not necessarily need extensive experience in them to apply.

http://www.originatelabs.com/contact

SF, CA (no telecommute)

Quizlet is an education platform for high school and college students. We're one of the few web companies that's gotten lots of traction in education -- 2M uniques a month and growing.

We're looking for developers who are excited about making an impact in education. Small team, no BS.

andrew@quizlet.com

http://quizlet.com/jobs/

Also would love to have hacker interns for January and summer breaks!

Heyzap.com, San Francisco (local F/T position)

We are building a platform for Social and Mobile games. Smart engineers of any experience are welcome to apply, Rails, iPhone and Android experience a bonus. http://www.heyzap.com/jobs

SF, CA (no telecommute)

Dropcam is hiring for 6 awesome engineering positions and 1 lead design role: http://www.dropcam.com/jobs

Great problems to work on in streaming, storage, video analysis, web, and mobile.

Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard

Seeking front-end web developer with a passion for design. Remote is not possible.

http://www.flipboard.com/jobs

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Sorry, I didn't catch your email, it was autoreleased =(
What did you want him to do, retain it? We don't want any memory leaks...
Nah, copy it instead. You want to copy objects that you don't want changed behind your back. Like, for instance, the email address you'd mail your resume to.
Taunton, England (near Bristol)

Java developers wanting a great working environment, in Taunton. We've an expanding thick client app, we're already market leading in the UK for public sector and currently looking to expand into other markets and product areas.

http://www.covalentsoftware.com/company/careers.php

PBworks (San Mateo, CA) has 3 openings. We're an online collaboration tool for education and business, used by 4 million people a month. We're looking for:

* A talented Front-End Web Engineer who can lead the development of new features and refresh existing ones. PHP, JavaScript, usability and UI design skills are ideal. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-frontendwebengineer

* A Systems Engineer who can help architect, build, and test back-end systems that will help us scale from 4 million users to 40 million users. Deep knowledge of one interpreted language -- ideally PHP -- would be great. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-systemsengineer

* We're also looking for a Designer who can help us with the aesthetic and visual aspects of the product's user interface. We'd like a designer who wants to take charge usability testing and building products with excellent function, not just flash. http://pbworks.com/content/jobs-designer

If you're interested in any of these, drop me an email -- my email address is in my HN profile.

What happened to http://www.pbworks.com design :/ ? IMHO, the last version was much better.
As the person largely responsible for the implementation of the current design, let me put it this way: you did notice that one of those positions is for a designer, right?
inDinero.com (Mountain View, CA)

Looking for engineer generalist who considers herself both a strong frontend and backend coder. Home-cooked meals are served every day!

If interested, please shoot me an email - jobs@indinero.com :)

T-Mobile Product Design is hiring Designers, UX, Managers, Hardware hackers. Contact me for details.
I would love to see more EU openings (Specially in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries).

Spotify is hiring, they have several openings.

http://www.spotify.com/int/about/jobs/techjobs/

Ask and you shall receive:

We (Lokku) are hiring in central London: http://www.lokku.com/jobs/

Please get in touch if you qualify and want to work in a small, but internationally focused, successful start-up. We look forward to hearing from you.

We (Trendiction) are hiring in Esch-Sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).

Please see http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs

We do distributed crawling, content analysis/extraction, and reporting through a multitude of sources (message boards, blogs, news, ...).

Please contact me (Thibaut Britz) t.britz@trendiction.com if you are interested.

The Global Earthquake Model foundation (GEM) is hiring a senior dev to head the ongoing development of the OpenGEM global earthquake model framework and help save lives. You'll need proven team-lead experience/skills, geo/gis and scientific experience would be a huge plus. It's onsite in Pavia, Italy.

http://globalquakemodel.org/node/76

WooMe.com is looking for devops or webops people and people good with django and python and postgresql. Lot's of different types of work available, quite a few positions. See http://jobs.github.com/positions/da0182a2-e11e-11df-933d-bc4... for more info.

See http://making.dev.woome.com for our dev blog, and our github here: http://github.com/woome

London, UK or West Coast, USA but we remote work most of the time so we will consider a really good person from just about anywhere with good network.

Sydney, Australia (but you can work from anywhere)

We have several positions available at Remember The Milk:

  - Systems Administrator
  - Software Engineer (Database)
  - Software Engineer (Scala)
  - User Interface Designer
For full details see: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/about/jobs.rtm
Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.

You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN recently), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December and we've just returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.