Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

https://www.freeagent.com

At FreeAgent we help freelancers and small businesses be more successful by putting them in control of their company finances.

We have built an award-winning banking and accounting app that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 90,000 paying customers and strong YoY growth. Our NPS is amazing (70!) - customers love what we do and our team get to make a real impact.

We're a growing team of over 200 people. 50% of our engineering team are distributed across the UK, the rest being based at our Edinburgh HQ. If you want to help us make small businesses AWESOME at doing their finances, take a look at our vacancies -> https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers.

* Product engineers, junior/mid/senior/principal - you'll be working predominantly with Ruby on Rails but you don't need to have direct experience of it - we'll get you up to speed!

* Platform engineers, mid/senior/principal - opportunities to work on our cloud migration (we've moving to AWS), CI/CD, developer tooling, data science, machine learning

* Engineering managers, team leads, product managers, product designers

You can apply directly via the website but feel free to get in touch with me (the CTO) directly – olly [at] freeagent [dot] com – if you have any questions. Happy to chat!

(We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now)

Originate is a concept-to-launch product studio. At Originate, we help our partners go from zero to one rapidly and reliably by combining world-class engineering and design to deliver high-quality products that create real value, real fast.

Check out our GitHub: https://github.com/Originate

Open Roles:

Director of Engineering, NYC (https://grnh.se/7ae0fc9a1)

Engineering Manager, NYC (https://grnh.se/0ce60d641)

Senior Android Engineer, NYC (https://grnh.se/fd359c171)

Senior Android Engineer, LA (https://grnh.se/c9a870901)

Senior DevOps Engineer, NYC (https://grnh.se/86c144621)

Senior iOS Engineer, NYC (https://grnh.se/61e418fa1)

Senior iOS Engineer, LA (https://grnh.se/2bad89ec1)

More jobs here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/originate

Tapad is known for inventing and introducing the Tapad Graph™ to the industry. At the heart of it, we dig data.

Tapad's Open Source tech stack (below) handle:

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Distributed Applications... Scala, Python

Distributed Computing... Google Cloud, BigQuery, DataProc, DataFlow

Open Source Technologies… Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark

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Here are our open roles in Engineering:

Senior Data Scientist (NYC): https://grnh.se/ce5a790e1

Solutions Engineer (NYC): https://grnh.se/ad6cb4cd1

Product Manager (NYC): https://grnh.se/6c0ecda61

Senior Software Engineer (NYC): https://grnh.se/b902e73f1

Senior Software Engineer (Oslo): https://grnh.se/a71a6cdc1

We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medical care worse and more expensive for everyone. We are a group of previously successful engineers and entrepreneurs (MIT, Dartmouth, Brown, Stripe, Twitter, Google, Salesforce, Palantir, DataPower, etc) and senior doctors (Johns Hopkins, UCSF, etc) who are determined to finally fix this.

Compensation: market salary & equity -- we are well funded by top-tier VCs.

Stack: includes Rust, React and Kubernetes. In addition to building our back end in Rust, we are also solving some very interesting problems in the areas of security, data transformation, high-speed APIs, flexible UX frameworks and fine-grained authorization for healthcare data.

Please email jobs@commure.com and mention "[hn_rust]" in the subject line.

Other positions available: - Techops/Devops Engineer (Kubernetes, SRE) Senior Front End Engineer (React Native, React) (please use [hn_ops] or [hn_react] in subject line for the above)

Locations: San Francisco, Montreal or Boston; sorry, no distributed/remote option at the moment.

OpenRent is the way people rent property online - a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £11.5bn worth of property, to over 1.5 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition. We're looking for people with a passion for solving real-world problems.

You'll be working in a close-knit team, directly with the founders. You'll have full autonomy to work on, and figure out how best to solve, the biggest problems in the industry. We find problems and improve customer experiences via code every day.

- Engineering (all levels) (C#) | Equity Available | Salary negotiable based on experience

https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

Recent press coverage: - https://www.openrent.co.uk/press

Contact via the form online or email in my profile. Look forward to meeting you!

Want to work on a modern tech stack that helps you simultaneously improve your engineering skills while delivering results at a high rate of speed and quality? At Vitally, we are a lean team of amazing product creators, and we're looking for another exceptional engineer to join us!

A bit about us: Vitally is a powerful and beautiful Customer Success platform that helps SaaS teams provide personalized Customer Success at scale and reduce churn. We've only been in the market around a year, but we've made some amazing progress in short time. We just raised a fresh round of funding and are now looking for talented team members to help us maintain our exceptional pace. Want to see that pace for yourself? Check out our live demo and product changelog at https://vitally.io

Apply by emailing me at jamie@vitally.io. Thanks, and hope to chat soon!

At Vigilant, we’re building a platform for public data access. We integrate data from thousands of public records data sources (e.g. balkanized government data like business registrations and licenses, contract data, political contribution and lobbying records and much more) and make it easily accessible and actionable for our customers (ranging from financial services to media and politics). If you're looking to get in on the ground floor of a growing startup and scale - while building things that have a substantial impact - come work with us!

We're primarily looking for backend engineers and data engineers (as well as a number of sales roles).

Verizon NDR (formerly Protectwise) is the evolution of effective, efficient and accessible network security. Customers need no specialized hardware to rapidly deploy Network Detection and Response in any segment of the modern network — enterprise, cloud, industrial, IoT and 5G — to see all activities and record everything for comprehensive analysis, discovery and action.

Come join us if are looking to work on a very challenging problem, securing some of the largest networks in the world, dealing with a high volume of data, on a very good, agile team, with a great group of peers.

- Packet Processing (Rust) - Develop the next generation of network capture and perform analysis of packets and network protocols. Knowledge of C/C++ and network protocols (IT and OT) is helpful.

- Platform (Scala) -> Work on the system responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing the captured network data. Knowledge of Kafka, Solr, and Cassandra is helpful. Knowledge of C/C++ and network protocols (IT and OT) is helpful.

- Infrastructure (Terraform/AWS) -> Help to enable the infrastructure powering the platform. Knowledge of Chef, Ansible, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka, and the JVM helpful.

If you are interested or want more information, please contact Eric Stevens ( eric.stevens1@verizon.com ). In your communication, please mention hacker news.

http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/176986/research_support_... My team is hiring a junior/intermediate Research Support Programmer. We are setup as an internal consulting service for the college of LSA that takes any programming job a research lab needs help with. If you think of yourself as a “web developer” or a “python programmer” then this might not be for you. We are looking for someone ready to learn/write/debug whatever the labs need. In the first few years, this will include working with a lot of new languages and technologies.

We are especially interested in adding someone who has experience/interest in interfacing with research hardware: Imagine a researcher just bought a big micro-fluidics machine and a microscope and needs to automate taking images during an experiment. We would be particularly excited to get a LabVIEW fan.

You can email me with informal questions, but the only way to apply is through the link above at the umich careers site.

Note that this job listing ends soon and my close as early as the 6th

Virtru offers a suite of products and backend APIs to enable data protection everywhere data is created or shared. We serve 5,000+ organizations with education, health care, government agencies, and finance being our biggest markets.

I'm a member of the SRE team, working closely with the security team. We're looking to grow both teams as we expand our infrastructure from two US regions into the EU and Asia-Pacific. We have strived to follow devops principles across the organization since day 1.

We are hiring for:

- DevOps Engineer, Team Lead - https://www.comeet.co/jobs/Virtru/64.00D/devops-engineer-tea...

- Senior DevOps Engineer: https://www.comeet.co/jobs/Virtru/64.00D/senior-devops-engin...

- Security Engineer: https://www.comeet.co/jobs/Virtru/64.00D/security-engineer/F...

Infrastructure stack: AWS w/ Terraform (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, KMS, etc), Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 baked with Ansible, Elasticsearch, Buildkite. Working towards orchestration with Kubernetes. Backend applications: Primarily NodeJS, some Go, Java, Python.

Medical, dental & vision, unlimited vacation, remote first culture (with a great office in downtown D.C)

E-mail me at emlynstokes@virtru.com with any questions

We're building the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s next generation of analytic platforms to keep our markets safe, effective, and trusted. We’re looking for high-quality developers to design and build state-of-the-art, big data applications. Our world-class developers become full-stack experts and educated about the financial markets and security regulations.

Join a small team of talented developers, capable researchers, and former finance people. We use a modern stack of python, pandas, JavaScript/Typescript, React, and other supporting technologies (e.g. flask, klein, Node, R, and kdb+/q).

We’re hiring for 1 position:

1) Backend developer (2+ years of software development experience, proficient with Linux, proficient with some of our stack)

The ideal candidate will also have some experience in:

- Cloud development

- Financial security markets/investing

- Data science

If you meet the above qualifications, please apply! We offer great pay and perks.

Candidates must have worked/studied in US for a minimum of 3 years and be able to work onsite in New York City. For more information or to apply, please send your resume to careers@aretecinc.com.

The Edge Foundation team at WalmartLabs is looking to fill multiple open positions at Senior and Staff levels of experience. We build systems to optimize and deliver the assets, images and scripts on a variety of high traffic websites. Bytes and milliseconds matter, wherever we can find them. Our purview is helping customers “Save Money and Live Better” by accelerating performance across ALL of Walmart’s eCommerce traffic.

* Fully distributed team

* 90+% Go

* Distributed Systems

* Observability

* Performance is #1 objective

The team is completely remote. USA is the only frictionless option (although we have occasionally been able to make arrangements in China/Poland/UK/Canada).

If you're interested, please feel free to shoot me an email (personal email is jsbeal@gmail.com - you cannot possibly waste my time by dropping a line).

We are a financial technology company developing a platform focused on innovating the transaction processes for complex financing transactions.

Front End requirements include modern single page web apps, CSS3, LESS and SASS. Our framework is Vue.js. Experience with asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and AJAX is required. Additionally, image authoring tools and working with cross-browser issues is important. D3.js is a plus.

Back End requirements include Python 3, regular expressions, NLP tools (spacy, nltk, et al), data warehousing concepts, Postgresql, basic devops.

Both positions require the usual code management skills and agile development approaches.

Ingenuity, drive and creativity are valued. Hard work is required, we are a startup.

Please email resume@nammu21.com with your cover letter and resume.

We're hiring backend Python and Java developers, frontend Angular developers, QA engineers, data scientists, data engineers and more. Job openings can be filled in Santa Clara or Charlotte, NC.

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/leantaascom

Everyone complains that our healthcare system is inefficient and costly. If the idea of working with smart people to actually solve the problem and make it significantly better for our future generations seems worth your time, reach out to me directly at sanjeev.a@leantaas.com and I'll put you in touch with the right hiring manager.

We're a Series C funded healthcare tech company based in Silicon Valley obsessed about making our hospitals more efficient with data science and machine learning. 65+ healthcare organizations including the likes of Stanford, Duke, NYP, Dignity, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Tenet and more rely on our products to lower patient wait times, improve staff satisfaction and overall financial performance.

Our team includes successful entrepreneurs, engineers, product managers and data scientists from Google, LinkedIn, Apple, Symantec MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Google, McKinsey, and more. We've raised $55 million to date from top tier VCs in Silicon Valley. CBInsights recently named us among the top 100 AI companies in the world.

On the data engineering side, our stack is Airflow/Python. On the web services side, our stack is Java/Play and Angular 2/Typescript. There's also a Python/Flask product. We're fully cloud hosted on AWS and leverage modern tooling and automation to produce high quality code - and we ship every week!

Our vision is to build an "Air Traffic Control" for hospitals - a centralized command and control center that routes the right information to the right department as patients flow through the system - if we get that right, we'll be able to significantly make our hospitals more efficient and eliminate waiting and wastage and solve the problem once and for all.

Kettle is a growing, award-winning digital agency. We are a team of thinkers, makers, and storytellers who love working together to build ambitious, human-centric experiences. We create digital-first products, content, and campaigns through carefully crafted partnerships with the leading brands of today and tomorrow.

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Senior Back-end Web Developer (FT / On-site NYC)

- Build complex, dynamic web applications from prototyping to deployment using modern MVC frameworks and design patterns - 4+ years experience in PHP, Python, or Ruby - Working knowledge of Docker containers, virtual machines, and automated provisioning

More info/apply: https://wearekettle.com/jobs/apply/senior-back-end-web-devel...

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Senior Front-end Web Developer (FT or freelance / On-site NYC)

- 5+ years experience in front-end web development - Comprehensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - A track record of building component-based SPAs using React

More info/apply: https://wearekettle.com/jobs/apply/senior-front-end-web-deve...

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Have questions? Reach out to me directly: jacob {@} wearekettle.com

Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your skills, expertise and passions to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our staff solves dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners from tech companies, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. If you are able to bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy problems, you could be a great fit for our team. Without a doubt you are a passionate technical leader that adeptly navigates between the big picture, details, and team dynamics.

Earlier this year, we took the stage at TED and shared our audacious goal (https://www.pscp.tv/TEDTalks/1zqJVawyjVdGB?t=1h36m44s) of eliminating child sexual abuse material from the internet. A key aspect of our work is partnering with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and building technology to optimize the broader ecosystem combating online child sexual abuse.

We are hiring for an ENGINEERING MANAGER https://grnh.se/f5d162092

Tech stack: React / Typescript / Express / Node.js / Python / PostgreSQL / MemSQL / Elasticsearch / Docker / Terraform / Kubernetes / AWS / Packer

Competitive salary + fully paid medical, dental, vision + 401(k) + parental leave + development fund + remote, flexible working + wellness + sabbatical + amazing colleagues! Voted best workplace for innovators by Fast Co. (https://www.fastcompany.com/best-workplaces-for-innovators/2...)

Jellyfish is creating a platform that will change the way organizations measure their software development efforts and improve strategic decision-making.

As a member of the engineering team at Jellyfish, you'll be working closely with other team members and our customers as we expand and refine what our platform can do, while helping to shape way we work together as our team grows. You might be integrating new data sources, building new ways of visualizing our data, or working with customers to make sure they're getting the most of our platform.

We're a small team today, growing into a larger team over the coming months and years. There's a lot of work to do, and we'd love your help.

About you:

- You have experience building and supporting production software systems

- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing

- You love learning new things and teaching others what you know

- You are a strong programmer with some set of programming tools, even if they're not the ones we are using

- You have strong communication skills, and enjoy teamwork

Bonus points if:

- You bring strong skills with our technology stack (Python 3 / Django / Postgres, hosted on AWS)

- You have worked in a small startup before, and loved it

- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

We believe that it takes a diverse team to build the best company we can. Jellyfish welcomes people from all backgrounds and especially encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in the software industry.

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/jellyfish

Our Frontend: Angular 6, NgRx, Material, Karma/Jasmine, AWS S3/CloudFront

Apply now: https://getbyrd.com/en/karriere/senior-frontend-engineer/

About byrd:

byrd is a logistics start-up which aims to make shipping a simple and effortless experience.

Fulfillment warehouses and online sellers suffer from old and outdated software that is un-intuitive and hard to use. We want to change that by using state of the art technology to disrupt the European logistics industry!

We built a platform that connects multiple partner warehouses with e-commerce online shops. This logistic network helps our customers to ship more efficiently than ever before and enables them to provide the same high quality service such as online giants like Amazon or Zalando.

byrd was founded in 2016, is a successful startup with real customers, and we’re looking for your help to support us in growing further!

At ustwo, we design and build digital experiences for our clients. Our products span across mobile and web, as well as immersive technologies such as AR / VR, all the way to wearables and IoT devices. Our technology team engages in full production builds, as well as functioning as creative technologists, strategists, and architects in the conceptual stages of projects.

We are looking for a Technology Director to join the leadership team in our New York studio. As the Technology Director, you will be responsible for the overarching technology leadership, well-being and development of our tech team of 10. This role will sit on the New York leadership team, collaborating closely with all disciplines and the Managing Director to drive future innovation and improvements, as well as driving the overarching business impact in the studio. It will then be your responsibility to translate the studio strategy into tangible practices and capabilities for the technology team.

Apply here: https://www.ustwo.com/join-us/jobs/4220436002-technology-dir...

Watchtower is a data security startup dedicated to helping enterprises discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across their cloud footprint - their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and APIs - via machine learning.

- We’re looking for folks passionate about working at the intersection of deep learning, information security, and distributed systems.

- Tech Stack: Go, Node.js, React, Python, Cassandra, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.

- Well funded by top-tier VC investors who have invested in, operated at, taken public/exited major cybersecurity & SaaS companies.

Apply & view detailed roles here: https://www.watchtower.ai/careers

We would love to hear from you - please reach out to us at careers@watchtower.ai with any questions you may have.

Pex built one of the largest search engine for audio-visual content (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search...) with primary focus on rights holders and creators.

We're looking for senior engineers for positions listed bellow:

  - C/C++ to help us optimize our algorithms
  - signal processing and machine learning (mostly R&D)  
  - DBA architect (Postgres [with Citus], FoundationDB, others)  
  - Go and Java for work on our backend systems
  - DevOps and SRE folks to help us to scale our services
  - QA to help us to deliver the best bug-free products to our clients

  - equal salary within US (no matter where you live you are paid as in LA)
  - 30 days of paid vacation
  - fully covered health benefits (gold/platinum) [70% coverage for dependants]
  - 3 months paid parental leave
  - $300 monthly limit on work related expenses (commuting, books, ...)
  - covering all costs of visiting conferences, education, ...
  - 50 hour work week (including commute)

https://www.comet.ml

About us: Comet is doing for ML what Github did for code. We allow data science teams to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models — creating efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility. Ever wondered how Linus felt when he invented Git? How about the brains behind JIRA?

Join us to help write the future of ML workflows and teams.

We're hiring for:

-Senior Front-end Engineer: https://www.comet.ml/careers/swe-fed

-Senior Backend Engineer: https://www.comet.ml/careers/swe-backend

-Senior Full Stack Engineer: https://www.comet.ml/careers/swe-full

-Marketing Associate https://www.comet.ml/careers/marketing

Check out the team and investors here: https://www.comet.ml/about

Take a glimpse at the industry's largest biological images dataset which we released June 28th to be used as part of the NeurIPS 2019 competition track. Generated entirely in-house at Recursion, for the development of new ML algorithms for drug discovery.

https://www.rxrx.ai/

We have raised over $200M to apply machine learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - over 12 billion 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: * Data Scientists: Looking for experienced Data Scientists both for our Innovation and Assay Development as well as Image Analysis and Quality teams. You’ll work with our data, biology , high throughput screening (HTS), and engineering teams to identify and answer questions in high-dimensional data.

* Data Engineer: Looking for a strong Software Engineer who thinks critically and uses data to measure results. Great opportunity for experienced engineers interested in coding for a meaningful purpose and a massive human impact.

* ML Researcher: 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.

* ML Engineer: Looking for experienced Machine Learning Engineer who values experimentation and the rigorous use of the scientific method, high collaboration across multiple functions, and intense curiosity driving them to keep our systems cutting edge.

Additional roles we are hiring for: * Biologist, Computational Chemists, Automation Engineer, and Drug Discovery experts. 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 6 ski resorts. Great pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance (onsite is required), equity, fully-paid gym membership, complementary chef-prepared meals everyday, two one-week paid company closures in addition to flexible, generous vacation, 70ft onsite rock climbing wall, commuter benefits, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive