Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)
As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.
Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 205 ms ] threadIt seems there are a few South Africans around this site so giving it a shot. We're a small growing startup in the recurring billing space that just launched last week (www.snapbill.com).
We've got big plans and are pushing to get a lot into the system as soon as possible but need a little bit of help. Shoot me an email if you're interested.
"SnapBill is an online invoicing and billing system with service provisioning capabilities. SnapBill is perfect for all businesses, especially those providing services requiring an automated recurring or subscription billing system and payment collection facilities."
to this:
"SnapBill is an online invoicing and billing system that allows you to easily sell your services online. SnapBill is perfect for businesses requiring an automated recurring or subscription billing system with payment collection facilities."
Much better. (But what are "payment collection facilities"? Does that mean you take care of credit card entry and such? Then say so.)
Now give it another go-over, there are still heaps of paragraphs on that page to be improved. Make it shorter (without loosing substance). Emphasize important points with bigger type.
Good luck :)
Seeking iOS and web developers with a passion for design and craftsmanship. (No remote is possible.)
http://www.flipboard.com/jobs
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http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/distilled/introduce-awesome-...
Apply: http://www.distilled.co.uk/company/jobs/search-consultants.h...
We are hiring SEOs (the good kind). If you want to help our clients deserve to rank better, come work with us.
If you know someone, refer them and win a frickin' quadricopter!
[If you are in Seattle, WA, there's a good chance we'd like to speak to you too...].
I'd love to work with more HN people! Come apply if you're in London or Seattle.
(Technically we're in San Mateo)
Check out http://life360.jobscore.com/
Or, contact me directly at: alex@life360.com
We're could use another full-time engineer, ideally a back-end developer (RoR) who isn't afraid to dive into some javascript or html.
You would be the first full-time engineering hire, working with me (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=klochner) as well as a few remote developers.
email my HN handle @ rentmineonline.com
(About us, quickly: Kongoroo is the front-page of the web for kids. Parents submit sites, which are vetted and filtered for age and interests, and popularity bubbles sites to the top.)
The site still has work to do but we should still make the soft launch date at the end of February. We need help to execute this right. If you're interested or experience in Bus. Dev. please contact me at the email in my profile. We prefer if you're from the SF Bay Area, but we're open to other locations.
Emeryville, CA (super short/BART ride from SF--No remotes)
Back-end devs (Python, Java, Ruby), Front-end devs (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5), Mobile devs (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, BREW), Product Managers, UX Designers
And more... Company is growing very rapidly in an incredibly exciting space.
Hiring full-time devs and dev interns. Non-profit trying to change education. Backed by Gates Foundation and Google.
ben+HN@khanacademy.org for more info
(Sorry for self-promotional-looking links...they're legit sources of information for this question.)
http://shodor.org/interactivate
Drop me a line; I'd be interested in what you all are working on.
Sports website with 1MM+ UVs/month, looking for frontend designer / developer. £30k+ and possible stock options.
http://www.pitchero.com/jobs/
Ember has a couple of openings for firmware/embedded and manufacturing engineers: http://www.ember.com/company_careers.html
We make low power wireless chips and the software that makes them useful.
Ember is a fantastic place to work, email me directly at emberFeb2011@saidsvec.com if you're interested.
They'd prefer someone local but working remotely might be ok.
They're open to hiring anywhere from entry level to senior. It's the type of job where either role would work.
Email me (in profile)
* As long as you can demonstrate some programming skill, and resourcefulness, they're happy to train you in Python, and SQL Server.
P.S. we have AR.Drones :)
One of my clients is looking for a network programmer. The developer will be responsible for low level, low latency feed handlers (from market data providers) and in improving/developing drivers for their distributed computing infrastructure.
Position is very competitive, but no former financial knowledge or experience needed. Must know C++ and socket (TCP/UDP) programming very well. They will look at junior to senior people, and can pay very well.
Email trent.krupp@constitutionllp.com for more info.
We're a 65-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.
While we don't have remote workers, we do help successful candidates relocate to London or Boston including arranging visas where needed. For example, last year we hired HN readers from Denmark and the US, and we moved a Polish employee to Boston.
We're hiring for practically everything - and we really need to add some great developers to our team. We're a fun place to work and we've been on a pretty ridiculous growth clip over the last two years.
Check out our blog post with the job descriptions here:
http://www.myplanetdigital.com/digital_strategy/blog/myplane...
Full stack web engineer
Small team, technical leadership, enterprise clients, family-oriented workplace
dgetz@wingspan.com
We do natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and semantic web stuff. Growing rapidly, profitable, w/ an amazing team. Our platform uses semantic technology to analyze hundreds of millions of documents monthly for customers across multiple industry verticals.
http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/jobs.html
Highly creative work environment employing big data analysis, advanced AI research, and fun 20% time projects (Kinect-powered 3d visualization apps, mobile OCR+NLP tech, robots, etc).
http://hashrocket.com/jobs
Ruby, Agile, Pair Programming (all the time!), open source time, benefits, a team of super smart and quite enjoyable people to be around, and a pretty office at the beach to boot.
We're also open to apprentices/internships, if you're interested feel free to email jobs@hashrocket.com and if you have any questions you can contact me personally robert@hashrocket.com or @rbxbx on twitter.
Cheers :)
We're a profitable & fast growing mobile app startup. 2 hires this month already. Well known in London / mainstream press exposure / our apps are adding 500k to 1M new users each month.
http://www.fiplab.com/aboutus/careers/
Profitable company still in startup phase: doubling revenue every year and need to scale like crazy.
Looking for full-time Rails, Django and Java (Spring) developers. Also looking for System Engineers (must be able to script).
leaderswanted@zag.com
http://www.shopify.com/careers
We're hiring for a ton of positions including Developer Advocate and Software Engineer (Core, Data, QA, Tools, UI).
We have a great work environment, love open source, and are profitable and growing really fast (fastest in Ottawa, in fact).
I work on the front end, we do a lot of cross-domain ajax and work with the FaceBook JS SDK. I'm looking for at least one more front-end developer who knows JS inside and out. Experience with FB's new JS SDK is, obviously, a benefit.
Our back-end is Java / Jetty / PostgreSQL running on Amazon EC2.
We do basically a more advanced version of Facebook's Social Plugins for a number of large websites.
We're located in the San Francisco area. Remote work is an option; I work remote from Ohio right now.
Everyone works from home on Fridays, and the office is generally a pretty fun place every time I've been out to visit.
http://www.sociablelabs.com/
Contact nathan @ above website if you're interested.
Main offices are DC, NYC, and Boston with remote possibilities for the right candidate. Absolutely great place to work:
http://triteksol.com/careers.html
The things you need to possess most are: intelligence, sociable, and a person of good character with a preference to those who are just plain nice.
If you have questions, contact me at rcarlton at triteksol.com