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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

285 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.

Feel free to post any job HN readers may be interested in from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Take a look at the freelancer matchmaking thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396088

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garysieling
Philadelphia, PA (Blue Bell) - Software engineers- Java/C#. We're a small company, and write software for pharmaceuticals & energy companies. http://www.wingspan.com/about/careers/
jjm
Looks like a lot of Java. Java for .Net, Java Web Client dev, Java DB connectors.
jasonlotito
Montreal - PHP/MySQL Developer

Adult company, many positions available. High traffic, lots of new products, different areas, including credit card processing. Don't do one thing, do many things.

http://gammajobs.com/

Edit: Downvoted, I imagine, because it's an adult company. If you downvoted this, at least you can have the guts to explain why?

haploid
I'm guessing the initial downvotes are by anti-porn crusaders, and the subsequent downvotes are because you complained about being downvoted.
jasonlotito
Actually, I had -3 downvotes before complaining. As for complaining, I think it's valid in this case. I hate meta discussion as much as anyone else, but in this case, downvoters are imposing their views on others, and impacting those people from finding jobs.

Basically, I don't care about the karma, but I honestly do feel that the downvotes were against the idea of HN.

Plus, I'm sick today, and rather ornery.

cmurdock
It could also be that there's a lot of hate for PHP on Hacker News for various reasons. Not saying that it's justified, though.
nandemo
I guess it's not hate, it's just that it's considered NSFW.
tesseract
Facebook doesn't seem to have too much trouble attracting talent. (Personally I have little interest in working there, but PHP is only a small part of why.)
jasonlotito
I think it was the assumption that it was a joke (as another commenter pointed out) based on what was written. Nothing about the post was NSFW, including the link. In fact, if anything in the post was NSFW, then the problem lies with the place of work, not me.
elliottcarlson
I would guess that it may have been seen as a joke.... "adult company"..."many positions available"... April Fools... Just a guess :)
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jasonlotito
That's fairly observant. Considering another post in this thread talked about joke posts. sigh And I was serious.
throwawayappdev
REMOTE - (1) iOS/Mac Developer (2) Java / Android Developer (3) HTML/CSS/JS Developer

Highly Profitable Mac/iOS Startup Hiring ($300 to $500/day, or monthly/yearly equivalent)

We are one of the leading developers on the iOS and Mac platforms with dozens of successful apps, adding around one million new users per month and doubling our revenues every quarter.

You need to be:

1. Passionate

2. Dedicated

3. Awesome at what you do

If you have strong experience and a portfolio to back yourself up, then please email us at: throwawayappdev@gmail.com

Immediate start available.

smanek
San Francisco, CA

Greplin - We're a YC W10 company with interesting problems, smart people, cool tech, huge data, and rapid growth.

We help people search their personal information that's online (Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). As TechCrunch said, we've "attacked the other half of web search."

We're hiring across the board right now - front-end/back-end/generalists/designers/ops/dev-ops: it's all good!

Some stuff we like to play with includes Lucene, Tornado, Twisted, Redis, and HBase.

https://www.greplin.com/jobs

rbxbx
Can't help but feel like this might be a bad day for this thread. You would think people could set aside the jokes in an obviously serious thread such as this one. Unfortunately, as evidenced by some of the submissions already, this seems not to be the case. Ugh.
gooberdlx
And you'd also think that people would stop taking themselves so seriously for a day that they could actually smile... but hey, what would I know?
getsat
Employment is generally something about which you want to be serious.
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mikedmiked
If somebody cannot distinguish real from fake jobs here then arguably the sort of jobs listed here will not really be aimed at them anyway...
Androsynth
thats not true, its not very hard to create a fake listing that looks fairly real:

social media startup startup.ly is now hiring: our stack looks like this: html5 frontend, node.js backend and nginx for static content. We use redis for real time analytics, cassandra for our social graph, mongodb to store user data with an easy interface with node. We are looking for people who know lisp, php developers need not apply.

jasonlotito
You know, I can't help but think that you might have thought my adult post was supposed to be a joke. Considering the wording, I could understand how you might feel that way at first glance, but it was a knee jerk reaction. So maybe you should try to take things more seriously.
lamplighter
Toronto, full time (no remote)

Uken Games - http://www.uken.com/jobs

We are a startup (~10 full times) that makes web based games in HTML5 for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook. We are growing fast and need talented back-end web engineers to help us scale (Rails & MySQL). We are also looking for Javascript developers to help us push the edge of what browsers can do.

pashields
New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iPhone and/or opengl developer

We're a funded stealth startup building what we call a social opinion platform. We'd like to add another developer on our iPhone client. In particular someone with experience build graphical elements on top of opengl and/or quartz would fill a good niche.

Please submit code/github/portfolio if you are interested. Good compensation, equity for right person. pat at floop dot com.

ynn4k
Intelligent App search and discovery startup is looking for:

US / India - Business Development/Marketing Manager

India - Front end designer, Deployment architect, NLP research engineer.

http://iapps.in/jobs

pchristensen
Groupon is hiring all kinds of computery people in Chicago and Palo Alto - programmers, designers, operations, testing, support, Big Data, performance, managers, etc.

Full listings at http://groupon.com/techjobs

Most jobs are in both locations, and there's the ability to move or travel as desired.

A couple months ago on this thread, I said Groupon was planning on hiring 100 engineers this year, and we're on pace to hit that goal. The people we hired are so great that instead of work halting to train them, we have increased the rate that we release new features and products and our software quality has improved too.

All tech people get a new MacBook Pro and monitor. We use Ruby on Rails, git, RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins, and lots more good stuff. We're the biggest player in the daily deal space so we face the biggest technical challenges - tens of millions of users, insane growth, real-time, data-based targeting at scale, defining the hottest new space (deals) on the Internet, etc.

Usual official stuff aside, let me share my personal experience. I started at Groupon four months ago and I'll say that it is better in every way than every job I've ever had. My coworkers are amazing, we do all that stuff everyone says you're supposed to do (test coverage, automated builds, scope control, regression testing, etc), the atmosphere is so fun (company meetings are the highlight of the quarter), and everything I develop gets used by millions of people, immediately. My mom actually understands who I work for. I honestly legitimately love it here.

maxaf
NYC (Midtown East) - Novus is building a real-time financial analytics platform in Scala. We're looking for functional programmers and other sharp generalists from all walks of life. We are a small product-focused team, move quickly, and take great pride in what we do.

E-mail is in my profile.

necrodome
Here is a RSS feed for this thread's parent comments (which are mainly job postings):

http://whoishiring.heroku.com/rss/2396027

Thanks to Ronnie Roller (http://ronnieroller.com/) for Hacker News API.

pdelgallego
Very nice, a couple of suggestion:

Can you create the same but that cover all the threads that the whoishiring account creates, so we can just sign up now and we will receive them every month.

can you add HN - Who is Hiring (MM YYYY) on as the title on each entry so I dont see "(title unknown)" in the google reader.

lfittl
Vienna, Austria or Remote: Performance Engineer

Vienna, Austria: Linux and C Programming Guru

Full time positions, stock option plan available.

We're building Platform-as-a-Service for hosting providers, enabling them to offer Heroku-style products.

http://efficientcloud.com/jobs.html

Drop me a line at l.fittl@efficientcloud.com - Cheers!

kiteloop
Great to see Vienna based jobs posted here. Keep 'em coming...
joeshaw
Boston, MA and remote

litl - http://litl.com

We build simple, maintenance-free, internet-focused computers. Our first product is called the webbook, and we're working on some follow-up ideas. Our software team has built a new, Linux-based user interface and a Google App Engine-based server.

Our main offices are in Boston and London, but we have many people around the world who work out of their homes. With all the remote employees -- including software team management -- people are expected to be self-motivating. Most meetings happen over video conference, and other are by phone. A couple of times a year most remote employees come to Boston.

We're looking for:

* QA engineers. In particular we're looking for people with some programming experience to improve our testing tools and automation.

* Software developers. We have a few areas in which we're looking for specialization, but the main thing we care about is that you're really good. Some things we're interested in:

    - X (core and input and video drivers)
    - Linux kernel
    - Linux desktop technologies (Clutter, GTK, window managers, etc.)
    - OpenGL
    - Google Chromium codebase
    - User-space audio/video stacks
    - Embedded and microcontroller developers
    - JavaScript runtimes
    - Software rasterization
You can email me at joe@<my-HN-username>.org for more info.
martharotter
Nomad Editions - New York city area (remote may be an option for this role) http://readnomad.com

Web Developer for Digital Magazine Startup

Nomad Editions, a startup creating digital weeklies for mobile devices, is looking for an awesome web-standards focused HTML/CSS/JS developer to help build our content on top of Treesaver (treesaver.net), one of the most exciting new open source frameworks for digital news and magazine publishing. The developer will be responsible for taking wireframes and translating them into standards-compliant web pages in Treesaver.

We're seeking: - Expertise in standards-based web development with HTML/CSS/JS - Ideal candidate would also have design skills - Interest in working with a very exciting company doing something no one else in the digital publishing industry is doing: making digital content look amazing everywhere

If you're interested or have questions, please e-mail Martha Rotter at mrotter@readnomad.com

rudepeklo
I don't give it much chances here, but what the hell:

Prague, Czech Republic: C# developer, at least 1 year of experience. Work mainly in location, possible home office once or twice a week.

We're developing software that helps users select stuff they would like to buy (mainly electronics, but also push chairs, baby car seats and other stuff).

http://www.prismastar.com, you can contact me directly at k2@prismastar.com

jim-greer
Portland, OR - Rails Developer - Kongregate
davidcelis
Sent an email about this a couple weeks ago, actually, but never heard back. Just followed up, but I was super excited to see this listing.
pitdesi
Chicago or remote: UI/UX designer http://feefighters.com/jobs/ui-designer-developer/

(UI people - our site http://feefighters.com normally doesn't look like it does today, I swear!)

Also looking for freelance infographic designer (remote) http://feefighters.com/jobs/infographic-designer/

FeeFighters is awesome and is disrupting the shady world of credit card processing. I've been on board for a few months and have enjoyed the hell out of my time here. We've got a bunch of superstars on the team right now and are looking to add another... Join us!

buro9
London - Java Developer

London - Python Developer

London - Front-end Web Developer

Product creation and incubation as part of Yell Labs. Based near Chancery Lane/Holborn.

We want people who can teach us stuff, we promise an environment in which you'll also be learning.

Our team is already great, if you want to come in for a short meeting to find out more, please do. We're also good for meeting in pubs post-work, or travelling nearby for lunch if you'd prefer to meet us at your convenience.

mailto:david.kitchen@yellgroup.com

techscruggs
Austin, TX - Ruby Programmer AcademicWorks - Scholarship Management in a SAAS environment.

We are working with a lot of cool technologies: Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0.5, HTML 5, Jquery 1.5, Postgres 9.0, Redis 2.0 (yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll be upgrading 2.2 soon), Chef, AWS hosting and the list goes on ...

We are vigilante about getting the bullshit out of the way and doing what it takes to make coding fun.

We value passionate people, but won't sacrifice a healthy work/life balance.

We are an early stage, but funded and have more demand for our product than we thought!

Contact me if you would like to know more.

cuantilecorp
(1) C# developer full time in NYC (midtown east) database work with sql server, good skills with sql queries and profiling. 2+ years experience. Finance experience a plus. Relaxed work environment, good benefits, hard software problems. (2) Flex/Flash developer on a part-time contract basis to do work on a client app. 20-30 hours work.

Send resumes and salary/rate requirements to jobs@cuantile.com