Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

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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.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (May 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503209

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(BOSTON, Ma) Savingstar is hiring additional web programmers, particularly in Ruby, to help move coupons from paper to digital. Unlike most other people int his space, we have 25,000 stores already on board, and we're growing Fast.

We need your programming talent, we're a fun startup environment where everyone's input matters, and we judge your ideas on their merits, not their rank.

https://savingstar.com/jobs

Opzi. YC enterprise software startup, hiring software engineers (full time and intern) in SF. If you're from Vancouver, BC, drop us a line as well.

What We Do: At Opzi, we're building real-time business collaboration software. Our first product aims to change the way people share knowledge within a team or company.

Founders & Funding: Euwyn (from Vancouver) was Cornell CS '04, JD from Cornell Law '07. Ambert was Stanford EE '06. Funded by Y Combinator, Ron Conway, First Round Capital, Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail) and many others.

Tech Stack: Rails, Node, Backbone (lots of JS).

Who We're Looking For: We're mostly impressed by what you've made rather than the grades you earned in school. You should have a strong demonstrated interest in modern web development (i.e. have some projects and/or a Github account to show) as well as an ability to learn quickly and work independently. Ruby and Javascript experience would be great, but no sweat if you're more comfortable in C++ or Python.

How to Apply: Complete 1 or 2 of the programming challenges at the URL below, and send to euwyn@opzi.com, along with a quick email with a little bit about why you're interested.

http://opzi.posterous.com/

San Francisco, CA - Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network, is looking for an Account Manager for Publisher Services. http://www.millennialmedia.com/about-millennialmedia/careers...

Baltimore, MD - Engineers are also being hired at our Baltimore headquarters. See the link below for more info. http://www.millennialmedia.com/about-millennialmedia/careers...

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Im a Front End Dev/Designera(3 years exp.) living in outskirts of Baltimore. Might you guys have an upcoming need or position for my current skill-sets?
I work at Millennial... shoot me your resume. Email is in my profile.
New Delhi/Remote possible. iApps.in is looking for

- Business development/marketing manager

- UI/UX designer

- NLP researcher

iApps.in is a semantic search and discovery engine for the App Store that combines the social, semantic and mobile internet technologies to connect users with the apps they want. For more details see http://iapps.in/jobs

Cyan (Petaluma, CA)

http://www.cyaninc.com/company/careers

email: jobs@cyaninc.com

We have openings for software engineers in Petaluma, Vancouver, and Dallas with options for remote work.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with Python, Django, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), HTML5, and WebGL on small team in a fast-paced environment.

Memphis, TN - Infrastructure Engineer

We design/develop/scale an interactive mapping platform. Our early products were all about superimposing cell phone coverage for carriers on a world map for them to embed in their websites. Now we have a platform for in-browser comparative analysis of arbitrary spatial information. We currently load it up with information about the wireless, cable, and telecom industries.

I'm looking for talented engineers who can get down and dirty with optimization, configuration management, distributed systems, or architecture design.

Stuff you'll be fooling with: Solr, HDFS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Chef, EC2, Javascript, Ruby, and C. Knowledge of Pacemaker/Heartbeat, Chubby/ZooKeeper, AMQP, Flume/Scribe, BigTable/Dynamo inspired systems, or Scala is a plus.

We also have a position open for a junior developer if these are things you find interesting and you're willing to learn. That position would be more focused on Javascript and Rails work initially.

http://www.americanroamer.com/

http://www.cellmaps.com/

http://www.mapelements.com/

If you're interested in a job in the growing Research Triangle NC startup scene, there's a meetup on May 24 where software developers can meet venture funded startups who are hiring. So far there's 15 startups, but there will be others as the date gets closer. http://www.bigtop.it/ Also, consider the job board for downtown durham startups, http://is.gd/5XnLF8
(Quebec City, Canada) We’re looking for iOS, Android and Web (front-end and back-end) developers. We’re a small Ruby/mobile shop based in Quebec City, working with some of the largest companies in Canada on exciting projects as well as building our own products.

http://www.mirego.com/en/

http://vie.mirego.com/

Interesting. I'm a Montrealer currently busy for the summer, but very curious in this opportunity for afterwards. Definitely saving this link.
San Francisco, CA - RentMineOnline, social referral marketing, is looking for a junior RoR developer.

We're former SeedCamp and FBFund participants, currently profitable and working out of the Presidio with a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

You would work directly with me on the full stack, including server maintenance, deployment, ruby/rails development, javascript, and design. You don't have to be an expert in any of that, just be ready to learn.

Part-time remote work is ok, and starting remotely is an option if you're not in SF yet.

email me (kevin@) if interested, please include "HN Job Post" in the title.

New York City -- UI Architect -- SeatGeek

We're a data-driven search engine for sports and concert tickets. We're trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to make buying event tickets a wholly better experience.

We currently have a four-person dev team, but everyone prefers to work on the backend. We're looking for someone to come in and own the frontend of the web app, which will involve creating interfaces in Photoshop, brining them to life in HTML/CSS, and (ideally, but not necessarily) doing some Javascript work.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/frontend/

These guys are world-class! They also work out of General Assembly, which is quickly becoming the hub of tech startups in the city.
I'm interested in why would using OS X be a requirement?
Certainly a fair question. We use it as a signal. Of the 100+ UI folks I admire and respect, I think all of them use OS X. So while it's certainly possible to be a great interface developer using a different platform, in my experience such people are exceedingly rare.

By focusing on those that use OS X we can narrow down the applicant pool and spend more time with folks that are likely to be a good fit.

London, UK - Junior Rails Developer

We're a startup who build business software. Our web app, ClaimAble, is for insurance claims management. It runs on Rails and MongoDB and we're looking for a kickass Rails developer to help us out. It would be ideal if you're a mean Ruby-coding-machine, but even better if you have an interest in the business development and creative side of things too!

For more info and application details: http://www.claim-able.com/jobs.html

London based is preferred, although we'd consider a remote position for the right person.

You're having a laugh. £23k for a "rockstar developer" with 2+ years of Rails experience? In London?

Here is some market data http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/ruby%20on%20rails.do Bear in mind that the real "rockstars" are likely to be freelancing.

Maybe they mean £23k per month?
you could buy a lot of good soup for that, or spend a long holiday in cambodia!
Yeah, good point. I'm new to this hiring thing, so I'm trying to establish a reference point. I specifically mentioned "junior", but still, you're right, all the good ones will be freelancing.

I'll rethink my strategy!

San Francisco, CA - IndexTank. Software Engineer.

We are a fulltext search API that powers sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv and many others.

We are looking for an engineer to help us improve the UX of IndexTank's customers, and to build the tools to help them do the same for their users. This is both UI and backend work.

Languages: Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript. We run on AWS and working on supporting other cloud providers.

email diego @ indextank

Minneapolis, MN - PHP Guru

LinkUp Job Search Engine is looking for a stellar PHP programmer to help with our growing pains. Email me at eric at linkup.com if you have questions, or read more & apply at http://linkup.jobs/?p=showJob&ID=1817.

But Eric, why is this explanation so brief? Well, because if you're reading HN and aren't a "it is fashionable to dislike PHP" person, you're already 50% of the candidate we want!

Dropbox has many full-time engineering, design, and support positions open in SF http://dropbox.com/jobs

I help manage user growth there so I can tell you with pretty strong certainty there is no better opportunity. Dropbox has very few people but is running at a huge scale already.

I don't know why JobVite doesn't offer a RSS feed of job openings, but in case anyone is interested we (LinkUp) offer a RSS feed that shows all of Dropbox's jobs - http://bit.ly/dropboxrss.

A very good indicator of how cool the coders at Dropbox are is the challenges page that they use for hiring engineers: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges. That awesomeness is why everyone should keep their RSS feed handy!

I wish that Dropbox would allow remote work.

And I say this because I love the product. I'm just not at all interested in living in California.

managing remote folks is hard so we're not really focused on that right now.
I might be missing something, but I don't see any design position open, mainly engineering.
we just haven't posted to jobvite

email me if you're interested: ivan@dropbox.com

Los Angeles, CA and Silicon Valley, CA -- Factual

Remote work is a definite possibility, but in-person is highly preferred. We are looking for full-timers and interns.

Factual aims to be the place where people meet to share, improve, and mash-up data. We have an awesome team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). We recently raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers include Facebook (we provide some of their Places data) and Newsweek. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.

We're looking for awesome Java generalists. Bonus points for experience with MapReduce, developing NoSQL datastores and/or machine learning.

http://www.factual.com/jobs

You can also email me personally at leo -at- factual.com

Columbus, OH. eRetailing Associates LLC (http://www.eretailing.com). We're currently looking for a fulltime mid-level software developer. This would be working at our office on the north side of Columbus.

What do we is sell apparel online (mostly geared towards women), that can be customized using our web-based design center. The main technologies are Perl/Flash/Javascript/HTML5 in an EC2 Linux/MySQL environment, although of course desire and ability to learn is fine in lieu of having experience with these specific technologies.

It's a fairly laid back work environment, and since the team (and company) is small, technical experimentation and lack of bureaucracy is pretty much the norm. We have several new initiatives in the works, so that's why we need to hire another developer.

Any involvement in development activities outside of work is a definite plus. Feel free to visit our website, take a look around, and send your info to jobs@eretailing.com if you're interested...

Denver, CO (Lone Tree) - This or That (thisorthat.com) helps people crowd-source choices, keep up on controversial news and argue about Lil Wayne v. Eminem. We offer a competitive salary, health insurance, stock, & a strong belief in work/life balance. Funded via my previous exit. We are currently looking for: - Engineers (Java/MySQL/EC2/Mongo/jQuery/Hibernate/Spring) - Data Analysts / Statisticians

Apply via jobs@thisorthat.com (just tell us what you've done and why you might want to work with us)

You bought a domain from me! (thisorth.at)

Good luck in your endeavors!

Houston, TX. Alert Logic (alertlogic.com)

We are fast growing SaaS Security Software Vendor working in innovative technologies. You need to be willing to run fast and work at the top of your game.

Over 100 positions available currently: http://www.alertlogic.com/careers

Mountain View, CA -- RockMelt is looking for developers: Windows (C++), Mac (C++, Objective-C), Dev-Ops (Java, Python with sysadmin/operations experience).

The RockMelt desktop browser is based on Chromium, and our backend is hosted with AWS.

http://www.rockmelt.com/jobs.html

On-site preferred, but remote ok.

jay@rockmelt.com

Palo Alto, CA - Pulse is hiring for our downtown Palo Alto, CA office (adjacent to the CalTrain station). We're looking for iphone, android, and backend engineers. We're backed by 5 venture firms and are reinventing the way news is read on mobile devices. Each of our team members works on all areas of product development including programming, design, testing and communicating with our incredibly engaged user base. Send us your resume at jobs@alphonsolabs.com! Find out more about opportunities to join our team here: http://www.alphonsolabs.com/jobs
Hi! Was looking through your website, it doesn't say anything about sponsoring H1Bs. Do you do visa transfers if someone's already working in the US?
San Francisco, CA - VigLink, Product Manager, Senior Java Developer

VigLink is a content monetization company, assisting publishers to make more money from their site by capturing the value of outbound traffic from their site.

We use technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Nutch and Lucene. We're looking for full-stack developers ready to jump in on a high-volume low-latency bidding engine. Experience with real-time auctions, NLP and data mining are all pluses.

Work is in SF, looking for both interns and full time.

More info: http://www.viglink.com

Job descriptions:

http://www.viglink.com/jobs#/product-manager http://www.viglink.com/jobs#/senior-java-dev

Email me directly (oroup@) and please put "HN Job Post" in the title.

San Francisco, CA - HotPads.com has full time and internship openings for software engineers and web developers. We're a small team looking for driven individuals who want make a big impact on the way people search for housing: http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

Follow the instructions on the page or email me at dpeters@hotpads.com