Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)
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 that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
No recruiters or job boards, thanks
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers?" (October 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3060222
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 142 ms ] threadThat said, I'm coming to the conclusion that one should always be looking for jobs at least in a limited sense (networking, skill building). It's not disloyal. It's just smart. Jobs end, sometimes suddenly and involuntarily. It's a fact of life and people need to be prepared.
You mean like a hiring manager | HR person | future coworker who might post here? I could see arguments going either way about weekend posting. At least it should be at the top of the ask HN list for a while since it is a bit lower churn for people not wanting it to disappear because of the weekend post. etc.
They don't know what loyal means. Don't kill yourself trying to show them.
I think that's easier to remember than "1st of the month, unless that falls on a weekend, then it's the 1st business day following the 1st of the month"; which tends to get further conflated to include holidays.
> This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' post at 8 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every month.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
(Just happened to find this out myself because I thought, "who is this person that is so regular with these posts?")
RG Labs is hiring: http://www.rglabsinc.com/#jobs
We operate under the premise that the most important decisions we make are decisions about people (e.g., who to start a company with, who to hire, who to date/marry...) We also feel like the Web is in its infancy in terms of helping us to make better decisions based on data and that this space will explode in coming years.
We're planning to help detonate that explosion. :)
We have a long backlog of customers waiting to use our product when it launches and a big market in front of us. We're building an engineering-centric organization and working out of a cool work/live space in the Mission. Our current stack includes Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Resque, and elasticsearch and we'll be diving in soon on Hadoop, graph databases/neo4j and a whole host of other fun stuff. We're also planning to contribute to open source as much as we can (e.g., https://github.com/rglabs/teleport).
We're funded but also really early so it's a unique opportunity to be a major contributor and help to set the tone for the future for our company.
To hear more drop me a line directly at jon@rglabsinc.com or contact via our website. We'd love to tell you more.
GoPollGo is looking for talented Rails developers to help us innovate in the polling/survey space. This will be employee #3 and is a full-time salaried position with options. We're also looking for a stellar visual graphic designer -- full time salaried w/ options as well.
No remote workers right now -- sorry.
Lot18 is revolutionizing the way Americans buy wine. We provide a highly curated marketplace for wineries and epicurean product producers to sell direct to consumers.
We are hiring software engineers to join our small but growing 10 person dev team. You can apply by sending your resume and a link to your github profile to jobs@lot18.com.
Why you should work here:
- We work with a ton of awesome technologies (Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Tornado, Chef, git, Vagrant, MySQL, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, jQuery and more)
- Well funded. We’ve raised $14.5M from tier one investors.
- People actually use our product. Over 500k users have joined since we launched in Nov 2010.
- It’s not social media. We have a real business model and do 7 figures a month in transactions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental paid in full, unlimited vacation, plenty of wine, lots of challenges and interesting business/tech problems to solve.
At Adcloud we do some awesome high performance web work with our adservers and we need help from great software developers: http://adcloud.com/de/dev/
Ping me for more info.
Bookish is hiring Scala and Rails engineers to work on a project that puts Reading Rainbow to shame.
Lots of interesting work around recommendations, big big data, ereading, and everything in between.
http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Software_Engineers_Scala_Ruby_...
Having almost finished Odersky's book, I've reached the conclusion that Scala is somewhere between (a) the best language out there, and (b) at risk of getting into over-complex C++ territory. I'd have to take it to 25,000 lines at least before I could have a reasonably useful opinion on it. It looks fun, though.
MongoDB: what are the advantages of it? How does that work out for you? "NoSQL" is interesting to me because I've never used any of those products. I worked at a company that tried to use sharded MySQL, which is pure hell if you want (a) anything more than a key-value store (because you're multi-sharding and have to keep consistency) and (b) performance at the same time.
A lot's been written about why Mongo, what are problems it is singularly suited to solving. At Bookish, we're using Mongo for a use case clearly not well-suited to a relational structure, where the ability to query by elements other than document key are essential. So far so good.
(Andy Parsons, CTO at Bookish)
On Time Systems is a small company (about 22 employees) that develops AI applications for scheduling and routing. We're currently looking for software engineers to work on Green Driver (a smartphone app that uses real-time data from traffic signals to help drivers find the fastest route (http://imagreendriver.com)) and ACFP, the flight planning system used by the US Air Force for routing non-combat flights. We're looking especially for people with a strong algorithmic background.
We have some really nice benefits, including (in addition to the usual ones like medical) sabbaticals, massages, your own office with a window, and 100% tuition reimbursement (including flight school if you work on our flight planning software). We used to be a research lab at the University of Oregon, and the atmosphere maintains some of the academic feel.
See http://www.otsys.com/employment.php for more details. Send your resume to jobs+hackernews@otsys.com
If you're interested in developing rich internet applications and data visualizations around simulations and games for us in San Francisco, I would love to hear from you. We are hiring across the entire stack and looking for client-side and server-side developers.
Some of our current projects:
- a venture-back tech game/sim for MIT
- simulating game-theory style price moves between two competitors for a beverage company in North America
- national health simulations with the CDC
- several business simulations and games for Harvard Business School Publishing
- on-going data visualization, ui and compiler work for our core platform, Forio Simulate http://forio.com/simulate
Benefits:
- job security, market salaries - we've been cash flow positive for years
- collaborate, share, and learn from other talented developers in a pleasant work place
- reasonable work hours - working late nights and weekends is unusual
- good software development practices - QA, unit testing, usability testing, git, bug tracking, etc.
If you're interested or have questions, email mbean@forio.com and I can direct you to the right people.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/13663/senior-php-lamp-...
Simulation services company seeking C++ developers for 3D / 2D visualization, first order physics and statistical sensor modeling, UI and application integration, and distributed computing. Fast moving environment where a small group of developers are responsible for design, development, QA, and technical support. In business since 1995, with continuous growth since and a current backlog. Reach us at careers@kinex.com.
Meraki - http://meraki.com
Meraki is the leader in cloud networking and we have over 18,000 customer networks around the world. You can see a sample of customers who rely on Meraki at: http://meraki.com/customers. We were funded by Sequoia and Google, and are based in the Mission district of San Francisco.
Our cloud infrastructure has been developed from the ground up, and we pride ourselves in its reliability, resilience, and performance (we have a 99.99% uptime SLA). Our wireless access points and routers make network management simple, and our relentless focus on user experience delights our customers.
We’re looking to hire in San Francisco and we have a few positions open in London as noted.
// Engineering
On the front-end, distributed web application lets network administrators quickly sift through historical operating data, perform diagnostics, and navigate a huge space of possible network configurations through an intuitive interface. Our multi-site, hosted backend system provides services for all of those thousands of networks and millions of client devices. Your work will be widely deployed and used by millions of people, and you will be able to collect an incredible amount of data about how your code is performing. Our team is small enough that you will work on problems core to our business; we are also growing quickly, with a proven model for our technology, so your work will reach many customers and have a huge impact.
* Front-end: sharp and creative UI engineers who love to work with Javascript, CSS, and Ruby on Rails. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#ui_eng
* Back-End Systems: familiarity with C++, Ruby or Python, an understanding of databases, and especially experience running a live service or building production systems. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#bs_eng
* Firmware: fluent in C, some device driver experience, with a love for building new products and things like bringing up new platforms. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#fw_eng
* Hardware Program: passionate for research, product specs, engineering, project management, and manufacturing/quality (ME, EE or similar). http://meraki.com/company/jobs#hardware-program-engineer
// Marketing
* Technical Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, a solid technical background, and the skill to tackle a wide variety of activities, such as launching new products, providing technical education to customers and partners, building collateral and competitive positioning to assist Meraki's rapidly growing sales team, and more. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#product_mktg
* Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, creativity, and a passion for growing a business, with the ability to run a wide variety of campaigns and activities, from launching new demand generation campaigns, increasing partner productivity, promoting customer evangelism, and running advertising and branding campaigns. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#mktg_mgr
* Marketing Events Manager: highly organized, energetic, and creative person to execute our fast-paced events program. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#events_mktg
* [London] Marketing Manager - Europe: excellent analytical and communication skills, creativity, and a passion for growing a business, with the ability to run a wide variety of campaigns and activities, from launching new demand generation campaigns, increasing partner productivity, p...
We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who value the work/life balance.
Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...
Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...
Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...
Email us at jobs@freeagentcentral.com. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).
Rally is changing the way fundraising works online.
We are hiring full stack web developers looking to make large individual contributions to a very small team. We have a RoR stack, practice TDD heavily and push code daily.
If you want to know more contact me at andrew@rally.org
Maginatics Inc. is hiring: http://maginatics.com/jobs.html
We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) systems. If this sounds like it's up your alley, we would love to hear from you at jobs@maginatics.com.
We are also trying to get a great team together. You can check us out on LinkedIn or find most of us at http://twitter.com/#!/maginatics/team/members. Drop us a note or come meet us for coffee!
We're an online video platform (the second largest source of video traffic after youtube) looking to hire DevOps & QA engineers, as well as product managers.
We're large enough to face cool scaling problems but still feel like a startup.
Send me an email if you've any questions (in profile or sneubardt@brightcove), i'm a software engineer and love it!
INTERN
Talkdesk is hiring: http://talkdeskapp.com
Back-end developer and front-end developer.
We are not picky but we work mostly with Node.js, Rails, Backbone.js and MongoDB.
email to tiago @ tiagop.org
We're looking for a hacker 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 #Ruby #PHP #MySQL #Redis #MongoDB #Javascript
Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a kick ass team. Only looking for folks in NYC. http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
Playtomic is hiring Android and .NET developers. This is a tiny team so preferably you'll have experience with a bunch of languages and be strong at a couple of them.
We work with a lot of languages, a lot of cool companies and developers, and at a big scale.
You can get me at ben at playtomic.
Quizlet.com is redefining how students study from middle school social studies to university-level Arabic to GRE prep. We deploy new stuff daily to our user base of 6 million students and teachers per month. We're a small, scrappy team in San Francisco, working hard to transform how people learn using technology (read our 17,000+ testimonials: http://quizlet.com/testimonials/).
We're looking for entrepreneurial engineers who can do it all: cook up great ideas, design, and implement new features, build for huge scale, get deep in the heads of users and create clean user experiences. Do whatever it takes to make a huge impact!
You should love coding (we're not religious about specific technologies, but we use PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML5, Node.js, Puppet, Git, and Sphinx, among others)
Cloudera - http://www.cloudera.com
We're the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services. We're hiring in a ton of positions - check our careers page for details.
In particular, I'm looking to grow our certification program and curriculum development department. You'd primarily be working on helping to develop and expand our certification program - we've huge plans for the next year, and we need more staff to make it all happen. If you're smart, technical, able to learn new stuff quickly, a good writer, and able to work on your own initiative, you might be the person I need. Bonus points for having experience of professional certification programs, curriculum development, Hadoop. E-mail me directly: e-mail address is in my profile.
Hi, I’m MindTribe’s director of Software Engineering. I’m searching for people who enjoy learning and making. We’re a small company, and I’m looking for people with whom I would personally like to work and who want to work with me. We're moving from Palo Alto to SF on Nov 1st. And now, besides experienced SENIOR embedded programmers, I am looking for INTERNs and JUNIOR engineers as well. If you enjoyed your microcontroller classes in school, come join us in SF for continuing education.
Here are the tools I use regularly: The C programming language (specifically ISO/IEC 9899:1990); Eclipse, Make, Subversion, Git, Python; Linux, Embedded Linux, Android, iOS; ARM processors (TI OMAP, TI Stellaris, NXP LPC); Atmel AVR/AVR32, Microchip PIC, TI MSP430, Cypress PSoC
Here is what I enjoy doing at work: Writing embedded software that runs on cool hardware; Figuring out how to apply agile techniques such as test-driven development to embedded product development; Reducing regressions and supporting customer development with agile techniques; Developing embedded libraries for things like USB, TCP/IP, graphics displays, sprites, fonts, encryption, etc.; Having long, dorky conversations with coworkers about programming languages, physics, estimating Facebook’s relative revenue distribution between advertising and games, etc.
Here is what I enjoy doing outside of work: Hiking, walking around San Francisco; Pseudonymous humor blogging; Cooking and baking; Photography; Reading. Recently: "Test Driven Development for Embedded C", "The Clean Coder", "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", "The Art of Racing in the Rain", "Norwegian Wood", "The Mind's Eye", and "Cutting for Stone".
You can see examples of how I’ve applied my tools and passion here: http://mindtribe.com/portfolio/
You don’t have to use the same tools and you don’t have to enjoy the same things. But if you’re excited about similar stuff, drop me a line at hn@mindtribe.com to let me know.
We're also hiring ELECTRICAL and MECHANICAL engineers!
WePay
https://www.wepay.com/jobs - We're solving a real problem, making tons of money while doing it and are taking PayPal head on. Read our blog post about why we're hiring: http://www.wepay.com/blog/2011/09/29/why-wepay-is-hiring/
H1B welcome.
Design Intern with experience or training in 3D modelling. Help us build an adventure game with historically accurate characters and buildings.
This is a 6 month paid internship.
gbrown@scholastic.com