Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)
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.
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (February 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537882
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We run everything on Linux, we run both virtualised and bare metal environments. We need someone with experience in multi tier network environments (IPS, IDS etc), general network maintenance and support. We're on a big push to automate things we should have a long time ago, so strong scripting skills are a huge plus, as is experience with using Nagios for monitoring. Our software stack is Java so JVM performance tuning and analysis is also desirable. We have lots of interesting problems.
Mail me directly for more details or with questions, colin@<company>.com
Looking for a junior system admin (or op dev) to help us out.
If you love web security, love learning new tools and have already some experience with Linux, WordPress, Joomla, managing sites, etc, email me dd@sucuri.net.
thanks,
Investors include Peter Thiel (Founder's Fund), Reid Hoffman, and Pearson, a leader in educational publishing. We were recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 25 best places to work by Crain’s New York Business.
We have about 80 employees right now. We pay full market salaries plus stock options, and you can take as much vacation as you need. Hours are typically 40-50 per week.
Our product is an adaptive learning platform, which means we use machine learning and "big data" techniques to deliver an individualized education to each student. Our eventual goal is to make a high-quality, adaptive education available to everyone in the world. The product is used by Arizona State University right now, and we recently signed a deal with Pearson to power many of their products.
Our code is a mix of Python, Java, and Scala. Most of our existing code is in Python, but we're working to scale up in a major way, which involves a migration to the JVM. Currently this involves a mix of Java and Scala, but our long-term goal is to move toward Scala. Consequently, we're really hot for Scala talent right now. Anyone who has experience taking Scala into production we would love to talk to right now.
You can reach me at knerd83 at gmail.com, and I'm a software engineer so I'll be able to answer any of your technical questions (e.g. why we're interested in Scala). Reach out if any of the following interest you:
* Using technology to democratize education.
* Machine learning and data mining, including approaches such as probablistic graphic models (PGMs), Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Monte Carlo Markov Chains.
* Functional programming (cf. Scala and Python).
* The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals and performance optimization.
* NoSQL databases (Cassandra and Redis).
* Thrift (the RPC protocol).
* Cloud computing (Amazon Web Services, Unix) and distributed systems.
Yes to the first, no on the second.
That one is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537736
Join our team to assist building and managing our cloud based solutions. Become a part of our rapidly growing team, which is building unique solutions for our life sciences customers. Wingspan’s SaaS infrastructure is growing and evolving as new technologies become available and new threats are identified.
http://www.wingspan.com/careers
INTERN OR FULLTIME
Rails Developers or Intern (Chicago or Remote) and a Marketing Intern (Chicago only)
http://feefighters.com
Looking for a Rails developer. We’re a startup working like mad to disrupt a multi-billion dollar financial industry and cut out tens of thousands of inefficient middle-men. Customers include Fog Creek/Stack Exchange, Photojojo, Weebly, Kickstarter, Make a Wish Foundation, tons of awesome startups, and even some public companies! And... we're just getting started.
We recently launched a new product called Samurai into public beta. (http://samurai.feefighters.com) It's an all-in-one all-in-one solution for taking payments online. It has come out of the gate swinging - there is a ton of pent-up demand to fix this industry and we're excited at how many people have been interested in our new product. We have a few more AWESOME tricks up our sleeve and need developers to help build them out!
We have passionate users, awesome investors and partners, and products that our customers love. We enjoy a very fun and stimulating work environment in our new office in River North. Much of the Samurai dev team was early on in another payments startup that grew to be a $2Billion company (including the CIO of that company). Here are bios of some folks that you'll be working with: https://samurai.feefighters.com/about We're still finishing up our job description - but here's a start. http://feefighters.com/jobs/rails-ninja-developer/
Email josh at feefighters with your interest. Also looking for a marketing intern to help us with social media and PR. Lots of fun stuff! http://feefighters.com/jobs/kickass-marketing-intern/
Lead Designer: http://www.parkwhiz.com/about/jobs/designer/
ParkWhiz creates software to help parking owners manage and market their parking using the ParkWhiz website, mobile apps, and data APIs. Our platform currently processes millions of dollars in transactions, and we're growing fast. Our stack is PHP, MySQL, nginx, and Redis, with a dash of Python on the backend, and jQuery/LESS/HTML5 on the front-end. We're a small team, and we work smart and fast.
Contact me directly if interested: jon@[company].com
TroopSwap is looking for several RoR engineers to join our small team working on awesome things for the military community.
Here's the Github job posting: http://jobs.github.com/positions/ba236ece-483c-11e1-8e31-276...
PhotoShelter provides tools to help photographers display, market, sell, and distribute their photos. We're a small company with a laid-back atmosphere (we love dogs and cookouts) located right on Union Square, in the heart of the city.
We're looking for a back-end engineer to help grow our product. Rather than any buzzwords, we value folks who are passionate about and take pride in their craft. Our back-end stack includes PHP, a bit of C, PostgreSQL, Sphinx and Memcached but we'd welcome inquiries from anyone with experience in designing and writing distributed systems, systems programming, and back-end development in general.
Our diverse staff includes veteran engineers from HotJobs and Yahoo, one of Computerworld's 40 Under 40 tech innovators, and even a well-known concert photographer. We offer competitive salaries, stock options, bonuses, great benefits, and try to grab dinner together (on the company!) every few weeks.
If you're interested, shoot an e-mail to devjobs@photoshelter.com. Thanks!
Gravitywell: small web agency looking for an engaged junior web/mobile developer for a range of client and inhouse projects.
We're a PHP shop, so a grasp of that is always helpful, but not compulsory. We're also expanding rapidly into iOS/Android development; but we'd love to hear from you regardless of experience or background.
Email me for more details, or any questions at all; nathan@gravitywell.co.uk
FULL TIME (London)
Front End Dev, Senior Java Dev, Senior Ruby Dev
http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/
Our business is now at an exciting new stage of its life, as it looks to increase its rate of customer growth further, build a strong recognisable brand profile, and develop a comprehensive customer contact strategy to deliver incremental revenue from its growing customer base.
We are building an innovative and dynamic culture around Agile. Our view and culture is web, not insurance. You will take part in shaping the future direction of this business from both a technology and cultural perspective, while helping to architect, design and refactor our systems.
The company has a dynamic team of 50 people in London and a passionate customer care team of 100 based in Northampton.
Salary is commensurate with experience. Excellent flexible benefits package including private health insurance, life assurance and season ticket loan.
Email careers [at] simplybusiness.co.uk with your CV/Resume and an explanation as to why you'd want to work here. Make sure you mention HN in your email!
We are currently in the process of building out our next generation Cloud based sports pricing platform. This allows sports traders in other gaming companies to use our real time quantitative models over the web to predict the outcome of a wide range of sports events in real time. You can find out more about what we're doing here: http://www.sportingsolutions.com/products/c2e
We're looking for great web developers, web ops and customer integration engineers to join us. Core technology stack is .net but we're happy using whatever tools help us get the job done including c#, f#, node.js, scala, erlang, mongodb, rabbit mq and redis to name a few. We're fans of REST, distributed systems and lean start-up methodologies (we see ourselves as an internal start-up - without the raw financial pressures of a typical start-up I guess)
If it sounds interesting - get in touch with me - abritcliffe [at] sportingindex.com
Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on something that matters: http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html
apply here: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83
FULLTIME or INTERN
REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement.
We are building CopyCopy (http://www.copycopy.cc/) - a cross-platform productivity tool that makes it simple to transfer anything between phones and desktop computers.
We use:
• Java (for Android, BackberryOS, GWT and in our homegrown lightweight Java server)
• C++ (for Win32, Qt, Android NDK and Objective-C++)
• Python (occasionally) to string bits together
• Objective-C (iPhone and Mac)
• JavaScript (web frontend work and browser extensions)
• Redis
We are a young startup headed by experienced engineers, and moving fast towards the first launch. You will have the opportunity of working on self-contained projects from spec to release to consumers. Our Git repositories, code review and Project Management tools are geared towards remote working and we are open to flexible working conditions. We urgently need full-timers and interns (paid).
Equity on top of salary for the right candidate.
We are happy to consider remote workers who are located in timezones +/-3 hours from London or you can work in our new North West London offices.
Apply now to find out about our "secret sauce" that will make CopyCopy the simplest way of transferring anything between devices.
Just send your CV to jobs@copycopy.cc now!
Remote work is fine, but Providence, RI area is preferable (or, a willingness to consider relocation eventually; though to be clear, for the right person this isn't a requirement at all).
We're a small design driven development company working exclusively on Django projects. Very flexible work environment, bonus options, etc. We are not a funded startup, we're bootstrapping ourselves. We have a large fluffy dog as the office mascot!
Must enjoy, or tolerate, a wide variety of musical genres and styles.
Email peter at projectevolution.com if you're interested!
Our clients include Google, PayPal, News Corp & large agencies. We're a 50 person pure webdev house (no designers, no Flash, no account managers, no sysadmins) working almost exclusively on Google App Engine.
http://p.ota.to
FULL TIME - New York - Boston
Do you love Ruby on Rails or Java but really consider yourself a Polyglot Programmer? Do you want to work on custom back end applications with other exceptional developers and continuously make yourself a better engineer? Do you want to have a real work-life balance and still be able to produce great work?
Cyrus Innovation is a profitable and growing Agile development consulting firm that was founded in 2003 and provides on-site XP teams to start-up and enterprise level organizations in Boston and New York City.
We are looking for honest and energized developers to join our exceptional team. We pair program, practice TDD, and have daily stand-ups on every project and are looking for people who love Agile as much as we do. We don’t believe in cubicles and think that an open office space that allows for constant communication is the best way to produce great work. Through our intense hiring process we bring on the best developers in town and aren’t afraid to fire people who can’t get the job done.
We are serious about our love for new technology, best practices, and constant improvement. If you have a true passion for coding both in and out of the office and believe that Agile is the best way to get things done, we would love to hear from you.
For more information about Cyrus, or to apply for a position please send a resume to Marc Rosenberg at mrosenberg@cyrusinnovation.com
Life360 is
Life360 is not Life360 offers Life360 would love to tell you moreWe are a tight, fast and profitable ~50 person software company working in the financial software space. We don't trade - we sell pickaxes to the gold miners, so to speak. Our main product is a high speed distributed system, on top of which we've built a trading platform for algorithms and other software. We are looking for experienced software developers (no finance experience required) - in particular, we really need an awesome UI developer to help build our trading UI and make it fast and beautiful.
See our news room for some buzz: http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/press
and apply at: http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers
Also - free lunch and snacks!
At Qubit - http://www.qubitproducts.com/ - we're helping some of the biggest companies in UK understand their data and providing them with actionable intelligence. Founded by 4 ex-Googlers 2 years ago, we're looking for Front-end/Infrastructure/Statistical engineers to help build our core infrastructure to find deeper insights into our huge data sets.
We mainly use Java, to develop our Hadoop pipeline on AWS, and JavaScript, both in browser and on our nodejs/redis servers, with a bit of R, Python and what not in the mix. 2012 is going (to continue) to be an exciting time for our company and we'd love to have a bunch more people help us grow!
Have a chat with us at hiring+yc@qubitdigital.com and let us know what you are looking for to get the ball rolling.
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Ideal candidate: - 2-3 years full time dev experience in Ruby (will consider light Ruby experience or more junior if you're a solid fit and eager to learn) - Smart / raw talent / logical thought process important - Entrepreneurial hustle - basically someone that wants to contribute a lot to LocalBonus and then be CTO/Founder of their own company after this.
Email tim@localbonus.com
Front end developer, back end developer, marketing and ops.
We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.
We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet retail. We're funded by First Round (among others).
http://jobs.monetate.com/
* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale. * We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.
We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.
Feel free to email me with any questions - tjanofsky monetate com.
= About Lose It! =
Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight.
8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently top 10 in Health category)
500k+ Android Downloads (very new, currently top 15 in Health category)
2M Website enabled users (connecting to our website is optional)
2M Uniques per month across all platforms
7M+ pounds of weight have been lost by website enabled users (Estimated ~18M pounds lost across all users)
8k messages betweens users that opted into social features per day
450M+ foods logged by website enabled users
Current Team - 1 CEO (technical), 1 Developer (me), 1 Business Dev, 1 Community Manager
Current Stack - GWT, MySQL, Java (server side and Android), AWS, Objective C (iPhone), Membase
Current Tools - Intellij, Git, Navicat, New Relic, CloudBees, Asana
= Who we are looking for =
Lose It! is looking for new members (we have more then one spot open) for our product team to help us build our next generation of products. We believe that small teams of well rounded people can do great things, so we're looking for someone that can contribute to all phases of building a great product. We believe that iterating on our products with customers is the best way to build something great, so we'd like someone who enjoys talking to customers and making them happy (and maybe even helping to change their lives).
As a software engineer at Lose It!, you'll be an early member of the team that is building the core product, the most complete and effective weight loss software spanning mobile devices and the web. You should have a passion for and a proven track record of building products that delight users.
= Who to contact =
{first name} at loseit.com - If you think you would be a good fit send me an email with anything (resume, cover letter, github account, maybe just a simple 'hello'. I'll read anything and everything you send).
Perhaps the best stat I've ever seen on a mission statement, more fat... I mean power to you!