Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)
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Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (March 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3652044
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 314 ms ] threadWe are looking for Front End Developers, Customer Solutions Engineers and a DevOps / Systems Engineer. You'll need a degree in Computer Science or similar discipline from a top university, the flair to do well in a dynamic growth-phase start up and an Open Source state of mind.
Front End Developers need to have skills in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and cross browser debugging. Any experience of the Back End or UI / UX design will be a major plus. We use tools like Backbone, Redis and Nodejs on the Front End side, and would love to hear from you if you do too.
Customer Solutions Engineers have all the skills of the Front Enders, with the ability to be client facing. You'll be dealing with major players in the eCommerce space and helping to troubleshoot and solve problems on their websites. In depth knowledge of server-side coding and web design would be really beneficial here.
Our DevOps / Systems Engineer is going to help us optimize our platform. We're looking for someone with crossover Sys Admin and programming experience. You'll be autoscaling our use of Amazon Web Services and maintaining our networks and systems including a Hadoop cluster.
We're looking at graduate, junior, mid-level and senior people for these hires. If your kung fu is the best let us know, we'd love to hear from you. Send a CV to careers@qubitdigital.com and maybe you'll be joining our team in London's Soho and enjoying life at Wired's start up of the week: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/28/startup-of-th...
Business Applications Sales Executive Responsible for a multi-state region in the Pacific Northwest/West coast. Selling products and services to mid market companies. Includes but not limited to: MAS90, Accpac, MAS500, X3, HRMS solutions, Enterprise Content Management, Web solutions, Infrastructure and Managed Services.
Wingspan Technology has a series of enterprise software products for integration between Sharepoint & Documentum, and SaaS verticals. We're working on some big projects and new products and growing fast.
http://www.wingspan.com/careers/
Wingspan Technology has a series of enterprise software products for integration between Sharepoint & Documentum, and SaaS verticals. We're working on some big projects and new products and growing fast.
http://www.wingspan.com/careers/
We aggregate, scrub, produce, analyze, distribute all of the data in the world that drives our market economies. We know how to process data efficiently and at an enormous scale. We apply the same principles of dealing with market data to other sectors such as government, law, and even sports. We hire people that thrive on challenges and can hack on systems to meet these challenges in the best way possible.
We run our own datacenters, containing the biggest/best hardware available in the world. We run one of the largest private networks in the world and connect to more primary data sources than anyone else. Incoming market data rates exceed 45+ billion messages a day.
If these challenges interest you, check the listings online for something that sounds interesting, apply mentioning me, and/or e-mail me to get in contact.
http://soundcloud.com/jobs
We are working to bring all of your digital photos, no matter where they are, back into the forefront of your life. Our manifesto is described in detail here: http://blog.woventheapp.com/2012/01/17/our-photo-manifesto/
We are a small and geographically distributed team. Our backend is written in Python using Flask and we use Mongo and Redis for storage. People have thousands and thousands of photographs and we're already beginning to deal with interesting challenges in scaling, and we expect things to become more challenging and fun as we grow. We have viewer apps for Android and iOS and will be expanding upon that soon.
An incomplete list of positions we are hiring for is here: http://blog.woventheapp.com/careers/ but to summarize them:
* Backend Engineer (DevOps)
* iPhone Engineers
* Test Engineers
* Project Managers
In addition I think we would be interested in people with experience in areas like Android development, Windows and Mac application development, machine learning, and image processing.
If you'd like to learn more, feel free to email me at joe@<my hn username>.org. Visit the careers page linked above to apply.
Do you want to work on a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users a year?
http://urbanairship.com/company/jobs/
Lot18 (http://www.lot18.com) is revolutionizing the way people buy wine and epicurean products online.
Hiring:
* Software Engineers (primarily Python)
* Frontend Engineers
* Director of Engineering
* Data Engineers
Why you should work here:
- We work with a ton of great technologies: Python, gevent, gunicorn, Tornado, JavaScript, Chef, git, Vagrant, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, jQuery and more.
- Well funded. We’ve raised $45M from NEA, Accel & FirstMark.
- People actually use our product. Over 1M registererd users since we launched in Nov 2010.
- We have a real business model and process 7 figures a month in transactions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental paid in full, unlimited vacation, plenty of wine, dev kegerator, foosball/ping pong lots of challenges and interesting business/tech problems to solve.
Apply by emailing jobs@lot18.com.
We're building a widespread consumer product which users really love and shout about. We're a tiny team of 3, but we already have 130,000 users and are profitable.
You can work from wherever you are, or wherever you want to be. We care most that you enjoy your work. We're in Hong Kong right now, and we'll be in San Francisco later in the year. You can join us, or work remotely.
More details: http://angel.co/buffer/recruiting and apply from there or email me directly: joel@bufferapp.com
Assistant Project Manager, Game Development. This job is part project management and part game design. Help us build adventure games that tie to bestselling book series for kids. Shoot an e-mail gavinobrown@gmail.com if interested.
Netsociety is searching for a pro-active, goal-oriented and innovative person who is motivated to work in a young team of developers. As a developer you will be working on challenging projects with big data using distributed index systems.
The job is an outstanding opportunity for young technology-oriented individuals eager to learn latest technologies, distributed computing, develop their experience and meet lots of challenges!
Profile:
- Knowledge in .NET, C# 3.0 or higher. Skills in working with LINQ/Entity Framework, SQL Server, WCF would be considered as an advantage
- University degree or current enrollment in University program (computer science, information technology)
- Solution-oriented attitude and eager to learn
- Good comprehension of English
Netsociety offers:
- Flexible working time
- Young and motivated team
- Good salary
- Covering of travel costs
- Lots of fun :-)
The position is open for Dutch as well as international residents.
For more information please visit http://www.netsociety.nl/en/vacancies/net-developer
Hashrocket is looking to grow our Chicago office. We're specifically looking for experienced Ruby/Rails developers.
Want to get paid open source time and work with a small, dedicated group of developers? Email jobs+chicago at hashrocket.com. See our Github post for more detail: https://jobs.github.com/positions/2adac242-5cca-11e1-9778-92...
bitly helps you collect, organize, shorten and share links. We are currently reinventing how people discover and share content on the web.
Hiring:
Infrastructure Engineers
Application Engineers
Frontend Engineers
Systems Administrators/DevOps
We work at massive scale, using a straightforward/well reasoned stack of open source software components. We are predominantly a Python/C shop, but we prize passion, problem solving ability, and intelligence over any specific language background.
Apply at jobs@bitly.com or visit bitly.com/jobs to learn more.
GoInstant (http://www.goinstant.com)
GoInstant is a venture-backed startup building a unique co-browsing tool that allows two or more people to surf the web at the same time. It requires no downloads, plugins or installs. People connect in 3 seconds or less and share a web experience in real-time.
Hiring:
* Senior QA Engineer
* Senior Web Developer
* Web Developer
Apply at http://www.goinstant.com/jobs
Bronto Software is looking for a number of engineers to expand our multi-channel e-commerce focused marketing platform (why yes, I did steal this copy from Marketing). Java, PHP, UI/UX and especially DevOps disciplines are all welcome. Sense of humor, excellent taste in music and beer, and mad foosball skills are all a plus. Follow the link for current openings.
https://careers-bronto.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&search...
Wildfire App.
Ruby Developers. Mid to Senior.
More details here: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2012-January/0...
Senior Microsoft and Infrastructure Systems Administrator at Cognis
Cognis is a Managed Information Technology Service Provider, helping to improve the return on investment in technology procurement and implementation, and increasing the value delivery of IT to the organizations that it serves. Cognis proactively works with clients to align its’ services with our client’s technology goals, thus providing all the resources of an in-house IT department at a fraction of the cost. Targeted clients include small and medium sized businesses looking to augment their existing IT support or outsource all of their IT needs.
This position requires a blend of skills. We are looking for a senior level Microsoft Systems Administrator with demonstrated experience supporting the infrastructure and systems within a 100 server Microsoft Environment. Core responsibilities include supporting VMware 3.5/4.1, and Dell SANS, Windows Server 2003 / 2008 R2 64-bit, Active Directory, Data Backup, Disaster Recovery, UPS Power Management.
You will be the key person responsible for supporting a full range of customers, including 20 user professional service firms upwards of 350 user medical practice networks. Additionally, you will handle all Tier 2 and above Help Calls dealing with your areas of responsibility and be part of a three-person team backing up the Help Desk when needed for Tier 1 calls.
All of our IT positions are highly visible; therefore, you must have excellent customer service and communication skills. From time to time you will be required to make presentations at various company meetings.
This is a great opportunity to be involved in all aspects of supporting small to medium sized companies with opportunities for growth and advancement. You will be part of a five person IT Team and must be able to work well independently as well as part of a team. You must be creative and willing to constantly look for ways to improve our workflow and processes. From time to time you will be assigned projects and work with other members of IT to accomplish common goals and initiatives.
Please apply at Monster.com: http://jobview.monster.com/Sr-Microsoft-Infrastructure-Syste...
Senior System Administrator
We are a small but rapidly growing SaaS company providing semantic based enterprise management software, and we are looking for smart developers as well as a senior sysadmin. We are a fun company doing disruptive / interesting things in a boring market. Looking for permanent people but are flexible with our arrangements. Give us a shout if you are interested at jobs@thoughtexpress.com
EverFi - EDTech Startup backed by NEA, Tomorrow Ventures, Michael Chasen and more. Creating learning platforms for k12 thru college with a major big data component. We're hiring for: * Software Engineers(Ruby on Rails) * UX/UI * Sys Admin * Product Managers * Account Managers
Check out our job page here http://everfi.me/A5KvMG or get in touch at HN@everfi.com
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 marketing. We're funded by First Round and OpenView (among others).
http://jobs.monetate.com/
* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and real-time API 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.
* Also hiring in QA and project management
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
email: sgallagher monetate com
Front-end (UI/UX) Developer
Here’s a profile of us from 37signals (we do flight tracking software, 2M+ pageviews a day): http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2780-bootstrapped-profitable-...
We have very interesting data visualization and UI problems and your work will reach millions of users. We've also released a bunch of open source projects. You get top-of-the-line Apple gear and our kitchen is always stocked with snacks and beverages, including a free (!) beer kegerator. We’re a fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.
We’ve been around for a while, but we’re still growing like mad. Compensation is very competitive.
Who you are:
• You have a trail of cool projects you’ve worked on, including some you’ve written to scratch your own itch.
• You obsess over the design of everyday things, from door knobs to teapots or light switches.
• You have a passion for software and desire to change the world.
• You have excellent implementation skills, including deep expertise in Javascript (jQuery).
• You enjoy working on tricky UI problems with equally smart people.
You can apply on our website: http://flightaware.com/about/careers/position/frontend_devel... or shoot me an email: david.chouinard@flightaware.com
What's next, hackerspaces with liquor permits and bartenders?
Wait, that would be pretty cool...
A marketing platform specializing in email. Our clients include Etsy, Trek, Sam Adams, and Armani Exchange to name a couple. We provide a web app with which allows our clients to send email, SMS, and social (facebook/twitter) marketing content to their customers.
- PHP software engineers
- UI/UX engineer
- Production software engineer (first-responder handling bug code)
- PHP software engineering manager
App is written in Zend PHP. The back-end data comes from a mix of MySQL via PHP and Hbase and Cassandra via Java. 10/12 on the Joel test (3 and 12 not included), code reviews, CI, automated unit tests, solid QA team.
The engineering management is fantastic, and the company culture is great - we usually have paid for activities monthly, free beer weekly, and foosball daily.
ZipRecruiter is looking to expand our 3 person engineering team. We are small (12 full time employees), growing rapidly, bootstrapped and profitable.
We help employers and recruiters distribute their jobs online and screen their applicants. We have a large number of paying customers and job seekers using our service. You will be working directly with the company co-founders and will have the opportunity to lead significant projects. We pay market competitive salaries and offer generous equity and cash bonuses. I think we're more laid back than the average startup and more fun than the average BigCo - we're fans of 37signals and we emulate a lot of what they talk about.
We're looking for the type of people who want to someday start their own internet company, and we're happy to help mentor employees who want to do this.
Job requirements:
- excellent software design and development skills - experience with general web development and programming in a Linux environment - some experience with Perl and SQL (not necessary for interns)
Technologies we use:
Perl, Catalyst, MySQL, Apache, Solr, Redis, jQuery, Selenium, AWS, Linux
If you're interested, email dev+jobs@[our-domain] or apply here: http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Software-Engineer/67c7dd54/