Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

Wuaki.tv, Barcelona, Spain. http://jobs.wuaki.tv : Several open positions: Rails Developer, DBA, SysAdmin... We are building a Video On Demand Platform for web and Connected Devices. We have launched in Spain, but we are growing and expanding the team and project Internationally. We are a young and funny team. We look for a team builder, with strong knowledge of Rails that will bring more “power and muscle” to the team. Someone that knows how to deal with pressure and work with a multidisciplinary team. The position is full-time job in our Barcelona offices.

Philadelphia, PA (Blue Bell) Full-time, Intern - Software Engineers & Operations

Join a small, but rapidly growing technology company in the Philadelphia suburbs. We're building a hosted, cloud-based offering for clinical trials (Java/Postgres). The engineering group is very self-directed and is experimenting with new technologies ranging from an iPad client to Scala.

http://www.wingspan.com/careers/

Sonian (Newton, MA) - Full time, local or remote

We're a funded (recently closed Series C) email archiving startup with many large corporate customers. We are looking for an additional engineer for our operations (or "devops" if you prefer) team, to take us from merely using configuration management and automated deploys to delivering our internal services as dependable, multi-IaaS-portable tools that empower everyone from support engineers to Clojure backend developers to solve customer issues without paging us and use our monitoring API to automatically spin up instances to process work.

We have offices outside of Boston (Newton), but our dev and ops teams are mostly remote, and we meet over VOIP and pair-program in tmux.

Some highlights of what we do:

  +   We manage hundreds of compute instances across multiple clouds, including over a petabyte of data.
  +   We write the code to help facilitate deploying our application to new public clouds.
  +   We automate everything we possibly can
  +   We build up awesome applications, and then opensource them (Perhaps you've heard of our monitoring framework Sensu - https://github.com/sensu )
  +   We build applications to manage every aspect of our compute and storage infrastructure, from deploying code, to provisioning systems on multiple clouds, to securing access control.  For every problem - there is a code solution.
  +   We have an awesome time working together on technologies that very few (if any) other companies are doing today.
  +   We have days where all we do is hack on a specific project (http://blog.petecheslock.com/2012/02/13/why-your-company-should-have-internal-hackdays/) - leave the day-to-day tasks for the next day.
  +   We meet up 2-3 times a year in Boston - with the rest of the company.

What are we looking for in a new member of our team?

  +   Excitement, energy and a willingness to learn something new.
  +   The ability to take a task from idea to code to testing to deploy (all within a short amount of time).
  +   Bring new ideas around project or processes to the team - if we like it - we'll do it.
  +   You can work from home, from our Newton, MA headquarters, or your local coffee shop.  Anywhere with Internet access.
  +   You'll be part of an on-call rotation with the rest of our team.
  +   Flexible person who can work by themselves or pair with their team to teach or learn.

What are some things you should know or have worked with before? (Some, many or all)

  +   Ruby (must know or want to learn)
  +   Not required, but pluses: Python (used by some parts of our infrastructure), Clojure (used by our backend team)
  +   Chef (or other configuration management systems), Fog
  +   Rails, Sinatra (both also used by our front-end team)
  +   Git or other DVCS
  +   System administration with Ubuntu (includes security, logging, monitoring, web/SQL admin, etc, etc)
  +   Knowledge of Openstack (especially Swift) is a plus
  +   A love for making complex configuration and systems simple via automation
  +   Continuous Deployment, Agile Development/Kanban
  +   Contributing to open source

Interested? - Contact pete.cheslock@sonian.com or https://twitter.com/petecheslock, and let him know you saw this post. Please include a short summary of why you think you would be a good fit, resume/blog/etc, and a link to a Github account or other code samples.

AllTrails - Consumer / Outdoors

FULLTIME Rails / Mobile Engineers, Community Manager, Sales Account Executives

San Francisco (preferred) / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote / H1B http://alltrails.com

AllTrails is hiring! We're building Yelp for the outdoors - the best way to discover and share hiking trails and outdoor activities around you. We're helping people rediscover the outdoors and having lots of fun in the process. Camping benefits, anyone?

We just launched our brand new site in partnership with National Geographic (http://alltrails.com/partners/national_geographic) and have the #1 outdoors app in the Apple and Android stores (try searching for 'Hiking').

Our company was AngelPad incubated, is funded by 500Startups and consists of a strong team from Google / Microsoft / Facebook with previous startup experience. We also have the author of an O'Reilly Android book on the team. We're looking for exceptional full stack Rails and mobile developers (Android and iOS). We're also hiring for a community manager and sales folks.

If your idea of sunlight is more than just sitting in front of a really bright monitor all day, we'd love to hear from you!

http://alltrails.com/jobs or jobs@alltrails.com

Waltham, Ma (Near Boston)

SavingStar is looking for Ruby web developers to help us transition the world away from paper coupons, and enable a digital couponing future.

If you can intelligently discuss page vs. fragment caching, if scaling a website to millions of users sounds like fun and if you enjoy a fast paced, flexible environment with challenges to spare, we might be a good fit. We're specifically looking for people who are "Full Stack", from the database to the view, and everything in between.

We're looking for someone who has experience creating web apps at Scale (Rails preferred), works well in a Unix Env (Mac/Linux), and enjoys working in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Our primary database is MongoDB, so NoSQL/Schema-less experience is great.

Shoot me an email ;)

You can be anywhere (we travel - UK, SF, currently Hong Kong, next stop Tel Aviv, then back to SF).

We're Buffer, a smarter way to share - http://bufferapp.com

Looking for devops - PHP (CodeIgniter), MongoDB, beanstalkd, Apache/nginx on Debian.

We have just two focuses - building an awesome product and wowing our users through outstanding, speedy, helpful and fun support. We work hard to focus completely on these two things.

We have over 200,000 users, great revenue and the most amazing investors and advisors: http://angel.co/buffer

We care most that the whole team has a great day, every day. We work hard and make a lot of progress. We also talk a lot about happiness and improving ourselves.

Sound fun? Whether you're interested in the role or want to say hello, drop me an email directly: joel@bufferapp.com

Littlelines (Dayton, OH) - Full time, local.

We're looking for rails and front-end developers to work with us in our new headquarters. We're a small and talented team of designers and developers that love making clients happy.

You'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to real projects.

We work exclusively on Rails web applications, so some familiarity with Rails views and how a Rails project is set up is a plus. Ideal candidates will be able to work with us at our headquarters.

Send us an email: jobs@littlelines.com.

http://littlelines.com

Salt Lake City UT - Black Diamond (blackdiamondequipment.com)

BD is one of the iconic outdoor industry brands - we make equipment for rock and alpine climbing, skiing, and other outdoor sports. We're not in the software industry, but working here is far more fun than I ever had in that industry. BD has a smart, driven software team that is helping the company grow internationally at double-digits every year.

I'm looking for someone with strong SQL and development skills to join my team in a role that's part business analyst and part developer. This is not your typical corporate position - this is an opportunity to play a significant and highly visible role in the company.

You don't need to ski or climb to work here, but it's a plus!

Knewton: New York (NYC) - FULLTIME, INTERN, H1B http://knewton.com

We're a funded startup seeking passionate software engineers interested in machine learning, distributed systems, and "big data" problems.

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.

We're looking for new members of our technical team who are interested or have experience in:

* 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.

* The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals and performance optimization.

* Big data processing using NoSQL techniques like Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive

* Designing, implementing, and maintaining fault-tolerant service-oriented architectures that scale horizontally

* Thrift (the RPC protocol).

* Cloud computing (Amazon Web Services, Unix) and distributed systems.

Interested? Take a look at our job posts here http://jobs.knewton.com/.

SEEKING FREELANCER OR INTERN: Mexico City

We're expanding our web services and want someone keen to get their feet really wet with Javascript front-end development with a focus on both desktop and mobile. You've got experience with JQuery and maybe you're in love in Python. If you want to play with MapReduce, write an API, scale web services and work with real-time data, there's a lot of fun yet to be had. We really love our industry and are the current leading service provider in our field, working with top clients internationally. Email us at hire.me.mex@gmail.com with some work you've done.

Panjiva (Cambridge, MA: right above the Kendall Ⓣ) - Full time, Intern, H1B

We're small, fast, and profitable. Our mission? Make it easier to do trade across borders. Setting up a production line and looking for a valve supplier that won't flake out on you? Use us to search for suppliers (or buyers) of any goods that go into or out of US ports and see credit reports, corporate responsibility audits, and customs records. Then, use us to reach out to them, communicate, and close the deal.

We're looking for exceptional software designers and engineers who can solve hard problems and design beautiful systems for our users. As a designer, you'll need experience both sketching out concepts and building them. As an engineer, you'll need experience with full-stack web application development, both server-side and client-side: A given day’s checkins may include performance tweaks to our backend data processing pipeline, an updated multivariate landing page test, a parsing expression grammar for a new data source, upgrades to our deployment infrastructure to make better use of our CDN, or new parallelizing queries to make Panjiva search faster. We're growing quickly, so our ideal candidates are ready to grow and learn just as fast in order to take the lead on critical projects.

We work in ruby on rails, but will teach you if you're coming from another platform.

If you're interested, email me at andrew@panjiva with your resume and a link to something cool that you've made.

Los Altos, CA -- Ness (likeness.com) -- Local, H1B

Ness Computing's mission is to make search personal. By combining its understanding of human nature with its expertise in search, recommendations and social networking, Ness delivers experiences that are more deeply personal than ever before.

Ness is looking for an eager, fast-learning iOS developer with a passion for creating software that delights users. We’re looking for someone who wants to help push the platform to its limits, with implementation approaches beyond even Apple’s first-party apps.

You are someone who shares our love of beautifully designed, immersive products. You are detail-oriented, believe the little things matter, and won't consider a task complete until everything is just right. These qualities are more important than experience, but practice implementing user interfaces and iOS applications is a plus. An ideal candidate will know Objective-C and Cocoa Touch well, but is always ready to learn more.

If this sounds like something you'd like to help build, please shoot me an email.

pocketvillage, Berlin (Germany) - Full time & intern - Python

We're developing solutions for travelers to discover and book activities & tours and ways for small operators to be found by travelers.

We are 5 founders (2 tech, 3 non-tech) and are now looking for additional engineers (Python, full-stack) to join us. As one of our first employees, you'll have the chance to influence the product and the company in many ways!

Interested? Have a look at http://blog.pocketvillage.com/careers/ or contact me at: jann@pocketvillage.com or @JannKleen on Twitter

New York, NY - Fitocracy (http://fitocracy.com)

iOS Developer

Who We're Looking For - Considerable experience building and shipping iOS apps.

- You are obsessed with delivering a great user experience.

- You work well with small, tight-knit teams.

- You prioritize strong communication above all else. A team that stays in sync is a team that gets shit done.

About Us Fitocracy is a fitness social network powered by game mechanics to make exercise a more addictive, accessible experience for all. Nearly half a million people use our web and mobile apps to track their progress, compete against their friends, and get real world results. We turn life into the ultimate RPG where you are the hero that levels up, beats quests, and finds the best version of yourself.

We aim to provide the motivation, information, and community necessary to "re-wire" people's brains so they make sustainable, impactful changes in their lives.

We are a small, 6-person team based out of NYC that recently raised money from a variety of VCs and angels, including 500 Startups and Eniac Ventures. The founders, having gone through significant fitness transformations in their own personal lives, originally started Fitocracy in late 2010 as a way to marry their love of fitness with their years growing up playing classic role playing games like Final Fantasy and Everquest.

Contact

Email me at brian@fitocracy.com

Atlanta, GA - Full time, local, relocation possible

MailChimp is looking for infrastructure engineers to join our team. This is a full time position in Atlanta that will help build, support, and monitor the infrastructure our company depends on. We handle tremendous volume and support millions of users that love our products.

We are looking for people with independent troubleshooting skills, strong experience with Linux, and a desire to monitor and automate everything.

- Linux experience, especially at higher server counts

- Scripting and coding

- Familiarity with pieces of our primary stack (nginx, apache, php, memcache, mysql)

- Experience building high volume systems is a big plus

- Strong experience with mysql is a huge plus (sharding, replication, HA)

MailChimp is a self-funded and profitable Atlanta-based company that is growing fast. We offer competitive salaries, exceptional benefits and perks, phone plan coverage, coffee, snacks, top tier equipment, and an environment that empowers engineers to have a big impact. We work in small teams, there are no project managers, no product managers, and engineers are trusted to work autonomously and make good decisions.

Also, in addition to the above, I am looking for somebody with tremendous networking and colo experience.

You can email me directly at infrastructurejob@mailchimp.com

Triggit, Inc.

San Francisco, CA - Full-Time - NO REMOTE - H-1B friendly

http://triggit.com/careers

Triggit, a San Francisco ad technology startup, leverages massive amounts of data to do ad retargeting in real time. We currently see 150,000 requests/sec (yes, per second) and about 15 billion ad impressions per day. We have interesting engineering challenges and an ownership-based, meritocracy culture. Engineers also get their own office with a door.

Available positions:

  Senior Engineer: Ad Serving Systems (C/C++, Redis, ØMQ)

  Ruby on Rails Developer (SLIM, SASS, Rails 3.2, Redis, PostgreSQL)

We're hiring very aggressively. You can apply via: http://triggit.com/careers

DuckDuckGo (Paoli, PA) - LOCAL OR REMOTE.

Android and Front-end. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387

Woburn, MA - True Fit (http://jobs.truefit.com/)

True Fit, the global leader in fit personalization, delivers proven fit software to retailers selling footwear & apparel online, allowing retailers to personalize their catalog to each consumer’s personal fit and style preference.

Americans spend $300 billion on clothing and footwear every year, but less than 10% of that is purchased online and 40-60% of those products are returned. Our software is proven to dramatically reduce the number of products returned, increasing the confidence of shoppers so that they become buyers, dramatically improving conversion rates and driving huge value for our retail partners.

Led by a team of Software, Apparel, and Retail veterans, we are getting a ton of traction: We are currently live at Macys and Nordstrom, have hundreds of brand partners, and were recently profiled by WSJ (behind paywall, but see video here: http://online.wsj.com/video/82F25EDC-59F6-4330-BD76-96924F5D...).

We are looking for Ops, SW, and Machine Learning engineers (see http://jobs.truefit.com/ for detailed job descriptions), but we're expanding quickly and always interested in meeting smart people.

~sedna GmbH, Berlin , Fulltime, local, Frontend Developer -------- Infos on what we're doing on http://www.sedna.de

No conventional Web Development. :-)

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Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required, team growing quickly working on more flexible officing as they grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Manager to be key part of our fast growing "Digital Experience Team" business; focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and wider digital products; to help envision new digital tools to deliver Best Buy's strategic goal of 'making technology work for you'. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Saskatoon, SK, Canada - Vecima Networks (www.vecima.com)

Software Developer (full-time, no remote)

Embedded C developer in Linux userland applications. Vecima does full-stack development in-house including: metal works, PCB design, FPGA development, Micro-controller development and Linux kernel and userland development. Work in a small software team in conjunction with the above larger cross-functional team to bring Cable products to market.

E-mail: human.resources@vecima.com

-- Vecima Networks designs and manufactures products that enable broadband access to cable, wireless and telephony networks. With global deployments, a proven product library and a team of more than 600 employees worldwide, we provide our customers with advanced solutions.

Vecima's extensive Research and Development initiatives result in pioneering technology and intellectual property that flows directly into our cutting edge product design and manufacturing. We pride ourselves on innovative solutions and our continually expanding library of designs.

Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you! stacey.winning@twosigma.com

http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html

CareCloud: Miami, FL - FULLTIME, INTERN (http://www.carecloud.com)

What we do: CareCloud’s mission is to create a digital ecosystem by leveraging cutting-edge technology to connect a disjointed healthcare industry and ultimately improve the healthcare experience for patients, providers and healthcare professionals. We’re disrupting the status quo and giving medical practices elegant, easy-to-use software solutions to increase profitability and productivity.

If you are passionate about technology, obsessed over user experience and thrive on solving complex problems, we want to meet you.

We're looking for talented front-end and back-end developers to join our team. Some of the basic requirements are: * JS/HTML/CSS of course * Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails a plus * Understand design/architectural patterns (mvc, factories, singletons, etc) * Experience working with Source Control systems (git, mercurial, etc) * Some experience working in agile development environments

Interested? contact me at https://twitter.com/jyeung001 for more details.