Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)

Software craftsman required. Expertise in JavaScript and web development essential.

Could you be employee #1? We're looking for a brilliant developer to join two busy co-founders to help take the product and company to the next level.

== About you ==

You're passionate about producing beautiful, elegant code. You want to work in a company where quality counts, not just out of professional pride, but because great code makes for robust products, rapid development, and a beautiful user experience.

You've got a keen interest in security and take it into account in every piece of code you write. You graduated from a good university with a numerate degree, and have developed software in a commercial environment.

== About us ==

ONEIS solves complicated information management problems for information intensive small and medium organisations.

What does that mean? Each of our clients faces a different problem in how to manage the information in their business. Our current clients include consultancies, private health, insurance, training, and a tax information provider. Standard small business tools aren't good enough, but the large enterprise solutions are overkill and user-hostile. We work with our clients to design a customised solution built on our core information management platform, and host their data ongoing.

We launched to our first clients three years ago and have steadily built an enthusiastic user base. We're a bootstrapped company, funded entirely by revenue from our clients. With no investors, we can focus solely on producing a great product for happy clients.

ONEIS is a collaboration between myself, a developer, and my co-founder, an Information Architect. We've used her expertise to radically rethink how digital information should be managed, and our client satisfaction shows we got it right.

== About the role ==

You'll start by building server-side JavaScript plugins to implement custom features for our clients. These are quick to write, so you'll work on lots of interesting and varied projects from the start.

When you're happy with that, your responsibilities will expand. This will be a bit of everything from developing the core Platform to a spot of systems admin. You may not be familiar with the full stack yet, but you'll be keen to learn it all in a fast-paced environment.

== More info ==

* We primarily use JavaScript (Rhino interpreter), JRuby and PostgreSQL, and develop on Mac OS X.

* Documentation for our JavaScript API: http://docs.oneis.co.uk/dev/plugin

* Some of our clients talking about the system: http://www.oneis.co.uk/openday

* Our jobs page: http://www.oneis.co.uk/jobs

My contact details are in my profile. Send me your CV and an example of code you've written!

We're seeking web developers, data analysts, and backend service engineers with a passion for designing, crafting, and scaling things. (H1B)

http://flipboard.com/jobs or get in touch with me.

Flutter (http://flutterapp.com) is looking for engineers & designers interested in innovating, crafting, and solving very challenging problems.

We recognize gestures over the webcam, and our first app Flutter allows you to control iTunes & Spotify using gesture.

Check it out on Mac App Store. We are looking for folks interested in computer vision, machine vision, using JavaScript to integrate gestures into browsers both computers and tablets.

Here's our link to iTunes Mac App Store page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flutter/id522248613?mt=12

JavaScript Engineer, Node.js, jQuery C or C++ Engineer Python Engineers Engineers with experience in Hadoop/MapReduce with Machine Learning and writing API & SDK - Gaming Engineer - Design and build gesture based games Visual Designers - this is a unique challenge to design UI for gestures based interaction world.

We are still a small team, so you will have opportunity to set direction of the company both eng/product wise. You will learn, you will be challenged, you will have to strain your brain, and in many cases, solve problems that seem impossible! I

If you're up for challenge than send an email to jobs [at] flutterapp.com.

We're building the consumer side of the universal energy internet, and we're looking for talented engineers to bring it to life. Working atop datasets never before accessed and assembled in the same place, you'll build experiences and interactions that make a difference here at home and the world over.

MyEnergy, formerly Earth Aid, was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're venture-backed, with strong strategic partners and investors committed to our vision of building the people's energy internet. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

We're currently hiring for:

* Rails Engineers to take ownership in dreaming up and building out new front and backend functionality => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/rails_engineer

* Frontend Devs to craft and implement amazing and dynamic experiences in our user-facing platform => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/frontend_developer

* Data Engineers & Scientists to embark upon ambitious projects leveraging machine learning and AI => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/data_engineer

* and UI Designers (in Boston, or Irvine, CA) to make the whole of the user experience astounding => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/ui_designer

We're HQ'ed in a conveniently located, sunny two-story loft by Faneuil Hall in Boston, and we offer very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, a fun company culture, and a small arsenal of office helicopter drones. If you might like to join us, send us an email to introduce yourself to jobs at myenergy dot co

Novus is seeking generalist hackers to help us build the real-time financial analytics platform that helps institutional investors take better care of capital.

We're using Scala, Akka, MongoDB and a slew of other open source tech. Novus offers a productive and gratifying work environment that fosters learning & collaboration, and promotes shipping often and doing the right thing as often as possible.

We give back to the community by means of our open source projects. Check out http://novus.github.com/nvd3/ (beautiful SVG graphs) and http://novus.github.com/salat/ (fast Scala-MongoDB serialization) for some of our internal libs that we've made available to everyone.

If you're interested in knowing more about us, shoot me an e-mail: max at novus dot com

Build the UI for social/interactive TV: http://tunein.yap.tv/jobs

Custora (YC W11) is a customer analytics tool that helps retailers earn more from happier customers.

To be a little more specific, we can point to a single retail customer and paint a meaningful portrait with his data: How much he’ll spend, how often he'll make purchases, what types of products he's inclined to buy, his predicted likelihood of returning, and more. Custora also integrates with email marketing providers and customer support systems to fuel a seamless, iterative flow of insights to actions.

From Fab.com to Etsy, some of the fastest growing and respected names in retail are using Custora on a daily basis.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a developer to join our core team. Our web stack is Ruby on Rails, and our analytics are done in R. Experience with these technologies is a plus, but we’re open to sharp developers with experience building products for the web in general.

Where We Are

Location-wise, we’re in Brooklyn, NY. We love it. Progress-wise, we’re a YC company from Winter 2011. We’ve recently been featured in the New York Times, GigaOm and BetaKit, and in the last 2 months we’ve had more signups than in the previous 10.

Day to Day

Here’s a taste of what happened last month:

Aaron implemented a Dirichlet Latent Class Multinomial to power customer archetype analysis based on customer purchasing behavior.

Martin made dramatic improvements the email marketing part of the product. He made it easier for our clients to launch multiple email tests in parallel, and added four new email providers to our growing list of integrated partners.

Jon and David worked together to completely redesign the interface of the application. We moved from an interface that focused on browsing through dashboards to one that delivers answers to specific questions.

Outside the office, Corey and Dave manned a booth at a big e-retailer conference and developed a Blackjack-style Custora game to play with prospective clients.

What We Offer

Our compensation is competitive with anyone on the market. Since you’ll be a core member of the team, meaningful equity is part of the package. We offer comprehensive health coverage, including a dental and vision package. Lunches are paid for and we usually eat as a team. We do happy hours at least twice a month and play bocce ball competitively (sort of). Our vacation policy is based on trust — take what’s needed and keep the rest of the team up to speed.

Let’s Chat

If you’re interested, apply online at http://www.custora.com/careers

AppHero is looking for engineers to join our team.

About you:

- Passionate about building disruptive products that solve big problems

- Excited by the opportunity to learn new things and question norms

- Self starter who enjoys thinking outside the box

- Entrepreneurial spirit and are interesting in taking an active role in growing AppHero

- Experience using Java to build applications

- Interested in working on the backend for web and mobile apps

About us:

- VC funded by top investors from Toronto and New York

- Building a product to help people discover the best apps by providing personalized recommendations

- Small team with diverse experience

- Work from a bright, modern, open concept office at Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto

Feel free to reach out if you're interested: jordan (at) apphero (dot) com

More info: http://apphero.com/careers

Kiwi Crate is an innovative eCommerce company that sparks kids’ creativity and curiosity through offline and online materials and inspiration. We offer kids a delightful, engaging way to explore, create, and learn. We offer a subscription service that delivers curated hands-on projects to kids. We take great pride and ownership in the products we build and in the community of parents and kids we serve. We’re backed by leading investors and were named one of the "20 Startups to Watch" by Business Insider. Our offices are located in Mountain View, walking distance to the Caltrain station.

http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs

Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.

Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.

Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet.

Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.

Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later.

As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at tech-jobs@lore.com, with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.

You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/),

SeatGeek is the web's largest search engine for live event tickets. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Our dev team is currently eight people. We're looking to add one or two more. We're specialization-agnostic. Most of our current guys are pretty full stack, so wherever in the web stack you like to spend your time, we can find a place for you.

We're using lots of Python these days. A bit of Ruby and PHP too. And always plenty of JS, supported by backbone. Mongo and MySQL for data.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/ http://seatgeek.com/jobs/ui_developer/

Tingo (http://www.tingo.com) is looking for brilliant, passionate engineers to build the next-generation online travel agency—easy and fun to use, with innovative features to save customers money.

Our development process is agile but not dogmatic. We have daily standups, test everything and deploy code each day. We abhor unnecessary process and impediments. Tingo developers take pride in closing bugs, implementing features quickly and solving hard problems.

Our offices at Smarter Travel Media in Charlestown, MA are just a block from the Sullivan Square T stop. We have catered lunch on Thursdays and subsidized take-out from local restaurants Monday through Wednesday. During most of the year, we have company-wide Happy Hours on Friday afternoons.

We use the best tools money can buy including top of the line Mac or Linux computers, 27+ inch displays and IntelliJ IDEA.

Come work at Tingo and disrupt the travel industry.

http://www.tingo.com/jobs

At EuPathDB, we're providing scientists with online research tools to help them decipher parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. We need a sysadmin with lots of linux knowledge, solid scripting skills, and a willingness to occasionally get hands-on with hardware. Languages and technologies in heavy use include apache, java, jenkins, libvirt/kvm, nagios, puppet, perl, rpm, tomcat, and just about every bioinformatics tool and relational database you can think of.

Extreme Networks is hiring experienced network engineers in Utrecht, The Netherlands. We're looking for people that have experience troubleshooting internetworking issues with any vendor(Cisco, Juniper, etc). UNIX/Linux experience is also welcome. We're not all that particular on skillset we just want to hire smart, motivated technology generalists.

We are a networking equipment manufacturer that makes really fast and really dense ethernet switches. We're not a startup, but we're also not a large company. So individual contributors can still have an impact.

Our primary product is our custom OS based on Linux that runs on our entire product line. Your job would primarily be as a customer facing test engineer reproducing and understanding bugs in this OS and associated hardware. You would work mostly in a lab with packet generators and switches/routers where you would simulate different network conditions and try to make things break.

Message me if you're interested.

We're looking for excellent Rails developers to help us improve sustainable building. Email stuart at ecoscorecard dot com

We have a ton of jobs open, but I'm particularly looking for Site Reliability Engineers. After yesterday's Amazon outage, you can see we still have some work to do.

Looking for someone who can code who also has experience driving unix. At the interview we ask you to code on the whiteboard and also tell us how to troubleshoot Linux.

Netflix is an awesome place to work with lots of smart people and top of market pay (and free movies!).

http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=oHxbWfw5

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 social network that empowers everyone to reach their next level of fitness. 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 connect you to a community that provide the motivation, information, and inspiration needed 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.

We put a lot of time into making sure our iPhone app was beautifully designed and fun to use. We've received thousands of rave reviews in 3 months and we aim to continue building the app into the best social fitness experience available. Download it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitocracy-fitness-social-netw...

Contact

Email me at brian@fitocracy.com

Peddl - http://www.peddl.com

Jobs - http://www.peddl.com/jobs

– About Peddl –

Peddl makes selling as easy as snapping a photo. With the push of a button, Peddl automatically prices and categorizes whatever it is you’re selling, creating an instant online storefront which accepts credit card payments. Peddl turns the mobile device into the most efficient tool for selling things to the people around you.

We’re a small team spun out of the MIT Media Lab set to change the way people think about buying and selling second hand goods online and we aren’t stopping until it’s done. Learn more about the founding team at http://www.terrarium.io

– Current Positions –

Back End Engineer:

We’re building a next generation transaction platform which brings insanely simple payment to the masses. We care deeply about both external and internal craftsmanship of our products and look for candidates that do too.

Android Engineer:

We’re looking for a talented front-end engineer to help us create best in class mobile apps for Android and iOS. We care about every pixel and look for candidates that do too.

Growth Hacker:

We’re looking for an exceptional marketer with a high level of exposure to technology and experience with code. We believe that marketing, product, and engineering work together to make the product market itself.

Intern:

We are looking for a handful of super smart, passionate interns who have serious interest in local marketplaces. If you’re interested in app development, the mobile web, and have a sense for great design, Peddl has a spot for you.

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More information and application instructions can be found at http://www.peddl.com/jobs

We are a fashion analytics startup. We help retailers, designers and merchandisers make concrete decisions based on data.

Some facts about our product:

- We track more than 2 million products across 100+ retailers every day.

- We perform color analysis and machine learning to extract information and categorize products correctly.

- We do sentiment analysis on millions of fashion-related tweets.

- Our web app is built in Backbone.js and our stack is Python, Django, Mongo and ElasticSearch.

We need smart hackers to work on product, analytics and data warehousing.

We have a nice bright office in Old Street, just off the "Silicon Roundabout", we were a Seedcamp 2010 winner and we are backed by great VCs in Europe.

All our vacancies are listed at http://editd.com/jobs.

Get in touch! :-)

7 things about us:

#1 - We're building a company that Entelo with a mission of changing how companies hire and think about talent acquisition.

#2 - It's a big data challenge and very interesting technically and while we're still stealth, we have dozens of paying corporate customers.

#3 - The team is small so you'll play an integral role in building something meaningful.

#4 - Our stack is a mix of Ruby, Scala, MySQL, Mongo, elasticsearch and a bunch of other goodies. We're trying to open source as much as we can (e.g., https://github.com/rglabs/teleport, https://github.com/gip/resque-telework).

#5 - If the notion of "spray and pray" recruiting makes you a little nauseous and you want to do something about it, you should contact us. :)

#6 - We work out of a beautiful and well-lit loft in the Mission, close to Coffee Bar, Blowfish, Atlas and a host of other cool coffee shops and restaurants.

#7 - We're going big on this one.

I'm the founder and you can email me directly at jon at entelo dot com or call me at 310-351-7275.

Paperless Post

DBA/Database Operations Engineer

We’re seeking a DBA/Database Operations Engineer who brings an operations perspective to database administration and a data perspective to scaling web operations. You love to write code that automates your data infrastructure (from bare metal/bare cloud to taking production traffic, at the "push of a button"). You modularize, reuse, and version control that code. You use the latest technologies, but still value uptime, performance, and stability. You follow best practices, but iterate over your projects quickly and smartly.

Responsibilities: Provision and optimize PostgreSQL infrastructure for rapidly growing consumer web application Maintain various staging and production PostgreSQL database instances “Infrastructure as code" Troubleshoot production database issues

Requirements: Database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, pgbouncer) Linux systems administration (CentOS, RHEL) Configuration management (Chef, Puppet) Monitoring/availability (Nagios) Trending/metrics collection (Collectd, Statsd, Graphite) Web/application serving (Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Rails) Continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Capistrano) Scripting (Bash, Ruby) Version control (Git, Svn) Network administration (DNS, firewall, load-balancing) Hosting (managed hosting, VMware, Amazon Web Services)

To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to brian@paperlesspost.com

Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. We're a team of four who are passionate about reinventing how people search, discover, and purchase products.

Crawling & indexing millions of pages per day is not an easy task, but you're good at it. You enjoy optimizing systems, making them perform faster, and appreciate git commits where more code is removed than is added. Our backend stack currently consists of Postgres, Celery, Django, and ElasticSearch. We need to be able to handle billions of data points, and hope you can build something to that can do much more.

Small puzzle with instructions to apply:

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Paperless Post

Quality Assurance Engineer

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as a liaison between our Product and Engineering teams. In this role you will live between our two top priorities: product-enhancing features and flawless functionality, ensuring that Paperless Post is constantly growing and adding new features without sacrificing quality. We provide a consumer-friendly product that over ten million people interact with, and the successful candidate will be involved in a mix of quality assurance, feature management, and advocacy for our users.

Responsibilities Fully understand project specs, and create and manage tickets for development team Vet the readiness of features for production via feature testing and regression-testing other areas of the site With Product Managers, discuss bugs and other issues and their effect on specs and deployment goals Work closely with the Production Manager toward the goal of optimal production performance by: Ensuring technical quality of projects and features before and after deployment Incorporating solutions for user-facing bugs and usability issues into the feature development process Push forward the development of new features, advocate for the fixing of user-facing bugs and usability issues, and ensure the general stability of the products we release

Qualifications Passion for delivering an extremely high quality product Passion for delivering an extremely high quality product Superb communication and organizational skills Understanding and strong interest in web technologies Ability to listen carefully and execute within changing priorities Knowledge of software development methodologies and tools Track record of proactive project management a plus

To Apply: To apply for this position please send a resume to brian@paperlesspost.com with a brief cover letter included in the body of the email.

Also, we have a nice interactive code challenge in our application form! http://www.alphasights.com/apply/ruby-developer-london