Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise.

Just kidding.

We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've all built web scale products and scaled them to millions of daily active users with zero marketing spend.

The world is becoming a different place: everyone is going to be carrying around a network connected super computer with ambient sensors in their pockets. We can see the future that is enabled by these devices. We are making that future happen.

Real talk: We've been running our prototype for 3 months now and we all use it multiple times a day, every day. Every person we've showed it to has asked us if they can have it. Every single person who's had it installed has gotten mad when our testflights expire.

We are well funded by a long list of top tier investors: http://angel.co/herelabs

We're looking for a select few product generalists (designer hackers with mobile expertise) and systems generalists (systems automation, machine learning, distributed computing) who can come in and contribute at speed on day one, and who are world class at more than one thing.

Ideal candidates are brilliant, fearless, and passionate individuals who are uncompromising in their pursuit of building an incredible product that will positively affect the lives of every human being every day.

As teammates we value commitment and accountability; honing our craft; building tools to create leverage; and seeking to learn from and understand each other.

We are offering founding team equity and competitive salaries. Retina Macbook Pro (or Air) & 30 inch monitor are standard issue. Office space in the heart of the SoMa district in beautiful San Francisco. Willing to relocate. Willing to fly you in for interviews. Willing to tell you our stealthy secrets.

We are not your typical San Francisco stealth startup. We are NOT another me-too-social-local-sharing app. We DON'T sell condoms by subscription. We are NOT the place to share photos of your dog taking a leak. There will be NO gamification.

Life is short. Build stuff that matters.

Email siqi at herelabs.com. Interns and H1Bs welcome.

Back End Developer / Full time

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Guildda wants to empower companies and individuals to transact in a new way, by disrupting an archaic industry. As Guildda’s Back End Engineer you will be responsible for delivering an amazing, secure, stable, fast experience to our users.

==Attributes of successful candidates will include==

- You are a full-stack developer

- Understands the entire LAMP stack and can contribute to any part of it

- Expert knowledge of server-side languages Python, Ruby, Java or C/C++

- Excellent knowledge of RDBMS systems; ideally MySQL

- Security obsessed

- Love your version control (Git)

- Likes getting hands dirty with 3rd party APIs

- Enjoys prototyping and iterating stuff

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field Back End Engineer

- Accountability, honesty, responsibility, flexibility… and a sense of fun and playfulness

==Responsibilities of the position will include==

- Build from scratch the entire technology architecture

- Be efficient writing code: less is more

- Design and implement Guildda’s core service

- Build a fault tolerant platform

- Work with frontend engineers to plan and implement new ideas and features

- Find and fix performance and reliability issues

You should aim to make working on Guildda just as fun and simple as using it. Few things make you happier than disrupting industries with as few lines of code as possible.

==What we offer==

- Pick your own gear (Mac/PC, OS, editor, etc.)

- Flat organisational structure and no bs

- Competitive salary + bonus

==Want to apply?==

To apply, please send an email with your resume (all in PDF, no LinkedIn URLs please) to the following address jobs@guildda.com with the job’s title as the subject line. Bonus points if you included a link to your Github repository and/or web applications.

Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?

You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. 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!

Dave Hahn dave.hahn@twosigma.com http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html

SpinGo - Front End Software Engineer

Who We Are: The SpinGo Event Platform is the optimal ecosystem for events in the digital age. It is comprised of a comprehensive and dynamic database of events, calendar applications rich with features, and an ever-expanding partner network. We we work closely with closely with venues to obtain event information directly from the source, and to help them promote their events.

Who You Are: The Front End Software Engineer will develop high quality user interfaces to meet the needs of our users. You will help improve our main calendar product to help users find events and build tools to help users submit and promote events and manage calendars. You have the skills to build pixel-perfect cross-browser interfaces that provide the best user experience. You will work with other engineers and team members to build scalable web applications. You are self-motivated, give accurate estimates and deliver quality code on-time.

Required Qualifications

- BS in a Software Development Field or Equivalent Work Experience

- Ability to use critical thinking skills to solve front-end development problems

- Several years experience developing cross-browser web applications

- Expert in JavaScript, HTML and CSS (experience with SASS a plus)

- Advanced skills in a server-side interpreted language (PHP, Python, Ruby, NodeJS, etc)

- Advanced knowledge of MVC-based architecture and frameworks

- Intermediate experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL

Compensation: $60K-$80K/year, flexible schedule with benefits

More details at http://www.spingo.com/jobs. To apply email devjobs@spingo.com

Markit On Demand

Markit On Demand is a design driven technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. We’re part of Markit, a global financial information company that’s headquartered in London. Here in Boulder, where the sun shines 300 days a year, we have a team of 400+ professionals dedicated to the presentation of financial content and data for our clients in the Financial Services, Media and Healthcare industries. On any given day, you might work with a colleague in New York, a retail brokerage in the US, a newspaper in Germany, a bank in Africa, or throw ideas around with an economist in our London office. And that’s before you meet up with co-workers for a foothills hike or a brewery happy hour tour. We're looking for developers and engineers up and down the stack at all levels.

ExpandTheRoom - Back-end Developer, Mobile Developer, UX Designer

ExpandTheRoom, a boutique creative agency, is looking for full-time Mobile Developers (Windows Phone 7, iOS, Android) as well as PHP Developers and UX Designers. We have a truly excellent team of developers and designers, and a fun work environment and culture. We'd also consider internships. You can email us at iwannawork@expandtheroom.com, or check the site: http://www.expandtheroom.com/jobs

FULLTIME or INTERN in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by thousands of teachers to manage students’ behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup funded by some of the biggest names in the valley, and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. PG has invested in us, but we didn't do YC.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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We are looking for:

  * Lead Software Engineer

  * Lead Front-end Developer  

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=3653674

Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great engineer and have lots of machine learning/data extraction/NLP/etc. experience that is relevant to what we do).

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure, machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our Palo Alto office recently opened so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for Front-end engineers and a DevOps engineer.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The team is still small (~9 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs and located in the city center of Amsterdam.

More on http://jobs.silkapp.com/

Come work for a small, meritocratic company and own the front end of our applications.

We're looking for someone with solid design skills and the ability to translate their design to semantically correct HTML and CSS. Ideally, you don't rely completely on mockup tools like Dreamweaver and can code the CSS by hand. You should have strong opinions about the correct way to architect the design aspect of a webapp. Have you migrated stylesheets to SASS or LESS, integrated JavaScript unit testing into a continuous build process or other cool stuff that a bunch of backend developers have never done? Talk to us.

Programming abilities are strongly desired, but not strictly required. You would necessarily need to do some JavaScript and jQuery as needed for the UI development, but good programming fundamentals and the ability to pick up (or already know) things like Java and SQL would be a huge plus. If you think you might be a fit, contact information is in my profile. Portfolios or github profiles are encouraged. Resumes are also welcome.

Perks include market salary, health/dental/vision/life, unlimited paid vacation plan, 401K.

http://www.mobicorp.com/

We’re building software that will radically change how lawyers approach, analyze, and engage with the law. We use advanced case law parsing and tech-enabled human review to construct a detailed outline of the law. Leveraging that data, we can offer litigators legal search tools that are an order of magnitude better than existing offerings, as well as detailed analytics on legal arguments and AI tools that automatically assess and assemble litigation documents.

We're looking to add a designer to our small team of legal-minded engineers (Stanford, Berkeley, Google) and lawyers (Stanford, Columbia).

The law is intricate. Communicating it clearly is a serious design challenge. We are looking for someone who can shape not only our look and feel, but also how lawyers interact with the law.

You:

+ A record of creating beautiful software

+ The ability to implement what you design (HTML5, CSS3, JS)

+ Deep, sincere interest in law

+ Desire to forge a product that will change how justice is done

Us:

+ Backed by the most visionary investors in the world

+ Taking a big swing at truly hard problems

+ Excellent health/dental/vision

+ “No vacation policy” policy

+ Great office across the street from 4th & King Caltrain

If you're interested in learning more, get in touch: careers@amicuslabs.com.

Love Rails? Interested in online video/advertising/distribution? Learn More!

http://bit.ly/ZooppaSeniorDev

http://alltrails.com http://allsnow.com

FULLTIME Rails / iOS / Android Engineers

San Francisco (preferred) / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote / H1B

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 and snowboarding 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'). We also have the #1 Snowsports app on iPhone.

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, and a core committer to Homebrew on the team. We're looking for exceptional full stack Rails and mobile developers (Android and iOS).

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

Company: MobileWorks

Positions: Account manager, 1-3 yrs experience; growth hacker

We're building the world's best crowdsourcing platform, with a social mission to battle unemployment worldwide - starting with you! We're looking for an account manager who can help us work with our top-tier clients, and a growth hacker, to help us grow the brand and client base.

Apply here: http://mobileworks.com/jobs

Company: Skimlinks http://skimlinks.com/careers

Positions:

Senior Software Developer & Team Lead - Python, Go, C

Data Scientist - Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB, Statistics, Machine Learning

Software Developer (Senior & Junior) - Python, Go, C, PHP

Front-End Developer - Backbone.js, require.js, Highcharts, SASS.

What it’s like to work at Skimlinks:

- Big screens and fast computers (Linux, OSX or PC, up to you)

- Sociable company - Friday drinks and regular team lunches

- Office right on Old Street roundabout - more hipster coffeeshops that you could possibly need

- Unix platform on AWS

- Standups and a lightweight process

- Testing and Jenkins CI

- QA team - ever had someone on your team to whose job it is to double check your end product and catch any errors before release? It's good.

- A product team that understands why you might want to spend a sprint refactoring

- Hackdays, big data access on what millions of people are clicking on and buying (16 Billion API Requests last month)

- Open minded about trying new tools and technologies (any ClosureScript fans out there?

About the company:

Skimlinks is one of the most well-known UK-originated startups in the internet space, founded in London in 2007 and now with offices in San Francisco and New York. We have been described by Techcrunch as one of London's leading startups, and voted in the top 10 of the Guardian Tech Media Invest.

Skimlinks offers blogs, forums and websites the ability to earn an income from their content, by paying them a commission if readers click through and make an online purchase.

We consider ourselves a company that sells innovations, and in the last few years we have conceived and built a range of unique, compelling products that have shaken up the online monetization space.

Find out about what's it like working at Skimlinks at http://skimlinks.com/careers

Labrador Omnimedia is looking for an iOS developer to help us upend the alcoholic beverage sales industry.

Existing application. Profitable company. Great team.

Details: http://www.labradorom.com/careers

Data Journalist - looking for someone to lead our data-driven content efforts. If you like Excel pivot tables, are an emerging company/technology junkie and are a decent writer, we'd love to talk.

Also looking for a php developer to help us build amazing applications on top of our private comany and investor data.

We are National Science Foundation-backed but have taken no investment otherwise. We have real customers and are profitable.

Email me at asanwal@cbinsights.com if interested.

Core app: rails with clustered MySQL and mongodb, looking at moving to riak soon. Some components in other languages (c, c++) data mining python + scipy. Backbone JS for rewrite of front end. Salary between 60k and 100k, options worth 0.25% and 0.75% office location currently near King and Peter, might be moving to liberty village soon though.

Massive traffic, good revenue, sustainable business and culture. Email me (info in profile).

We make freemium games for iOS and Android in C++. Always looking for new client-side developers. Growing company with strong revenue from existing stable of games.

I'm happy to talk about the company; feel free to contact me.

Also looking for devs at new office in Vancouver, BC Canada http://jobvite.com/m?32q9sfwN

Other positions (game designer, content manager, UI, UA, QA) hiring too: http://jobvite.com/m?33q9sfwO

Cloudera

Cloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company which provides Apache Hadoop-based software and services. It contributes to Hadoop and related Apache projects and provides a distribution for Hadoop for the enterprise.[1] Cloudera has two products: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise. CDH is a data management platform which incorporates HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, ZooKeeper and Hue and is available free under an Apache license. Cloudera Enterprise is a package which includes Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, production support and tools designed to make it easier to run Hadoop in a production environment. Cloudera offers services including support, consulting services and training (both public and private).

Job Title: Customer Operations Engineer Description: Ever heard of Hadoop? Cloudera is looking for a Customer Operations Engineer who has a passion for making customers successful. You will join a team of highly skilled engineers who are responsible for delivering Cloudera's support services including assistance during engineering and operations of distributed systems and mission critical response for production customers. Strong communications and troubleshooting skills are critical for success in this role.

At Cloudera, our goal is to make each individual feel valued for his or her contributions to the company’s mission. We are looking for smart people who want to do remarkable things. We strive to create an environment of casual intensity where people enjoy coming to work every day. Our senior management team meets regularly with the whole company to discuss strategy, successes and challenges. Upon joining you will be given training in the Hadoop ecosystem, you will also pick an area that you plan to focus in...Such as databases NoSQL, RDBMS, Writing MapReduce, Machine Learning, etc.

What's it like to work at Cloudera? http://www.quora.com/Cloudera/What-is-it-like-to-work-at-Clo...

Responsibilities:

* Contribute code upstream to the Apache Hadoop Project

* Analayze and troubleshoot MapReduce code and workflows

* Ensure that critical customer issues are addressed quickly and effectively

* Investigate product related issues both for individual customers and for common trends that may arise

* Study and understand critical system components and large cluster operations

* Differentiate between issues that arise in operations, user code, third party libraries or product

* Manage the day to day interactions with our customers

* Identify requirements for additional focused services engagements

* Coordinate enhancement and feature requests with product management and engineering

Qualifications:

* Linux (Shell Scripting, Administration)

* Java (JVM, Development, Management of Code)

* Network analysis (TCP Dumps, etc)

* Kernel debugging

Pluses:

* NoSQL Databases (+++ HBase, Cassandra, Riak, etc)

* In depth knowledge of Java

* Hadoop Ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, ..)

The technology that we use and develop at Cloudera is breathtaking, it's truly rewarding knowing the use cases for the software that we deploy to customers. If you're interested in Cloudera and have a passion for new technology, apply below.

Apply:

Raleigh Candidates -> rtpjobs [at] cloudera [dot] com

or

http://www.cloudera.com/company/careers/