Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 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.
Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 282 ms ] threadThe Ksplice group at Oracle
Does writing Python clones of your favorite childhood computer games sound like a fun weekend project? Would you hack on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time? Have you ever told a joke whose punch line was a git command? If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
About us
We are a small, tight-knit team of 12 women and men excited to work on technology that most people will tell you is impossible: updating an operating system kernel while it is running. Our product, Ksplice Uptrack, is a subscription service for Linux that provides completely non-disruptive, rebootless kernel updates. (You can read more about the underlying technology at http://www.ksplice.com/paper)
We're looking for a full-stack engineer with strong Python experience: Help us bring the Ksplice Uptrack client to new Linux distribution releases, improve our server infrastructure, and develop and extend our REST API and Django-based web interface.
If this technology excites you, let's talk! Feel free to direct questions to me at jamie.iles@oracle.com or to jobs@ksplice.com. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer.
We create tools and services that help optimize the day-to-day of music professionals: labels, artists, etc. We use the latest technologies in order to rapidly iterate and build the best possible product for our users. We are a small company of around 20 creative people and our lean structure allows us to move fast, cut the crap, and ship.
We are not afraid to try new things: our labs team has written audio decoders in JavaScript for MP3, ALAC, FLAC, and AAC, along with a pitch detector. We know the difference between production code and research code. We love open-source and it loves us back.
The ideal candidate has:
* Expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and related technologies.
* Familiarity with modern tools, such as Git, SCSS, and other.
* Experience with agile methodologies, TDD, sprints and poker planning, daily stand-ups.
* An opinion. We want you to argue about the right way to do things. If something isn’t up to our level of quality, we expect an intervention.
* Excitement about music and desire to work in this area.
Our stack includes:
* Ruby on Rails 3
* Nginx + Passenger
* PostgreSQL
* Full text search
* Message queues
* JQuery
* Backbone.js
* Git
We’re offering you a full-time, permanent position in New York City to create the second product of our music platform (ask us for details).
If you think you’re fit for the job, ping us at jobs@official.fm and let’s talk!
Freedom Freight
Rails Engineers, iOS Engineer
The last 50 years has seen the reinvention of almost every major industry except for one: Trucking. Freedom Freight is here to change that by deploying the world's first mobile platform for on-demand freight shipping. Over $30 billion dollars a month is spent trucking freight around the US, without it, the country would grind to a halt overnight. In such a massive market, it's hard to believe that the entire industry today still runs on phones and fax machines, but until now, it has. This means hundreds of millions of dollars worth of freight capacity goes unfilled every month due to the old-school inefficiencies of the industry. We are changing that.
If you're ready to change the trucking industry, send your resume and GitHub profile to sean@freedomfreightusa.com
Percolate is a very quickly growing SAAS company in NYC. We are building a tool that helps brands create content across social. What makes us unique is that we're the only platform that doesn't already assume a brand knows what to say. To help them figure that out we pull data from across the web and make recommendations on interesting content (whether their own or third-party) that might be interesting at any moment.
We're looking for backend (all levels) and frontend engineers (we run backbone.js alongside our RESTful API) to join the team (the company is 21, product team is currently at 12). On the backend, we're especially interested in folks with good experience working with lots of data and excited to build real-time systems (we run python).
Here's a few reasons why you should come work here: - You are gonna work in SOHO on Broadway - Your chance to work with big data - You come in early: We're only-and-a-half a year old - As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at - We are all different and we love it - GPL compliant company - You choose your workstation - You choose your tools - No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental - No vacation policy - does not mean no vacation ;) - Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences - We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage - Your voice will be heard
If you're interested email us at jobs@percolate.com. If you have any questions you can email me directly at noah@percolate.com Thanks.
This seems like you'd want to explain it a little more, given plenty of other companies cover flights to conferences and while that's a nice perk nobody considers it to be a vacation.
Tapad is a advertising technology company, specializing in real-time buying and making sense of the fragmented world where every user and household has multiple device, from smartphone and tablets to connected TVs and laptops.
On any given day, I might work on:
* scaling our 100% Scala-based infrastructure to handle billions of requests per day with 95th-percentile response times in the low 10s of milliseconds
* adding features to our back-office webapp (Play) to help our account team manage dozens of campaigns and hundreds of strategies.
* analyzing billions of rows of data to uncover performance anomalies
* testing machine learning algorithms on said data, to create models that improve performance
* practicing my foosball game to ensure foosball dominance in the office
Tapad is a fun, growing place to work on high-performance software with a bunch of great people. We just recently took over the office next door to get more space. The dev team is a lean, mean crew. Drop a note to toby at tapad dot com.
Monetate is a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (e.g. A/B - MVT testing, recommendation engines etc). We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.
What we're looking for:
* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve users' problems
* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here
* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack
* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on
About us:
* Founded in 2008
* We pay market rates
* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.
* Funded by First Round and OpenView
We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/
I got hired via HN about two years ago and we do have a good number of engineers in the team who found Monetate through one of these threads.
Feel free to email tjanofsky <at> monetate com with any questions or to apply.
We automate hacking corporate websites. Over 10,000 per day currently. We also automate analyzing corporate source code for vulnerabilities.
For Javascript devs: We use Backbone.js, Require.js, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery all talking to a JSON api.
For backend devs: We use Perl with Moose or Mouse, Python with Django, Memcached, Redis.io, Jenkins, Gearman, zeromq.
Email alan@h4ck3r.org or alan.hamlett@whitehatsec.com.
https://www.whitehatsec.com/abt/careers.html
Employer: OneSpot Inc.
Job title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer
Salary: Negotiable + early stage stock options
== Company overview
OneSpot is a technology startup that provides tools and services to organizations large and small to help them promote articles and related content, both that created by themselves, and third-party content that they would like more people to see. We have an experienced management team, we’re funded, and despite getting started just 6 months ago, we already have a number of household name customers. We use Ruby on Rails for our self-service user interface, and Java for most of our behind-the-scenes engineering.
== The candidate
We are looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer with an excellent design aesthetic, and that has a passion for designing fluid user interfaces, but also a solid understanding of Rails’ internal mechanics.
== Essential requirements
Deep understanding of Ruby on Rails 3.2, and related tools (Active Record, etc) Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Familiarity with Linux (bash etc) and MySQL Familiarity with version control systems Excellent communication and people skills Fluent in English Eligible to work in United States (US citizen, green card holder, etc)
== Experience of the following would be a significant advantage
JSON and REST APIs Open source development (please include links to your open source work) Java Git Usability testing Display advertising networks
If you are interested please send your resume and/or any questions to ian at onespot dot com.
Silicon Labs is hiring in downtown Boston for our low power wireless networking team. Silicon Labs acquired Ember in July of 2012, which is where this team came from.
We do it all (we design the chips, hardware, firmware, and software), and we have a lot of fun doing it. I've been at Silicon Labs / Ember for more than 3 years and I love it. It's most socially healthy place I've ever worked.
We've got a number of positions open, including:
* Embedded Software Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* Networking Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* Tools Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* QA Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
Please email me directly if you'd like any info: hnJobsOct2012@saidsvec.com
We help people discover the web of others, by enjoying web browsing together.
We are looking for a sixth employee excited about by cross-browser Javascript, Django development, real time sharing of a web browsing experience.
We offer a great work environment (you don't have to speak swedish), a nice office (at Kungsgatan) and a pretty awesome team.
Email me at johanhil@surftrain.com to apply / to find out more about us.
We are looking for people: * loving to put 100's or 1000's of datapoints into nice and shiny dashboards
* have expertise with PHP/Node/MongoDB/Redis
* familiar with versioning svn/git/mercurial
* eager to question everyone and everything if he or she thinks something can be done better/different and enhance the experience
Feel free to contact me at nils@woorank.com with your github profile/portfolio/blog
SeatGeek -- New York, NY
SeatGeek is the web's largest search engine for live event tickets. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."
We're looking for someone to join our dev team who will focus on HTML/CSS/Javscript and interface construction. You don't need to be a web designer, but you need to be "interface conscious"--i.e. strong design instincts, strong opinions about what looks good/bad, etc.
More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/ui_developer/
good luck!
http://alltrails.com http://allsnow.com
FULLTIME Rails / iOS / Android Engineers / Designers
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) and designers.
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
We're crowd-sourcing cellular and wireless data to provide accurate, independent and global maps of coverage.
We're looking for: * Front end developer - to make our site and maps beautiful and design awesome visualizations * IOS developer - to take the lead in building an iPhone app that will get millions of downloads * Community manager - to write blog posts and reports on our fascinating dataset and help us publicise our project
We're backed by O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Passion Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
As a team of only 3 at the moment, this is your chance to get in early: you'll have an opportunity to make an impact not only within the company, you will also be responsible for producing data-viz/apps/blogs seen/used by millions. On top of which you'll get a London salary and be working in offices shared with several other startup companies. You will not be working for The Man.
We'd love to hear from people interested in mobile gadgetry/crowd-sourcing/big-data
http://opensignal.com/jobs or email join@opensignal.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.
We are a profitable ~1 year old startup based in Twickenham, SW London. We make Construct 2, a HTML5 game editor which is becoming one of the top HTML5 game engines for the web, and has a great enthusiastic community behind it. You'll be helping our community make the most of their games! For more info see: http://www.scirra.com
Email me if interested: ashley@scirra.com
Looking for an open source JavaScript geospatial developers. Come work on maps!
http://www.camptocamp.com/en/careers/419-developpeur-javascr...
FoundationDB (http://foundationdb.com) is fundamentally new database technology, built completely from the OS up. It is a NoSQL database (distributed, ordered key-value design) with high levels of fault tolerance and performance, but with the most important missing feature given up by other NoSQL databases - true ACID transactions. Our primary value proposition is that we give you the best of both worlds - the distributed design / scalability, fault tolerance, and flexible data models of NoSQL, and the strong data consistency guarantees of single machine relational databases.
We are well funded, and are currently in the latter stages of our alpha program and have a very long and impressive list of alpha users that includes "household" tech names. Public beta is expected soon.
Who we're looking for:
A software engineer to add to our core development team. The most important traits this person should have are a strong background in computer science, experience working with distributed systems, and a desire to work on and solve difficult problems in an interactive team setting. Some pluses would include C++ and Java experience. Must be a friendly person who enjoys working with other people as we are a very team-centric environment.
A Developer Evanglist - this person should have experience building interesting applications using popular technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. and be able to show us a few cool projects they've worked on. They should also be able to interact well with new people (they will be attending conferences on our behalf, visiting offices of other startups, etc.) and be well spoken, both in small groups and on stage giving presentations. Must also be willing and able to interact heavily with the developer community on popular social networking sites. The ability to write some thoughtful blog posts would be great as well. Ideally this person would be located in (or willing to move to) NYC or the Bay Area, so that we can have a more ongoing presence in those places.
Apply at info@foundationdb.com
Dynamic Logic is looking for a bright recently graduated junior software developer to help us build the next generation of market research products. You'll be tackling big data problems in a challenging startup-like environment, but with the benefits of working for a billion dollar company!
For more info on the job go to: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org... Or email me at maarten.peschier <at> dynamiclogic.com
1010data is a database specializing in big data analytics. We build a trillion-row spreadsheet, served over the browser, capable of analyzing that amount of data in seconds, not hours.
We're in need of front end devs and full stack engineers working on the front end to develop a better product to help customers analyze their data, visualize it, and make sense of it all. Other teams around the company are hiring as well, so if you're an interested, please see: http://www.1010data.com/about-us/careers. I work on the UI team now, feel free to email me at george@1010data.com if you've got any questions.
As for me, I've been working here for two years now. My favorite thing about the company is that it's a culture that encourages you to figure out the best place to use and develop your talents and to wear different hats. A few of the things I've worked on below:
* Building a grid capable of serving to a browser a virtually infinite amount of data.
* Building tools to help visualize that data.
* Learning to manage client relationships.
* Figuring out ways to classify and understand customers based on their shopping patterns and habits.
* Attending trade shows and conferences to demo our product and generate leads.
* Enjoying Scotch-o-clock with teammates and friends.
It's a fun and awesome place to work. We sponsor H1B, and interns in their Junior+ year are welcome to apply.
Dimagi
Role: Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder
At Dimagi, your work can take you literally anywhere. We're looking for talented, adventurous coders to dive in to one of our core mobile health platforms already affecting hundreds of the world's poor and underserved. Our team of top-notch coders has on-site experience in over 20 countries covering East Africa, Central Asia, South America, and the Indian subcontinent, and travel is an important part of every developer's experience. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction over the bottom line makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, and keeps us all honest about what we're in it for.
http://www.dimagi.com/careers
You can also read about our company's recent month in Brazil here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/adam-bluestein/letting-em... (HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589978)
*I am a Python/Django dev, temporarly(~2 more years) in Lima Peru and very familiar with the healthcare domain space.
Pixfizz is looking for a junior to mid level javascript engineer to help push the boundaries in the browser. We develop the most advanced HTML5 WYSIWYG tool for designing printed products online. Targetting desktop as well as tablet/mobile, you'll help advance the tool and refine an API to create custom applications. Receive satisfaction from seeing your work result in large volumes of unique printed pages.
Our stack is mainly composed of mysql, cassandra, ruby, node.js and a large client-side app in javascript which will be your focus to start with. Opportunities exist to extend to the backend and help shape the server-side API.
Please send an email to daniel@pixfizz.com with your experience, availability and core interests.
We're looking for awesome engineers at Buffer (http://bufferapp.com). We're a team of 7, about to open an office in SF. We have strong growth and revenues and amazing investors/advisors on board. We also have a unique culture of helping each other every day with improvements such as sleep, exercise, blogging (anything!).
I would personally love to hear from you if you're interested. Email me directly - joel@bufferapp.com