Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there currently working on infrastructure tasks and relocated over there about three years ago, and have been very happy with it.

We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation and visa issues, most of the people working in IT are expats so we've got a lot of experience with bringing people in.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline (PCLN) group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.

We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it. We're also very open to open sourcing code that doesn't contain any business logic, I've personally been involved in open sourcing a few of our internal tools, including https://github.com/git-deploy and a few CPAN modules.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before. The sort of people we'd like to hire are good technically, excellent at communication, and can acquire a good sense of how they fit into the big picture.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume, I've posted in a similar thread here a few times before andI've fielded a bunch of questions from would-be applicants. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

1. Well, not H1B, but we'll take care of the Dutch equivalent

Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our product team in Frederick, MD. Our flagship product is JobTraQ, a task management and workflow system that offers vastly more flexibility and power than any other product in our market segment, and is significantly less expensive and easier to configure than big "BPM" suites like MetaStorm and Lombardi. These advantages are allowing us to disrupt both markets.

Product developers will create new features in JobTraQ and enhance existing functionality. You’ll help us build advanced visual design and administration tools, augment the product's business intelligence capabilities, improve performance and scalability, and use customer feedback to enhance all parts of the system.

Our team has an enjoyable and collaborative culture in a creative environment. We interact positively and openly and emphasize learning and professional development. These attributes have enabled us to produce an industry-leading product with a globally recognizable and satisfied client base. Our environment is relaxed and fun, we play everything from Total Annihilation to Alien Swarm at our game nights, and we equip everyone with new quad-core Thinkpads with SSDs and dual monitors. Our policies and benefits are family-friendly, with generous vacation time, good health insurance options, and flexible work schedules.

For more information about this position, see the link below. If you are interested, please email your resume to resumes@swiftsoftware.com.

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se227-software-engineer-product-...

Riparian Data is a Boston-based startup spun out of SoftArtisans, a 15 year-old software company. Our mission: use big data technologies to make enterprise software smarter, faster, and friendlier.

Job details: http://www.ripariandata.com/jobs/ Send resume: hr@ripariandata.com

Littlelines is looking for Ruby / Rails developers to work with us at our headquarters in Ohio.

You'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills and contribute valuable work to real projects. We're an energetic and talented team of designers and developers that love building successful web apps that people will enjoy.

For more information about this position, see our job post on Authentic Jobs:

http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/15286/ruby-rails-developer

If you are interested, please email us at jobs@littlelines.com.

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

We're a 100 person market leading financial software firm with offices in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong. Rated one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK by The Sunday Times (http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbtechDetails.a...).

We're a continually iterating self managed team doing awesome things with Puppet, MCollective, Ruby, Graphite, Logstash, KVM, MySQL, MongoDB, JVMs and continuous deployments.

We'd love to talk to you, please get in contact with any questions.

Official job spec: http://www.timgroup.com/careers/current-vacancies/system-adm...

1. We’re building a company that’s bringing mobile technology to the massive ($100bln) wedding industry. (there are over 2.5M weddings and 300M guests a year in the US alone)

2. We’ve seen tremendous growth and are currently working on some technically interesting multi platform and scaling challenges. There are also big data challenges on the horizon.

3. We’re a small team of 5 and you will have a huge material impact on the growth of the company.

4. We’re on Rails 3.2, Objective C, Java. We use Coffeescript, Underscore, Haml, and Sass. We test with RSpec, Capybara and Selenium.

5. We work at an awesome office near downtown Mountain View and have a diverse and wicked smart team. Learn more here: www.weddingpartyapp.com/jobs If you’re interested, email us at jobs@weddingpartyapp.com

Join our small team in building the next generation of telepresence robots. We're currently seeking an embedded C programmer, an electrical engineer, and a designer with an eye for both software and hardware, as well as some web/JavaScript skills.

Email jobs@doublerobotics.com with your best projects and your resume.

We're ticket search engine (i.e. "Kayak for sports/concerts").

⇒ iOS Developer: Looking for someone to lead the development of our iOS apps: http://goo.gl/a9QKN

⇒ Android Developer: Looking for someone to lead the development of our Android app: http://goo.gl/tW3y4

PHP/Javascript/HTML5 Generalist to Help Lead Startup to Glory

A New Chapter

DivShare is seeking a driven developer to join the team. A guru on the frontend with chops on the backend. Specifically, HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript on the front and PHP and SQL around back. You will assist with current code troubleshooting while primarily leading development of the reiteration of the service. A great opportunity to work with a creative startup en route to disruption. This is a temp-to-perm position. 30-40 hours a week ongoing; the more the merrier. DivShare is based in the Motor City but you are based anywhere. Pay commensurable with experience. Ideal Pay/Equity split.

The Ideal Teammate

You meet our prerequisites of being a fast learner who can pick up new frameworks quickly. You are results oriented and passionate about fast, compliant, and functional code. You have an ambition to build something great. You ship fast and often.

Your Experience

- Proficient in PHP and Javascript - Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve PHP and MySQL bugs - Large user systems and media streaming - XFS, Lighttpd, Apache, Linux, MySQL - Building for the mobile web - Responsive web sites that gracefully degrade across devices - Up-to-date on HTML5 and enthusiastic about implementing the latest standards

Bonus Experience

- Java - PostgreSQL and/or Nginx - Payment systems - Implementing third-party APIs - Building highly scalable architecture

Let's Chart New Territory!

Play a major role in sailing the ship of an established startup. Advancement encouraged. Let us know what you've done and what you'd like to do.

Important: tell us why you would be the perfect fit and what your ideal career looks like. Are you determined to ship good code fast? What are your key strengths? Weaknesses? What's more important, pay or equity or a combination of both? Be honest!

Please include a link to your portfolio, github and/or any other code samples or information you find relevant.

Let's chat! Mail: divsharellc at gmail

We are building a SaaS Platform for systems administration. We are initially focusing on MySQL administration, as we have years of experience building leading tools for the industry. Our beta clients are very well-known, leading tech firms that use MySQL. Our team has years of experience building web applications and with high performance MySQL management.

We are also building a killer UI that will be the primary value for our customers. You'll be focusing on making that UI a reality. Ideally, you have expertise in modern web application development including JavaScript frameworks, building responsive designs for mobile/desktop, API client development, MySQL, and the Symfony2 PHP framework. It wouldn't hurt to be a good sysadmin, good with The Cloud, have some other devopsy buzzwords thrown in too... you get the idea.

If interested, email stuff to jobs@vividcortex.com . We are fun! ;)

Dropcam's cloud service accepts more incoming video per minute than YouTube. We make a Wi-Fi camera and cloud service that allows users to monitor their home or small business from anywhere in the world using apps for iOS, Android, PC, and Mac.

We have some of the most challenging software engineering problems in the world, e.g.:

  * streaming low-latency, live video over consumer wifi networks
  * storing up to 30 days of video per camera
  * analyzing video for significant events (computer vision)
  * refining a user experience that "just works" whether you are sharing babies'
    first steps or catching a burglar (or monitoring your pets, keeping an eye on
    your small business, providing in home medical care...)

http://allthingsd.com/20121227/the-story-of-dropcam-a-little...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/nyregion/an-improvised-tra...

We are hiring software engineers and product managers (both software and hardware). Dropcam is an amazing place to work. Why? Here are just a few reasons:

  * Spend more time working on the product vs being in meetings.
  * Every employee can access our sales dashboard so you know how the company is 
    doing/growing. (5x annual revenue growth in 2012)
  * We bring in catered lunch every day but not dinner, so you don't feel bad going 
    home to recharge.
  * Like big data? We measure it in Petabytes, not Terabytes (unlike your average
    "web scale" startup :)
  * I personally fly employees on helicopter tours of the San Francisco Bay (you 
    can even bring friends). It's a lot of fun!

Lucidchart is a rapidly growing tech startup looking for great backend software engineers to join us at our headquarters in Utah. At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications requiring highly available, secure and scalable backend services. Talent and ability to learn are more important than years of experience. You may have seen Lucidchart demoed during the second Google I/O 2012 keynote:

http://t.co/sd6GgZvy

We're hiring BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, PHP, MongoDB and MySQL. At Lucidchart, your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly reliable and scalable.

Requirements:

* Talent

Recommended experience:

* Have built large products / applications

* Scala or Java

* PHP

* MySQL or other relational database

* NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially desirable)

* Opscode Chef or Puppet

* Cloud computing (AWS)

We're also hiring FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. We build killer graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. Lucidchart is powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet, optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements:

* Talent

Recommended experience:

* Have built large products / applications

* Javascript

* Google Closure compiler/library

* CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation

* jQuery

* node.js

* Native app development on Android and/or iOS

* Facebook APIs

All applicants email resumes to jobs@lucidchart.com.

Django Developer, Python Developer

LaterPay is a startup looking to change the way we pay for content online. The idea is micropayments, but the twist is that you pay after you accumulate €5, rather than paying into a 'wallet' up front.

We have a couple of positions open for python developers, and as we are still very small, those positions have a lot of scope for responsibility and choosing your own focus. We have a lot of Django work, so there's also a possibility to join as a Django specialist, especially if you also grok HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Other technologies we use include Tornado, Cassandra, Redis, and our code lives on github. Experience with these is a bonus but not necessary!

If you are interested, drop us an email with a resume and some code to look at - jobs@laterpay.net

We're looking for full-stack developers. Perfect Audience is a self-service ad platform that lets businesses get more sales and conversions by retargeting lost visitors on Facebook.

http://perfectaudience.com

What we are looking for:

* Ability to architect, develop, and test key infrastructure

* Understanding of performance and design tradeoffs, without compromising quality

* Experience scaling up webapps and services for rapid growth is a plus

We offer a generous salary and equity grant, free lunches, your choice of snacks in the kitchen, and a desk in our sunny, beautiful office in downtown San Francisco.

Office pic: http://i.imgur.com/aL4Mc.jpg

Want to know more? Write to hello@perfectaudience.com

P.S. If you don't know advertising, that's OK. The ad stuff can be learned. Being a great developer is much harder to "pick up."

http://www.invincea.com/the-invincea-team/employment/

i have a bunch of immediate openings.

i'm hiring for two "research engineer" positions, two "senior research engineer" positions, and two "principle research engineer" positions. think "software engineer who loves solving science problems and dealing with shifting requirements". C, C++, Python. algorithms, malware analysis familiarity, automation, etc. US citizens, clearance and/or clearable desired. no relo assistance.

i'm also seeking an IT person: sysadmin, devops role. clearance needed, experience in working with secured equipment (e.g. in a secure facility) strongly desired.

We are http://WebEngage.com

Looking for full time on-site developers.

We hire passion, not skills. If you'd describe yourself as a polyglot, prize code quality and clarity, please do get in touch.

Some tech we use across our company: Java, Scala, Backbone.js, Storm, RabbitMQ, Puppet, Sass, Responsive Design, Objective-C and on and on. Ideal candidates probably have at least 5-7 years experience

Here's the "job description", if you are interested, you can email me directly: jconnolly@theladders.com

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We’re looking for a few good programmers to join our team and help us achieve our mission of “the right person for the right job.”

Instead of giving you a list of buzzwords to describe the role, we’ll tell you about a project we started recently: A few months back, a small team of engineers and designers at The Ladders got together to design a new product. We started off by interviewing some of our customers to learn about their needs. Using that information, we held design studios and brainstorming sessions to flesh out what the actual features and user experience would be like.

On the front-end, we decided to build a new Javascript-powered rich UI using responsive design techniques. Many people are working on responsive design for content-based sites, but few are doing it for browser-based applications. On the back-end, we designed an Event Driven Architecture that makes use of Event Sourcing. Instead of updating a relational database in-place when things change, we store a series of discrete application events. We can then replay those events to create the state of the world at any point in the past, right up to the present. (Yes, we’ve built a time machine!)

Does this sound like the sort of thing you’d like to do? If it is, we’d like to hear from you.

In return for your passion and commitment to code quality, you’ll enjoy an awesome work environment with perks like: Unlimited vacation days! Yes, unlimited! Quarterly hackathons A game room and a well-stocked kitchen Exciting events including holiday parties, picnics, talent shows, pumpkin carving and more Company sponsored athletic teams Competitive salary, bonus and stock options Health/Dental/Vision Insurance, 401K

Full-time -- on-site only. INTERN and H1B welcome. Principals only please.

Radius Intelligence provides data and tools to help companies reach over 20 million small businesses. Consider that many companies you read about here on HackerNews need to effectively reach these companies to sell to them. Payments companies, deals companies... you get the idea.

The reason I joined Radius is two-fold: I want to work on products that can benefit small businesses and I like the fact that our product directly benefits from our work with data. We're selling the data we have with a cool web application, not using data science to get a 1% lift of clicks on the blue button.

So we're looking for solid software engineers to work on all sorts of problems. We have a sophisticated web application implemented in Python and Javascript and we have our back-end data processing tech which is implemented in Java with Hadoop, Hive and HBase. We have paying customers, but we're on the ground floor with both -- now is the time to join us and make a huge impact. We also need an engineer who is interested in test and performance.

Drop a line: jobs@radiusintel.com . Thanks.

We are looking for a senior developer to join the architecture team. We get to do some pretty awesome things on this team like prototype new applications, research new technologies and develop frameworks and back-end systems used by all new TMP applications.

We are a .Net shop at heart, so we definitely want someone who knows C# well and has an understanding of how the CLR/.Net runtime really works. We also use tools and frameworks like MVC4, NServiceBus, Entity FW, Backbone.js, Solr, MongoDB, SQL Server 2008/2012.

I'm not a recruiter or HR person, just a developer on this team trying to help find the right person to work with. It's a great environment with a lot of really challenging fun work in the world of recruitment software.

If you are interested shoot me an email: Daniel.Battaglia@TMP.com

Join the team of happy hackers at PipelineDeals! We’re looking for talented Rails developers in the Seattle or Greater Philadelphia area (remote work ok, for the right type of individual)

Perks:

* Join a progressive, 6 year-old company that is fun to work at, bootstrapped, profitable and proud. The stuff you will work on will be used daily by tens of thousands of users across the globe!

* We encourage and promote learning on the job. We have Video/Prezo Fridays, where we all hang out and watch a presentation from a conference, or present ourselves, about various subjects like TDD, architecture, SOLID principles, Ember.js, etc etc.

* There are quite a few large projects in our future that will be quite interesting to work on.

* Reimbursement for conferences or meetups you would like to attend, books you want to buy, screencasts you want to watch. In addition, you will be invited to attend our yearly Summit meeting, where the entire company gets together in a wild location.

* Great benefits package: 401k, full health coverage, dental, vision.

* Very competitive salary, and lots of room for growth. Our goal is to ensure you are comfortable so you will be productive.

Requirements:

* Must have at 2 years of experience working directly with ruby, either with a company, or via open source. Past contributions to open source projects, or maintaining your own, are looked very highly upon.

* At least a year’s experience working with Rails, either on your own or at a previous company.

* Experience with jQuery, Backbone.js or Ember.js, Coffeescript

* Solid familiarity with git or other distributed version control system.

* Enough SQL to understand what rails is doing in the backend.

* Willingness to learn every day, and present what you learn to the team. We love learning here.

* A good sense of humor is a strict requirement. Company culture is very important to us, and we are absolutely NOT a bunch of straight-laced, profit-driven, cubicle-sitting curmudgeons.

* Remote work OK, but it is highly preferable if you are located around the Philadelphia or Seattle area. You will be expected to be at the office sometimes. We do get lonely.

Interested? Email a link to your Github account (or resume) to careers@pipelinedeals.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Care Thread (http://www.carethread.com) provides secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for healthcare providers in hospitals. Care Thread's mobile and web apps deliver real-time information detailing patient status and treatment to every member of the care team, addressing communication gaps to eliminate unnecessary costs and reduce medical errors.

Our products are built around a real-time messaging and notification framework, using tools including node.js, Python, CoffeeScript, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL.

We're looking to expand our team by adding web front-end developers, mobile developers for iOS and Android, and back-end developers, as well as a system administrator who's comfortable with PostgreSQL databases, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, and VPNs.

If you'd like to build the next generation of healthcare software, please contact us at jobs@carethread.com.

Django Developers at Wildfish, http://wildfish.com

We're an independent London based Django consultancy looking to expand our team. We work on web applications for startups, other clients, and our own hairbrain schemes. We've mostly been working with freelancers, but are now looking to start putting together a permanent team to take things to the next level. We're all developers, so understand the things which are important and which aren't.

Our office is in London Bridge, so you'll need to be within occasional commute distance of there, but a mixture of remote on site work seems to work best for most of us, so that's fine too.

These are some of the technologies we're working with, so please mention any experience, skills or interest in any of them:

- Python - Django - Testing (TDD, nose, django-webtest, factory-boy) - gevent, gevent-socketio - Ubuntu Linux server admin (Linode, AWS, Fabric, Salt, Nginx) - PostgreSQL, Redis - Django CMSs (Django CMS 2, FeinCMS, Mezzanine, others) - HTML/CSS/Bootstrap - Javascript (and any frameworks)

It's more important that someone can demonstrate they know their stuff rather than have lots of commercial experience necessarily, so please include any links which might show that (other projects/Github/HackerNews/SO, etc).

We'd also like someone who's interested in helping us build the profile of the company but contributing back to the community, including paid time contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts, and developing our own internal infrastructure or cool things you or we may dream up.

Please email contact@wildfish.com with your details and salary expectations. Would possibly also consider those interested in part time work.

Thanks!

We're hiring all types (Analytics, UI, Test-Automation, Generalists) of developers and at all levels at the moment.

Responsibilities: What will I do?

* Looking for all levels of experience

* Contribute to the design and development of product features as well as major components

* Contribute to the innovation and evolution of the Spiceworks suite products

* Work directly with our growing community of over 2 Million IT pros as well as experience developers who are experts in the industry

Qualifications: What does it take to do this job?

* Looking for all levels of experience

* Object Oriented programming skills with Ruby-on-Rails ( Python or equivalent)

* Application and/or Web Application experience is a must

* Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Prototype) and Ruby-On-Rails

* Solving large-application/user-level problems, performance, scalability, etc.

* Skilled with distributed software (native or webapp)

* Some experience with SQL is desired

Email me at sajana @ spiceworks . com if you're interested!

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Called the “Facebook of IT,” Spiceworks innovative model combines a network management app with an online community of over 2 million IT pros around the world. Our goal is to simplify “everything IT” by helping our users do their jobs, share tips and tricks, and connect with the tech vendors who sell them products. And, given we’re growing by over 2,000 users a day, it’s no wonder we’ve been called the “fast growing social business app” in history!

TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers at every layer of our technology stack. http://tumblr.com/jobs

We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs.

Happy New Year,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala, you will design, create and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application. Being a productive coder with architecture common sense is a must, but expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus.

* Search Engineer (http://bit.ly/TcOdt8): Real-time search and architecture are your forte. Using your large-scale experience with building and innovating search backends, you will help take our search infrastructure to the next level.

* Front End/PHP Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You are a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

* Site Reliability Engineering Lead (http://bit.ly/Uyy04u): As the team lead, you are an inspiring software developer with a passion for the highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems that make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users.

About Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/about)

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr empowers millions of users to create and explore content. Tumblr now hosts more than 87 million blogs and 39 billion posts. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and a love for open source. As engineers, we are focused on building technologies that advance massively scaled websites. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.