Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

Knewton's mission is to personalize the world's education.

The Knewton infrastructure blends data science, advanced learning models, and pedagogical expertise to enable real-time personalization at massive scale. The Knewton API allows third-party learning providers to build new, innovative learning solutions on top of the Knewton framework.

The adaptive group working on recommendation, analytics, and adaptive instruction is now at 30 people, with at least 30 more rounding out platform, systems, and full stack. The company now tops 110 people. We'll exceed 2 million full-time students on the platform by the fall, with multiples of that waiting in the wings.

http://www.knewton.com/jobs/

* Academic Content Expert

* Business and Market Analyst

* Data Scientist

* Senior Engineer - Full Stack

* Software Engineer in Test

* Sr. Security Engineer

* Senior Manager, Communications and Media Relations

* Senior Manager, Content Strategy

* Senior Product Manager

http://www.knewton.com/tech/blog/

This is just the beginning. You can read more about the future here: http://bit.ly/Zj5xPv

We make the best SaaS application performance monitoring (APM) solution, for mobile and browser. It gives deep visibility in production apps running on Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, .NET, iOS and Android (with more platforms on the way). Making it easy for our users, however, is hard work. Our answer is to hire top notch people and then turn them loose to solve tough problems.

We're looking for a number of technical positions (check out the Jobs page), including engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1-B transfers are welcome.

We also take our company culture seriously -- Best Place to Work and all that, of course. But we also provide an unusual and exciting development environment, one where managers are working to enable developer success, not the other way around.

Come take a look. http://newrelic.com/jobs

http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/

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We are a small team of software craftsmen (10 of us right now) passionate about making people's lives better through software.

A little bit about us:

  - We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US
  
  - Though everyone here is fluent in Ruby, we're more concerned with using the 
    right tool for the job. In the past two months, I've worked with Objective-C,
    Javascript (Backbone+PhoneGap), and a little bit of Java and C#.
  
  - We practice a sustainable pace. We recognize that we each have lives, activities, 
    and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are rare by design.
  
  - We're agile, but not dogmatic about it. Our process evolves to suit our needs.
  
  - We offer competitive salaries, health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k) + match, 
    quarterly profit sharing, weekly catered lunches, and a top-floor office with
    snacks, guitars, and your choice of standing or sitting desks.

  - 2.5 hours from Chicago, 2.5 hours from Detroit, and less than an hour to the beach.
  
  - Lots of great beer. Founders Brewery (a mile from our office) has 3 beers in the
    Beer Advocate top 15. HopCat is a “World Class” bar on BA. 
    Just look here: http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/city/43
  
  - Affordable housing. If you’re renting anything larger than a breadbox in the 
    Bay Area or NYC, you can afford a house here (or a much nicer rental). I bought 
    a nice house with a mortgage payment drastically lower than the rent of my 
    1 bedroom apartment in Mountain View.
  
  - A growing economy driven by technology, healthcare, and a growing list of startups. 
    The energy here around the growth in technology and the support for entrepreneurs 
    is infectious.

  - You love writing software, and you have a few years of experience doing it.
  
  - You learn new stuff quickly. You’ve used a lot of technologies, but you’re not
    afraid to use more. It would be nice if you use and love Ruby, but not required.
  
  - You believe software is written for humans, not computers.
  
  - You want to come into work every day and enjoy the people you work with.

ej@mutuallyhuman.com

We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Frontend Developer -- A big focus on Javascript, HTML/CSS, and crafting (but not visually designing) user experiences and interfaces. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/ui_developer/

Android Developer -- Live event apps are where photo sharing apps were four years ago. We're looking for someone to define the live event experience on Android: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

Check out all our jobs: http://vimeo.com/jobs

- PHP Engineers (NY)

- Sr Mobile Engineer (LA)

- Site Reliability Engineer (NY)

- MySQL DBA (NY)

- Security Engineer (NY)

- Payments Engineer (NY)

- Video Encoding Engineers (NY)

Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.

Feel free to email our Tech Recruiter, tyler at vimeo dot com.

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest standard of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun + we have Car2Go and Drive-Now (these are world's best smartphone-supported car sharing systems with brand new cars at every corner, cheaper than owning a car or riding a cab). In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension (when working as an employee).

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird, Mozilla and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

=> http://urge.io/jobs

If you are doing Node.js or JS, apply today—we are looking for multiple Node.js Software Engineers.

We build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8. We need mobile developers and web developers.

Most recently we've built apps for Songza (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songza/id453111583?ls=1&...) and YouSendIt (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yousendit/id442140135?mt=8)

http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/ux

There are many jobs open at Bloomberg, but I'm particularly looking for intelligent software engineers and UX professionals to work under the CTO and Infrastructure team in R&D. We have roughly 4,000 R&D employees, so work is very diverse across the company. Teams are roughly 4-8 people at the lowest level and group up into larger organizations organized by product type (equities, fixed income, etc.). I happen to work on infrastructure for the Professional service (aka Terminal). Our team has very little interaction with anything finance related and most of our work is related to evolving the entire platform forward and making forward-looking changes. Back in 2005, we converted all of our higher-level "app" development to server-side JS (custom, Spidermonkey based) and now run probably the largest server-side JS stack in the world (~20MM LOC). We migrated a lot of our GUI toolkit to be scripted as well (LUA this time) to allow us to more easily evolve it. And now we're evolving it, embedding WebKit and pushing bugfixes and feature enhancements to do what we need (our fork is on GH). We're helping define and implement CSS3 Grid spec and help implement ES6 generators among other things. We built and run a third-party app store within the Terminal. Over the past decade we've rebuilt the C++ foundation of the company from the ground up, starting with our own STL implementation using the Lakos allocator model (Lakos and a few other C++ committee members work here). We have a huge wealth of awesome C++ libraries that we started open-sourcing and will continue to add more layers as time goes by.

All of what I mentioned above is stuff done by the infrastructure team, and we're a tiny percentage of the overall R&D population. Other teams get to do fun stuff as well. The mortgage team ported long-running ABS OAS calculations from Linux farms to GPU clusters and wrote a Python based cash flow engine from the ground up, potentially helping define the SEC's Python-files-must-be-included rules.

We run a worldwide network with somewhere around 35,000 circuits in 180+ countries. We ingest anywhere from 45-60 billion "ticks" daily aggregate from feeds in all of these countries. We normalize, scrub, and then re-distribute all this data to customers in all of those countries in an efficient manner. The Terminal provides analytic and visualization tools to work with market data, as well as the same tools to work with news and alerts. On the news side, we ingest over 80,000 news feeds (e.g. WSJ would be one "feed") from around the world and do the same kind of processing, applying ML for sentiment and topic classification, etc. We also design our own hardware in-house -- everything from keyboards and monitors, to custom ASICs for authentication/subscription tokens and PCIe hardware security modules for our certificate infrastructure. The web side (bloomberg.com, businessweek.com, BGOV, BLAW, Black, etc) uses mostly Rails stacks and everything you would expect to find in a web shop.

Oh, and we have a TV station, radio station, etc. They innovate too. Bloomberg TV is the first non-OTA channel to be distributed via Aereo, for instance :)

We could use a motto like "We do a lot of stuff."

Contact me if you want to discuss at andrew@ishiboo.com. If you want to chat in person, we are a sustaining sponsor of NYTM and are at all the meetups. and we'll have a few people at JSConf in May.

Come pair with me at mobi!

We're seeking talented, full-stack software engineers that are smart and get things done. We're most excited about finding seniors, but all experience levels are welcome. We're looking for candidates in, or willing to relocate to, Austin, TX.

mobi is a B2B mobile fleet logisitics solution. We help companies with mobile fleets service their customers better and faster by optimizing service routes and analyzing GPS data. This means we also help save fuel, tires and brake pads to keep the world a little bit more green.

Our tech stack contains a non-trivial amount of all of the following technologies: Java (Spring/MyBatis/Hibernate) Ruby (Sinatra and maybe Padrino or Rails soon) JavaScript (AngularJS/jQuery) SQL (T-SQL and maybe Postgres or Mongo soon)

We're not dogmatic about the tech we use. We believe strongly in using the tool that helps us accomplish the task in the best and fastest way possible.

We don't expect you to be familiar with all of the technologies we use. There is a very strong learning culture at mobi. Therefore we do expect you to be willing (nay, excited) to learn about the tech we use that you don't know and to teach us about the tech you use that we don't know. We also expect you to be comfortable with test driving the code you write, with a pair, the large majority of the time. Of course, working in pairs doesn't always make sense, nor does TDD, and we're comfortable with those exceptions.

mobi offers competitive salary; competitive ping pong tournaments; free soda, snacks and beer; unlimited time off as needed; great views from our downtown office; monthly company get-togethers to celebrate our accomplishments

If you're interested, my personal email is in my profile. Here's an explanation of roughly what kind of interview process you could expect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441267

http://idonethis.com

We make it easy for people at work to track and recognize progress.

We're looking for generalist web developers who are excited about our product and building a company from scratch. Our stack is Python, Django, Coffeescript, Backbone.

If you're interested, email me at walter@idonethis.com.

We're a YC company wrangling SaaS to work together (as they should), starting by bringing the biggest apps our customers use right into Gmail.

We work with dozens of API's to show our users profiles of their customers without having to jump out of the email flow - imagine having http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtzqRSlgqkw available when helping customers.

Thousands of people use it every day for hours on end, and are happy to pay for it to make sure they can continue using it. But there's still so much polish and improvement possible.

Looking for an engineer who loves the craft, who cares about building product, and is excited about helping customers.

This is both UI and backend work.

Languages: Clojure, Clojurescript, Ruby, Javascript.

sean @ zenboxapp

https://www.zenboxapp.com

Join us in writing software that trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market.

We are a very small team, all engineers, who design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code that connects us to financial markets. We want to add employees number 2 and 3 to our team in the coming months who will focus on strategy or on infrastructure.

No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

http://amacapital.net/careers.html

Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance.

At Educreations, we believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.

As a first step, we've made it extremely easy for teachers to teach online. Our top-100 app transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and students are using it daily to learn from each other anytime, anywhere.

Educreations is looking for some sharp, passionate people to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are funded by Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels.

We've set out to make a dent in the future of teaching and learning and if this sounds like something you're interested in, get in touch.

We are looking for:

    Strong Python or Objective C Engineers
    Lead Visual Designer

Industry Dive is a mobile-focused business-to-business media company. We create apps, websites, and newsletters for executives in various industries. See, for example, http://www.educationdive.com/

I'm looking for interns interested in any or all of the following:

  - Improving our our iOS or Android apps
  - Helping add features and improve our Django/Python CMS
  - Working with the CTO to scale our backend infrastructure.
  - Help design and traffic marketing materials and advertisements for clients.

(We're also hiring business writers, editors, and for online sales -- it's a growing startup!)

At Precision Nutrition, we're committed to the Fitness 2.0 vision: technology that makes lifelong change easier than ever before. We're looking for a new teammate to help us make it happen.

Specifically, we're looking for a Front-end design engineer. Someone with:

* both design and coding chops

* incredibly strong skills in HTML5, CSS and the related design tools (Creative Suite, etc.)

* some experience with JQuery and any of the MVC Javascript frameworks (optional, but a big plus. We're using Ember.js on our current project)

* the ability to turn UI sketches and mockups into beautiful, working HTML / CSS / JS prototypes

* the ability to turn those prototypes into clean, elegant, production-ready code

* a passion for learning, a penchant for listening, and a good attitude to tie it all together

We're going to be working primarily on responsive and mobile-specific web projects and apps, so if you're interested, send us something that shows us what you can do. If you have a GitHub profile, a portfolio, or even something you've cooked up for fun just to demo your skills, we'd love to see it. Come build the future of fitness with us.

At Precision Nutrition we:

* Pay in the top 10% in the world for each position.

* Offer 4 weeks paid vacation and a health benefit stipend.

* $10,000 annual expense budget for whatever hardware, software, training and conferences you might wish for.

* Encourage and enthusiastically support remote work.

Join us so you can:

* Work from anywhere. If you’re in Toronto, our hometown, great! If not, no worries. Many people on our team work exclusively from home, from all over the world. We prefer people to be on Eastern time (or close to it), because it makes virtual meetings easier. But we'll consider superb applications from anyone, anywhere.

* Work in the fitness and nutrition industry. 
We love exercise, we love nutrition, and we love sport. That’s why we started this company. If you do too, you’ll appreciate how rare it is to do a job you really love. For active, fit people, Precision Nutrition is that opportunity.

* Work with fun, bright, and talented people. We’re a small company, and we’re picky about who we work with, because to us, this isn’t just a job – it’s our life. Over time, and with careful selection, we’ve put together a group of extremely talented, flexible, and positive people who truly love what they do, and who appreciate the strengths their teammates bring. It's an incredibly creative environment.

Interested? Send an application to applications@precisionnutrition.com, and include a cover letter, resume / LinkedIn profile, GitHub profile, portfolio -- whatever will show us what you can do.

We are 17 person full service web agency located in the heart of Washington, DC.

We approach each project with a comprehensive strategy phase and then determine the correct technology for the project. That often results in us selecting Sitecore for the client's content management needs. For this position, we are looking specifically for someone to assist on our .NET ASP.MVC and Sitecore projects, and having production experience (jQuery, CSS, markup) would also be quite helpful.

Requirements:

We don't care as much about years of experience as we do your talent and passion. But here is the type background you should have:

-Deep experience with the .NET framework Sitecore CMS/DMS experience a huge plus

-Experience developing web applications using the Microsoft stack (MS SQL Server, IIS, .NET framework, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# or VB.NET)

-Experience in object-oriented programming Strong oral and written communication skills

-Web agency experience

-Ability to apply creative thinking to technology issues Curiosity to learn about new web technologies and approaches Experience in PHP, MySQL and open source frameworks a plus

Your Qualities:

-A team player with great communication and interpersonal skills

-Intellectually curious with innovative and creative problem-solving skills

-Well-organized and able to work under deadlines and multiple projects

-A highly motivated self-starter Able to work effectively with other developers, account management staff, and designers Someone who understands the importance of documentation, but can also figure things out on their own

Curious?

If this sounds like a place you would like to work, contact us at programmer@interactivestrategies.com add the subject "Hacker News Post" or checkout out the full listing http://www.interactivestrategies.com/netsitecore-web-develop...

We offer competive salary, health insurance with company HSA contribution, dental, good PTO schedules, and all other manner of niceties. Company info: We're a well established company with many big clients. The company has been around for 20+ years in various iterations with the latest product cycle about 10-15 years old. We've recently been acquired by a couple of Silicon Valley backed gentlemen who see our potential and want to compete toe to toe with IBM in the Managed File Transfer domain. We're revamping products, spinning up marketing, staffing up and taking over the world. It is a startup atmosphere in an established company. If this sounds interesting to you, contact me @ jorr@cleo.com. I'm just a Senior Engineer, but I'll get you to the right people.

Web developer

Role and requirements

4-5 years experience as web developer.

Understand and implement front end templates from layered PSDs.

Translate wireframes, comps, and functional requirements into functional HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Develop responsive ecommerce and CMS websites, applications and standalone mobile sites across current and emerging devices and mobile operating systems, using and/or combining frameworks and custom code.

Good PHP and SQL skills and experience.

Apply emerging technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Canvas 2d API, Geolocation and WebGL.

Review standards and frameworks for effective integration. Work as part of a team, communicate, report and deliver to plan.

Desired

Drupal and Magento experience ideal.

Objective-C and OpenCart a plus.

Good knowledge of hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON.

Knowledge of JavaScript/UI libraries and how to implement in AJAX solutions.

Experience working with CMS and ability to write cross browser compatible code.

Understanding and experience of SEO and accessibility in web development.

Understanding of web standards and experience of implementation.

Writing function and high level scope.

Git version control.

Apache/IIS and hosting setup.

mail@images.co.uk

We have over 140 people working on behalf of 12 major motor manufacturers in the UK to support their sales activity. From an IT point of view we are a small team within the business who customise Sage CRM systems (Classic ASP/C#) for some of these motor manufacturers and are now looking to build our own analytics and management product (technology stack not yet chosen, probably not MS).

We are looking for a well rounded web developer who is comfortable with HTML/CSS/Javacript/ASP/C#/SQL Server and ideally someone who also has Sage CRM experience. UI design skills not essential. This is one of the first hires in this area so will have a big say in the new products we create.

Remote working possible though would need to meet face to face occasionally.

If interested drop me a mail at lloyd - at - cogentic.co.uk

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Junior/middle-weight web developer

Are you an internet-obsessed design-savvy coder? Interested in being part of a friendly, dynamic team in a central Cambridge studio? We want to talk to front or back end developers who are creative, organised and love all things web. Ideally you'll have some or all of the following skills:

Knowledge of writing standards-compliant, high-performing HTML5 and CSS web pages. Experience of working with popular web libraries. We use Django and jQuery, but you can learn these on the job. Good knowledge of at least one programming language. We work primarily in Python and Javascript, but are happy for you to learn these on the job too. An understanding of database programming and design. Familiarity with *nix based operating systems. Awareness of popular web APIs, such as Google Maps, Twitter and Facebook. More important than relevant experience is the drive to learn and expand your skill set. If you've got a commitment to excellence and can demonstrate an aptitude for programming then we want to hear from you. In return you'll receive a competitive salary, full training and your own top of the range laptop (we work predominantly on Macs but we can let the odd Windows machine slip through the net!).

What you can expect to work on

Expect to work on a wide range of challenging projects. We don't have a cookie cutter approach to the web and push the design and technical envelope on all our work. Recent projects have included: an application that manages, filters and analyses radio spectrum data from a series of nationally-located nodes; a responsive website for a high-end safari and Africa travel company; a large website and online admin system to manage the ever-changing attractions and events for an interactive science centre; and a website/application that tracks, maps and graphs the progress of University spin-out companies. Most of our projects are responsive and we're as committed to the front-end user experience as we are to what's happening under the hood.

How we work

As a team we listen, learn, plan, design, build, test and deliver together. Whilst different people are responsible for their own part of a project, we all understand the importance of the chain and support each other to get things done. You'll be expected to manage your own workload and you won't ever have a project manager breathing down your neck. Our process is front-loaded with in-depth research and discovery rounds in which both developers and designers participate. This keeps scope creep to a minimum and deadlines and budgets realistic. We don't subscribe to unnecessary bureacracy and keep things streamlined and agile. You'll get to talk to clients too - we all share the successes and the challenges of a project together.

Learning

The web is constantly evolving so we expect you to as well. Experimentation and learning new skills is part of the fabric at Onespacemedia. Need some books or course materials? No problem. Want to try out some new techniques on a test project? No problem. Something you want to tell the world about a technology or trend? Blog about it on the website. We expect our team members to be passionate and knowledgeable about their field of expertise.

Lifestyle

Working at Onespacemedia is fun. We do serious work for serious clients but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy it. Expect plenty of laughter, music, company lunches, trips to the pub and impromptu ping pong battles. Just ten minutes walk from the station and ten minutes walk from the centre of Cambridge, the office is located just of Mill Road, the cultural heart of Cambridge (and probably the closest thing you can get to a London street outside of the capital). We're surrounded by green spaces, pubs, shops and cafés (including the legendary Hot Numbers). We've even got parking spaces. We operate a flexitime scheme too so those of you who are commuting from out of town don't have to spend four hour...

Web Developer

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We’re looking for a talented and passionate developer to help improve and expand our web-based application, FormAssembly. The ideal candidate can craft code that’s robust and easy to maintain, switch between back-end and front-end development, and keep usability and user experience in mind at all times. You’ll work on our LAMP stack, as well as new projects with a clean slate, for which you’ll help pick the best technologies, architecture, and tools. You’ll work autonomously or with the team depending on the project, and will get many opportunities to share, teach, and learn from your coworkers.

UX Engineer

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Designing user interactions around web form building and data collection is a real challenge. If you’ve ever had to fill out a form online and cursed at your screen, you know what we’re trying to improve. We’re looking for a front-end developer / user experience designer. You have the technical skills (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) that allow you to imagine, design, and implement new features. You pay attention to details, and you’re an empathetic person, capable of evaluating your work with the eye of a typical user.

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Your work will get in front of tens of thousands of users and help make data collection easier for a lot of people, from schools enrolling students to large corporations improving their business processes. We're confortable working with remote workers and have sponsored successfully H1B applicants in the past.

To apply and for more info: http://www.veerwest.com/jobs

We’re looking for an ambitious developer to join our team to help us manage our current site and tackle tough online booking, search and geo challenges.

With only 30% of UK campsites and caravan parks available to book online, you'll be solving a problem that will benefit millions of users and thousands of campsite owners. You’ll employ the latest techniques to maintain and enhance the fast, frictionless search and booking process that Pitchup.com’s customers love.

You'll be expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework and ideally GeoDjango experience, and good PostgreSQL experience. Very strong JavaScript skills, familiarity with nginx server environments and willingness to undertake sysadmin work are highly desirable.

…and you'll probably enjoy working with us if you're:

    - A fan of agile working practices – gets things done
    - A quick-on-the-uptake problem solver
    - Someone who enjoys coming up with new feature ideas
    - Backend stack: Python / Django / Postgres / Celery / nginx / S3 / Redis

Environment

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We're all about collaboration – you'll take part in regular brainstorms as the company grows rapidly over coming months. You'll gain direct experience of the rapid evolution of a high-profile start-up, working alongside other experts in their fields, in an apolitical, friendly environment.

Apply on our jobs (http://www.pitchup.com/jobs/) page and your application will come straight through to me.