Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)
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? (July 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970190
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 310 ms ] threadIn June 2013 we added 46 jobs, with a breakdown as follows:
29 Software Development
12 System Administration
4 Design
1 Customer Support
Also, it's still free to submit your job posting to WFH.io, so please do so! :)
Thanks!
Several positions available:
- Two strong Perl developers with testing, refactoring, and "Modern Perl" experience.
- A DevOps person. As DevOps, not only will you be responsible for keeping their systems up and running, you’ll also have the ability to shape the operations management product all your colleagues are using. You will be there working with the dev team to help them build the right ops management system.
- A front-end developer with a keen eye towards Web site design and implementation. Expert with HTML/CSS/Javascript (jQuery). Also, either knows Perl or isn't afraid to learn it.
We're recruiting for a company in Hanover, Germany. They're stable, profitable and they've been in business for years. Hanover is a beautiful, bike-friendly, mid-sized town in the north of Germany. The cost of living is low and the quality of life is high. It's a green-friendly town and hosts one of the largest Oktoberfests in the world. While we're listing "desired" skills, keep in mind that the company is happy to be flexible on most of this so long as you can convince them that you can help improve their systems.
See http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/vacancies.html for more information (we don't yet have the front-end developer position listed). You can email us at jobs@allaroundtheworld.fr. Please include:
Your name, your timezone (helpful when scheduling interviews!), your CV, where you heard about us and why you want to live in Germany!
(edit) This is "Who's hiring" thread and it has always been a place for companies to post their own direct-hire positions. Allow recruitment agency postings and both the quality and the value of these threads very quickly go down the drain. I realize that you mean well, but that's not the thread for your ads unless you are willing to disclose the name of the companies you are proxying.
Here's some more of my open-source code: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/
Here's my tech blog where I give advice to other hackers: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/
I'm a hacker trying to help other hackers live their dreams and I give freely back to the community.
> This is "Who's hiring" thread and it has always been a place for companies to post their own direct-hire positions.
I realize that you disagree with recruiters being here. The lead paragraph for the "Who is Hiring" threads says the following:
> 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.
I've never seen anything which states "no recruiters". We specifically looked for that because we didn't want to violate any TOS or alienate those we are trying to help.
I'm sorry you disagree with how we've handled this, but we honestly do try to help people live anywhere in the world. The fact that I've also been writing a blog helping people do this for years should help back that up.
When candidates contact us with their CV and express an interest in the jobs, we immediately tell them who is hiring and why. It's hard enough for those who dream of living abroad to find companies willing to help them. Why restrict their opportunities?
Yes, you have "Perl" in your profile, but it doesn't matter, sorry.
> Why restrict their opportunities?
To not set a precedent for other recruiters. This thread will snowball into an utter dump once more recruiters get a whiff it. And posts like yours set up the stage just for that.
About the snowball of utter dump... that's what downvotes are for.
BTW, he wrote this too: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781118013847/ Know any other recruiters that do that ? :)
We want developers who like to have fun and socialize outside of work, but care about their jobs, too. We're looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end developers.
UX designer: use Photoshop, Gimp, or whatever makes your socks roll up and down and you know how to make Web and/or mobile applications work for customers. Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS also needed.
Front-end developer: you can make Web sites do exactly what you want them to do, regardless of the browser or operating system the web site is running on. Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS required.
Back-end developers: you know what it takes to power the back-end of large web sites. You understand scalability issues and can explain the difference between an inner and outer join. You know what O(log N) is and why it's important. Your programming language history isn't important because you're good enough to learn a new language if needed.
All positions: not looking for rock stars. Looking for competent technical talent who are willing to move to Europe (unless you're already here). We have many expats working here and we'll even help pay for Dutch lessons, if you want them.
We also like people who understand business because you'll be expected to make many of your own decisions without having to ask permission from management for every little thing that you do. You will have the power to get stuff done, work with a great bunch of people and be able to spend your five weeks of vacation time cruising across Europe and discovering why Amsterdam is such a beautiful city.
For more information, see http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/vacancies.html
Send email to jobs at allaroundtheworld.fr. Please include:
Your name, your timezone (helpful when scheduling interviews!), your CV, where you heard about us and why you want to live in Amsterdam!
Thus, since we have a lot of background in this area, I'm moderately well-known in the IT world and I keep getting companies contacting me to help them find people (because of my "how to become an expat" blog http://www.overseas-exile.com/), we decided that we'd create a company to help people live their dreams.
We're proud of the fact that we help people move to other countries. We're particularly happy with one young developer who escaped a violence-filled, high unemployment country. Of course, since we're "just recruiters", we're stereotyped and there's no easy way to shake that, but I'm proud of the work we do.
I was simply shedding some light on why I think people are downvoting you.
So far we've not really gotten much direct hate from folks, but it happens from time to time. I suspect the fact that we're trying to help people move to other countries might make us look a bit nicer, but it's tough to say.
There are a lot of bad stories about working at booking.com...one of those things you don't even know how you know, but you realize it must get brought up a lot for that association (and only that association) to exist with the company.
edit: now I did downvote it for posting a duplicate where a simple list of countries would have sufficed.
Um, uh, er. Yeah, you're right, darn it. I didn't think about that (duh), but in retrospect, it should have been obvious to me :(
I won't make that mistake again. Thanks for pointing it out!
Not what we want on here at all. The Who is mightily important and he won't say.
It's an abuse of this thread.
Just consider a single post saying "Hey, we have several positions in several places in the world", that does not convey any information.
They are trying to be helpful and you're replying with "screw it, they're recruiters".
Disclaimer: I use their services. They are in no way a shitty recruiter service and in the first e-mail exchange they say which is the company.
Please read the links below before applying to the company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803798
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923178
http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...
Can the moderator please stop recruiters from posting on this forum.
All that I am saying is, there are a lot of ways of making money and it isn't correct to put your reputation at stake to advertise a tainted company such as Booking.com for a couple of thousand euros.
The frequent advertisement for developers is not only due to the exodus of senior devs (including you) from the company but also because booking is trying to create a redundant pool of devs so that the business doesn't get effected by this employee churn.
If an employee complains he/she is asked to leave the company and all that is because they have a huge cash reserve built out of years of underpaying developers and exploiting hotels.
Years of copy paste has made the code unmaintainable and I am not talking about the new code Aevar and you had written for Booking::Search but Booking::Maxotel, Availability, Policy system, Search::Which, Search::When, etc. I have never seen a company which rebukes its developers for refactoring or treat its developers like dogs except at Booking.
As they have a real bad reputation in the Perl community they are trying to get developers from other communities who are ignorant.
Booking.com not only mistreats its developers they also bully the hotels using their monopoly.
Successful lawsuits have been filed against the company for price fixing as can be googled.
Only if a dev is unemployed should he consider working for Booking.com. There are a lot of good companies and they are actively seeking employees including here in the UK.
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/
⇒ Web Engineer -- We're looking for someone who loves building web apps. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for debate. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/
http://redtettemer.com/
Brooklyn / NYC / Philadelphia
Looking for: Lead/senior Rails engineer, Senior front-end developer (JavaScript at an expert level).
RT+P is a full-service ad shop based in Philadelphia, PA. We're seeking smart people who are interested in building apps that help people reach their goals. Agency experience is not required.
Brooklyn positions: We operate a small development outpost in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The Brooklyn office is small - currently just myself. You'll be working directly with me, but also be a part of a larger, but still small, organization of creative people. Some travel (mainly to Philadelphia, once every couple weeks) will be expected but will be fully covered.
Please contact me at interactivejobs@redtettemer.com
My name is Sebastian, and I am the CTO at Aircloak. Aircloak is a young and well-funded startup working on privacy preserving data processing and analytics. We are a spinout from the German Max-Planck Institute for Software System research institute, where we also currently have our offices.
Our technology allows us to process highly private streams of data and only ever make fully anonymous data available to our customers. One of the features that make our system unique is that no one, including operators, customers, and ourselves, ever has access to the sensitive raw data. This property holds true even after we update the software running on the machines processing the sensitive data!
You should:
Our system spans many machines and services, with major components written in Erlang and Java, in addition to components written in C, C# and ruby. Knowledge of functional programming is a plus. Experience with web development is not going to hurt either.We are:
The work environment is highly international and diverse, and we would like to keep it that way. We are looking to hire two more full time engineers. You can either work on site with us in our offices in Kaiserslautern, Germany, or, for the right candidate, remote. We offer good and stable salary, generous equity and great facilities.We hope to hear from you. Please email us at jobs@aircloak.com if you have any questions!
You can find more on our website: http://www.aircloak.com/join.html
You:
* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.
* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.
* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.
* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.
* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.
Nice to haves:
* You have a MS/PhD & have published research during your time in academia.
* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.
* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.
* You are comfortable with HTML5 (Haml), CSS (Sass), and JS (Backbone).
* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.
Why you should work with us:
* A chance to revolutionize science.
* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.
* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.
* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.
* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.
Salary is dependent on experience & ability. We will pay for relocation if you're interested. Compensation package included. To apply contact toni (at) banyan.co, or tweet me @twogiraffes
- We helped win marriage equality: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-soci...
- We're well funded: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/amicus/
- We work on interesting problems, for example: Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding
More details at http://jobs.amicushq.com/ or shoot an email with your github profile and why you might be a good fit to jobs+july@amicushq.com
Neumitra is hiring full-time hardware and web engineers to join our founding team. We build wearable, mobile technologies to use data from your biology to transform how we all live, work, and play.
Email us hello@neumitra.com
We look for people who love building things, strive for craftsmanship, and use data to iterate. Founded by a neuroscientist (me!), a rocket scientist, and a biotechnology engineer, we aim to control our own destiny with a dedicated, like-minded team.
Boston, MA at Copley
You will need strong skills developing complex JavaScript web applications, as well as good knowledge of SVG (VML would be useful, but optional). The work is pure JavaScript only, if you're hoping for CoffeeScript and the like, forget that here.
As a company we built the first native JavaScript diagramming library back in 2006 and have grown steadily as a company since then focusing tightly on this single technology.
This job is REMOTE only, but we're based in Europe (WET and CET). Your location isn't a critical issue, but lining up with our time zones is, i.e. being East of us and working late or West of us and getting up early are options.
Apply to jgraphjobs@jgpd.com
globaldev.co.uk are the team behind the worlds leading social discovery and dating company.
You'd be hard pushed to find another environment where you get to work on such a range of challenges. Everything from everyday web development, through to full on engineering on our RabbitMQ based email system that pushes out millions of emails every single day.
Our team regularly speak at various tech events and one of our engineers was one of the headline speakers at EuRuKo last weekend so you'll be working alongside engineers who actively participate in improving the Ruby community.
We have a development team based right next to Waterloo station in London and our HQ is in Windsor, Berkshire. We don't mind what office you choose to work in.
You can find a full job spec here: http://globalpersonals.theresumator.com/apply/3BSEPp/Ruby-En...
We're also on the lookout for a full-time, permanent developer in test to join our team so if you know anyone, send them my way.
Email me if you'd rather not apply on our site or if you just want to find out more about the role or the company: sbuckley@globaldev.co.uk
Rocket Software will be hiring 2 developers to help us develop an exciting new product in the database industry.
Aside from Java/GWT and Python skills, we are looking for someone with an eye for UX design. Being knowledgeable on both relational and NoSQL databases is a plus. You should have some familiarity with Linux/Unix environments along with Windows.
For you, software and technology isn't just a job, it's a calling. We're looking for someone who's passionate about creating great technology.
You'll be working in our Denver Tech Center office with expensive views of the Rocky Mountains from the 11th floor. Rocket Software gives some great benefits: http://goo.gl/Ry5jG
I'll post a link to the official job posting once we have ti up today or tomorrow, although as I'm the hiring manager you could also contact details in my profile.
Unless you'd like to associate your brand with drugs and debauchery, I don't think you should link to anything including the words "Silk Road".
I'm also surprised that company hasn't changed their name. Through no fault of their own, their brand name is now toxic.
Rinse (www.rinsenow.com) is a consumer-service start-up that removes the stress that comes with dry cleaning & laundry and gives you back control of your busy life. We are creating a seamless customer experience through a combination of technology, incredible customer service, and strong back-end partnerships. Customers can schedule a pick-up on their mobile device; we then pick-up, clean, and return their clothes at their convenience. We have received a strong response to date and are growing the business (and team) quickly to help more customers recapture some of their precious time!
We are looking for someone who is excited about joining a start-up early and helping to build something special. We want someone who is excited to tackle immense technical challenges with total freedom on how to execute. We want someone who wants a seat at the table; who is interested in having his/her voice heard in major strategic discussions and board meetings; and who wants to contribute with way more than just beautifully written code. We want someone who wants to drink from the fire hose, have an immediate and substantial impact, and wants to work closely with a high-caliber team and accomplished advisors. We are moving fast and we want someone who is ready to run with us.
You… - Are itching to join an amazing company on the ground floor and have a major impact within the first couple months - Crave freedom to operate and decide how you want to build the core technology that supports the business - Are passionate about solving complex and dynamic challenges, and building highly scalable systems - Are capable of and excited to recruit a world-class team of engineers to work with you - Have experience developing, releasing, and maintaining large-scale software applications - Have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from a leading institution
We… - Value respect, integrity, judgment, and positive energy over job-related experience and technical chops - Work hard because we love what we’re doing, but also believe in balance - Plan to invest heavily in technology to streamline business operations, in addition to having a world-class consumer-facing mobile application - Are based in SF, which is where we have initially launched…but our ambitions extend well beyond the Bay Area. - Are moving quickly, are well capitalized, and want someone who will come in and hit the ground running - Are led by two co-founders with substantial experience in start-ups, dry cleaning, and consumer focused companies.
We are looking for someone who is strong technically but who can also be a leader and culture carrier for Rinse. The right person will be granted a substantial equity stake, cash compensation, and will have the chance to help build an amazing company from the ground up. If you are interested, e-mail your resume to Ajay Prakash at ajay@rinsenow.com to learn more.
You 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-...
Where do you stand on Supreme Commander (and Forged Alliance) vs Supreme Commander 2? Everything hangs on your response.
(None of which is relevant to your job posting. Sorry.)
We really should try out SupCom with more than a couple of people. My guess is that it would be a great fit for the types of players we have. (-:
Plus the whole vast-armies-of-destiny thing. I have very much enjoy games where it devolved down to 16 megaunits vs 150 strategic bombers ...
We are 100% work from home as a company and currently a distributed team of 104 from around the world!
http://www.site5.com/about/careers/
1. Senior Systems Engineer http://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/jobs/job_posting?job_id=b...
2. Ruby on Rails Developer http://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/jobs/job_posting?job_id=d...
Specific info on our software development team, our open source projects, and what we build :) -> Eng5.com
http://pica9.com/careers
We, the SI engineers, are on a mission to act as force multipliers for all Spotify engineers. We build and maintain software components that allow our feature teams to move fast without breaking things. Some examples of what SI engineers are currently working on:
- Core authentication systems for Spotify
- High-performance inter-system messaging software
- Core storage technologies (Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
- Service discovery and orchestration
The NYC-based SI team is just booting up and we're still quite small. New team members can expect to have a significant impact on our projects. Our mission is to revamp how Spotify deploys backend services and while we're currently looking at LXC, nothing is set in stone. As the team grows we'll start to branch off into other areas of the Spotify infrastructure universe. Lots of fun will be had.
If we are the right team for you, and vice versa, then you're probably a bit like us. Here are some of the traits that we share:
- a passion for programming and computing in a large scale distributed environment with millions of users
- significant familiarity with GNU/Linux or other UNIX-like systems
- knowledge of a couple of programming languages, typically including Python or Java
- an urge to KISS, to iterate, to deliver and to produce high quality software in the process
Does this sound like a place for you? If so, please reach out to us. We'd love to get to know you. Send us your CV (if you have one), a link to your hobby project or github and perhaps a short message to further explain who you are. Mention HN and we'll pay extra attention to your application.
https://www.spotify.com/se/jobs/view/omlBWfwY/
About Base:
We build user-centred digital products and services for businesses, using data they already have. Every business generates data. We help our clients uncover the stories hidden in their data and transform them into something new and valuable. Clients include Timex, Garmin and Nottingham City Transport.
At Base you will be part of a team of makers and doers, working across a variety of projects and clients. We're agile, but not dogmatic about it. Our process evolves to suit our needs.
We value and support CPD, actively seeking clients with a like-minded desire to push boundaries, providing you with an opportunity to build your experience and skills. We practice a sustainable pace, recognising that we each have lives and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are rare by design.
About the role:
1st class front-end. You will be used to working as part of an unsilo'd production team, where designers work alongside developers, in agile sprints where they're useful. Your main skill set is bringing concept artwork to life, turning designs (as Photoshop & InDesign files) into working HTML/CSS, using JavaScript. You'll be comfortable with canvas, SVG and graphical JavaScript libraries such as D3.js (and may have dabbled with WebGL). You'll be familiar with PHP and have experience with front end development for dynamic content/apps, using JavaScript libraries like Backbone.js, AngularJS or Ember.js.
Visualising Data. You'll have a keen interest in visualising datasets, with a good understanding of what makes information beautiful. You'll know that an infographic is only as good as the moment it was created. Turning great designs into live visualisations showing real data will be something that excites you.
Open all hours. You'll have a keen interest in the way openness in technology (and in particular open data) can change things. And you'll have ideas that mash one set with another, whether you've realised them yet or not. Our developers come up with projects for our clients, rarely the other way round.
More details: http://www.wearebase.com/BaseJobSpecificationMidWeightFront-...
(Sorry, but if people don't speak out, then shitty behavior continues.)
[Edit: to make it clear, the social contract is different on a job board, because it takes no effort to send a resume and they probably get hundreds of unqualified, spamming applicants. I just hope that isn't what Hacker News has become. I could be wrong, though. Maybe each company does get hundreds of crappy resumes.]
We are a fast-paced, client-focused company; we want to continue our success and don't mind working hard to get there. We're looking for someone who's got great attention to detail, loves writing Python code and solve challenging problems on sometimes challenging deadlines. Sounds good? Please apply to join our energetic team!
SteepRock (http://www.steeprockinc.com) is an established software and services firm in the Pharmaceutical industry that has an immediate opening for a Python developer. In this position, you will be working closely with the CTO and other senior developers.
REQUIREMENTS: - 2+ years of enterprise scale software development experience. - Extensive direct experience developing, delivering and maintaining a multi-user browser-based application - Commercial Python experience and complete command of the language - Ability to write and read SQL, including complex joins and optimization - Solid understanding of JavaScript fundamentals - Solid understanding of HTML and CSS
Apply to jason.cater@steeprockinc.com. Please include resume and salary expectations.
We want to fix forums. We don't think it should require any technical knowledge to create one, be a member of one, and it should work on mobile, and be accessible, and be a joy to use.
We've built a killer back-end http://microcosm-cc.github.io/ and we're looking for someone to help us build a killer front-end for it.
We've got out first pass done, and it uses Bootstrap 3, a sprinkling of jQuery, some nice HTML forms, all basic stuff. Help us make that great, help us improve the UX, help us make it work everywhere, and help us then iterate faster and improve it.
Contact details in my profile.
Needed innovative Java developer