Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)
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Let's help programmers in or displaced from Syria get jobs somewhere safe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310317
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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? (September 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310240
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Knewton is the world's leading adaptive learning technology provider. Knewton provides the tools and infrastructure needed to create continuously adaptive learning applications driven by real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, analytics, and more. The world's largest and most innovative learning companies use Knewton technology to improve student achievement in K–12 (e.g.,Houghton Mifflin), higher education (e.g.,Pearson), global English Language Teaching (e.g.,Macmillan), and other markets.
Knewton has been recognized globally as a "Technology Pioneer" (World Economic Forum in Davos), one of the world's "50 Most Innovative Companies" (Fast Company), and one of "The World's 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs" (Goldman Sachs).
http://www.knewton.com/careers/
Some specific openings:
* Business Development - http://bit.ly/19XZsip
* Data Scientist - http://bit.ly/17zD54D
* Senior Software Engineer - Java/NoSQL - http://bit.ly/17zDdkD
* Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack - http://bit.ly/18uZDi1
* Senior Security Engineer - http://bit.ly/14lqxJY
* Senior Product Manager - http://bit.ly/15it7yP
--> For more follow http://twitter.com/knewton_jobs
In August 2013 we added 31 jobs, with a breakdown as follows:
* Software Development => 20
* System Administration => 7
* Customer Support => 2
* Other => 2
Also, we recently implemented Atom feeds for each job category, so you can easily subscribe to feeds to keep on top of job postings.
Lastly, it's still free to submit your job posting to WFH.io, so please do so! :)
Thanks!
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A small team of ex-Google and ex-Facebook product and engineering folks working on solving a problem that touches hundreds of millions of lives. We are backed by leading angel and seed investors in valley. Join us to work on a problem that everyone can understand and will make a meaningful, positive impact on the world (while building a multi-billion dollar business). Craft a beautiful product that everyone can use. Including your mom!
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--------------- Product Designer/ Art Director
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Senior iOS Engineer
Role: * Work with core team dedicated to create a beautiful app from the ground up with custom native user interfaces. * Take a leadership role, with ability to deeply influence product and design, as well as culture of young company. Build a superstar mobile hackers team. * Analyze, identify, and optimize performance bottlenecks and reliability. * Conquer challenges of using location services, and sensors while optimizing for battery.
Ideal Candidate: * Has helped build and ship at least one iOS application professionally. We're less concerned with how many years of experience you have than with your iOS chops. * Is very comfortable with iOS technologies (Objective C, Cocoa, iPhone SDK - iOS 5 + 6, iOS 7) and environment. * A CS degree OR 4+ years mobile experience. * Comfortable with TDD and a paranoid about code quality.
Bonus: * Previous startup experience, ability to prototype and move fast. * Strong UI/UX sense and experience implementing game mechanics and/or dynamic infographics a plus. * Sound judgment for balancing scrappiness and long-term code maintainability. * Experience with battery optimization and location APIs.
Of course Google is hiring. So, why I posting this? Every time I tell someone I'm working at Google in Madison, they're shocked that there's an office in Madison, and I often hear people complaining about the lack of interesting technical work in Madison. There's fun technical work in Madison, I promise.
I'm working on a hardware/software co-design project that's attacking a fundamentally hard problem, which started as a 20%-time project. There are a couple other hardware projects in the office; most hardware projects start as prototypes of crazy ideas, and go from there. The majority of people here are doing low-level systems programming, usually networking related, and a handful of people are doing data analysis (call it big data, if you like) to figure out how to optimize Google's next generation hardware and software platforms. I'm sorry I can't describe projects in much more detail -- Google is pretty secretive about what goes into datacenters.
The office is small (just under 30 people), and manages to avoid any bureaucracy you might expect from a big company. The work is interesting enough that in the five year history of the office, only one person has left (and he retired to a ranch in Nebraska). Feel free to email me (see profile) if you have any questions.
https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#!t=jo&jid=45087&
https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#!t=jo&jid=2069001&
Edit: Interesting to see this downvoted. If you're downvoting this, I'd be curious to know why. Because Madison is in the middle of nowhere and you don't care about Madison? Because you don't like big companies? Because you're cynically trying to push your job post above this one? Because you think job postings need bullet points?
And preferably with more relevant tasks, rather than asking to come up with Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm on the spot, whereas Knuth, Morris and Pratt spent months of researching.
Those tasks can and are done by programmers from anywhere. There is absolutely no reason to make them come to an office.
I am thinking WTF. I wasn't even the one interested in the position, is this level of unprofessionalism common with Google?
Sorry don't mean to derail the comments, but it just kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth. And then seeing Google as first comment on HN hiring, kind of brought that back to my mind.
The idea of working at Google is interesting, but I don't really have the months to invest in the interview process.
How do you find an internal advocate? Start networking. Find people at Google with common interests or backgrounds as you. Then send me a cold email introducing yourself. It will take a few months to develop a relationship where somebody will happily send that email to HR for you, so start a few months before you are planning to submit job applications.
We would welcome 1-2 additions to our small core search engineering team. This team works across our full architecture (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/architecture) though does more back-end and data algo than front-end and dev-ops, which are primarily handled elsewhere.
Previous search experience or extensive experience with our particular architecture is not necessary, though this is not a junior level position.
https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring
Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain)
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We are looking for a backend developer
Vreasy develops and markets disruptive technology in the property and travel market. US style tech startups are a rare breed here in Europe and with Vreasy, you will feel like you are back in San Francisco working on new technology for a very novel product. We're growing rapidly and want more people to join us in our office that is two minutes from the beach here in Barcelona!
The position:
* We are looking for a backend developer who is versatile in both backend and frontend webprogramming, but specialised in one of the them, preferable in backend
* Knowledge and experience of OOP in PHP and how to use it in larger codebases
* Knows Git from inside out
* Comfortable with Test Driven Development - we are doing continuous deployment with CircleCI
* Works well in a agile environment
* Good team player - we work hard but also really enjoy each other’s company
If you also like to play tabletennis and would like to spend some lunches on the beach, that would be a plus. So, please send a message to jobs@vreasy.com with an application or send an email to victor@vreasy.com (me) if you have any questions.
I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have just under 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we're just about to pass 1 million users (any day now). We are expecting even faster growth as we focus on Buffer for business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.
* Backend/DevOps Engineer
* Front-end Engineer
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.
More stats and stack details here: http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2...We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.
If you're interested in coming on board, you will:
Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different: Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency)Equity: 0.5-1%
If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): http://jobs.bufferapp.com
- Sunil (CTO) thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
I would still encourage this company to not take location into account for salaries. Why should the company take the benefit from your choice(or lack of) to live in a cheaper place? You live there, you took the risks and the tradeoffs, but the company is taking the benefit from it... Some companies pay 3-10 times lower salaries and even if they give you stock options you can't afford to buy the shares when the time comes. This is not the case here, but it may become an issue in the future.
Startups are more personal, small teams, that once in a while all of them, including the "boss", gather together to drink a beer or soda, and you know that on that table, people with same responsibilities have same compensations. It feels fair.
There are reasons US guy won't want to live in India, right? So the salary should compensate at least some part of those reasons (I mentioned in another comment here).
Most people with jobs from poor countries have to support way many family members or relatives than that US guy.
The fact is that the living costs (largest chunk being accommodation) varies so drastically, that it feels hard to justify having the same salary and basing salary purely on skill, with the assumption that location truly is a choice and people have chosen to live somewhere cheaper. We have people who end up paying $2,500/mo rent and others where it is more like $800/mo or even less.
In addition, we always want to pay people more if they choose to move somewhere more expensive, it seems unfair if someone gets used to a salary in one place and suddenly they move somewhere much more expensive, and we don't help them out.
I'd love any more thoughts you have on this :)
That's a terrible assumption to make. People often live where they do due to obligation to others (family usually). I would never work for a company that would consider cutting salary because they moved to a lower cost area. I also know several people that have quit a job rather than relocate to a lower cost part of the country with an employer as the relocation also included a cut in pay.
That said, it is very easy here in the comments to argue how bad it is to cut the salary when someone moves to a cheaper location. However, the flip-side of the same coin is what about when someone moves to a more expensive location? Should we then say "this is the fixed salary and you choose where to live, and if you move somewhere more expensive that is your choice"? I don't think that is fair. So the other side of the coin of "salary goes down if you move somewhere less expensive" is that we increase salary if you move somewhere more expensive. We've done this for people and it is highly appreciated.
Our overall philosophy is that we want to help people to be wherever in the world they can be happiest and most productive. We encourage traveling and we have set ourselves up as a distributed team based around this value.
I'd say that's absolutely fair, it's kind of the default expectation in my mind at least - I provide a certain value to the company as a remote worker, for which they pay me accordingly. (edit - as someone who just found a job via a HN jobs thread, I don't want to hijack this with a long response. Please see http://pastebin.com/4SrQJRj6 for my full response to this)
So think twice before penalizing people from poor countries.
"Extremely" low...
And yes, not everyone lives in rural areas or small towns. Stockholm is one of the most expensive places out there.
Potato is a 70-person developer-lead agency based in London, UK with offices in Bristol, Sydney & San Francisco. Our clients include Google, PayPal, a number of startups and other agencies such as BBH & Mother. We're hiring for a variety of positions in a variety of locations, freelance & full time, including Django developers, and senior UX designers in London, Mountain View & Bristol UK.
http://p.ota.to/jobs/
Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:
1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality 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. 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 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 and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.
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.
Infos on the Node position => http://urge.io/jobs#Node.js%20Growth%20Hacker%20for%20High%2...
All job offers => http://urge.io/jobs
Mail addresse => career <at> urge <dot> io
That's only in the startup scene, really. Most tech companies' primary language is still German, and the English proficiency of people you need to interact with in day-to-day things (post office, grocery shopping, etc.) widely varies. Some people (e.g. at the unemployment agency) even outright refuse speaking English.
Try the VHS for language learning. It is cheap and worth every cent: http://www.berlin.de/vhs/
If you're interested in ecommerce, physical retail (point of sale), or payments product management, talk to me directly. We have many positions I haven't posted yet.
Are you willing to hire competent developers who don't have professional experience with Ruby, but wouldn't mind learning?
Looking for Front-End hacker. Wix is looking for you, an experienced developer with passionate for Web development; JavaScript, HTML5 ,CSS3, TDD, Angular.JS
Contact info in my profile
We're a fast-growing digital agency (Wirehive 100 "One To Watch" in 2012), we build interesting sites for brands and apps for businesses. We're primarily a Django outfit, though we are doing a lot more JS recently (Angular, Titanium etc.)
We're a very technical development team, and we focus on best practices (TDD, BDD, CI, CD), and applying them in a pretty hectic and demanding agency business.
We'd prefer remote applicants to come from within 2 hours +/- GMT. There is more information here:
http://wearefarm.com/jobs/jobs-webdeveloper.html
CO-FOUNDER WANTED (tech or sales)
Tech team and funding in place. We have great domain expertise, but I am personally missing the influence of a strong co-founder. If you're interested, just say hi at +44 77 952 73 552 or rayhan@wigwamm.com
There is plenty of attention toward making the Real Estate searching experience better.
But the data sucks.
Real Estate is the only thing you cannot research and transact online.
Working with all the companies and brokers involved in Real Estate, we build products in the gaps. The dream is to one day allow Real Eatate to be confidently researched and transacted online.
Our current focus is our mobile Listing App: http://wigwamm.com
Some of our prototypes:
Listing App- http://wigwamm.co.uk
Property descriptions- http://Proppycock.com
New property browsing UI- http://map.wigwamm.com
An auction for rental property- http://old.wigwamm.com
Mobile amalgamation of the new UI and auction- http://dev2.wigwamm.com
A bit info on the culture can be found on https://adamandluna.com
We are building something awesome around mobile commerce, trying to connect the people who make products directly with the consumers who love them.
Our current stack is Go (all our backends are in Go), PostgreSQL, AngularJS and ObjectiveC and we picked them thoughtfully because they are the right tools that will help us move fast and build high quality products.
I was at Google for 5 years building the google finance charts, gmail's multiple inboxes, some maps infrastructure, and the like. My co-founder was at Fab for a little under a year. We have a fantastic team - http://jellolabs.com/team - are seed funded, and growing quickly.
More details http://jellolabs.com/jobs/senior_eng, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.
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Lead iOS Engineer
We're looking for an iOS developer with a great sense of UX, that can both build the best iOS app out there and also help give valuable feedback on building some industry-leading world class UX.
More details http://jellolabs.com/jobs/senior_eng, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.
I created http://www.Learneroo.com for interactive education and I'm looking for a cofounder to help continue developing it. Looking for an experienced Rails and Javascript programmer. Email me at ak[at]learneroo[dot]com if interested.
We're a technical web agency focused on being a "happy place for nerds" with offices in the Hague and Amsterdam. Currently looking for an all-round developer who can work at either location.
We work on all kinds of stuff, from websites and applications to smartphone apps, games, and our own products. Some of the projects we've been involved with include the new Rijksmuseum website, national transit platform 9292.nl, the Philips Hue lights, and the Staatsloterij. We have a published game, Quento (quento.com) and a product, Handcraft (handcraft.com). We love working with C#, App Engine, and Java, but whatever works for the client works for us. We also host meetups about all kinds of topics, from how best to use ElasticSearch (we're a partner) to Meteor (our website runs on it) and which JS MVC framework to choose.
Our work is primarily technical, so you'll be expected to be able to dive in wherever needed - frontend or backend - and contribute whatever skills you have to our diverse dev teams. Earlier this year we were awarded the "best workplace in the Netherlands" prize by Great Place to Work.
See q42.com for more info and our Dutch blog post about the position: http://q42.nl/blog/post/57695336048/knappe-koppen-gezocht (Dutch fluency not required, but you must be willing to learn)
Interested? Email knappekop@q42.nl. The opening officially closes this week, so be quick :)
We are looking for a developer with significant experience developing interfaces using modern js/coffee frontend frameworks.
Emcien develops interfaces into intricate data analysis information, performed on graph structures and visualized in several applications. These are built on D3, backbone, rails, and mysql, with a dollop of other technologies where needed (The core science is performed in an extensive C library built, tested, and used via ruby FFI.
The environment is pleasantly community-focused, combining the nicer features of an established company (like job security and solid benefits) with much of the feel of a smaller start-up (tech-focused atmosphere, significant developer control over process and direction, and opportunities to pay down technical debt before it becomes crippling).
http://emcien.com/jobs/frontend-engineer/
It can be hard to tell if a company would be a good fit from a job posting, so feel free to make conversational contact first - you can reach me at emueller@emcien.com (I'm an engineering lead) if devjobs@emcien.com seems too impersonal.
Full-time, H1 ok with US masters degree
National Science Foundation-backed firm that helps investors and Fortune 500 companies sense emerging trends and companies early using predictive analytics.
We are profitable and non-VC backed.
Looking for - full stack developers - tech industry analyst - machine learning engineers
More details here - www.cbinsights.com/jobs
Data featured in 200+ press articles this year - www.cbinsights.com/press
I think you may have meant "site".
I'm hiring an Android Engineer and a iOS Engineer for my team to help build tools for developers to make mobile advertising better.
As the first ad management platform dedicated exclusively to video, VINDICO allows advertisers to serve, track and measure all of their online video ad activity. Since 2006, VINDICO has been the gold standard in online video platforms, providing standardized reporting and analytics for the online video industry. The power of online video isn't just the audiences it reaches and how it reaches them. Its strength also derives from its ability to track an ad campaign and precisely measure the campaign’s effectiveness.
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Android Engineer
More info: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/6945970
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iOS Engineer
Email me at nbrown [at] vindicogroup [dot] com for more info.
We are a small team making a big impact. Naval and Nivi (and really, everyone on the team) have been involved with multiple startups and want to create a community where we can set founders and investors up for success. We’re looking for like-minded, full-stack engineers and designers to join our team. To learn how we work, read up on our blog here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/1-man-startups
A few other words we live by:
• Ask forgiveness, not permission • You break it, you bought it • S/he who codes, rules • Low inventory • Be real • Sweat the details and corner cases • You must code • Do what you think is right (and be right)
Fun interview questions are here https://angel.co/help/interview. And Yishan has good ideas here http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html.
Apply via AngelList
https://angel.co/angellist/jobs
At Venmo, we believe paying friends should feel friendly and simple. Together with our parent company, Braintree, we're processing $10 billion/year (http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2013/07/03/chicago-...). Our products include our peer-to-peer app, our Payouts API and Venmo Touch which allow other developers to easily make and accept payments in their apps.
We are currently hiring all levels of: QA Engineers, Android Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Science & Internal Tools, and Systems Engineers.
For questions or to submit a resume, email ron@venmo.com (me) - Android Engineer @ Venmo