Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 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? (December 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 369 ms ] thread- Wouldn't you want to work towards genuinely making the world a better place?
- Wouldn't you want to work in a close-knit team alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry?
- Wouldn't you want to work on solving interesting problems that haven't been solved before?
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At Khan Academy, I truly believe that you can find all of those things and more. We're a small, 50-person nonprofit tech startup making a big difference in the world. A few weeks ago, we found this great story through the fascinating blog "Humans of New York" – please take a moment to read it:
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...
This is just one story, but every month we hear about hundreds of lives that we've transformed, and there are thousands more we don't hear about.
Lots of people know us for Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge library of math practice exercises. Our 100,000+ practice problems have been done over 1.5 billion times total. That's a huge number.
This gives us the ability to study learning in a way that no one has previously been able to do. We've run tests which show that students learn more when they're advanced quicker by a custom machine-learning algorithm [1]. As I write this we're running dozens of A/B tests to learn what we can do to make people learn more, from testing how review scheduling affects accuracy to simply testing different teaching styles.
Whether you're a machine learning guru or you take pride in perfecting UI details for a dropdown menu [2], we have something for you. You'll be working alongside a small team with the best in the business – though we have "celebrity" devs like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee (and former Director of Technology) Craig Silverstein, we have many more you haven't heard of but who are just as awesome.
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I'm going to put in a special plug for mobile: Around 20% of our traffic comes from phones and tablets but we have only two people (me and one other person) working on our apps right now. Our iOS app is fairly basic, but it already has a few million downloads. We want to make it awesome. If you're a mobile developer we can build a great team around, please reach out. You can't find this sort of opportunity in very many places.
We're hiring engineers (web, mobile, data science), product designers, a community manager, and more. Oh, and if you want to have a great summer (or fall or spring) building real features for real users, we're hiring interns too.
Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers directly (say you saw us on HN!) or feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org with any questions.
[1]: http://derandomized.com/post/51729670543/khan-academy-machin...
[2]: http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...
Understandable given your size yet personally quite disappointing :( Any plans for sponsoring visas in the near future?
Unfortunately coordinating volunteers takes a lot of time and we haven't found it in our interests so far to really go down that road; in order to be able to move fast we're currently looking to hire only people with a longer-term commitment.
Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)
Hardware -> prototyped with arduino, still using atmel uC but no longer arduino-ey. Manufacture-ready. In the process of sourcing for large scale manufacturing. Have some pilots running.
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies).Looking for help at every point in the system (hardware, firmware, frontend, backend, algorithms, mobile, etc). If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!
Knewton's mission is to bring personalized learning to the world.
Knewton personalizes digital course materials by figuring out exactly what a student knows and what she should do right now. Knewton provides the tools and infrastructure needed to create continuously adaptive learning applications driven by real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, analytics, and more.
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). More at http://www.knewton.com/about/press/
http://www.knewton.com/careers/
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Some specific openings:
* Senior Database Administrator, Systems Engineering - http://bit.ly/19bUVXm
* Data Analyst - http://bit.ly/18fkQgB
* Senior Software Engineer - Java/NoSQL - http://bit.ly/17zDdkD
* Senior Software Engineer - Natural Language Processing - http://bit.ly/1b8rmJD
* Software Engineering Internship - http://bit.ly/1cTBTaP
* Senior Product Manager, Analytics - http://bit.ly/InFqoH
* Product Manager, API - http://bit.ly/ICsXy5
* Business Development Professional - US/UK - http://bit.ly/18SeNCx
* Technical Project Manager - Content Operations - http://bit.ly/1jXVDwx
--> For more follow http://twitter.com/knewton_jobs
Silk (www.silk.co) is looking for Javascript, TypeScript and Haskell engineers.
We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.
We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.
Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.
For more info & open positions: http://jobs.silk.co/
Us
We build beautiful and powerful tools for real time collaboration and content creation, used by over 25,000 bloggers and dozens of big name brands and publishers. We're a ten-person team local to NYC that values education, personal growth, and work-life balance.
You
You're a highly motivated individual with proven and demonstrable skills in web application development and maintenance. You can build a full web app, set up a server, launch into a production environment and maintain the whole thing comfortably. You have strong communication skills and you're good on teams.
Technologies
As long as you have experience in most of these and are willing to catch up on the others you're OK to apply: PHP, mongo, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Linux server administration, Node.js.
Why us
- market salary commensurate on experience
- health insurance
- personal growth and training budget
- almost no overtime
- work with an enthusiastic and intelligent team
- work from home 1-2 days per week
How to apply
We prefer applicants who can commute into NYC, but please apply if you feel you would be a good fit no matter where you are in the US.
Email php@tid.al with the following information:
- cover letter
- résumé
- brief description of the project you did your best work on
- brief description of the project you did your worst work on
- geographic location and your level of willingness to relocate
- desired salary
Full-time devs. Frontend Backbone.js / jquery. Backend Python work, would likely be working with Django. Looking for more senior people, as well as a tech lead for the team. Also, QA people.
We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/a-very-harry-potter-pro... Or and r2d2 engagement ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/r2d2-engagement-ring/ Or a portal one: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/not-your-typical-engage... We're a small, tightly knit eng team. Boilerplate about stack / team here: http://engineering.custommade.com Various Engineering Positions open: http://www.custommade.com/careers/
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We're funded by Google Ventures and a ton of others: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/custommade-ventures so paying you well is not an issue. We recently raised an 18 million series B! We're growing, and with that comes scaling challenges. But it's all part of the fun. We have a great team and a great environment that focuses on customers and product development. When I'm working on product stuff, I get to collaborate with product / UX / support people day to day to build a product that meets a real business need, and makes everyone happy. But when I just need to bang out some code, people leave me alone. When I'm working on platform or architectural stuff, I get great advice and feedback from my coworkers. Expressing opinions and having discussion is encouraged. Friday afternoons are refactoring / innovation day to scratch your good code itch. Work / life balance is great. Bureaucracy is at a minimum.
Devs get a macbook pro, a huge thunderbolt display, and an Aeron chair.
We love contributing to Open Source, here is a list of what we've released so far, with more to come: https://github.com/SawdustSoftware We also regularly participate in and sponsor the Boston Python group, which is the largest python user group in the world. I've spoken there twice so far. We also often help stream the event for them, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/bostonpython/ Tech blog here: http://engineering.custommade.com/sawdustsoftware/
You're a low-ego programmer who is always learning, has pushed code to production innumerable times, and doesn't cringe at the prospect of collaborating with a team of non-techies every so often. You know the modern web stack well, and specialize in at least one part of it. Get in touch with our hiring person at ellen -at- custommade-dot-kom. Let her know that "Mali" sent you.
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If you have any eng-related questions, you can figure out how to get to my email.
Two years ago Justin.tv created Twitch, a website that's become the most successful application of live streaming video so far. Now we're working on doing the same thing again, for a different niche. We have access to the impressive resources of the Twitch juggernaut, but Justin.tv is still a small and largely independent group, so we get to make our own rules when we want to get things done quickly. It's easily the most fun I've had in my career, and I think the other guys on our team would say the same.
Contact: bill@justin.tv
More information: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/justintv/full-stack-software-en...
http://www.eponymous.co
We're an eyewear company looking for engineers to help architect and build our API, which powers eyeglass orders for fashion brands. We are also looking for people to help us build our whitelabel eyewear software, and iterate on new UX features - we do a lot of AngularJS.
Our stack is Python (Flask) and MongoDB [1]. Including bits of Celery, nginx, and uwsgi. We do a lot of integration with the UPS (in fact, we maintain an open-source UPS library [2]).
We're building our API and internal dashboards (which we use heavily to process orders, eyewear prescriptions, customer information, gift cards, etc.) We white-label eyewear for other fashion brands; Classic Specs and Steven Alan are some of our brands. Email me!
jay@classicspecs.com
[1] https://github.com/classicspecs/Flask-MongoMyAdmin
[2] https://github.com/classicspecs/ClassicUPS
Do you think robots are cool? So do we!
We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but no robotics background is required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)
iRobot is looking for software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers.
Here are a few of our 30+ job openings:
* iOS developer
* Web designer
* Embedded software engineers * We're hiring for "big embedded" (Linux and big cpus) and "small embedded" (bare-metal, small cpus)
* Software engineers for navigation and mapping
* Test engineers
* RF engineer (electrical engineer)
Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx
Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com
Stackdriver is building a monitoring product focused on cloud based systems and distributed applications. We are looking to hire engineers of all stripes to work on all parts of our application stack and also an evangelist to help get the word out speaking about us.
For the engineering positions, our stack is python on the backend with a lot of angularjs and d3.js on the frontend as well. Heavy use of cassandra, (multiple) queues, and AWS throughout.
More information is available at http://www.stackdriver.com/jobs/ or you can email me directly at jeremy+hnjob AT stackdriver DOT com.
We're helping creators and brands understand online video (YouTube) to know and grow their audience. We bring our expertise in big data to make it understandable for the creator.
We've raise a Series A round and continue to build our our team of great engineers. The short version of what we have open today is:
Full-stack engineer * Python * AngularJS * MySQL, Hadoop, Redis
DevOps * AWS, MySQL, Hadoop, Redis
Contact me for more details or to apply: david@tubularlabs.com
Payments done right. We integrate with banks, merchants, webshops and apps to allow purchases and person-to-person transfers. We launch in Norway early next year together with several big chains and have plans for several other countries. We have a licence to operate from the Financial Supervisory Authorities of Norway (EU-based). We're 17 people and growing, last transaction value (June this year) of $18m USD, serious financial backing in place. Our owners and board of directors include Harald Andersen (founder of Point, Northern Europe’s largest provider of payment card terminals) as well as Rune Fjeldstad (former CEO of Nets, which operates the debit card infrastructure of Norway and Denmark).
Product video: http://youtu.be/VkIM6BFiWaA
We have a strong team on backend development (Python + Google App Engine) and merchant/bank integration, but so far development of our app has been outsourced. We now need to bring this effort in-house.
We're looking for an expert iOS and/or Android developer to head up our app development. This is a rare opportunity to completely re-think a whole class of human interactions--people pay for stuff every day. Now you have the opportunity to redesign and reengineer that experience. You will be given free reins. You may choose to build on or to scrap our existing codebase. You will have strong opinions about how the app should look and feel, and will make consensus-based decisions together with our graphic designer and our backend and systems developers. We have the funding available to make additional hires to work together with you, or hire in consultants, as needed.
Salary: 450k-800k NOK = 75K-130K USD / year + benefits (paid vacation, pension saving program, etc.).
Ownership: Stock options for 0.6-1.5% of the company.
Please email jobs@mcash.no to apply.
We are also scaling up on backend/systems programming and integration with banks/merchants. See http://mcash.no/jobs for more details (these will be brought up to date with respect to compensation soon).
(An English website is not up just yet, but we have several non-Norwegian-speaking employees and most communication internally is in English. Ask us anything. Norwegian site at http://mcash.no )
We're looking for great people first and foremost, but here are some of the things we make:
* Client experiences that people love. We have iOS, Android, and web apps.
* An omnivorous transport data processor. We fuse together loads of data sources (of wildly varying quality) to give people the information they need in a growing number of cities around the world. We use a lot of Python.
* A fast, scalable stable of servers. We have a large user base which relies on us to give them snappy answers every day. We use Saltstack.
* A psychic city brain. We're digging up patterns in urban data to tell people the answers they need to know about their commute before they know the questions.
If you want to help us with these things and other yet-to-be revealed madcap schemes, we want to hear from you!
http://citymapper.com/jobs
Company : Pirate3D (Kickstarter funded 3D printing company)
Technologies : Ember.js, Android, iOS.
Instructions : Pass the challenge. We fly you to Singapore as soon as possible.
Challenge : http://pirate3d.com/challenges/#ui1
Keyword H1B : we can get you a work visa in a few days.
Co-Founder of Styloot.com here.
Styloot.com, is a visual search engine for fashion. At 1.2 Million SKUs and 4000+ brands, we carry slightly more women apparel than Amazon and twice as many shoes as Zappos. Our patented technology already powers some of the largest media and commerce companies of the world.
We are looking to hire Python, Javascript and Front End developers.
You will be working directly with the product and will be making decisions that directly influence the site.
You must love coding and should be at home with fellow hackers - everything else we can work around.
You must have a github repo that you are proud of.
Email us if interested - jobs at styloot.com.
At Launch Powered we are building next generation platforms that allow passionate people to share their interests. We are a private equity funded company with huge plans and we're build our team to make those plans a reality. Our initial focus is in video games with our Guild Launch http://www.guildlaunch.com and GameSkinny http://www.gameskinny.com sites.
We are looking for writers/content creator interns, marketing folks, UI designers and PHP developers to help us build our platforms as we expand in gaming and explore other verticals. Local is preferred for the developer and marketing positions and remote, especially in key areas like Austin, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York is preferred for writers and content creators.
Send your info to IAmAwesomeSauce@guildlaunch.com.
Front-end, AngularJS Software Engineer to Help Invent a New Category of Software > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/481-front-end-angularjs-so...
Palo Alto Senior Developer Needed to Build Team and Lead Development > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/473-palo-alto-senior-devel...
Build an Interactive Trade Show Display Using AngularJS > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/472-build-an-interactive-t...
Solve Problems with AngularJS at Chicago Dev Shop > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/380-solve-problems-with-an...
Lead Front End Developer (AngularJS) with UI Experience @ Foodsitter > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/426-lead-front-end-develop...
Senior / Lead Developer with heavy UI / Application experience : FT or Freelance > https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/422-senior-lead-developer-...
Email your resume to brian@angularjobs.com.
Full Time.
http://www.thehackerati.com
Software developers at all experience levels, for front end, back end, and big data. We don't care what languages you know, as long as you're highly skilled in at least one. We use agile and tend to use the same kinds of technologies that you'd see in your typical YC startup. Email me if interested:
alex.krupp@thehackerati.com
We're a financial media company, a poor man's - lest we say everyday man's - Bloomberg competitor, and a financial product SaaS all forged together into a powerful trident that is attacking the high seas of Wall Street in a relentless pursuit of transparency.
And conquer we shall! We've grown 100% quarter over quarter all this year. Our team has surged to 30+ people and the waves of revenue washed together to form a rushing roar with just one of our products going from nothing to $100k/month in just 9 months.
Being a media company we find our way into all kinds of cool stuff. Our office is furnished with things like a $3000 high-end bed that was sent to us to review. We got to talk to and get pictures with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) when they came to Detroit last week.
But, you interject, finance is one of the toughest startup seas to sail upon! The old boys club runs an ironclad ship with no visible decks for boarding. Avast! We've built a battering ram of a business in just a few short years that has pummeled its way deep into the heart of Wall Street. Old Ironsides has warmed itself to Benzinga and once a taste the thirst cannot be quenched.
We've recently became Microsoft's premier finance partner alongside 3 other companies, all worth over a billion dollars and established for years. As of this Christmas season we will be installed by default on 500 million desktops and tablets via Windows 8 Finance. No download necessary. That's right mateys, we're in the source code.
And if you happen to trade or invest yourself you'll find us inside almost all of the major brokerages in the US.
So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag? Well, our team is crazy ambitious, motivated, and experienced with shaking shit up. If you know your tech, and want on deck this is the place to do it. Your exact technical background and language of choice doesn't matter as much as your motivation and your ability to adapt quickly. We are a young team and we're especially looking for sailors who've got some salt in their whiskers who can help us scale from millions to hundreds of millions.
Why be a ninja when you can be a pirate? This ship is forging a new course, send an email to dev-us@benzinga.com to board!
Location: Burbank, CA
Position: Full Stack Web Developer, Full Time
Details: http://teamcoco.com/content/web-developer
Happy to answer any questions about the position or about Team Coco's technology in general: travis@teamcoco.com / @traviskuhl.
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Hiring:
Backend, Frontend and DevOps - full time. We're looking for experienced developers to expand our team and help us deliver new products.
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Tech stack:
Backend: Apache, nginx, Varnish, puppet, capistrano, Ruby (Sinatra and RoR), PHP (mostly legacy - we're moving away from it), Clojure, MySQL, mongoDB, R, Hadoop
Frontend: Responsive HTML5, JS / CoffeeScript, HAML / Twig
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About us:
* regular dev catchups across all teams / show & tell to share experience
* we host / sponsor / attend hackathons and conferences
* we maintain healthy work/life balance - no extra long hours, weekends are for you to relax after a beer on a Friday in the office / local pub
* we deploy to production multiple times a day
* we'll give you the tools you need to do your job (Macbook or other machine of your choice, whatever software you need) and help you progress (budget for conferences, books and time to learn new tech)
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About you:
* able to own a problem and work with others towards a solution
* you're open minded and flexible - you can pick up new skills / languages
* you can work well in a team environment (occasional remote work is ok, but we're mostly in the office)
* skilled at table tennis or table football (optional)
* comfortable in *nix
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Next steps:
Contact me directly - tomasz.tomczyk@uswitch.com - I'm a developer in one of the teams you could be joining, tell me about yourself (whatever you think represents you best) and ideally let's meet up - will give you a tour of our new London Bridge office and talk about the projects we've been working on.
Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.
We've hired SIX full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!
We're looking for people who want to work with:
* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)
* iOS
* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!
* Data analysis
That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.
We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.
We just launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it. Read more here: http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz
See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
We'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 1.1 million users and our annual run rate is over $2m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business. We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale. 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’ll:
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
- Email our CTO Sunil thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
We're a digital sleep improvement program, clinically proven to help overcome long term poor sleep.
Hiring: CTO, Product Lead, Bus dev. http://www.sleepio.com/jobs
Drop me a line direct if you want to hear more: peter@sleepio.com (co-founder)
We're looking to hire Android develpers and iPhone developers.
-- The company --
KeepSafe wants to solve the consumer privacy problems. We work to empower every user to be in control of their data. To do this, we need to make Privacy and Security Technology easy to apply for the average user on all popular platforms.
Our first product is a vault for Android and iPhone. Over 15 million customers use this product and but our plans are much bigger than that. Happy to share more in person: zouhair AT getkeepsafe DOT com
We're a team of 9, all of us write code. We raised Series A from Floodgate and SV Angel in July.
-- Jobs : Mobile developer (Android or iOS or both) --
Your job is to build easy-to-use apps that make privacy, encryption and security technology useful for average users. We are looking for ambitious developers who will take KeepSafe from to 150 million users.
Requirements:
Benefits: