Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
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Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324231
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 392 ms ] thread>>LOCATION<<
New York City
>>WHO WE ARE<<
MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "the local marketplace API". We believe there is a huge opportunity in developing a better way for local businesses to interact with their potential customers and vice versa.
We are well capitalized through angel investors and positioned to leverage several key strategic partnerships once the initial product offering has completed development.
>>WHERE WE ARE<<
We've currently in RAD mode developing our MVP. For our MVP, our backend is built in MySQL and a web2py framework for the application tier. The frontend app is built in Sencha Touch and wrapped in PhoneGap and communicates with the backend with a RESTFUL api. The backend and API is being developed in-house while the front-end is currently being contracted out.
We are looking for our #2, #3, #4, and #5 technical hires.
>>BENEFITS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT<<
We are located in an awesome private brownstone building with a garden, kitchen, a nice break room, in a quiet neighborhood on the UES of New York. Mostly empty right now, with ample space to create an ideal work environment.
Founder title and meaningful equity stake.
Excellent health, dental and vision benefits.
Stocked fridge, free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, seamless & postmates in the office.
Flexible work hours, no counting vacation or sick days. Choice of MacBook Pro or 2xCinema Displays (or whatever equivalent you want).
Build/choose your ideal workstation!
No forced work environment or corporate culture: All we care about is building the product and nurturing a very hacker-friendly culture. We are 100% hacker owned and operated.
A business that puts solving the problems of our customers first. Our investors and team only care about one thing: Building the best product possible. We care about creating technology that keeps small local businesses in their neighborhoods. Because who wants to live in a world where every other building is a bank, megabrand or franchise?
>>WHO YOU ARE<<
A world-class engineer passionate about building beautiful and, more importantly, useful products using bleeding-edge technology.
Someone who thrives in a startup environment and wants to be involved in building a company from the ground up.
Someone who pays attention to details, a perfectionist who is driven and comfortable working with rapidly evolving products. You are proactive about improving our products and you are able to prototype and iterate quickly.
>>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR<<
--- CTO
Our current CTO will be moving into the COO role. We are looking for candidates with a strong full stack pedigree in web and mobile app architecture and will be responsible for designing a scalable architecture, overseeing product development and providing technical leadership.
Compensation in the range of 100-200K.
--- Backend Engineer
Will be responsible for writing and maintaining the back-end.
Open to developers with expertise in any modern technology stack - as long as you can make a case for it.
Must be able to collaborate and work with frontend engineers
Being able to support and work with the current back-end framework in MySQL and web2py is a plus, but not necessary if we transition to a new stack like django or flask.
Expertise or knowledge in machine learning and/or natural language processing a plus.
Must be comfortable writing lots of code.
Compensation in the range of 50-100K
--- Frontend Engineer
Must be able to work with the currently contracted devs to finish the MVP in Sencha Touch, and possibly for future releases while in transition to moving to a native mobile app.
Must have a high level of proficiency in either native iOS or native Android development. Proficiency in both is a plus.
Must have some level of proficiency in desktop web frameworks...
Wingspan team sells a cloud-based pharmaceutical application, a challenging and growing space.
If interested in either position, contact gsieling@wingspan.com (I'm one of the engineering leads)
Some of the things that we’re really into are: * 99.999% uptime in our validated environments (don't know what validated means? check this - http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidanc...)
* Replacing our Python, Bash and Cron system automation with Puppet
* Continuous integration using Atlassian products
* Proactive monitoring and alerting with Zabbix, Splunk and Pingdom
* Load/performance testing and tuning PostgreSQL and Tomcat
* Backup and recovery – and testing those bad boys!
The ideal candidate would also have at least five years of experience with:
* Network administration
* Linux administration (we’re a CentOS shop)
Detailed Listings- http://www.wingspan.com/career_open_positions/
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 robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)
iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.
Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:
* Embedded software engineers: We're hiring for "big embedded" (C++, Linux, and big cpus) and "small embedded" (C, bare-metal, small cpus). If you have good OO skills (C++, Java, etc.) but no "embedded" background that's okay too - shoot me an email and we'll chat.
* Software engineers for vision, navigation, and mapping
* Test engineers
* Mechanical engineers
* IT engineers
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
PS: We have hired people from these "Who is hiring?" posts, thanks to HN for this service/forum!
After going through a famous US incubator and raising money from a who’s who of silicon valley investors, we have finalized a fundamental new technology that enables app developers to handle a lot more data in a lot less time and at a fraction of the battery life. But above all, our technology lets you manipulate data in a way that is extremely intuitive and a joy to use compared to today’s data frameworks: you get native data structures that you can just iterate on, standard access methods, and all the good stuff you’d expect to be able to do in the 21st century. Thanks to this, developers are able to develop apps much faster, but also deliver on use-cases that are impossible to conceive today.
We are now looking for a native iOS developer with at least 2 years full-time experience who can help us refine the product, make our native interface even more delightful, and build next-generation apps using it.
We offer competitive salary, stock options, catered lunches and all the usuals bells & whistles. You can apply or ask us any questions at timanglade@gmail.com.
http://mixlr.com
Mixlr is a platform for social live audio. We build simple and intuitive ways to share and create interaction around live audio streams. We have over two million registered users, including over 30,000 monthly active broadcasters, and we’re growing fast.
We’re looking to meet a great Android developer to join our small, passionate team here in London, and take responsibility for bringing the full Mixlr experience to the Android world. You will have the opportunity to drive the development of our Android app from the first git commit onwards.
The most important single characteristic you will possess is a passion for building great mobile apps, but here are some more attributes which would come in useful:
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* a passion for implementing fantastic user interfaces
* knowledge of live streaming protocols, especially on mobile
* enthusiasm for music apps and/or audio programming
* experience working with JSON and RESTful APIs and web services
* broad knowledge of different Android devices
* experience with test-driven development
* proficiency of at least one other language apart from Java, especially: C, C++, Ruby or JavaScript
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This is a unique opportunity not only to join an early stage startup, but to make your mark building an exciting app from the ground up.
You can visit the Mixlr Dev Portal[1] to read more about working at Mixlr, or email for more information. jobs (at) mixlr.com.
[1] http://dev.mixlr.com
http://www.typeform.com
Typeform looking for frontend developer to innovate forms on the web as we know it
Typeform is a startup in sunny Barcelona, creating the next generation of forms and surveys on the web. We are heavily focused on great UX with the user in mind and we're now looking for the best frontend developers Barcelona and Spain has to offer us to help us build a scalable and maintainable frontend.
As a frontend engineer at Typeform, you would be responsible for creating and innovating on every cornerstone in the frontend platform at Typeform. This means you should be exceptional at writing Javascript (with Coffeescript) that works without any problems in the most popular browsers (at least IE8 and up!) but also HTML and CSS that works excellent for all our current and future users.
You should have a solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns. You should know OOP from the inside out and would be great if you have a great desire to innovate, learn about new technologies and also be ready to take a part in the building of the product.
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Currently, we use (but not limited to) the following technologies:
* HTML and CSS
* JavaScript for web and backend (using Coffeescript)
* PHP
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We have the following requirements for you as a developer:
* Multiple years of experience with frontend development
* A strong will to learn more about the technologies you use
* Expert OOP programmer
* Experience in writing automated tests to ensure functionality and quality
* You love Git without any borders
* Making yourself understandable in the english language in a business situation (medium / high level of english)
* Know how to develop web application for cross-browser/device usage
* Good understanding of graphics programming
* You are a highly flexible individual that likes to take a pro-active role to innovate, learn and participate in a exciting startup, in a exciting city that plans to do great things
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If one or more items below matches you, you're probably the guy/gal we're looking for!
* Expert in TDD or similar methodology
* Familarity in working Agile
* Degree in computer science
* Knowledge in PHP/nodeJS
* Good knowledge about UX
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Please fill out the following form to apply: https://jobs.typeform.com/to/e7NNgU
Hi, we're DailyBurn a fitness and nutrition company based in Midtown Manhattan. We'd like you to come join our multi-discipline engineering team to build software on a wide array of platforms and technologies.
We really are a fitness company, we have our own well equipped gym in the office and offer a gym membership budget for all employees.
Everyday we get messages from users sharing the changes they've made in their lives not every company can say the same. If fitness is an area of interest for you this is a great place to get involved in changing peoples lives.
As a member of our Engineering team you'll get:
* Yearly conference and travel budget
* Your pick of development hardware
* Access to all the corporate benefits of IAC
Our team is currently made up of 10 developers with a team of 2 working on iOS and the rest of our team focused on web and platform development.
The DailyBurn engineering team offers the chance to work on a wide range of different technologies. Our main web platform is built using Ruby on Rails, but we also work with node.js and golang on our backend systems. We have client applications built for many of the major mobile and TV platforms (using Javascript, Objective-C, Java and more) and you as a part of the team will have the opportunity to get involved in many of these different platforms.
If you are an experienced developer comfortable with web or front end technologies of any kind but especially if you are skilled with JS, Ruby, Rails, Node or Golang we have a place for you here.
Specifically we are looking for:
Android, Senior Front End and Senior Backend development positions.
Reach out to me directly: paul@dailyburn.com
Climate's technical staff numbers around 80, and we're hiring full-time employees and interns across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of decision support tools for growers. Work is split across groups focusing on web applications for farmers and agents, risk and insurance policy management, internal platform and data services, and scientific modeling and research, with roles for:
1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications (Rails, Python, Javascript, and iOS) used by farmers to manage weather risk.
2. Quantitative researchers in statistics/ML, stochastic optimization, remote sensing, atmospheric physics, and agronomics. Our goal is to forecast statistical distributions of crop yield for any piece of arable land, synthesizing satellite images, digital elevation models, weather data, agricultural statistics, and geological surveys into multiscale models that underly our data services.
3. Experienced technical team leads, operations engineers, product managers, and designers to pull all this together into a compelling product.
The scale and interdiscplinary nature of the work drive a lot of cross-collaboration within the company, supported by a pressing need to build durable solutions to some very important problems.
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=o7B8Wfww&s=hackernews
I write ruby for our application platform team. If you're interested or have any questions, send me an email at estsauver@climate.com. If you have general questions about the hiring process, recruiting@climate.com is the place to ask.
http://www.likeablelocal.com/
We at Likeable Local are looking to grow our team and seeking talented and motivated software engineers. You love numbers and analytics, or the front-end and making things look and interact beautifully, or both. You grow and learn every day. We are in Portland, Maine which is atypical for Hacker News, but is a great place to live! We aren't looking for remote workers at this time.
We are a tech-startup-spinoff of the award-winning (NYC-based) agency Likeable Media, and we are looking for people that are willing to jump right in and be on our small team creating features that will be visible and impactful and used immediately.
We are hard-working and smart, and we love to solve challenging problems. We use a lot of node.js, javascript, python, and django.
You want to be a substantial contributor and are interested in the full stack of technologies from details of server configuration, back-end, front-end, and mobile platforms. You are self-disciplined, self-directed, but also detail-oriented in your communication about what choices you make and what you are doing.
Our product is an integrated software solution that allows small businesses to create, enhance and manage their social media presence. Likeable Local was founded in 2012 and has a deployed product that integrates with Facebook and Twitter. The software is sold on a subscription basis, allowing for attractive recurring revenue economics, and is in use by dentists, dry cleaners, florists, jewelers, and more- and we continue to expand. Interested? Email me at hugh@likeable.com and lets connect!
Our web application is at the heart of our busy and successful e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles hundreds of thousands of user visits, but we can and do update the live site with new code multiple times per day without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and deployed on Amazon Web Services using Puppet and Capistrano; we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment. Our developers are generalizing specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles, especially developers of all levels of experience.
Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is the UK's leading private shopping club, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many of them familiar from the high street. The company has about eighty employees and a substantial annual turnover; it was recently selected to join the UK's Future Fifty programme for the country's most rapidly growing startups.
Everyone has data, and it's always growing. This growth in data means that we need an effective way to store massive amounts of data. OpenStack Swift is designed to effectively store massive amounts of data while providing high durability, high availability, and support massive concurrency across the entire data set. SwiftStack is building management, monitoring, and integration tools to turn the Swift storage engine into an effective storage solution that is used by millions, daily.
We're looking for engineers of all experience levels to join us. We do most of our work in Python, but we've got some Ruby, Javascript, and a few other things mixed into our stack.
So far this year, we've built out global clusters for a major expense reporting and travel support site[1], provided the storage system for Disney Interactive's gaming platform[2], and integrated Swift into radical new hard drive technology from Seagate[3]. We're currently working with companies like Intel and Box to build support for erasure codes into Swift[4].
My vision for OpenStack Swift is that it will be used by everyone, every day, even if they don't realize it. Swift is storage that is built for the web and already powers some of the world's largest storage clouds. I would like to work with you at SwiftStack to see this vision become a reality.
Interested? Send us an email at jobs@swiftstack.com. Send us your github profile, your LinkedIn account, a link to your website – whatever will best display the work that you’ve done. Tell us in a few lines of text why you’re interested in SwiftStack, and why we’ll be interested in you. We’ll be back in touch shortly to get the conversation started.
[1] Concur video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQmGfzewWQw&t=29m23s
[2] Disney + SwiftStack: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/30/how-disney-built-a-giant-c...
[3] SwiftStack + Seagate: http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/10/22/kinetic-for-openstack-...
[4] Building erasure codes into OpenStack Swift: http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/07/17/erasure-codes-with-ope...
Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd is looking for Python developers and front-end engineers.
Requirements
About the company If you are interested, drop me a line - vikram.b at picturehouses.co.ukSnowledge (http://snowledgeapp.com/)
We are looking for a Senior iOS Developer with the technical vision to build an app for the first true navigation and performance tracking community for skiing and snowboarding.
==About the Company==
Snowledge is a mobile and web-based navigation and performance tracking community for the mountains. It equips skiers and snowboarders with valuable inside knowledge to navigate and explore their mountains, GPS technology to capture geotagged stats, photos, & videos, and a community to engage with each other and members of the ski and snowboard industry.
We are a seed stage startup with years of involvement in the skiing & snowboarding industry, including former Junior Olympic ski racing and current competitive big mountain skiing experience. We’ve raised a seed round of investment and have partnered with multiple mountain resorts and a popular weather and snow forecasting site to help develop and test our beta.
==Desired Skills & Experience==
As a Senior iOS Developer, you will work directly with the founder to go from mockups to working prototypes for a private beta group. You should be comfortable working at all levels of the stack, obsessed with measuring everything, detail oriented, and above all, hungry to succeed.
Contact eric@snowledgeapp.com. Please include your resume, examples of apps and sites you’ve worked on, and your Github profile.We are a provider of social media data on the firehose scale - we are one of only a small number of companies who are reselling the Twitter firehose; we also provide a number of sources including Facebook, Tumblr, Wordpress, Wikipedia and Sina Weibo to our customers via a single API, filtered through complex rules (now including tagging suitable for applying machine-learned scoring) and delivered via a number of integration methods. We also store a number of sources which are available for querying using the same filtering language.
Our production languages include PHP (the firehose passes through that many times!), Java, Scala, C++ and Python, and our technology stack includes Hadoop and ZeroMQ.
We are currently looking for a number of engineering and product positions including Data Scientists, Sales Engineers, Product Management, DevOps and PHP Engineers.
For more information, and to apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3S35egwZ
Ruby Engineer for fast-growing payments startup
We are looking for someone to help us build the future of payment. We’re a Ruby shop, but not wedded to Rails – the best tool for the job is the right choice.
We’ve got a fantastic iOS app called Droplet (and an Android app too) that lets you pay in any of our 300+ merchants across London and Birmingham.
We’re not just an app: we’re a robust, scalable, always-on platform for making payments over the web. We’re hoping to grow significantly in 2014, maybe you can help?
You;
have experience building, testing and deploying Ruby applications have strong understanding of object-oriented programming enjoy finding the right solution for the problem at hand are able to talk confidently about choices you make are highly self-motivated think like a hacker
Benefits
Totally flexible working hours and location Opportunity to actually build stuff Unlimited holiday (fair usage policy applies) Salary up to £35k p/a depending on experience Participation in our employee share options scheme, for the right candidate
Interested?
Send us an email to join@dropletpay.com with CV, and a link to your Github if available.
No agencies please.
You must be eligible to work in the UK, and willing to undergo detailed background checks before an offer of employment can be made.
Location
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Remote, or on-site in Athens, Greece
About us
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We are building a seamless code delivery platform for embedded devices (like the Raspberry Pi). Think of it as Heroku for the Internet of Things if you must. We've already ported Docker to ARM CPUs and have hit quite a few more Linux, Docker & ARM related milestones internally.
We are a company founded and led by developers and have a strong engineering-led culture. As long as there is progress, we are flexible with regard to location and work hours.
About you
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We are looking for Linux talent to work on our cloud services, deployed as Docker containers, but also to work on supporting arbitrary Linux-capable devices. The product is still young so you'll get a chance to have real impact on how the end result looks and feels to our users.
Besides strong Linux skills, familiarity with Docker will help a lot. Much of our codebase (on cloud and device) is in node.js so JavaScript skill is a plus.
The Process
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Send us your CV (a pointer to source code online is a great plus). Those that pass a phone interview will receive a small but paid project as a test. If we like working with you and you like working with us, you'll be offered a full-time job.
Get in touch
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send your CV to hello@resin.io
Servo is a new web browser engine. It is designed to be more memory safe (far and away the #1 cause of browser engine security bugs!) through use of the new Rust programming language, and also to take advantage of modern hardware by implementing the Web Platform with support for parallelism and concurrency.
We’re looking for some very senior people to join us and provide technical leadership and mentoring for major areas of this project. In particular, if you have a deep background in either the implementation of layout of the Web, the implementation of the DOM and its integration with JavaScript engines, or with systems programming (particularly in the spaces of graphics, networking, and mobile), we’d love to talk with you.
Apply online at:
https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/ovGrYfwk
This is Mozilla, so our development and roadmap is completely open. You can learn more at our project at its GitHub page:
https://github.com/mozilla/servo
Or you can just drop by #servo on irc.mozilla.org and ask us questions.
You mean black-hat hacking?
No, just make better solution for accepting payments in internet shops :)
# Engineer
As primarily a Python/Javascript shop, we welcome polyglots and believe very strongly in open source. We use the right tool for the job. You should be familiar with at least 2 of the 3 requirements below:
## Application Development
You are comfortable working on very external-facing applications in a distributed services oriented architecture. Must be able to work in an environment where deploying multiple times a day is a norm, but can step back and think about polishing the product. You understand that you must test everything. You live and breathe tests.
## Infrastructure / Systems
You're familiar and comfortable with everything below the application layer. You want to work on performance tuning, database instrumentation, and server architecture. You think, live, and breathe statistics.
## Machine Learning / Data Engineer
You're good with math. Really good. You understand terms like feature extraction, selection, and know what a Euclidean space is. You love linear algebra. People have previously commented about how algorithms are your best friend. You're constantly innovating on how to collect, slice, dice, and analyzing data. You recognize that visualizations are important. You also have a good understanding of how to construct good clean code.
jobs+hn@balancedpayments.com
Our ideal candidate is someone who has proven experience building web apps, is comfortable working across the full stack and is passionate about revolutionizing e-commerce.
We are an on-demand e-commerce platform, delivering wine and liquor in under an hour to customers NYC and Brooklyn.
Our tech stack is Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Backbone and Objective C.
For more information see: https://minibardelivery.com/jobs/software-engineer
To apply, send your CV and favorite cocktail to chris@minibardelivery.com
Knewton builds the tools and infrastructure needed to create continuously adaptive learning applications driven by real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, concept-level analytics, and more. Basically, we figure out what a students knows and what she should do next based on a specific goal like "get an 80% on this test by next Friday" or a general goal like "become proficient in English."
Knewton was recognized recently as a "Top 10 Most Innovative Company in Big Data" by Fast Company--the only education company included. More at http://www.knewton.com/about/press/
We're in the process of revamping WFH.io (https://www.wfh.io), a global work-from-home dev/ops focused job board. We have a bunch of features in the pipeline which we hope to roll out over the coming few months.
Please have a look and give us a shout if you'd like to see any features added.
Thanks!
Secure multisig HD wallet
We have implemented a multisig HD wallet as a base for more services, including transaction limits, green address instant transactions etc
We are looking for a Python developer with reasonable Bitcoin understanding, for both frontend and backend development.
Bonus points:
- Twisted
- SQLAlchemy
- PostgreSQL
- AngularJS
Send emails to info@greeenaddress.it
Please include your CV and any relevant information about your BTC experience.
iOS dev, Front-end web dev, python dev and design intern.
But if you are a really solid backend, db, scaling wizard we will probably hire you as well.
More info on the jobs here:
https://www.suitey.com/jobs
I'm the CTO, send me an e-mail if you have any questions:
chris@suitey.com
Different positions available including core server development, web development for our MMS website and tools and Java driver engineer working on our database drivers.
You must have some experience, preferably a love for open source and a passion for building software. To check out some of the technical positions.
http://jobvite.com/m?38wXhgwD