Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 338 ms ] threadDataSift, the world's leading supplier of social data - we're now the only independent provider of the Twitter firehose and archive, for example - is growing like mad. We're after engineers of numerous descriptions (PHP, C++, Scala, Node, Python, Java) to add to our world class team in Reading, UK as well as technical sales and account managers in the US and in Europe.
Our stack includes (in no particular order):
* Hadoop * Scala * C++ * PHP * NodeJS * Python * ZeroMQ * Kafka * Redis * Go
For more information on any engineering jobs, drop me a line on chris.hoult@datasift.com - I'm personally after a full stack front end engineer with PHP/JS - and I'll do my best to answer.
You can check out all of our positions here: http://jobvite.com/m?37itAgwd
What could be better than impacting the lives of millions of kids? Kodable teaches kids the fundamentals of programming starting before they can read. Used by over a million kids around the world, Kodable is designed to encourage everyone to learn programming. Over 50% of Kodable users are girls, and it has been used in over 100 countries.
We're a team that knows how to work smart, have fun, and get results. We're passionate about empowering people with great educational tools and 21st Century skills. We’re looking to hire our first full-stack engineers (including a CTO) to bring Kodable to more platforms and build Kodable 2. You will be given the freedom to shape the future of programming education for the entire world!
We have an iOS app written in Objective-C with a backend in Parse, and a web reporting system written in Ruby and Sinatra. Experience with these languages in a plus, but we’re mostly looking for experience. The position includes a lot of responsibility, you’ll make key architectural decisions for the future of our codebase, so you should have experience working on a production application in use by 100k+ users. We also offer generous equity - we consider our first hire to be nothing more than a late co-founder, and feel you should be compensated accordingly :)
If you’re interested, email jon@kodable.com or to learn more visit http://www.kodable.com/jobs
We're in the final stages of building an analytics platform for online advertising, and we're looking for a senior developer to join the team and lead both new feature development and maintainance as we come up to and subsequently after launch.
We're working with a market-leading community in the affiliate marketing space, and we're genuinely moving that space forward both in UI and technical terms.
Required skills:
* PHP and MySQL to a high degree of skill and experience, including a heavy focus on performance optimisation and experience with MVC frameworks (CodeIgniter preferred)
* JQuery / Javascript skills to middleweight level.
* Professional-level statistical mathematics, including experiment design, multivariate maths and Bayesian methods.
* Deployment and some sysadmin skills including Apache configuration and bash scripting.
* Strong teamworking skills and fluent written and spoken English.
Nice-To-Have:
* Experience with C.
* Experience supporting a codebase in a production environment with more than 500 users.
* Strong code optimisation skills.
Location can be anywhere, but within 5 hr of GMT strongly preferred!
Please email info@zen.ag for more information, questions, and to apply.
Thanks - looking forward to hearing from you!
https://citymapper.com/apps/
Full-time in London, UK. We will consider remote work for exceptional candidates.
We're looking for great people first and foremost, but especially the following roles:
- Lead DevOps engineer (Python, AWS) You will be responsible for our platform in the cloud. This isn’t a “systems administrator” role. You will shape the tool chain, deliver features, and ensure that the moving parts of our system can communicate. Experience with Python and AWS required.
- Experienced Android and iOS developers We’re reimagining mobile UIs for finding the best ways to get around cities. We’re looking for mobile developers who both care deeply about the “little big details” of mobile interfaces, and who know the grotty implementation details required to make things work across a range of device types.
- Software Engineer (Junior and Senior)
We're looking for great engineers to solve the big problems. We use a lot of Python, and some C and Java. We're building an omnivorous transport data processor that fuses together loads of data sources. And we're building the world's best transit routing engine. We're also interested in people with data analysis and natural language processing experience.
If you’re interested, please contact me at emil@citymapper.com
https://vimeo.com/jobs
2013: The Year We Did More Cool Stuff -
https://vimeo.com/82576921
TECHNICAL:
-Engineer, iOS
-Sr. Engineer, iOS (Cameo)
-Lead Engineer, iOS (Cameo)
-DBA, MySQL
-Engineer, Payments (#vindicia, #braintree, #paypal)
-Senior Designer
NON-TECH:
-VP, Audience Development
-Director, FP&A
-Translator, Japanese
-Copywriter
-Associate, Paid Search
Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.
Feel free to reach out: tyler at vimeo dot com.
You may recognize us from the Web Framework Benchmarks that have been discussed on HN periodically: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Work Hard, Have Fun, Be Nice
Let's be honest: you became a developer because you like to build things. Interesting things, useful things, cool things. It's like building with Legos, only you get paid, and there are always plenty of the right color pieces.
At TechEmpower, we build things. Interesting things. Cool things, mostly in webapp form. We build them as individuals, because we're creative people. We build them as teams, because we like to help each other grow, and because we know that collaboration improves even the best code.
Having the best people doesn't hurt, either. We've got most of them already, and we're looking to find the rest. You can build things with us. What's the catch? We're pretty darn selective.
To work as an individual, you have to be motivated and creative and thoughtful and serious. To work on a team, you have to be respectful and energetic and open and absolutely not a jerk. We need developers who can work on every part of an application, from the data store to the page–sometimes known as full stack developers. And to be a full stack developer, you have to know technology and want to learn more technology, because those acronyms just keep coming.
Our clients expect us to work with them, not for them. We help them define their problems, and we provide solutions, on time and on target. We're service-oriented, and you should be too.
Still reading? Please apply! And check out our Web Framework Benchmarks while you're at it. We pretty much wrote the book on that one.
Just so you know:
The technologies we use vary over time with our mix of projects. Here is a snapshot of what we're using now: We don't expect new hires to have experience with all of these, but we do expect you'll learn more about them every day.If this sounds like the kind of place you'd like to work, please apply here: http://jobs.techempower.com/hn2
We’re building the online source for authentic music merchandise from your favorite artists: Nas, Lana del Rey, The Rolling Stones and more. We help people find and purchase the best authentic gear for their favorite artists, and it’s important to us that our customers not only find the best gear, but that they thoroughly enjoy shopping with us.
What are we looking for? Interested and motivated engineers and designers of all skill levels; people who enjoy teamwork, discussions, and getting things done. If you’re interested in working with us-- get in touch! Email me at pete@copthis.com, and tell me about yourself in a sentence or two, show me what you got (github, dribble, or a link to your latest project or side project), or just say, “Hi!”
Pete
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Rock Kitchen Harris, Leicester, UK - http://www.rkh.co.uk
Hi! I'm looking for a super elite, super friendly, super smart Django developer to help a small and excited team work on lots of client projects plus our own apps. We've been around for 32 years and we're well established, but unlike a typical agency dev team, ours is small, fast and independent.
We have all sorts of clients with differing needs, but we'll trust you to work on huge projects like Police.uk (hundreds of thousands of visits a day) pretty quickly if all goes well.
We're just about to move into a stunning new office in a 1930s bank (complete with our own café and kitchen, and next door to the pub). Ideally you'd work in the office on a shiny new Mac at a shiny new desk, but if remote works best for you then that's cool - we'll provide whatever tools you might need and hope to see you now and again for fun and games and beer.
### Essential life skills ###
* Python and Django experience - you know it inside out, but you're also smart enough to know when rolling your own is a bad idea and when to stand on the shoulders of existing libraries, packages and apps
* Server chops - you're comfortable with UNIX-based technologies, the thought of spawning and killing thousands of load-balanced AWS servers for high profile sites doesn't scare you, and you could survive a whole day without touching a mouse if you needed to
* Passion - you love what you do, your Instapaper queue is off the scale, and you high-five yourself when something actually works(!!1)
* Initiative - you appreciate the need for 'project people', but you can focus on the end goal and pretty much get on with things without being micromanaged
* People skills - you recognise that non-developers think differently and always click the wrong button, but you're ok with that and understand how important they are in the grand scheme of things
* Taste - you can spot bad code or an ugly design as well as you can spot efficient code and pretty things
* A clean record - we do a lot of work with sensitive government data, so we'll have to do background checks to get you security clearance (and a cool ID card) for certain projects
### Stuff we use every day that doesn't at all scare you ###
OS X, Ubuntu, tmux, Mercurial, Git, GPG, PostgreSQL, AWS, VPC, nginx, Gunicorn, supervisord, Python, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached, HTML, Less, jQuery, Jenkins, Selenium, CloudFlare
### How to apply ###
Please send a CV/resume and covering note directly to me: psculthorpe@rkh.co.uk
Or, better, surprise me! Perhaps your blog really tells us about you, or there is something really impressive you've created or worked on you can share, or your Github commit history is huge. Anything more than a boring CV tends to stand out! Let's talk.
Thanks for reading :)
Paul Sculthorpe Director, Rock Kitchen Harris
*no unspent convictions?
It's be interesting to see what they actually want.
The clearance currently required is NPPV3 (although it might need to be higher in future). I can't find a nice concise description of what it covers, but there are a few documents floating around that refer to it:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non+police+personnel+vetting+level...
It's fairly standard criminal record and family/financial background checking. We've yet to have a person fail.
The Factory is changing the way companies are built. Backed by the founder of Skype and Rdio and led by Rdio's founding team, we're a product incubator without the burdens of outside influence, funding, or time constraints.
We are well-funded and have a small and exceptional team of twelve. We have a gorgeous office in SOMA. Salary is top-notch, as are the equity and benefits as an early member.
We're looking for highly experienced, entrepreneurially-minded builders to help:
* Dream up and build products
* Develop and perfect a common platform and pipeline
* Create open-source tools to help others launch products
Current positions:
* Senior Front End Engineer (http://www.thefactory.com/pdfs/sr_frontend.pdf)
* Senior Back End Engineer (opportunistic)
* Other roles (opportunistic)
You can read more about us here: http://gigaom.com/2013/06/21/the-factory-janus-friis-todd-be...
On the front end, we use reactive patterns for both web (ClojureScript) and mobile (Objective C).
On the back end, we have a message bus-oriented microservice architecture built in Scala (with Finagle) and Go. Services are packaged as Docker containers and continuously deployed to a Mesos+Marathon cluster on AWS.
Other key tech includes ZooKeeper, Exhibitor, Zipkin, Kestrel, Packer, CloudFormation, and Python. And our small team has already open sourced a few dozen projects: https://github.com/thefactory/
If you think this sounds like a fit, drop me a line: mike@thefactory.com
HubSpot is a great place to work. In fact, it was ranked the #2 place to work in Massachusetts and we're the fastest growing non-public software company in the US (and 33rd fastest growing non-public company). We focus on helping businesses with their online marketing - specifically helping them to avoid interrupting and annoying their customers with bad marketing.
In Engineering, we're organized into small teams where you get to have a big impact on the product. We have a great environment to move quickly in and deploy hundreds of times a day. We use GitHub Enterprise for SCM, Jenkins to build, an internal deployer system for zero-downtime deploys, and we even have a Heroku-style system coming (for those that would ask "why not just use Docker?", there's still the provisioning and routing issue).
On the backend, we use Java and Python (though more Java these days). It's really modern Java. We use Dropwizard which is really wonderful if you haven't checked it out (annotate paths similarly to how you'd use Flash in Python and just have the method return an object and Jackson will serialize it into JSON and return it - Java can be really nice). For data, HBase, Hadoop, MySQL, ZoopKeeper, Redis, and Memcached all have their place. Again, we deploy hundreds of times a day so don't expect your code to languish in the repository. We like pushing small changes fast.
On the front end, we use Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, and jQuery. We also have our iPhone and Android applications.
Engineers get a lot of responsibility from the start and you'll usually push changes your first day. You'll also get a Retina MacBook Pro and Thunderbolt display.
Work schedules are flexible. Most engineers keep a 10-6 schedule. You get to make a meaningful difference in a product with loads of paying customers and a ton of traffic. Best of all, you get to work with loads of smart and fun people. That's the best thing about HubSpot: the people are great people that you can rely on, learn from, and have a great time getting things done with.
Software Engineering: http://jobvite.com/m?3N1tAgwC
All Jobs: http://jobvite.com/m?3S1tAgwH
In particular, we're looking right now for:
-1 or 2 Back-end (Perl) engineers.
-1 Front-end (JavaScript/CSS) engineer.
-1 Operations (Chef/Site-reliability) engineer.
-1 Desktop/mobile Web designer.
But, actually, ignore the specific positions. If you like working in Go, or Lua, or PHP, or JavaScript and want to come work for a company that's growing rapidly and has a ton of code to write in all those languages just apply. We've hired lots of people who aren't a specific fit for a job that's listed on that board.
Details are here: http://idonethis.com/jobs/
Senior Front End Developer - Washington, DC(possibly remote)
At Mobility Labs, we work on projects that have a social impact. We work with non-profits, foundations, and small businesses. While we work with non-profits and foundations, we’re a for-profit company and offer competitive salaries and benefits. Our main industry is K-12 education, but we also have projects in public accountability. One reason our clients prefer working with us is because we build pilot projects to demonstrate success prior to building out larger applications. For us, this means lots of opportunities for building projects from scratch, allowing us to work with the latest and greatest development tools and frameworks.
You will be working with our team of developers, designers, and subject matter experts to build software that solves real problems. We build in an agile manner with direct user feedback as part of our design/development cycle. You will have the opportunity to mentor others on the team while working with our senior developers. Our current stack leans towards Angular on the client side and Rails on our API server. Our developers are a curious sort though, so we will continue to adjust our stack as new technologies emerge.
As our front end expert you should be able to create directives, resources, services, controllers, and all the other fun parts of Angular with ease. We use package managers and build systems. We like speeding things up by using Bootstrap or Foundation, so familiarity would be great. Getting the most out of SASS and LESS will also help. Do you like automated testing? Us too! We use Jasmine, Karma, and CircleCi. We also can’t get enough of Github and have a strong code review culture.
The majority of the team is in Washington, DC but we also have members in NYC, Richmond, VA and Medellin, Colombia.
If you are interested shoot me an email at job@mobility-labs.com
http://www.punchkickinteractive.com/jobs
Devs, designers, strategy, and more.
We're a full service agency that creates digital products for Fortune-level clients. We're ~70 strong right now, and growing.
Check out the site, learn about us, hit me up at @ddggccaa if you have any ?s.
Do you get excited by things like graph databases and machine learning? Can you think up mind-blowing solutions to complex, hairy problems? We want someone who can move fast, think creatively, and deliver quality/tested code. Is this you? Take a small risk and join us in building a growth business.
Who are we? Before any meeting, Charlie automatically researches people before you see them. Researching people is a complex problem: we sift through, analyze, and manipulate data into powerful insights (i.e. what are they passionate about, what do you have in common?). CNBC called us “One of the world’s most promising new companies” and SXSW selected us as an Accelerator Finalist. We’re a funded startup, backed by some very awesome VC’s and prominent angel investors.
We’ve built Charlie to research people at massive scale, using the latest Ruby on Rails stack with MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, and hosted in an elastic cloud farm. We write code with agility and have a tight process where anyone on the team can deploy to production at any time, without approval. We thoroughly test our code, though we’re not strict TDD. We're a small dev that loves to code, and constantly pushes, and learns from each other.
This is your opportunity to join an early-stage company that’s making moves. Sound interesting? Let us know what makes you the perfect candidate.
Why we’re special: * Flexible working situation: hours, location * Competitive salary + equity * Funded startup backed by some amazing people including DreamIt Ventures * Everyone deploys to production (fully automated, painless) * We go out and do fun things (concerts, Bulls & Cubs games, and occasionally ski in Colorado)
Requirements: * Back-end developer, front-end is a plus * Ruby on Rails preferred, but you can learn. * DB experience (SQL or NoSQL?) * Not afraid of the front-end (HTML5, jQuery, Coffeescript, bootstrap, Sass, Slim) * Test your code (Rspec, capybara, cucumber, etc) * Hobbyist: Working on a side project to learn new technology? * Creative problem solver * Git / Github * Smart & gets things done.
Location Chicago, IL
Apply Interested? Hollar at us. email jobs@charlieapp.com.
https://charlieapp.com/jobs
Hi! I wanted to personally recommend a sweet opening in my department at Loggly (a cloud-based log management provider - www.loggly.com) in San Francisco, CA. We’re looking to fill the missing piece of our marketing team: a Senior DevOps / Product Evangelist.
Before I get any further, I want to quickly tell you about my own experience as an employee working at Loggly: it’s great! I am consistently challenged and am gaining new experience daily. I genuinely respect and like my coworkers. I feel like the work I do is valuable and recognized, and shared in a collaborative environment. I am well taken care of and provided all the tools I need for success. You wouldn’t be disappointed to join a team like this!
That said, this role currently open in marketing would be a dream job you if you have both a strong understanding of the logic of IT / Ops as well as a desire to communicate and share that knowledge to contribute the developer community. Our audience is primarily devops, developers and engineers, and this role is chartered with making content (like web pages, videos, demos, blog posts, tweets, podcasts, white papers, webinars, etc.) that would interest and resonate with this audience in relation to application intelligence and monitoring.
You would have influence crafting our voice and our community - that is huge!
Main requirements for this position:
• Experience with IT operations software.
• SaaS experience preferred.
• Domain knowledge of application intelligence or application monitoring products like Splunk, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sumo Logic, Boundary, etc.
• 3+ years in a marketing, evangelism or business development role
• Very familiar with typical web/Internet–facing technology stacks.
• Strongest affiliation with Linux
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
The full listing can be found on our career page → http://bit.ly/LogglyJobs Interested in applying? Questions about the role or Loggly? Great! Please email me at KAREN@LOGGLY.COM. Include a résumé, cover letter and link to your most relevant social channel. Be prepared to provide writing samples if requested.
Best, Karen Sowa
PS - we also have some engineering positions open - if you’re interested, email me and I can forward your request on to the right person.
Current Openings:
• Front End UI Engineer
• Front End Software Engineer
• Software Developer: Infrastructure Engineer
• Lead Developer Infrastructure Team
You can find all the details for these positions on our career page → http://bit.ly/LogglyJobs
We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management.
Some more about us:
At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.
RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.
We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.
The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy
https://vimeo.com/jobs
2013: The Year We Did More Cool Stuff -
https://vimeo.com/82576921
TECHNICAL:
-Engineer, iOS
-Sr. Engineer, iOS (Cameo)
-Lead Engineer, iOS (Cameo)
-DBA, MySQL
-Engineer, Payments (#vindicia, #braintree, #paypal)
-Senior Designer, Web
NON-TECH:
-VP, Audience Development
-Director, FP&A
-Translator, Japanese
-Copywriter
-Associate, Paid Search
Stuff we use: PHP, Python, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, AWS, Solr, Hadoop, nginx, node, Vertica. And pretty much any mobile platform.
Feel free to reach out: tyler at vimeo dot com.
We’re looking for talented and passionate developers to help improve and expand our web-based application, FormAssembly.com.
The ideal candidate can craft code that is robust and easy to maintain, switch between back-end and front-end development, and keep usability and user experience in mind at all times.
You’ll work on our LAMP stack, and occasionally on new projects with a clean slate, for which you’ll help pick the best technologies, architecture, and tools.
You’ll work autonomously or with the team depending on the project, and will get many opportunities to share, teach, and learn from your coworkers.
Your work will get in front of tens of thousands of users and help make data collection easier for a lot of people, from schools enrolling students to large corporations improving their business processes.
Position is full-time, in Bloomington, Indiana or remote. Email jobs@veerwest.com to apply or visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs
Uken is always looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.
In particular, we are looking for a front-end web developer with a passion for pixel perfect user experiences. Uken is at the forefront of HTML5 development and is creating highly performant browsed based games. AngularJS experience is a plus but not required.
If you are interested, please email me directly, mark at uken.com