Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 414 ms ] threadMetail builds a virtual 3D fitting room to help people buy the right clothes online. We are a well funded startup and growing.
Full-time roles at Metail's engineering offices in the centre of Cambridge, UK:
- Big Data Engineer (MapReduce, NoSQL, Clojure, Cascalog)
- Senior Graphics Software Engineer (3D Visualisation, Direct3D, OpenGL, C++, C#)
- Senior Web Application Engineer (Frontend Javascript, CoffeeScript, Backbone, Single page web apps)
- R&D Engineer (FE analysis, Machine learning, 3D Visualisation)
You would be joining a highly focussed technical team in a startup that is working with customers around the globe (Latin America, Europe, Far East). We enjoy the technical challenges of our day job and often socialise together in the evening. Cambridge itself has a great startup community.
If you are interested, you can get more details at http://metail.com/jobs/ or apply by email to jobs+data14@metail.com
Hello HN! We’re Pathgather, a Techstars NYC 2014 startup looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer, a Javascript expert that can come in and own one of the most engaging interfaces in the enterprise market today.
Our product is an enterprise learning platform that - unlike traditional learning systems - is one employees actually want to use. We’re solving a big problem felt by almost all large and fast-growing companies: how to continuously train and educate your workforce with modern content on a system built for today’s employee. More than 75% of all companies use a Learning Management System (LMS) in hopes to help with this problem, but their > 60% dissatisfaction rate shows these systems simply don’t work. We’re changing that.
We launched earlier this year and our product is already in use by tens of thousands of employees at some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Qualcomm and HBO, to name a couple (we’re also about to launch within one of the world’s largest companies). We’re a small team, but we’ve got investment capital in the bank, real revenue coming in the door, and are now looking for the right person who is ready to take ownership of our frontend.
What we’re looking for:
* Javascript/Coffeescript expertise
* Strong experience with AngularJS
* Mastery of CSS & HTML
* UX focus
* Design skills a huge bonus
* Ruby/Rails knowledge another bonus, but certainly supplemental
What we can offer:
* A (more than) competitive salary & equity
* Opportunities to contribute to the open source community. Every Friday, you have the opportunity to work on anything open source: you can contribute to existing projects, work on your own, or open source a part of our codebase. We’ve already open sourced our recommendation and prediction engine (https://github.com/Pathgather/predictor) and would love to do more!
* An awesome team to work with, in an awesome location! We work in the Techstars NYC office with several of New York’s most promising startups.
* A chance to have a truly influential role at a company with an ambitious mission: to foster a culture of learning and continual improvement within every workforce through an engaging, rewarding, and collaborative learning platform.
If any of this sounds interesting or if you have some questions, please reach out to me at jamie@pathgather.com. Thanks!
Send resumes/questions to: cwhiten@solinkcorp.com
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About us:
Solink is a video and data intelligence company based out of Ottawa, Canada. For over three years, Solink has developed a comprehensive video intelligence platform to address pressing issues in the areas of security, marketing, compliance and operations. The business applications developed by our team have been largely client driven to ensure relevance and usability. Solink leverages video analytics to refine and expedite contextual data from “Big Data” to aid decisions makers.
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About you:
- You like to code. You code for work or school and you code in your spare time.
- You have an amazing ability to mash different technologies together
- You believe in the best tool for the customer and the situation: you are comfortable working in a mixed tech environment, Windows Server, Linux, iOS, Android, cloud, on-premise, Java, C#, Ruby, etc
- All modesty aside, you are a pretty awesome coder in some kind of common language or framework
- You work smarter AND harder and you have a passion for learning and improvement
- You like tidy code. You understand the value of style and find commenting to be satisfying. It makes you angry when control and view logic mingle
- You are test-driven and you like to have a nice thick quilt of unit tests in order to sleep at night
- You use tools and frameworks. You write your own tools when necessary and your first instinct is to check and see how other people have already solved this problem.
- You like clarity; you are honest, realistic and you don’t mind pointing out the elephant in the room.
- You like people, you like working with people, and people like working with you.
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Bonus Points:
- Accepted answers on SO
- Contributed to a recognized OS project
- HTML5, MVC, RoR, CSS, JavaScript and JavaScript libraries: JQuery, D3.js, etc.
- IP cameras and Network video recorders,
- Video codecs and transcoding
- Amazon Web Services or other cloud-based development
- OpenCV or other image processing libraries
- Highly scalable, high-perfomance distributed computing
- ElasticSearch, Solr, Druid.io, Apache Storm, Hadoop, Logstash, Splunk
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Job Description: VaxTrac is looking for talented software engineers who share our passion for making a difference in the world. We build tools to improve the delivery of health care to those that need it most.
We are looking for those who:
+ Are committed to using their skills to generate real social impact.
+ Have an interest and passion for emerging technologies and novel use cases.
+ Thrive in loosely structured environments.
+ Share the conviction that we can make the world just a little bit better.
Roles and Responsibilities
+ Core design and development of applications for frontline immunization workers
+ Co-development of our core mobile application with partner organizations
+ Integration of custom applications with third-party frameworks
+ Basic quality assurance and documentation
+ Soliciting feedback and triaging bugs reported from the field
+ Secondary technical support of global program staff Skills and Requirements
+ Unparalleled, demonstrable programming skills
+ Full stack experience with an eye for UI and UX design
+ Finds ways to proactively contribute to all phases of development with limited supervision
+ Willingness to travel and spend time in remote corners of the globe
Bonus Points
+ Demonstrable expertise in Android development
+ Experience with Django, Pyramid or other web-based framework
+ Experience building for limited resource environments
+ Familiarity with front-end web development and Javascript
+ Practical experience with a NoSQL database
+ Exposure to CommCare or MOTECH APIs
+ Love of travel
VaxTrac is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
To apply for this position, please email your updated resume and cover letter as attachments to careers@vaxtrac.com. Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial interview. Thank you for your interest!
We're a relatively small software company that develops simulation/analysis/design products which are used extensively for product design in a number of industries (e.g. automotive, aerospace, and motorsports to name a few). We have a few open positions in the SW team:
- I manage the preprocessor group here and we're looking to add a developer to help implement the next generation preprocessor (C++ development of a GUI product with 3D graphics using Qt on Windows & Linux). The job description lists a senior role with 5-7 years experience required, but I'd definitely be open to considering a more junior candidate:
http://exa.com/senior-software-engineer---graphical-preproce...
- Another manager here is putting together a team to build a new product to serve as a single high-level entry point that will help users manage the workflow involved with our various engineering software products. At the moment, I believe he's looking at more senior candidates who would be able to play a key role in architecture decisions and help to build the team moving forward.
http://exa.com/senior-sotware-engineerssoftware-engineers---...
We have other software positions listed on our website but these are the two that we're recruiting aggressively at the moment.
Also, how does the public data about H1B salaries at Exa correspond to present reality? (those numbers are quite low I mean, especially for someone to consider a relocation).
Mercaris provides data reports and auctions for Organic and non-GMO crops to help farmers, food manufacturers and retailers bring healthier products to market and meet skyrocketing consumer demand. We recently closed a $2.5M series A funding round and are looking to expand our team.
We are looking for a mid/senior level Ruby on Rails developer to join our team and contribute significantly to the codebase and the company. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Benefits include fully covered medical, 401k with 3% match, and equity. The position is located in downtown Chicago, IL.
Your Skills and Experience:
5+ years of development experience, with a substantial amount of experience developing Ruby on Rails web apps. HTML, CSS and Javascript skills are of course fundamental as well.
An interest in mentoring and teaching other developers.
Assisting in putting best practices, processes and frameworks in place that help scale the development process as the team grows.
Send any questions or resumes for consideration to chris.duesing at mercariscompany.com.
We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs, we face unique UI problems that you'll help solve with your keen sense of design and attention to detail. You'll be architecting new features and workflows that our customers will use to pull valuable insight out of hundreds of billions of social media posts.
There's no precedent for a lot of what we do. Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks is a plus, but not a requisite-- We value your ability to think laterally, collaborate, communicate, and execute above everything. We like people who have a background in freelancing. We also like people who come to programming via nontraditional means.
Top pay, top benefits, located in Boston's Seaport district. We're big enough not to be a monoculture, but small enough not to be a corporate cult.
Email me (alex at crimsonhexagon dot com) or check out our hiring page: http://goo.gl/oSIY3o
DataSift, 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 and devops 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.
UK positions: http://jobvite.com/m?3hWXMgwH US positions: http://jobvite.com/m?3zXXMgw0
About us
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, launched the alpha version of our product are about to release our beta version during this month. We are a well funded 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
We are looking for a Linux talent to work on our cloud deployment which is a constellation of Docker-ised services deployed on AWS. 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. You will be responsible of our server infrastructure, making sure we have seamless code deployment across all of our services and responding to any incidents and emergencies that may arise.
The Process
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
send your CV to hello@resin.io
Lifesum (formerly ShapeUp Club) is a Swedish digital health startup with the vision to make people healthier and happier by using applied psychology and technology. Founded in 2008 with headquarters in central Stockholm, the company is growing fast and was selected by Wired UK as one of Stockholm's 10 hottest startups.
To date, the Lifesum app has registered more than 7,3 million members, with 500,000 monthly active users and a growth rate of more than 10,000 new members per day.
We have big ambitions and are growing fast
Lifesum is looking for a product driven engineer, even with little documented experience. Our small team is international and diverse, so we are welcoming everyone. Focus will be on handling large amount of data in multiple formats, not all normalized, work with services integration (REST, OAuth, analytics, payment) and finally with algorithms for graphs (social, content relationship, ...), search and statistics.
Product-wise, you will be taking features from the idea stage to scalable production deployments. You will work on making highly scalable solutions, get feedback from analytics and monitoring tools and be able to refine and perfect your solution at each iteration
Tech-wise, our server code is written in Python (Django) and you will be exposed to distributed computing (scalable stack, queue-driven distributed processing), cloud hosting (Amazon), database optimization (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB), search solutions (Sphinx, ElasticSearch), test driven development, load testing, etc
You have some (professional or personal) experience with Django, Python (and bonus for Amazon Web Services and distributed systems) And you love building products and work for millions of users.
To read more go to http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs/427
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I work as a Platform Engineer at Lifesum myself. Feel free to contact me personally and ask me anything martin.lissmats@lifesum.com :) Or use the form in the url to apply.
Cheers!
We're building an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. You write your trading strategy in Python, backtest it against our historical data, then run it live on any of the major exchanges. All in the browser.
Come and experience what it's like to be in on the ground floor at a promising tech startup. We're only a few months old, backed up some of the best investors in the crypto space, and already generating revenue.
More information: https://tradewave.net/jobs/
Prometheus Research builds open source RexDB (http://www.rexdb.org) software to help medical researchers organize complex data. We're an established organization based in New Haven, CT, that has most of its staff working remotely. I work from my home in Chicago, for example.
We're looking for someone to join our system administration team to help us with systems automation, networking, monitoring, and managing challenges of secure hosting. This is a full-time work-from-home telecommute position, that offers flexible hours, and full benefits. Specific tools include:
* Linux for our development and production servers * Ansible for most of our system configuration * Docker for application packaging * Python for application and automation software * PostgreSQL for application databases * ovirt/kvm for virtual machine management * reStructuredText/Sphinx for documentation
We need someone who really understands networking, security, and has a talent for communication and documentation. Thanks in advance for dropping us a note at hn-201411@prometheusresearch.com - Clark
Canopy helps 30 million people in the US who do not speak English to gain access to better healthcare. We are winners of awards from the National Institutes of Health and the City of New York to tackle this problem.
Join us as the 3rd developer and 7th employee in our NYC office.
Some of your first projects will include:
* building a system to open access to our large library of medical phrases translated into 15 languages
* building a system to crowdsource high quality content from our users to help grow this library
* building a system to aggregate data and facilitate data analysis
You will influence the technologies we choose to power our backend.
Work is onsite in our NYC office, with flexible work from home benefits. Compensation is based on experience, with equity in company available.
If you're interested, please email brian@canopyapps.com.
https://www.thread.com/jobs
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!
Who: K2 and Associates. We're one of Canada's more successful hedge funds over the past 13 years.
We are building out our algorithmic trading infrastructure and you have a chance to get in at the ground floor. Come help us turn our technology team from an integral part of how we do business into a profit center with its own PnL. You are a developer who can take an academic paper and turn it into a working prototype because what you are designing won't have been done before.
You value correctness above all else because when you send 100,000 orders a day if you get 1% of them wrong, bad things will happen...
You are comfortable with F# or C++.
If you love a challenge please reach out to me at cholliday@k2.ca or my email in my profile.
Our goal is to bring order to the chaos of the U.S. healthcare system by harnessing the power of the cloud to modernize healthcare. We are advancing an industry whose technology is 20 – 30 years old and we need your help to do it!
The athenahealth Austin team is currently working on our latest products, athenaCoordinator and athenaClarity. athenaCoordinator and athenaClarity capitalize on the network effect of the cloud allowing exchange of information more fluidly than ever before.
We’re looking for Senior Software Developers who still want to code and work on challenging projects and if interested also want to work with more junior Developers and help them learn and advance their careers. We work with a mix of technologies but don’t hire developers based on your knowledge of a particular coding language. We believe any developer worth their salt can pick new stuff up in a matter of months. We're more interested in folks with raw talent and a burning desire to succeed.
athenahealth is headquartered out of Massachusetts and we are proud to have been part of the Austin technology community for nearly two years, with exciting new things coming this year. Athena Austin is a vibrant R&D focused office with great potential for growth. We’re excited to be moving downtown to the Seaholm Powerplant in late 2014 to continue the growth!
Read more at: http://www.athenahealth.com/careers/
We use a combination of weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, satillite imagery, and weather simulation to provide data and insights to those farmers.
We're hiring full-time employees and interns across many teams.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 Engineers, particularly anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications (Clojure, 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 interdisciplinary 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 hard and important problems.
I am on the satillite imagery team and I am really excited about the work we've been doing, I am happy to talk in length about it over email at skhalsa@climate.com. – Competitive salary – Excellent benefits – Stocks – Other crazy perks (massages!)We also have something called sprintbicals where anyone can work on an independent project for some time (we are in the midst of redesigning this)
Here's the company site for the job postings https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=o7B8Wfww&s=hackernews
If you want to take the fast track, just shoot me an email at skhalsa@climate.com. I am happy to answer questions, or put you in contact with people who can answer your questions.
But that doesn't have the HN tag on it, so I can't fast track applications made there. Emailing me is probably the way to go for now :/
A lot of people's experiences are isolated to their teams. I haven't experienced any of the things in those reviews but I know some who have.
We are growing fast and with that comes it's own set of problems.
The COO mentioned in the reviews recently left FYI.
These statements are my own and my not reflect what my employer has to say about it.
Lucid Software is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Our first product, Lucidchart (http://www.lucidchart.com), is an online diagramming application with 2M+ users. We recently launched our second product, Lucidpress (http://www.lucidpress.com), which is an online layout and design application.
Lucid is a startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.
BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress run with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucid your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Scala or Java - MySQL or other relational database - NoSQL databases - Cloud computing (AWS)
Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=oa2cZfw7&s=Hacker_News
FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart and Lucidpress are powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web. Requirements: - Talent - BS degree Recommended experience: - Building large products / applications - Javascript - Google Closure compiler/library - CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation - jQuery - Native app development on Android and/or iOS
Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=odrjZfwG&s=Hacker_News
*The application requires a current resume, cover letter, and an unofficial or official university transcript.
Prometheus Research builds open source RexDB (http://www.rexdb.org) software, and delivers custom applications to help medical researchers organize complex data. We're an established organization based in New Haven, CT, that has most of its staff working remotely (even in New Haven).
We have two software development positions open at http://www.prometheusresearch.com/jobs/ and we prefer candidates who live near New Haven, CT (must be on-site Wednesday and Thursday every week). We will consider strong candidates world-wide. Development tools we use:
* Linux/Docker for our development/deployment system * PostgreSQL for our backend database, using HTSQL * Python for server-side code, using RexDB platform * Javascript for client, using Facebook's React * reStructuredText/Sphinx for documentation
We need someone who has a passion for documentation and quality software; yet, understands that we're a consulting organization. We provide a mix of open source work and client-facing (usually proprietary) development. If you are interested, send email to hn-201411@prometheusresearch.com ; please indicate your location and ability to be on-site in New Haven at least 2 days per week.
http://www.apptornado.com/jobs-software-engineer
We are a startup company founded by two former Google engineers. We develop AppBrain, a leading platform for Android app discovery and app promotion. We run a worldwide app promotion network called AppBrain AppLift. We work with thousands of advertisers and developers around the world to promote and monetize their apps. ( http://www.appbrain.com/info/monetize )
We have ambitious plans for the future and are growing our teams in Zürich, Switzerland and Utrecht, the Netherlands
Please see here for more job openings in our company: http://www.apptornado.com/jobs
Ideally Node.js, but other javascript platforms considered.
would prefer in-house but remote is ok.
Contact details: http://royand.co
CPAP.com sells CPAP equipment for the treatment of Sleep Apnea. We help people breathe.
We are a LAMP stack shop rolling out and integrating git and jenkins to our code base and work flows.
We are more broadly wish to have dedicated positions focused on code base refactor, re-organization and cleanliness in the pursuit of coder happiness.
If you have done this before in another organization and can help us avoid common pitfalls and false starts, we would like to speak to you.
About Us: http://www.cpap.com/cpap-web-employees.php
About Me: http://www.cpap.com/about/johnnygoodman
To talk further and fizzbuzz johnny .dot goodman @at cpap dot. com
AlchemyTec is a team of about ten people building software to turn the labour supply market on its head, starting with the UK construction industry. We want to become the Xero of finding, hiring, and paying people. And we need help.
We're looking for a couple of modern-Java web developers. Ideally at least one will have an interest in levelling-up their front-end skills.
Our team has a diverse range of backgrounds, skillsets, and locations. We're happy to talk to remote folk, though for now, only as long as you're in the UK. We understand visas and right-to-work issues, so if you're new in London or wondering about how to get here and pick up a cool job, give us a shout.
Our stack, back to front:
Our tooling: Developers do everything from work with product management and design, through coding, test, deployment, and production monitoring and troubleshooting.The application process: If you have a portfolio of OSS work, send us a repo URL and a cover letter: jobs@alchemytec.com. If not, send us a CV with the cover letter. Absent a portfolio of work on a stack similar to ours, we'll ask you to do a fairly real-world coding test. We'll follow up with a couple of chats on Skype or in person depending on your location. Then we either like each other or we don't.
Warning: you may have to pretend you like dogs. Several members of the team are mildly obsessed.
Questions, comments, flames, etc: dof@alchemytec.com
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/
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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software. We're hiring for full time positions as software developers and software designers at our office in Grand Rapids.
A little bit about us:
A little bit about Grand Rapids: A little bit about you: I'm a software developer on this awesome team. If you're interested, get in touch with me:ej@mutuallyhuman.com
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/team/
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