Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 557 ms ] threadThinknum is Github for Finance, a platform that allows investors to access the web’s financial knowledge. We have thousands of analysts using our platform, including many from major financial institutions. We’re a graduate of 500 Startups and raised $1m in funding led by Pejman Mar Ventures. Thinknum has been featured by the New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Forbes.
We’re growing quickly and currently hiring engineers number 4, 5, and 6. You can check out a list of open positions at https://www.thinknum.com/jobs. If you have any questions, please email us at founders@thinknum.com.
Qubit enables people to personalise their websites by connecting a data-store of visitor state to a framework for UI components that make it really easy for marketers to make use of their data.
Having recently got Series B funding, we are really ramping up our development team and are looking in particular for:
* UX designers and
* full stack Javascript engineers.
Our product is based around making technical problems easy for non-developers so we really like having UX experts working closely along side our engineers as we release new iterations of our product.
Our tech stack is constantly growing with new tools that help us work better: at the moment we are excited by Flux, React.js, SuitCSS and finding smart ways to deploy our SOA backend, based around Node.js.
We help each other grow with 1:1 mentoring, coding dojos and pairing. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.
If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at careers+HN@qubitproducts.com, telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after.
Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring interns for our office in Shoreditch, London.
We're using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.
If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
NerdWallet is a fast growing startup dedicated to bringing transparency to the world of personal finance. Our mission is to empower millions of people by providing them with the research and data driven tools they need to make informed money decisions, both big and small throughout their lives.
Our engineering team is small (~20 engineers) and is growing fast. We're hiring across the board - full stack, data, and platform engineers. Our core web platform is a traditional LAMP stack. Our data and various service APIs are written in Python/Flask, and we're pushing more and more code into this service layer everyday. We're also starting to use Node.js to serve different parts of our website.
I joined the company recently after spending a lot of time getting to know different members of the engineering team. This is a very smart team that is poised for massive growth. There are a ton of challenges to be solved, and this is a team that is up to the task. The company as a whole has this same attitude and culture. Everyone is very friendly and collaborative.
We offer: - Competitive compensation package
- 100% paid premiums for medical, dental and vision for employee and their dependents
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous, flexible vacation
- Catered lunches daily, free dinner, and a kitchen stocked full of snacks
- In-office fitness classes
- Paid commuter benefits
- Friday happy hours
- Pet-friendly office
- Awesome monthly company outings
To learn more about NerdWallet or to apply for an open position visit our careers page - http://www.nerdwallet.com/careers
If you have any questions you want to run by an engineer feel free to contact me directly - aflanagan[at]nerdwallet.com
Chartboost [https://chartboost.com] is the the world’s largest mobile games-only platform, helping developers grow their audience, monetize, and make better data-driven decision. We’re profitable, backed by Sequoia and have a ton of traction in our space, currently being used by 90% of the top grossing iOS and Android Game Developers.
Our technology stack includes Scala, Python, AWS, Git, Kafka, multiple NoSQL storage solutions, Jenkins, Puppet and more. Experience with our stack is a bonus, but not required for all roles. And... you’d get to work in our new office [http://officelovin.com/2014/12/11/chartboosts-new-san-franci...].
Open positions can be found here [https://boards.greenhouse.io/chartboost#.VPD-KLPF8cx], but we have many more openings coming down the pipe. If you’re interested, feel free to apply directly or reach out to talent@chartboost.com.
Prezi is a zooming presentation software that uses an open canvas instead of traditional slides, is available on desktop, browsers, iPads and iPhones and Android. With offices in San Francisco and Budapest, we work together with 250 employees from 24 different countries.
You’ll love to work with us if you want to: 1. create an app used by 50 million users 2. work together with people who are smarter than you, who can inspire you, 3. work in small, independent teams, 4. do something from scratch, 5. have free quality-food all day long
- We are moving towards microservices, our backend engineering team is looking for someone who can help us building a reliable system to serve our users.
- We are looking for full-stack engineers to build services around our product ranging from collaboration to payment
- Our tools team is working on making developers’ life easier. We are seeking someone who’s excited about creating a next generation CI and development environment.
See all our open positions at: https://prezi.com/jobs/
I’m working here as an engineer and I’m happy to answer questions about these positions, our challenges. Feel free contact me here or in email: attila.gazso at prezi.com
We're looking for both back and front end developers to help scale our tech. We've found our product market fit and are now focused on execution - we've been redesigning and rewriting a series of applications to be highly performant and concurrent since we're seeing significant volume now and trying to get ourselves ready for the next step.
Our product is a way for website owners to ditch banner ads in favor of native ads that will allow them to design their sites the way they want without having to worry about monetization from the beginning. When they are ready they include a bit of JavaScript and we will dynamically resize/crop ads and leverage their existing HTML to make sure the ads provide a less disruptive experience.
Feel free to email me at dgoldin@triplelift.com with any questions!
£18k pre-seed funding + optional £50k convertible note
6 months free office space + support
We don't want to hire you, rather EF’s mission is to support the world’s best technical talent to turn the technologies they care about into scalable, valuable businesses. Our talent-first approach means we never know at the start of a programme exactly what kinds of businesses are going to emerge by the end.
From March, EF participants building media/tech companies will receive extraordinary access to senior executives, operators and buyers within the media world to help them generate, validate and monetise their ideas, over and above the support EF usually provides. The partners at Advancit and Freelands - Jon Miller, Shari Redstone and Elisabeth Murdoch - are some of the world’s most experienced media entrepreneurs and executives
Among many other things, we’re particularly interested in:
Virtual reality - including applications across communication and entertainment
Personalisation driven by machine learning / AI
Short form video
Mobile-first content models
Models and technologies around online talent
Disruptive Content Businesses
eSports
We'll help you to test and generate ideas, sell products, and fund your growth.
APPLY NOW The Media stream is initially part of our March 2015 programme. Applications are open until 1 March 2015 at http://joinef.com/apply
The application process and selection criteria are the same as for the normal programme. If you have a technology-focused media business idea or have deep technical expertise that could be applied to media, we’d love to hear from you.
Feel free to drop me an email: zoe@joinef.com
If you like Python, JS, C, D, Lua or Erlang, and petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team.
Analytics is so critical to us that a large part of the stack, including our high-performance, in-memory data backend, is developed in-house in Python (Numba), Erlang, and C. Read more here
http://tuulos.github.io/pydata-2014/
http://tuulos.github.io/sf-python-meetup-sep-2013/
I'm happy to tell you more by email (ville@adroll.com) or over coffee in SF.
PS. Btw, we write our own convex optimizers, if machine learning is close to your heart - ping me for more info.
UI/UX Designer for Web and Mobile Application
Hello Show is a design-driven real estate application that is transforming the way real estate agents communicate and schedule. The application has created an easy to use scheduling and showing process for all parties through a secure mobile messaging platform, route planner, and an agent-to-agent scheduling system. The result is an exceptional tool kit designed for the way real estate agents work.
You will be joining an amazing team: one of the top Realtors in South Florida, 2 of the top 100 Ruby on Rails contributors, a market research expert, a seasoned startup operations veteran, and 3 additional senior engineers. Our design foundation comes from the world-class designer behind Desk.com, Bitl.ly, Heroku, Grooveshark and more, so you will be building upon an incredibly well organized and high quality product. Our development team is entirely remote, but you should be local.
As our UI/UX Designer, you will be at the forefront of our product team, moving ahead of the rest to determine what we need to work on. You must be excited to challenge your assumptions and prove ideas with data; everything we do is an experiment, but decisions are made pragmatically.
Responsibilities:
- Design clean and unique User Interfaces to mirror UX requirements
- Develop deep empathy and understanding of our users and their experiences
- Translate user testing and research results into wireframes and user-flow diagrams
- Design for the responsive web
- Explore and incorporate new and emerging design trends
- Communicate and collaborate with developers on design
- Develop project optimized assets and deliverables
- Make our users incredibly productive and make a product they love
Apply at: https://helloshow.workable.com/j/B620BDDF57
You must be eligible to work in Canada.
Who: K2 and Associates. We're one of Canada's more successful hedge funds over the past 13 years.
----------------------------- What you'll do -----------------------------
You will help build out the statistics pipeline and machine learning models to power an algorithmic trading infrastructure.
You'll build hidden Markov Models to detect patterns in the equities markets.
1. Build models
2. Back test models
3. We're lucky enough to have already figured out what step 3 is, apply your models in the markets.
4. PROFIT!!!
----------------------------- Who you are -----------------------------
You are a statistician or speech recognition expert who can turn a model into working code.
You are comfortable with any programming language, you can model in what ever language you like.
----------------------------- What's in it for you... -----------------------------
- a hedge fund is just like a startup except that everyone gets a market salary and bonuses. If' you've always wanted to join a startup but you're too good/in demand to take a pay cut then let's chat.
- get paid to learn algorithmic trading
- be able to invest in our fund
- onsite chef for lunches
If you love a challenge please reach out to me at cholliday@k2.ca or my email in my profile.
Azarius is looking for a backend PHP hacker to help us develop our custom shopping software. You'll be working with PHP, MySQL, Linux, Vagrant, Ansible, etc. Azarius is an online smartshop based in Amsterdam with several online shops.
You can contact us at info@azarius.net
We’re (https://www.underdog.io) looking to make our first hire, a Lead Software Engineer, in New York City.
Today, we're a curated two-sided marketplace for talent. We help growing startups hire amazing people across all verticals at a fraction of the cost of traditional recruiting firms. We started underdog.io because we experienced the pain of hiring first-hand, having worked at top startups in NYC.
We're currently live in NYC, but we've had serious requests to open in 10 other cities. While the plan is to scale the recruiting piece quickly, the bigger vision is not as focused on recruiting. We're moving towards building a defensible network between companies while building candidate-facing tools.
In the interest of full transparency, it's a big job with lots of positives and negatives.
The Good:
• Traction (https://medium.com/@joshuagoldstein/our-first-four-months-bu...) after a few months.
• Proven business model - we're making significant money every month. In fact, we're making enough to pay market rate, and we haven't raised money yet.
• Full technical autonomy. We've built our internal CMS and tools with Python/Flask, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, S3, etc. but you're in charge of choosing the technologies going forward.
• Work out of Founder Collective's (a well-known VC) space in SoHo.
The Bad:
• Less structure and certainty than a funded startup.
• Only full-time developer until we build an engineering team.
Email chris@underdog.io to apply.
Sorry, we can't sponsor visa candidates.
Keywords: New York, NYC, Developer, Dev, Python, Flask, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, S3, https://www.underdog.io/
At Percipient Networks, we are striving to build products and services that truly change how organizations of all shapes and sizes conduct cybersecurity operations and incident response.
You can read more about our open positions on our site: http://www.percipientnetworks.com/careers
We are young, small, pre-revenue, and extremely passionate. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and solving hard problems with technology, please contact us.
Backend developer
We help developers deploy over a million new server apps every month and work closely with all the major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure). We are looking for an awesome backend developer to join our San Francisco team. Our stacks spans a range of technologies but centered around Rails and NodeJS.
https://bitnami.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=4
Rainforest is a better way to do testing. We're building Rainforest to let everyone focus on the important things and spend less time thinking about QA.
Currently we're hiring full stack engineers, ops who can code and looking for a data person. I'm Russ, one of the founders. AMA.
http://targetsmartcommunications.com/careers-2/#se
Contact jobs at targetsmart dot net.
Every day, political organizations and businesses use TargetSmart’s highly targeted data products and services to analyze, understand, and communicate directly, effectively, and accurately with customers and voters.
TargetSmart seeks an experienced software engineer to join us in building service platforms for large scale data access, data processing, and data science. These software solutions are powered by TargetSmart’s industry leading political and consumer data products.
NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products available.
We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing digital platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.
NGP VAN has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for seven years in a row, and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. We are a successful and growing company with a passion for our employees’ career advancement. We are an open-minded, flexible workplace that values learning and contributions of many different kinds.
Company Site: http://ngpvan.com
We are open to interviewing across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.
Eehhhh, I'll just scurry off to write a nice cover letter.
Are you like us? Do you enjoy working on challenging problems that directly impact and empower customers at a massive scale? Are you interested in innovating and engineering services and website platforms that power our business operations? Are you sick to death of empowering some no-good butterfly? DO YOU WANT TO STICK YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SCREAM "I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT FRONT END AND BACK END DEVELOPMENT AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE"?!?!? If so, maybe this is your kinda place, yeah? Yeah. YEAH. YEAH.
In this job, you’ll learn: that Mr. Tibetan Butterfly isn't so bad, really. He's just a butterfly trying to get by in the world. In fact, you two would really get along. Maybe you should go get a few drinks together some weeknight. Watch the game. You know, talk it out.
Intangible benefits: A chance to build great software for customers. Have you ever touched software? Huh? If you said yes, you're WRONG. You touched the device on which the software is stored. Just like a story. Or a poem. Or song. Or your memories of childhood.
Potential hazards: If you start talking about poems and songs and your memories of childhood too much, someone's gonna punch you in the arm. So just be warned.
If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: yeah, funny thing. There aren't yet a lot of superheroes who got their powers after being bitten by a mobile app. But the moment a hero like that shows up? That'll be you. That'll be you all the way.
Worst part of the job: when the butterfly shows up drunk and starts ranting about how people don't take him seriously as a weather controlling device. He'll try to convince you that HAARP is just twenty billion butterflies strapped to a board. Just smile and nod. Smile and nod.
Make sure you bring: a custom printed purple shirt that reads "I got tricked into wearing this by the guy who writes the job descriptions." Wear it. Show it off to everyone. They'll totally be checking for it too. snicker
Basic Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
•3+ years professional experience in software development
•Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
•Proficiency in, at least, one object oriented language such as C#, C++ or Java
•Solid knowledge of website fundamentals such as Javascript, HTML, XML, and CSS
Preferred Qualifications: •Experience crafting automated unit, integration, functional, and regression tests
•Experience developing RESTful APIs with ASP.NET MVC
•Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
•Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
•Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
•Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
Tl;dr: Woot is looking for full-stak developers in Seattle. PM me if you are interested.
The current Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.
Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who will thrive in a challenging environment, working on interesting problems. Our team is small but growing, and we value people who can contribute not only individually, but in the context of the team. Our engineering team is also heavily involved in operations, so you need to know how to deploy, monitor and maintain a large production system. We wrote our code in Ruby (Main legacy language) and Haskell.
We are currently looking for:
* A VP of Engineering to help grow and manage our engineering team. More info in this job ad http://pusher.com/jobs/vp_of_engineering * Platform engineers that can build and improve our core platform. More info on http://pusher.com/jobs/platform_engineer
Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Haskell, nodeJS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Go.
We're a four-person company with a music-related site that's loved by tens of thousands of real people and visited millions of times a month. We've dominated our niche since 2005. When you see it, you'll think: ah, that's both cool and useful.
The site is built on PHP 5.6 / Kohana, MySQL, and jQuery. 99% of the code was written in-house and is clean, modular, built on a sane schema, and is easy to develop with minimal external dependencies. It's also really fast; we're near the top of the New Relic leaderboard for our category and in the 90th percentile of site speed according to Google. We take pride in what we built, and we're looking for someone who is proud of their work to continue what we've started.
We're seeking a developer who can spend approximately 20 hours a week working on discrete, meaningful projects on the site. We have more of these projects than we can count, so consider this a long term project where you'll have the chance to work on a wide variety of interesting stuff, based on your skills and interest.
Here are a few real example projects that are coming up: * Integrate some additional song providers alongside iTunes and Amazon using our song search job queue. * Create the concept of timestamping for our data, modifying a variety of model and view classes, as well as adding Bootstrap modal components and forms in our templates. * Add features to our REST API. * Create front-end features for admins and superusers using HTML and jQuery. * Make a real-time activity section on our front page based on activity data we keep in redis. * Add a redis caching layer on top of our models to reduce MySQL query volume. * Add artist @handles to our tweets. * Plus many more...
We manage projects using a private Github repository and task list. Our specifications are short and to the point. Your code will go live on the site as soon as it's ready -- no long release cycles.
Critically, you don't need design or sysadmin skill to work on this project. At all. We expect you to generate good HTML structure but if you never touch our CSS or fiddle with images, that's fine by us. Same goes for setting up servers, patching PHP, etc. We've got that all covered.
The ideal candidate will be able to show us what they've done using the technologies listed above. Experience with Laraval (likely future framework) and/or Kohana ideal, but not required. Honesty and strong communication skills are critical. Comfort with Github, pull requests, and the git toolchain generally is important -- we'll ask for your Github username when we consider your application. We'll give you all the support you need, but expect you to dive in and own large parts of our application.
Interested? Email amanda@tunefind.com
We’re looking for a full-stack Senior Software Engineer experienced in leading the technical design and software development of highly scalable customer facing platforms with particular strength in Python. Although this role is predominantly focused on backend server-side technologies, you’ll have the unique opportunity to exercise your front-end skills for development of full business solutions.
Read more:
http://evite.theresumator.com/apply/aNyAtf/Senior-Software-E...
Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata (http://www.omniata.com) integrates analytics, CRM, user engagement and A/B testing platforms into one solution. The company is well funded (http://www.creandum.com/why-creandum-invested-omniata/) & headquartered in SF. The bulk of R&D will be done in the Helsinki office which at the moment only has a small team, so this is a great opportunity to get in early and grow with the company.
As a Java backend engineer you’ll be part of the team responsible for code handling millions of events each day. You will also get the opportunity to work on a greenfield project and build the next generation of our backend infrastructure from the ground up. This work will involve analyzing the existing architecture, its load patterns and bottlenecks. Together with other team members, you will use this data to spec up and implement the new architecture.
To apply, drop a one line email with a link to your LinkedIn and GitHub profile to careers-hl@omniata.com.
If you're not interested in doing Java, but are interested in Helsinki as a place to move to, I'd be happy to introduce you to other startups I know in the area. Here's a video to give you an idea as to what it's like around here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7PDE7Xbds
Should we contact you on the same email to get info about other startups in Helsinki or somewhere else?