Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Soliton invites applications for an R&D Software Engineer in a group specializing in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Recent projects have included obstacle detection on mobile platforms, object detection/classification and 3D reconstruction. We are looking for exceptional candidates who have a sense of ownership and have the necessary grit to make successful research products. The candidate must have good understanding of basic mathematics (linear algebra, statistics, probability and good understanding of fundamentals of computing (Algorithms, Data Structure, OS Fundamentals). The ideal candidate will also have strong development skills on *nix platform and ability to prototype very quickly.

Required Skill sets 1. Good understanding of Image Processing and Computer Vision with projects to back the same. 2. Strong programming experience in C++ 3. Knowledge of at least one prototyping/scripting language : MATLAB/Octave, Python or R. 4. Good understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures. 5. Good knowledge of basics: Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics. 6. Good written and verbal communication.

Great to have skill sets. 1. Android development experience (SDK and NDK). 2. Knowledge of functional programming. 3. Winning/International level participation in ACM ICPC, IOI, TopCoder, CodeChef etc. 4. Winning/International level participation in Physics or Math Olympiad. 5. Open Source Contribution. 6. Top tier peer reviewed research publication in applied math areas like Algorithms, Computer Vision/Image Processing, Machine Learning or Optimization. 7. Link to your projects, github etc.

Job Location: Bengaluru,India

website:www.solitontech.com

Matjaz here, the author of Pinegrow Web Editor (http://pinegrow.com), a desktop visual HTML & CSS editor for professional web developers. It also has WordPress theme builder. Up to now I did almost everything by myself, bootstrapping the business from 0 to $100K in the first year, and significantly more in the second - the current - year.

Now it's time to grow (a bit) and I'm looking for a Javascript virtuoso to join me on developing core Pinegrow features.

Our company has no VCs, C?Os, VPs... Instead we have a good product and paying users in 100+ countries that find Pinegrow useful at their daily work. Our revenue is organically doubling every four months. Here's a short story about that: https://medium.com/@mattront/pinegrow-year-in-review-2014-fr...

Ideally, you're better than me at:

- building optimised HTML, PHP, CSS (LESS, SASS) parsers

- designing and implementing effective UI

- separating what users actually need from what just looks nice

- being highly productive, even when compared to whole teams of decent developers

- finding simple solutions for complex problems - and then iterating on them

- having in-depth experience of high-performance Javascript coding and web development, both pure and with contemporary frameworks/tools

Bonus if you're good at:

- creating tutorials and online courses about web development

- marketing

You would get a decent fixed sallary and significant profit share. That's how I imagine my dream job offer would look like.

Get in touch at info [at] pinegrow.com

We are hiring for a bunch of roles at the moment - you can read more about the positions (and the company) here: https://www.distilled.net/jobs/ but in short, we're a digital marketing company, specialising in organic and paid search, content, and digital PR.

The jobs - in order of those most obviously of interest to HN:

LONDON: Front-end developer with some experience (£30-35k) http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55137

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LONDON / NYC / SEATTLE: Digital marketers (range of experience) See list - http://distilled.workable.com/

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LONDON / NYC: Client development / Sales consultant London: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/54965 NYC: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55636

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LONDON / NYC / SEATTLE: Recruitment & HR manager UK: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/55167 US: http://distilled.workable.com/jobs/56764

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We recently had an all-hands email thread where people discussed what brought them to Distilled, and why they are still here. It got many great replies (including a number talking about how people's friends had typically had 2-3 jobs in the time they'd been with us), but this one stood out:

"A combination of an informal environment, freedom, and high expectations - I wanted a place where I could be myself and grow doing/learning things that I was passionate about, while having lots of smart people around me to collaborate with in doing so. I came from a huge, strictly regimented and siloed company, and was fed up with being told "that's a great idea, but it's not your job", and Distilled seemed to be the polar opposite."

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.

Top Hat is hiring for a number roles: Mobile dev (iOS, Android), DevOps (AWS, RabbitMQ, MySQL), Full stack web developer (Python, Django, JavaScript, Nodejs.) We are also hiring interns for the Fall (Sept-Dec) term so please feel free to apply for that as well. Salary ranges based on experience from $70k to $100k.

We're a profitable (and valley VC funded by some of the best funds in the valley) education startup that helps make classrooms more engaging. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

Our dev team is in Toronto but we've also got an office in the US. If you're not based in Canada or the US but are willing to relocate feel free to contact us, because we do cover relocation expenses and will help you manage the work permit and VISA process.

Send your resume/github account to steph at tophat dot com.

A very exciting update this month!!! We’re excited to announce the close of our Series C round ($20.5MM). It will continue to spread online, but here are some highlights of the initial coverage -

     Calacanis.com - http://goo.gl/U5FBNi     
     Forbes - http://goo.gl/qJ02BD
     TechCrunch - http://goo.gl/4VXI2v

Our platform builds customer profiles by capturing every email, call and credit card transaction. Signpost’s automated marketing engine then uses this data to drive new customer conversion and loyalty, reviews and referrals from existing customers. We empower local businesses by delivering measurable results while saving valuable time.

     Open Positions:

     Senior Software Engineer (NYC) - http://grnh.se/1odlt3

     Senior Product Manager (NYC) - http://grnh.se/6qx5he

     Product Marketing Manager (NYC) - http://grnh.se/8h3m5j

     Director/VP of Finance (NYC) - http://grnh.se/qoe71s

     National Sales Executive (ATX) - http://grnh.se/6s5cln

     Sales Representative (NYC) - http://grnh.se/7cnbpr

     Sales Representative (DEN) - http://grnh.se/q8dksv

     Sales Representative (ATX) - http://grnh.se/yphf8a

Help us empower scientists by building usable open-source research tools.

We're looking for a remote full-time developer to join our team at ShareLaTeX (https://www.sharelatex.com) and DataJoy (https://www.getdatajoy.com). ShareLaTeX is an online LaTeX editor with over 400,000 registered users, and DataJoy is our new app for online data analysis with Python and R. We're aiming to make these technologies more accessible and easy to use for academics doing data analysis, numerical modelling and statistical analysis.

You should be comfortable quickly learning new technologies and enthusiastic about improving the efficiency of scientists and their tools. Our current technology stack involves Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Coffeescript, Angular.js, and Docker, so experience in these is useful but not required. We’d rather see that you have demonstrable interest in the problems we are solving, and that you’ve created some great stuff in the past. We would love someone with front-end experience and a good sense of usability design, but we won't discount people with more of a backend focus.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working for us:

* Around 80% of our codebase is open-source and we’re big fans of free software.

* We’re agile (with a lower case a). We test everything (unit and acceptance), we have a CI build process, a full staging environment to play with, and we automate as much as possible.

* We don’t expect you to have to fill up a 9-5, 40 hour work week. A work/life balance is important and we don’t think programming is an activity that can be neatly time boxed.

* You can work fully remotely (in fact, you probably will). All founders and employees work remotely at the moment.

* We’re a bootstrapped company with no outside investors.

Send us an email: team@sharelatex.com

PLEASE do not put the word "remote" in your posting if you do not hire remote employees. It makes scanning for companies that do more difficult. People will assume by default that your company is only local.

Edit: As suggested below, using "on-site only" is a much more find-friendly phrase.

True is one of the key players in the Dutch hosting market and rapidly growing on the areas of Managed Hosting and Cloud Hosting. True exists for over 15 years and has extensive experience in hosting mission critical applications, focused on the management of e-commerce and enterprise web application solutions.

Your job will be to create and support applications and services that will be used by the whole organization, from a Ticket interface to the customers to creating our own Virtual Platform.

We have a API-first design with many microservices, distributed computing, exposing a RESTful API which is then consumed by the frontend, using either AngularJS or ReactJS.

Job requirements:

- Experience in building applications with the following techniques (in order): PHP (Symfony2 & CakePHP), HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript (AngularJS/ReactJS), Git, Shell script, MySQL, Memcache, Redis.

- Experience in building applications with the following techniques would be nice: Vagrant, Ansible, NodeJS, GulpJS, Coffeescript, Golang.

- Extensive knowledge of OOP, Design Patterns and clear notion about the maintainability in regards to Unit Testing, MVC, CI & DRY.

We are a luxury fashion brand, based in New York City, and an Internet Retailer top 500 website. I'm looking to grow our e-commerce team and have two open development roles: E-commerce Web Developer & Junior Front-End Developer.

For the e-commerce developer role, I'm looking for someone who can work with our platform (Demandware) to integrate with external systems, optimize performance, and help us build a better shopping experience. Previous experience with Demandware is great, but I'd like to talk to folks who have experience on other platforms (ATG, Magento, Hybris, Shopify).

For the junior front-end developer role, I'm looking for someone who can work with our creative, merchandising, and content teams to build out new shopping features in HTML, CSS, Javascript.

More information & application information is here. Please mention HN if you saw this!

- E-commerce Web Developer: https://authenticjobs.com/jobs/24292/e-commerce-web-develope...

- Junior Front End Developer: https://authenticjobs.com/jobs/24291/junior-front-end-web-de...

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The Insight Catastrophe Group is a portfolio manager and risk adviser that specializes in innovative solutions to improve the profitability of property and casualty insurance companies. Our software platform leads the industry in usability, customizability, and quality and depth of analytics.

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We're looking for an Operations Engineer to help modernize how we deploy and manage our platform. Our ideal candidate loves getting their hands dirty helping people in order to build tools to solve their problems permanently. You can't be scared of Windows, Linux, Docker, Chef, PHP, ColdFusion, Shell scripting, Python, Ruby or anything running on the JVM (but you don't have to love them either).

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You can apply at https://icg360.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hwx7, or email me at alec.munro@icg360.com for more details

At Mixlr, we’re currently looking to meet great developers with a background in one or more of Ruby, C/C++ and Linux server administration.

Mixlr is a simple way to share live audio. Over 40,000 live broadcasters and millions of listeners use our platform every month, and the use cases go far beyond music: our service is used by politicians, journalists, teachers, podcasters, concert-goers and many more.

Our main web applications are built using Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but we have also built in-house native mobile applications for iOS and Android, and a cross-platform broadcast app in C++ for both Windows and Mac.

We are a small team and to help build and maintain our service, we invest in building great internal tools, monitoring systems and backend processes.

Keywords: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Puppet, Nodejs, Websockets, Redis, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, streaming media, Java, mobile, devops.

For more information drop us a line. jobs@mixlr.com

http://mixlr.com

Dreamlines is a fast growing e-commerce company selling cruises online. Headquartered in the heart of Hamburg, we now have about 350 employees across our offices in Germany, France, Brazil, Australia and the Netherlands.

We're growing our development team of currently 15 developers and looking for PHP BACKEND DEVELOPERS. You'll be working on object oriented PHP Projects, mostly but not exclusively with Symfony 2. Other technologies in our stack include MySQL, Doctrine, Docker, ElasticSearch, AWS and HHVM. Our team is very international, so English is required and we offer German language classes.

If you're interested in finding out more or want to apply, contact Jana from HR: jana.dudler@dreamlines.de

P.S.: We're also looking for PHP Frontend Developers and ASP.NET developers! See our Jobs Page for more info: https://www.dreamlines.de/jobs-und-karriere

Distil finds and blocks bots and content scrapers from attacking our client's websites with form fraud, content theft, price scraping, and other nefarious activity. We see a significant portion of internet traffic and filter in real-time the humans from the bots.

We're hiring:

- Ruby/Rails developer - RoR runs our client-facing backend and reporting system.

- Senior Full stack Ruby developer - Support the complex real-time reporting and logging infrastructre that our customers and internal SE's see.

- Senior Javascript engineer - No frameworks. You'll be working to reverse engineer common scraping tools and finding ways to identify and block them.

- QA Automation engineer - build automatic testing systems for everything in the company.

- Front End engineer - Build out the client-facing portal where all of the customer data, charts are reports are shown.

- Data science - We use machine learning to identify bot behavioral patters.

- Support engineers - Find out what's broken or figure out why the customer thinks it's broken.

- Web developer to work with marketing

You can apply at http://www.distilnetworks.com/jobs/ or email me directly: william dot cox at distilnetworks dot com with a resume and a brief comment on your desire and ability and I'll see that it gets into the pipeline.

We are the world’s leading think tank for policy and decision making. Read more about us here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation or here: http://bit.ly/1ImrPH8 or here: http://rand.org

We are looking for eager, creative folks to partner with PhD-level researchers to create cool end-to-end prototypes of research concepts.

You will work on project teams of research staff and domain experts and will often be the sole software engineer on the project. Our group functions a lot like an internal software development consultancy.

For Research Software Engineer positions, technical needs change with every project you work on. You should be a well-rounded type able to create solutions with the tools and tech that make most sense for the project. You could be writing an Angular prototype one week, Python NLP tools the next, and some social media analysis after that.

For the Data Science Engineer and Visualization Engineer positions, similar to above but with a focus on Hadoop/Spark/“Big Data” skills and visualization tech such as D3, Tableau, and R Shiny. We have particular strategic needs in Hadoop and Tableau, so if that is you, definitely hit me up.

Don’t be scared! You don’t have to be a wizard yet. The researchers provide the depth; you provide the breadth, creativity, and drive.

Good work-life balance compared to startups and mainstream tech companies. 20 days of vacation per year that you are incentivized to take! Respectable salaries despite being a non-profit. Santa Monica headquarters are a block from the ocean. Relocation for good fits.

Ready yet? Shoot me your resume at:

dev.hiring@rand.org

-Chris

We recently launched Vessel and are in search of entrepreneurial and seasoned engineers to join our team. Our mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.

Our founders, former founding CEO and CTO of Hulu Jason Kilar and Richard Tom, have assembled a unique and talented team with strong experience building and innovating at places like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. As a team, we are unusually passionate about the intersection of media and technology; we see an opportunity to improve media, particularly next generation video.

We’re a Series B startup backed by Greylock, Benchmark, Bezos Expeditions and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).

Our tech stack includes Python, Coffeescript, Objective-C, Swift, Node.js, React, Backbone, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS EC2, Docker. We want developers who love to code in a variety of languages, tackling every portion of the stack. If this sounds like you, check out http://www.vessel.com/careers and email your resume/profile to careers@vessel.com

We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web applications, APIs, products, and services.

Open positions:

    - Senior Software Engineer
    - Software Engineer
    - Front-end Engineer
    - UX/UI Designer

More info: http://www.promptworks.com/jobs/

We're looking for engineers to build out our mobile apps and architecture as we expand our family-oriented transportation service from the Bay Area to the rest of the nation.

Contact rob@shuddle.us with resume/links/interests/jokes/wisdom

In engineering & IT we're hiring:

- Full Stack Web Developers - PHP / JavaScript / Advanced WordPress

- Front End Web Developer - BostonGlobe.com

- Data Security Specialist

- Senior Systems Administrator

But we're also hiring for data science & analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

Since the Boston Globe separated from the NY Times, we're making big moves within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company, and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Still early enough to make your mark and be there at the cusp of exponential growth. Help us scale up our big data, back end, and UI/UX.

dev.jobs@hiqlabs.com

www.hiQlabs.com/jobs

http://www.freeagent.com

jobs@freeagent.com

We're looking for software engineers and technical managers to come and work on our flagship product FreeAgent. We're a growing team of 75, based in Edinburgh but with remote staff around the UK (5 engineers are fully remote).

We have a lot of happy customers (40,000+, NPS=75!), a lot of traffic (13 million+ page views/mo), and some lovely staff to work alongside, learn from and have fun with (http://www.freeagent.com/company/about-us). We invest a lot of time in our platform (code health, scalability, security) as well as working on new features, which is nice.

Our engineers tend to be full stack, but we’re seeing people move towards more specialist work these days, such as front-end programming (we're doing a lot of React.js, primarily on our iOS app), our real-time accounting engine, data science. People play to their strengths really. Our stack is intentionally straightforward. It's sensible and sustainable. Javascript aside, we mainly write Ruby alongside MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Puppet.

We are looking for UK-based full-time staff right now, but I'd also be interested to chat to UK-based freelancers interested in a longer-term contract (e.g. 6 months+).

jobs@freeagent.com

http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/senior-software-engine... http://www.freeagent.com/company/jobs/software-engineer

==Description==

We are a white-label SaaS that is used by solar and energy efficiency companies to collect their customer's utility bill and usage data automatically. You will be in charge of writing tools, scripts, and libraries that collect utility data from utilities. Often these utility data formats are complex and unique to each utility (pdf bills, xml data, csv data, etc.), so you will need to be very clever in collecting and parsing a huge variety of formats. Also, these scripts can break unexpectedly when utilities change their interfaces, so being able to update them quickly is important. You will be working in our office at the SfunCube in downtown Oakland. Our current codebase is well organized, documented, and tested.

==Experience Required==

No years of experience, education, or certification requirements, but you do need to be able to convince me that you know and have experience with:

* Javascript (not JQuery, vanilla javascript)

* Regular Expressions (we use them heavily)

* Python (basic knowledge)

* PGP (basic usage)

* Other (side projects, hackathons, hobbies, stuff you do for fun)

==Compensation==

$100k-$120k depending on experience.

==How To Apply==

Email me a cover letter and a PGP-encrypted pdf resume. Please include links to your github, bitbucket, or personal side project website (for reference, mine is daylightpirates.org).

==For Solar Skeptics==

In the last few years, the solar industry reached "grid parity", which means that the unsubsidized installed cost is now cheaper than buying power from the grid. That's why this industry is the fastest growing industry in the country. This isn't some subsidy-dependent industry anymore. We work hard and we make real money (while conveniently also saving the planet).

10to8 is an online booking system that helps businesses. We are an ambitious startup, based in London, looking for a javascript developer to join our engineering team. Visit https://10to8.com/jobs/ to apply. We are passionate about cutting-edge technology and we want to make its benefits available to everyone, bringing it to places where it can have a dramatic impact and improve the lives of people.

Can you imagine a world, where no one missed their commitments? No forgotten dentist appointments, no late meetings, no last-minute cancellations or disappointing no-shows. Can you imagine if coordinating took much less effort, than organising your time now?

That world is possible with intelligent software like 10to8, which makes getting to the right place at the right time just happen. That’s the world we’re building with its customers right now.

We are looking to hire a javascript developer to join our dedicated engineering team in London. You’ll help develop new features for our web and mobile apps, used by thousands of small businesses in the UK and abroad. Our apps use a mixture of modern technologies, including React, websockets, HTML5, and BEM, and are largely asynchronous, with liberal use of AJAX. We will also soon start using React-native for our mobile apps.

You know the fundamentals of interaction and visual design; you can tell the best from the good. Above all, you can clearly articulate the reasons behind your logic.

If you are motivated, communicative and a good team player, we want to hear from you. You will play an active part in guiding the future development of 10to8 products. We strongly believe in autonomy and participatory decision-making; your code will be in production within a few days of starting.

We're hiring for software engineers across pretty every single part of the stack you can imagine.