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Ask HN: Who's hiring?

154 points| mncaudill | 16 years ago | reply

There have been a few "who's hiring?" threads in the past and I'm curious if those hiring would be interested in adding to another. I think the last one was up almost a month and a half ago, so I'm sure the job landscape has changed over that time.

On a completely self-plugging note, as of this past Monday, my company downsized so if anyone is need of a good web developer, drop me a line!

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[+] mpobrien|16 years ago|reply
I'd just like to post a friendly reminder before this thread fills up with a lot of posts. Please post your location, or if the job(s) in question can be done remotely, specify so - it makes things much easier.
[+] nbrochu|16 years ago|reply
In the spirit of making things easier, it would be great if you could also post how open you are to qualified applicants from other countries and what help you can provide, if any, with visas/citizenship.

This might seem like a fringe request, but I am sure there a quite a few awesome, available developers willing to actually relocate to a neighboring country (Canada/USA & vice versa, is pretty frequent AFAIK) to tackle an interesting opportunity.

I, for one, wouldn't mind relocating to the US (from Canada) if I liked the opportunity/challenge/team. I have no problem finding job openings for which I am qualified and interested in, but applying usually ends up being a waste of time for both parties when it is not clear whether or not it is possible.

Seriously, if you are open to it, don't keep it a secret! Help us find you! :)

[+] conquest|16 years ago|reply
Where is the app around this post? I've always thought it would be interesting to have some social network way to know about jobs via friends and previous co-workers. LinkedIn has never really done much for me and it seems you have to be more proactive there.
[+] sjwalter|16 years ago|reply
SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Know C pretty well, be great at one high-level language (Python, PHP, whatever), be a quick learner (and we mean quick), and then come and be a propellerhead at our awesome, small company.

www.ssimicro.com/jobs

We're a little company based in Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories. We deliver broadband satellite internet to 61 of the most remote communities on earth, and now that our network's up and running (although we're investing heavily in upgrading it), we're busy building great software for our customers, optimized specifically for our unique network.

Yellowknife's not as cold as you think, and the 24-hours-of-daylight summers are not to be missed.

If you're interested and game, we'll make an offer really easy to accept: We'll get and pay for your apartment, a car if you need it, and pay you atop that. We'll do all that for up to three months while you evaluate us and the north, so that it's risk- and hassle-free for you to come to a really great, unique company in an awesome little city.

Email: [email protected]

[+] euroclydon|16 years ago|reply
What kind of internet service do you have in Yellowknife itself?
[+] coffeemug|16 years ago|reply
RethinkDB in Mountain View, CA: looking for system and performance engineers. Interns also welcome. More details here: http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs

Here's a quick blurb from our jobs page:

Working at RethinkDB truly involves disruptive technology and solving interesting, challenging problems. Building caching algorithms, advanced data structures, and lock-free concurrency primitives from scratch is just business as usual here.

While everyone at RethinkDB has the determination to move heaven and earth to succeed, we prefer to get stuff done quickly and go home to our families, instead of living our lives in the office. As an additional perk to our employees, we work very hard to hire only self-motivated people smarter than ourselves.

[+] illumin8|16 years ago|reply
That's kind of nice that you post your salary ranges online, but do you really think you'll get quality engineers for those salaries?

Position Salary Stock Options Intern 50K - 60K, prorated N/A Engineer I 65K - 75K 0.25% - 0.75% Engineer II 80K - 90K 1.0% - 1.5% Engineer III 95K - 105K 1.75% - 2.25%

For interns, that's a great salary, but your senior engineers will probably expect 1.5 times that.

[+] Kilimanjaro|16 years ago|reply
I'd like to see this kind of post every month, how about the first monday of every month?

A lot of hackers are looking for jobs and a lot of entrepreneurs are also hiring.

Perfect match!

[+] Kilimanjaro|16 years ago|reply
- Jobs HN: We are hiring

- Jobs HN: We are available

One for entrepreneurs to post their openings.

One for hackers to post their availability and skills.

I know we already have HN jobs, but this may be an informal way for HN readers and contributors, and who knows, it may grow to be part of our community.

[+] rdoherty|16 years ago|reply
Mozilla is hiring! Hard core C++, webdev, IT, QA, marketing, internships, you name it.

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

HQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, but we have offices in Toronto, New Zealand, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. Great benefits, extremely challenging projects (scaling web services to 350+ million users, optimizing our JS engine, making Firefox mobile fast on phones).

We're even getting telepresence robots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seannyelite/4458404134/in/photo...

[+] Periodic|16 years ago|reply
My wife bought me a Firefox laptop bag a few years ago. I've had some people mistake me for a Firefox developer and thank me for my work, so I have to correct their mistake and explain it's just my way of supporting their favorite browser too. After all that it's always been a dream of mine to work on Firefox, but I've always felt too busy and intimidated by the size of the project to contribute on my own.

Perhaps this is my chance to finally earn the ability to say, "thank you," to those people on the train.

[+] adw|16 years ago|reply
We are. Based in Clerkenwell, London; no remote working, I'm afraid.

We're Timetric, and we're looking for Unix hackers into Python and statistics - http://timetric.com/biz/jobs/ - and we closed our seed round today (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/timetric-closes-seed-fun...).

Our officemates are hiring too. Picklive (http://football.picklive.com/) do real-time fantasy football, also closed a round of funding today (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/real-time-social-sports-...) and they're after Rails ninjas - http://football.picklive.com/jobs

We're both based in an awesome space just north of the Square Mile in London - photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/picklive/sets/72157623553354863... - and both companies have some investors in common, including Stefan Glaenzer, the former exec chairman of last.fm.

[+] jmintz|16 years ago|reply
Bump is hiring iPhone developers, Android developers (exp in Android or consumer Java apps), and Data/Algorithm Eng (either exp mining data to improve QoS or background in Stats/Phys/Exp Sci/EE). More: http://bu.mp/jobs. We are also hiring interns. Feel free to email me if you have questions: jake(at)bu.mp.

About us: Bump is changing the way people interact with each other. Our technology makes it quick and easy to connect two phones, simply bump them into each other. We created the Bump app on iPhone and Android which nearly 11M people have downloaded to share contact information, photos, and compare mutual friends (seen here in an Apple commercial: http://bit.ly/8FbXGi). We have also released an API/SDK that lets anyone add bumping to their app in ~9 lines of code (http://bu.mp/api) and is used by PayPal to bump money (http://nyti.ms/bSnztr). And there is a lot more on its way. Bump is backed by Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, and Y Combinator.

Located in Mountain View, CA near the Caltrain. Competitive salary/options/benefits.

[+] mscantland|16 years ago|reply
We're adding to our team at http://www.covermymeds.com. This product is about a year old and has significant revenue. Our major effort is building our API and a real-time processing system. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas. Mostly Python, working with a talented team.

Parent company: http://www.innova-partners.com/main/developers. We have virtually no turnover and treat people with respect.

Contact mscantland at covermymeds dot com.

Edit: Columbus, Ohio

[+] euroclydon|16 years ago|reply
I know a good Python hacker in Raleigh, NC. Healthcare is big here. What about remote?
[+] _3ex7|16 years ago|reply
Just wondering, do you attend Cohpy?
[+] amanfredi|16 years ago|reply
Gilt Groupe in New York City is hiring. Remote working is a possibility.

We host daily sales of heavily discounted designer fashion and luxury goods, which presents a unique set of technical challenges: hundreds of thousands of customers competing for a very limited selection of inventory at the same time.

We have specific openings for interns, UI/UX designers, sysadmins, DBAs, senior QA, and platform engineers listed at gilt.com/company/careers, but we're always interested in hearing from great people regardless of the position.

We have scaled a base of Rails + Postgres using heavy caching and a services layer written in Java. A major focus in upcoming months will be individual personalization. The team is fun, dedicated, and capable.

Feel free to email me with questions: [email protected]

Sign up to check out the site at http://www.gilt.com/amanfredi

[+] joshhart|16 years ago|reply
LinkedIn is hiring: http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs_open. I was actually hired as a result of the last Who's hiring? thread and have really enjoyed it so far. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about working here.
[+] mtm|16 years ago|reply
I'll just add that we (LinkedIn) are a JVM shop. Amongst our weaponry are: java, scala, other intriguing languages, hadoop, voldemort, OS X dev boxes (with scads of memory), lots of perks and fun projects.

We also have many open source projects to work on: http://sna-projects.com

We are located in Mountain View, nestled in amongst the sprawling Google surroundings.

[+] cjoh|16 years ago|reply
Need some hardcore data people at Sunlight Labs in DC. If you're a data scientist, we need you. If you want to free the world from Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann, drop me a line.
[+] adrianscott|16 years ago|reply
We're Hiring Developers (we are very open to remote work, as we are all working 'remotely'):

Project: Something disruptive that will change the way software is developed.

Tech: We are developing with Python & Google App Engine.

Team background: Founding investor, Napster; pioneer in social networking (from 2001); previously raised almost $4MM for past startup

Project status: already in private beta

Reqs: Python/GAE experience not necessary if you learn quickly and can show past projects. Especially interested in folks with 1 or more of the following:

- Excellent math/algorithmic abilities

- Excellent sense for consumer Internet usability

- Solid productive programming chops

- Orientation towards A/B (/multivariate) testing

- Customer Development Process experience

- Experience in social media development

We are looking to add team members who can rapidly become seriously productive and want to create applications for use by tens and hundreds of millions of users.

We currently have team members in North American and Indian timezones.

We will be raising funding from our personal network of successful tech entrepreneurs soon.

[+] brandnewlow|16 years ago|reply
Hiring a contract PHP dev who knows Facebook and Twitter really, really well. (Chicago, Illinois)

Here's us: http://www.windycitizen.com - A bootstrapped, local, social network recently named one of Chicago's "New Essentials" by TimeOut Chicago Magazine. We're going places. Looking for someone to come in and help crack the Twitter/FB nut. How do we best integrate with these two services?

e-mail's in my profile page.

[+] ekanes|16 years ago|reply
Hey guys, we're looking for a PHP developer.

Work from anywhere: Yes (Provided you're willing and able to connect with the rest of the team during daylight hours (we're sprinkled all over the place in Canada and the USA.

To apply, send me an email at aaronwondermill.com (you put in the @, my name is Aaron) or solve the puzzle at http://www.wondermill.com/developer.html ;)

[+] arosien|16 years ago|reply
kaChing is hiring in Palo Alto, CA (on-site only). Looking for backend, frontend, and interns. We're extremely engineering-driven and have a 5-minute commit-to-production cycle. Our CEO says it well:

"[We're disrupting] the mutual fund market, a $10-Trillion industry that has seen no innovation in the past 25 years. The only way to disrupt an industry is to break with conventional wisdom, so we specifically are not looking for people with financial backgrounds. That's why we're the first company to apply an open-source philosophy to improve the process of choosing an investment manager."

By open-source philosophy he means radical transparency and pay-for-convenience; think about if any investments you have come anywhere close to this.

[+] pjharrin|16 years ago|reply
Are you looking for business/marketing types are just engineers?
[+] timtrueman|16 years ago|reply
Fluther (http://fluther.com/) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/

We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try that…). We're a Python/Django shop, we're in San Francisco and this isn't a remote job.

Fluther is funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Dave McClure, and we're advised by Biz Stone (Twitter) and Leonard Speiser (Bix).

[+] cadr|16 years ago|reply
Blurb is hiring!

Want to work in a great environment with great people making a great product? We're a print-on-demand publisher with an emphasis on high-quality products and great user experiences.

Almost any time I'm in a group I'll tell people I work here, and someone will get excited and tell me about their book they made with us. It's really great to see how passionate our users get, and that's a nice change from other development jobs I've had. :)

We're in SF. The development jobs are Ruby on Rails, but we have lots of other non-dev job openings also.

http://www.blurb.com/join_us

[+] loumf|16 years ago|reply
[Easthampton, MA] Atalasoft has an opening for a .NET developer. We're considering developers from 2-3 years experience or much more. The more senior, the more of a match we'd want with the following technologies:

- Web Development generally (HTML/CSS/JavaScript + deep understanding of how the web works)

- Ajax (any framework, but we use ExtJs and our own)

- .NET (especially ASP.NET)

- Sharepoint

- Document Imaging (scanning, processing, etc)

How to apply: Send me your resume and a cover letter highlighting your qualifications [lou <dot> franco <at> atalasoft <dot> com]

Learn more about us at: http://atalasoft.com