Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

[buro9]

I'm really interested in London, UK but I'm sure one of these is overdue so feel free to let others know what else is out there.

A little format to the first couple of lines is always helpful. <Vague Job Title> - <City>, <Country>

And then a little bit describing the role and your startup/company.

Thanks in advance.

[tptacek]

NYC (Chelsea) - Chicago - SFBay

Matasano.

Job title: Scary Story Told To Young Software Developers By Their Parents To Get Them To Go To Bed On Time.

In one not-too-atypical week last year, our team attacked the messaging front end of a financial exchange, used a GNU Radio to decode an RF protocol used by a major utility (we later cheated and used JTAG to turn their own hardware into a modem), reverse engineered and defeated a secure remote login protocol, and game-overed a web app your mom has heard of.

What are we looking for? Here's my first interview question: what is your research project going to be for us? One of our team members built a web testing tool. A couple more got together and wrote a cross-platform debugger in Ruby. One of our team members finds vulnerabilities in Google Chrome in his spare time. A few of them are running a large scale software fuzzing farm to bring mass production techniques to bugfinding. Does this stuff interest you? We should talk.

Downsides: Not building things people want. In fact, building things people fear and loathe. Also, not being able to wear silver, eat garlic, or enter houses without express invitation.

Perks: Infinite free tech books, medical, 401k.

Testimonials:

If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out. - HN:patio11

Your Amazon policy is almost better than stock options and a 401k. I'd probably never willingly leave a company with that policy. - HN:SkyMarshall

For god's sake someone please get me out of here. - HN:wglb

[wglb]

Well, I don't recall saying that, but i did tell "First Blood" that "I'm not in here with you, you are in here with me".

But seriously, check us out. Do you enjoy drilling down to find out how things really work? Are you a puzzle kind of person? Do you think you can crack the pale apple? Perhaps you would like to work with "Cupcake", "One Ping Only", or maybe "Quiet, Redhead, Deadly". Tell Tom I told you to give him a call.

Another perk is you get a laptop loaded with stuff that would be illegal in some european countries. (Lots of it is open source, so relax).

And yes, First Blood totally got me with the swimming pool on the twelfth floor.

[dschobel]

+1 for Matasano. They came to my employer and did major damage. Really bright and, equally importantly, really nice guys.

[sidmitra]

Just a reminder that there is also a spreadsheet.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At7Zl0IkSUKrdGl4RE1...

I will update it from this post when/if i get free time over this weekend. Any help doing the same will be appreciated.

[mrduncan]

As always - Please indicate whether telecommuting is an option or you require employees be located in a specific city.

[smanek]

C/C++/Java/Erlang/Haskell/Python Devs - Chicago, USA

We're looking for smart people to help at an established high frequency trading shop. We have a few positions open, from latency critical stuff that must be done in C/C++/Haskell, to 'offline' data crunching which is more Java/Python/Erlang/etc. Plus a bunch of other stuff in everything in between.

Frankly, our code is probably faster and deals with 'bigger' data than anything else you've ever seen (and this was true for me, after having Top Secret clearance working on satellite defence and having interned at several 'big data' places in college).

If you're bored of working on the same 'solved' problems in webapp development as everyone else, you should check us out! We're organized into very small teams, that each have quite a bit of autonomy. It's very entrepreneurial, and you'll have a real dollars and cents impact on our bottom line very quickly.

We were Sequoia funded too, for whatever it's worth.

Shoot me an email/resume at {my_username}@allstontrading.com to learn more!

[rubyrescue]

are you guys open to remote developers? we've got two erlang guys down here in Buenos Aires and we're looking for projects!

[maukdaddy]

Are you hiring for any business, PM, etc. type positions?

[c00p3r]

Are you sure that there is no misunderstanding - critical stuff in Haskell and other stuff in Erlang? Not a reverse pair? ^_^

[yummyfajitas]

Meshcapital is hiring. We are in Jersey City, NJ, about 6 minutes from lower manhattan via path train.

We are a 3 person hedge fund. We do high frequency trading, emphasizing market making and short term speculation in the long tail of equities markets. We are looking for good developers - no finance background is required.

Instructions on where to send your resume are contained in our application (you'll need to decrypt them first).

http://meshcapital.com/application.tar.gz

[akshayubhat]

Solved it, knowing an old math concept helped, did a Google search and got the values [writing the code to loop through the values for m,n was easier but felt someone must have computed them and posted on web].

Just wrote the code for cipher and used all possible characters and replaced using the encrypted value. Though I nearly sent it to the wrong address since it wasn't clear whether address contained the answer it self or answer%256. took ~30 mins [mostly to look up ord,chr and the solution on google].

final solution 12 lines python code, does not calculates a,b,c just the cipher and i/o.

[hjalle]

Funny application. More of these kinds would be nice :)

[dschobel]

What a fantastic way to differentiate your company. I had forgotten how much fun crypto is :)

I sent the problem to a few other friends (some of whom are actually looking for jobs!).

[nl]

I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this box is too small to contain.

;)

Seriously, though - I think I can solve this in Wolfram Alpha (at least up to the point of getting the key).

[deathflute]

yummyfajitas,

Are you guys lagging behind in email? I emailed you guys, but never received a response back.

Also, when you get a chance please do post some solutions.

[berntb]

I solved the problem, but before doing the real work of updating my CV -- could you please write a little bit about the job, to avoid wasting time for us both? :-)

(And I know, it is not really a waste to update your CV.)

Edit: For instance, are Europeans and other aliens a possibility?

Edit 2: Thanks. But I've probably forgotten too much math. :-( And you should get enough people anyway, sounds like a cool place.

[phillytom]

Product Engineers - Conshohocken - PA

Same as the last time around Monetate is hiring - Conshohocken (Philly suburb). We have hired people who found us here - these threads are great.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast.

We're hiring engineering talent - we work with Javascript, Python, Django, Google Closure, MySQL, and all sorts of AWS in EC2.

We're looking for sharp engineers who are comfortable working across our stack and really want to be in a startup: http://www.ventureloop.com/firstroundcap/jobdetail.php?jobid... - we're only looking for local people for these roles at this point.

We're also hiring front-end engineers who want to help build and test experiments and are experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out.

Feel free to email me tjanofsky monetate com.

[obsaysditto]

I was hired by Tom after emailing him through a previous HN Who's Hiring thread. We had a couple of email exchanges followed by a phone and lunch interview. Working here has been fun and challenging.

I would certainly encourage anyone in the Philadelphia area to apply.

[Vargas]

Where is PA?

[harryh]

Software Engineer @ Foursquare - New York, USA

We have a list of project ideas a mile long, and not enough engineers to get them done. Join us and help out! There are all sorts of things you could help us with. If you like working deep in the stack, you could help us scale our architecture to deal with our rapidly growing (30% a month) user base. If you're more passionate about things a bit closer to the surface, we're making huge improvements to the usability, look and feel of the website. If you're a little bit of both, help us bring our feature ideas (and your own!) off the whiteboard and into reality. We push new versions of the website and API multiple times a week, so it won't take long to get your work out in front of our millions of users.

Our ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fluid start-up environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work. You have experience building real products in the real world from the ground up. Your teammates see you as a programming rock star, and go to you with their toughest problems. You're comfortable jumping in the deep end, learning new skills on a bleeding edge platform (Scala, Lift, and MongoDB), and pushing out tons of high quality work fast.

This job will be based in our brand-new headquarters in the East Village of New York City. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options for all employees.

For more details see http://foursquare.com/jobs/

[aschobel]

Catch.com - JavaScript & Operations Lead - San Francisco

Looking for a JavaScript developer and an Operations lead to join our small team in South Park

  * webapp is built using Google Closure
  * backend is MongoDB and pylons
  * we have Android and iPhone apps (over 4 million active installs)

You take a look at our goodies at https://snaptic.com

We are in the process of changing to Catch.com =)

Please email me at hn (at) catch.com

About Catch.com:

  * Catch.com makes it easy to capture what matters to you
  * Catch text, photo and have everything synced between your phone and the web
  * Organize your life with hashtags

Telecommuting is an option, but we would prefer local. (http://yfrog.com/n5rbuj local is fun! :P)

[bobbyi]

Affine Systems is a venture-backed startup looking for a Python programmer in San Francisco.

Our core technology is a suite of computer vision algorithms (e.g., face recognition) for analyzing video that we have developed over the past few years. We use our vision platform to ingest and scan videos from sites like Youtube and Metacafe that are available for advertising and sell data about the video contents to advertisers who use it to build and optimize their online video campaigns.

We are working with the major ad agencies and with several top brands. The reception to our service has been very enthusiastic because online video advertising is exploding and yet there are few tools available for advertisers to target their campaigns or even know what sorts of videos they are running against. This is especially a pain point for major brands because they are generally very sensitive about what sorts of content show up next to their ad.

We are looking for an engineer to take leadership on the (primarily Python) platform built around our (primarily C++) vision code. The platform runs on Debian Linux and other open source software and is responsible for:

* Ingesting videos and metadata from publishers

* Interfacing with the vision code to process the videos and receive the results

* Storing results in MySQL (or other data stores as appropriate)

* Distributing and coordinating the above on Amazon EC2

* Maintaining our API used by clients to query for video data

* Interacting with APIs of third-party partners as needed

This platform is the backbone of our company, so we are hoping to find someone dedicated to building solid code who can make solid technical decisions.

If this sounds exciting to you, please email me at [email protected]

Thanks.

[euroclydon]

Do you use OpenCV?

[photon_off]

If I may ask, why python?

[rsanheim]

Ruby/Clojure/Lisp/Javascript - dev and PM - Durham, NC, Washington DC, and Columbus, OH areas

Relevance (http://thinkrelevance.com) is hiring. We are the guys behind Clojure/Core (http://clojure.com/). We do a lot of Ruby with and without Rails, we are doing at least two production Clojure apps right now (I'm having a hard time keeping track), and we've also done Java, .NET, C, or Javascript as the project dictates.

We have a fantastic culture, are small (~25 folks) but growing, and generally kick ass.

Email me at rob AT thinkrelevance.com. Tell me your github username, your HN username, and anything else I should know.

[squirrel]

Developer, London, UK

youDevise, a small financial-software firm in London, England committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software, is hiring developers and other smart folks of many kinds. See http://www.youdevise.com/careers and https://dev.youdevise.com.

No remote working, but we do help you move to London (including immigration), and we will be opening a US development office soon.

[mseebach]

Started here three weeks ago, great people, great place! Highly recommended.

[jack7890]

Web Engineer -- New York, NY

http://seatgeek.com/main/lamp_developer/

We're looking for a generalist web engineer who is super-hungry and sees building web apps as more than just a job. We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #PHP #MySQL #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a team that has a lot of fun together.

Only looking for folks in NYC. Drop us a line at [email protected] if you'd like to chat.

[gduffy]

Dropcam, hiring SW engineers in Bay Area only (but we can help you relo). We make a wi-fi video/audio monitor with a cloud DVR so you never miss a moment. You can watch from the web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and soon on your TV. Currently our customers watch their homes, kids, pets, parents, businesses, vacation properties, and more.

Engineering is driven by a combination of features requested by our paying user base (all from suburban middle America) and holy-crap-how-do-we-scale-to-multi-Gbps-and-PB-of-storage.

We were recently covered on Good Morning America, we've also been reviewed on CNet, Engadget, Mashable, Techcrunch, TWiT, Anandtech and more.

Salaries + equity, and backed by great Silicon Valley investors. Email me at [email protected] if you'd kick ass at all of the following: camera firmware, our custom DVR servers, website, and mobile apps.

[sanj]

Developers - Newton (~Boston), USA (no telecommute, sorry)

TripAdvisor is a super popular website in the Boston area -- we recently became the most-visited travel site on the web with over a million unique visitors per day.

While we have huge traffic, happy users and are crazy profitable, we're not standing still: We just launched a cool Facebook Connect implementation lets you see where you friends have been and ask them for advice. It takes advantage on our existing Facebook app which has quietly collected of the BILLION pins our community has collectively placed into online maps -- odds are pretty good that we'll find you someone to ask.

Marketing ended up calling it "Trip Friends", and there's a lot of great press about it: http://www.google.com/search?tbs=nws%3A1&q=%22trip+frien...

The bit that's interesting to me is the careful (at least retroactively viewed) plan that led here.

We built this app on Facebook which allow people to put pins on their map. It was done in the fury of initial Facebook apps which were land grabs -- no real sense of what the data'd be used for, but with a sense that a footprint in that space would be valuable. Also it turns out that a with a finely tuned UI, people love to put pins on maps! It taps into some baseline lower-reptilian instinct, which explains our consistent 8 million monthly users.

Fast-forward about 3 years and we've got about a billion pins worth of data. Enough data that it's the single most painful table to deal with! And our CEO comes up with what to do with them: use them to identify which of your friends can help you plan your trip. As aside, TA is so profitable that we can worry about making your experience better rather than using sleazy tactics to just keep you on the site.

After about three months worth of work, our small team built a Facebook Connect implementation that taps into the data we've got in pins and ties it together into a clean UI that people love. It's simple, barely needs explanation, and just plains works.

If you're the sort of person who might want to be part of this sort of thing (large datasets, great UIs, big ideas, small teams), please drop me a line: [email protected]

[fezzl]

We're doing exactly what you're doing (check us out @ http://zuupy.com), minus the "we have tons of data on which to leverage" part. Launch that feature as a separate widget product, and we'll be direct competitors.

Great job on the feature, by the way. I've used it multiple times myself, so far so good.

[gy94]

Data Analytics Engineer - San Francisco, USA

viagogo – the international ticket exchange– is looking for a Data Analytics Engineer to work as part of a small local team to build a system that interfaces with third-party sources, extracts data of interest, and persists in a data-warehousing environment.

We're looking specifically for: -Experience with consuming external data sources and performing ETL operations -Experience with SQL Server Integrations Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SSRS), and OLAP -Familiarity with data warehousing fundamentals -2-4 years of building applications using Microsoft .NET and C#

Why you should work with us: - Opportunity to be a core member of a small (3 person) team, building a platform that processes millions of dollars of transactions. - We want and value smart guys who work hard and want to voice their opinions on anything from tech to design choices. - We're building with the newest .NET technologies

A little bit about the company: fully funded ($70MM+) expansion/growth stage startup, full medical, exciting industry (live entertainment + ecommerce!)

Check out the below and drop us a note if you're interested! http://www.viagogo.com/About.aspx?HelpID=1033177

[mjwalto2]

Software Engineer @ Off & Away - Seattle, USA

Off & Away (http://www.offandaway.com) is a early stage start-up aiming to change the way people shop for travel. Using an innovative bid-to-win auction model, we’re able to give our customers access to the type of high-end travel experience they could normally only dream of attaining.

Our downtown Seattle-based company was founded by former Amazon.com and travel industry executives, and recently raised seed funding led by Madrona Venture Group, the venture firm behind Amazon.com, Farecast.com (now Bing Travel) and VacationSpot (now a part of Expedia). Since launching at TechCrunch Disrupt, our customer base has been growing rapidly and we’re looking to keep up by growing our small but talented team.

We are looking for a front-end developer with top-notch software design and coding skills to work across all layers of our service, with an emphasis on UI (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery) and application logic (Java, Servlets), yet also capable of into diving back-end logic and the database (MySQL). Prior experience in an early stage start-up a big plus.

Drop us a line at jobs [at] offandaway [dot] com.

[spif]

Ruby dev - Amsterdam, NL

Postgres dev - Amsterdam, NL

C# dev (Outlook plugins) - Amsterdam, NL

Company: http://www.soocial.com

Soocial is a new way to manage your address book(s). Our offices are in a nice old 'grachtenpand' in the city center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We're a small team of young (<30), crazy and fanatical engineers and designers redefining the address book.

(Telecommuting is possible but we prefer having you on location)

[sentinel]

Same question from my side, where would I have to send my CV?

[helium]

Where do I send my CV?

[bbajan]

<Over 20 Positions> - <Cambridge, Seattle, Korea, Beijing, London>

www.brightcove.com/careers

<Software Engineers> - <USA>

This is a great opportunity to help shape the future of interactive media and television. As an engineer building this exciting new media platform, you will help invent and deliver video experiences that touch millions of people around the world. You will join a talented team of software, Web and media veterans. Visit www.brightcove.com/careers for more information.

We have offices in Cambridge and Seattle, talented developers who are not local or unable to relocate to these offices may have the opportunity to work remotely.

[thedob]

Product Genius - New York, USA

Back-end Developer - New York, USA

We're hiring at http://JumpPost.com. We currently have a product aimed at helping to solve the NYC apartment search process by connecting apartment hunters directly with vacating tenants, but we're also testing out some other products to connect local supply with demand. We're built in Ruby, running on Heroku, using AWS, working out of a cool meatpacking district loft, and are looking for some smart people to join our three man operation. Must be in NYC, but we can discuss relocation. Email [email protected] to chat.

[spencerfry]

Checked out your product last night. Wishing for more inventory!

[takrupp]

Trading Operations: Perl - London, UK Working on a systematic trading desk building analytics for quants. Must have strong Linux admin experience, great perl programming, and some decent math background. Position is on a small team, in a large firm.

[email protected]

[ckimm]

Software Engineer - San Francisco and Washington DC.

OPOWER is an energy-efficiency software company and we're looking for software engineers of all shapes and sizes: http://www.opower.com/Careers/

We're primarily a Java shop, but we also use a healthy amount of Ruby and Scala.

Feel free to contact me through the email address in my profile.