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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

193 points| falsestprophet | 15 years ago

Please lead with the positions' locations.

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[+] sjwalter|15 years ago|reply
SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Are you smart, motivated, and interested in working on awesome software optimized for our world-class, unique, and super-cool satellite network? 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.

Right now, we're building a file sharing webapp called Qfile. (Check it out: http://qfile.ca -- Free 60 day trial!). Why not just use dropbox, you ask? Well, our network is pretty unique: all our traffic is bounced off a satellite, and round-trip latency of ~600ms (which is because of the horrible limitation of the speed of light, which we are constantly working to exceed) means that we have to do things a little differently. SSi is so cool that when we won a government contract to do "time-shifted file transfers", we decided that we /could/ meet our contractual obligations with a few weeks of work/testing, but instead we're building a wicked webapp that brings the functionality to everyone on our network, not just big clients with IT departments.

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]

[+] p_h|15 years ago|reply
Holy crap, what is the story behind making a start up in Yellowknife?
[+] muriithi|15 years ago|reply
Which is because of the horrible limitation of the speed of light, which we are constantly working to exceed ;)
[+] tocomment|15 years ago|reply
That sounds awesome. Is it hard for you guys to hire Americans? Are there lots of immigration issues?
[+] coffeemug|15 years ago|reply
Mountain View, CA. RethinkDB (http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs).

Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe.

This is everything we stand for: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713

[+] cperciva|15 years ago|reply
Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe.

Judging by the fact that it has been over a year since the most recent code on the RethinkDB website was released, you might want to add "take the time to solve problems properly rather than throwing together quick hacks" to this list. ;-)

(To be clear, I think taking the time to solve problems properly is a good thing -- I spent two years writing code before Tarsnap moved into public beta -- but it's a philosophy which seems to run contrary to the general standard operating principles of the startup world.)

[+] eof|15 years ago|reply
from your license agreement (http://www.rethinkdb.com/license.txt)

Prohibited activities include but are not limited to:

-snip-

* Selling support for products which incorporate RethinkDB.

Can you really enforce this?

[+] runT1ME|15 years ago|reply
God I'm rooting for someone to sink the Oracle behemoth.

I thought it was MySql... guess not.

Good luck to you guys.

[+] uuilly|15 years ago|reply
510 Systems. Berkeley CA. <50 People, all profit, no VC. We make car-top mapping systems (similar to those used in google street view,) and visualization / extraction software for the data.

If you like any of the following:

-3d graphics

-HUGE HUGE HUGE data storage, access and manipulation problems

-Embedded systems

-Realtime systems

-Finite state markov chains

-Computer vision

-Probabilistic robotics

-GPS filtering

-Extracting physical objects from lidar generated point clouds

-Making clean intuitive UI's for people to interact w/ all of the above

Then please email me.

Our website is essentially non-existent b/c we have only been serving a few REALLY big customers and they are the only ones who have needed to find us - for now. The vision is huge and it has a real chance of becoming a public company one day. Good pay, equity, heavy engineering culture, mac, linux or windows agnostic. If any of this appeals to you, fire me a resume. We'll act fast if we think there is a fit.

[+] ccollins|15 years ago|reply
San Francisco!

Airbnb is hiring - I think we have around 50 openings at this point. http://www.airbnb.com/jobs. Regardless of the position, we just want hungry, smart, and awesome people.

For engineers, we wrote a blog post 2 days ago explaining some of our most interesting challenges - http://blog.airbnb.com/hard-problems-big-opportunity

In particular, we need some front end engineers!! http://www.airbnb.com/jobs/position?jvi=omNoVfwc Email me directly if you are a badass front end engineer and like mustaches & ridiculous sunglasses - [email protected]

[+] ryanwaggoner|15 years ago|reply
Holy crap...had no idea you guys were growing so fast. Congrats!

PS - Had a fantastic experience with AirBnB in London a few months ago when our hotel fell through at last minute. Posted emergency request and had a bunch of offers within an hour. Ended up staying with a very nice older British lady who made us breakfast and afternoon tea every day. Very fun.

[+] bherms|15 years ago|reply
Will be applying soon. You guys sound like an awesome company and I'd love to join you and contribute my own awesomeness :)
[+] bajsejohannes|15 years ago|reply
I am actually in the process of writing an application for Airbnb. However, I am unsure about one important detail: Are you accepting applicants without a US working visa? (But who are willing to travel to the US as much as a tourist visa allows)
[+] alexkiwi|15 years ago|reply
Just sent my portfolio off. Best wishes to your great company!
[+] bravura|15 years ago|reply
MetaOptimize is hiring contractors for exciting project work building real-world NLP + ML systems.

This is for remote, short-term gigs. You can set your hours. The only requirement is that you kick ass and add value from day one.

We are looking for generalists:

* Hardcore programmers who learn new technologies and APIs quickly.

* Experienced sysadmins, especially who have experience with AWS and EC2.

And also specialists:

* People with backgrounds in machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and/or search. Medium experience is fine, you don't have to have a PhD.

* Python/Django programmers

* Java programmers

Email your resume and/or github URL to joseph at metaoptimize dot com

[+] lipaktest|15 years ago|reply
these guys never reply. :(
[+] sunir|15 years ago|reply
Toronto, Ontario. FreshBooks is hiring pretty much everything. Marketing, sales, product managers, support, developer community manager, system administrators and plenty of developers.

http://careers.freshbooks.com

If you're an ex-pat in the States and want to move back home, we provide relocation assistance.

P.S. I'm the hiring manager for the Platform. I'm personally looking for a developer community manager, a support role, front and back end developers, and a product manager. You can get me at sunir splat freshbooks dot com

P.P.S. If you're wondering why you should work at FreshBooks, we're Canadian, awesome, and growing rapidly. Here are a couple links if you want to learn a little about us:

http://freshbooks.tumblr.com/

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=freshbooks

[+] mrduncan|15 years ago|reply
As always, please let potential applicants know whether telecommuting is an option - if not, don't forget to include your location.
[+] ciupicri|15 years ago|reply
A note about work visas would also be useful.
[+] RichardPrice|15 years ago|reply
Academia.edu is hiring engineers in San Francisco.

Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research in their field. Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team:

- obsession with exceptional engineering

- obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience

- intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about

- fun and friendly - we enjoy each other's company a lot, and have a great deal of respect for each other.

We want to continue this atmosphere through the people we hire.

Here are some of the technologies we work with: Rails, Nginx, Node.js, Redis, Memcached. We are based in downtown San Francisco. More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here http://academia.edu/hiring

[+] puredemo|15 years ago|reply
How did you get a *.edu domain?
[+] robobenjie|15 years ago|reply
Mountain View, Ca. Anybots Inc.

We are looking for a rounded web programmer to help build our site, program robots, and be awesome.

Anybots is a fun, casual and exciting place to work. Also we build frikking robots. We are small (<10 people) and shipping product in a few months so it is a really exciting time to join.

The next people we hire will have a huge role in shaping the user experience.

Send a portfolio of cool stuff you've made, and a resume (for the sake of tradition) to [email protected]. We prefer people who are available soon (product ships in November) and are open to telecommutes (it is a telepresence company after all), but prefer a local person.

[+] vgurgov|15 years ago|reply
Hey, good luck with that! To all: Benjie is awesome guy and so are Anybots! And he has great room in MV available on Airbnb!

To Benjie- ping me with reqs for that position I might be able to recommend someone!

-Vlad

[+] derwiki|15 years ago|reply
San Francisco, CA. Yelp (http://www.yelp.com/careers)

We're looking to fill back end, front end, mobile (iPhone, Android, Blackberry), search & data mining engineers as well as product managers and engineering managers. We're still a small team where everybody knows everybody, working on new features and addressing scaling issues as we internationalize. And Hackathons where projects like Yelp KegMate are born: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVoir5HSo4

http://github.com/yelp http://engineeringblog.yelp.com

[+] ptio|15 years ago|reply
Los Angeles, CA - SpaceX

Our team is looking for 2 more developers to help us build SpaceX's enterprise and manufacturing systems. We primarily use C# but experience in OOP languages such as Java or Ruby is just fine.

We offer excellent benefits, pre-IPO stock, and free yogurt everyday =)

Drop me a line at paulo[at]spacex[dot]com if interested.

[+] spitfire|15 years ago|reply
I have zero connection to these people.

But let me say, forget all the web X.0/ruby/nosql rubbish. Working at spaceX seems like the sort of place you'll be telling your grandchildren about. Quora? Groupon? Not so much.

I mean, they build spaceships. Fucking spaceships.

[+] kazuya|15 years ago|reply
Very interesting, but US citizens and permanent residents only.
[+] bnoordhuis|15 years ago|reply
People, please mention if remote working is an option or not.
[+] petervandijck|15 years ago|reply
I think you can assume it's not unless mentioned explicitly.
[+] pquerna|15 years ago|reply
Cloudkick in SF, CA: https://www.cloudkick.com/careers

Looking for three main areas:

  * Frontend in Javascript.  We are making some very cool 
  and Dynamic applications.  We push monitoring data and 
  graphs milliseconds from when it was collected right to the
 frontend.

  * General Python.  We are a shop built around 
  Python;  We heavily use Django and Cassandra.

  * Node.js (or good at Python and willing to learn). 
  We are building new solutions to deployment, and I'd 
  like someone to help make it awesome.
[+] bnoordhuis|15 years ago|reply
Paul, is working remote (intercontinental, really) a possibility? I'd love to hack on Node full-time.
[+] jack7890|15 years ago|reply
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.

[+] robryan|15 years ago|reply
I'd be interested in how many postings in these hacker news job threads end up in hires, or at least candidates applying.
[+] johnnyn|15 years ago|reply
I found a job from the September 2010 thread.
[+] tuebor|15 years ago|reply
Ann Arbor, MI: proud home of the University of Michigan, techbrewery.org, a2newtech.org, a2geeks.org, ARBSEC.org, etc. And Zingermans (accurately described by tptacek as a culinary "force of nature")!

Scio Security is solving the most important problem in computer security today - the explosion in online account theft and transaction fraud driven by phishing and crimeware.

We're an Ann Arbor startup founded by Arbor Networks [1], Barracuda Networks [2], and Zattoo [3] founders and alumni, backed by True Ventures [4]. Other stuff we'll take blame for: public breaks of the world's leading firewall, IDS, anti-virus, virtualization, and state censorship (!) products; Google's first Android remote kill; dsniff; Linux NFSv4; OpenSSH (man ssh :-); returning tptacek to the Midwest in '01 :-)

Right now it's just three of us with $1M to pit against the international cybercrime syndicates of the world. We're looking for a frontend hacker with web/mobile UI/UX chops and deep design/brand thinking to be our fourth, and always happy to meet excellent app and backend folks.

We'd love to hear from you at [email protected] - or ping dugsong or jonoberheide on freenode/Twitter/FB...

[1] $100M+ revenue before we sold it this year :-)

[2] biggest content security appliance vendor by volume, with airport ads out the wazoo

[3] 0.5 -> 5M+ subscribers in 18 months

[4] 3rd top-ranked on TheFunded, investors in Wordpress, Urban Airship, Puppet Labs, Meebo, etc.

[+] earle|15 years ago|reply
I'm looking for:

  1) talented information visualization experts (protovis,
  raphaeljs, flash/flex/actionscript, HTML5 strategies)
  who are comfortable working with large scale data

  2) anyone fluent with large scale data mining with
  Mahout (hadoop, hdfs, clustering strategies, SVD, 
  latent semantic indexing, noSQL [hypertable and/or
  cassandra]

  3) fluency web app development at tier 1 properties
  with startup experience using common stacks with 
  large user bases.  django expertise in particular
fastest growing startup in atlanta. full benefits will relocate appropriately talented individuals. US Citizens only (sorry).

proven management team with multiple successful startup exits (over $2B). earle {dot} ady {at} gmail {dot} com

[+] PStamatiou|15 years ago|reply
I can vouch for earle. Worked with him in the past.
[+] jlongster|15 years ago|reply
I haven't done much visualization of large datasets, but I've always loved interactive visualizations. Check out my logo on my site: http://jlongster.com . Email me if you think I could help you all.
[+] jayp|15 years ago|reply
if you don't mind, why are you limiting to US citizens?
[+] phillytom|15 years ago|reply
Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We have fun problems at scale - real-time decision making plus web analytics. We have hired people from HN before and I will go hound them to post about how much fun we are having. :)

We sell SAAS to internet retailers allowing them to test site content, target to visitor segments, and personalize web experiences.

Currently hiring for positions here: http://monetate.com/about/jobs/ - product engineers, front-end developers, QA, sys ops

We work primarily in Python and Javascript but are looking for talented engineers of any background who like solving new problems.

We are backed by First Round Capital and are growing quickly.

Email me at tjanofsky - monetate.com

[+] p_alexander|15 years ago|reply
Stanford, CA. Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, National Center for Biomedical Ontology.

We're hiring people interested in working with semantic web technologies, including RDF, OWL/OBO ontologies, triple stores, Protege, etc. The positions are mainly senior right now, possibly junior in the near future. Our main product is BioPortal, an ontology repository site with a RESTful API.

Stanford is an amazing place to work, great benefits, competitive salary, and the team here is top-notch (as you would expect). Feel free to ask questions (email in profile).

Apply online: http://bit.ly/9HBcMB

Edit: no telecommute (Stanford policy I believe)

[+] ccheever|15 years ago|reply
Palo Alto, CA - Quora

http://www.quora.com/jobs

We're looking for designers and engineers.

- Codebase is mostly Python, JS, and C++

- Real continuous deployment (every git push deploys the new version of the code if all the test pass)

- Product w/ traction that is growing quickly

- Hard problems to work hard on

- Smart people to work with and learn from ( http://www.quora.com/about/team )

[email protected] or e-mail me directly at [email protected]

[+] dolinsky|15 years ago|reply
If you don't mind sharing, how do you manage coordinating necessary schema changes with those continuous code deployments? (Yes, I am assuming an RDBM store and not a pure NoSQL store).