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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

179 points| scorchin | 15 years ago

Please lead with the positions' locations.

And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility!

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[+] tptacek|15 years ago|reply
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

WANTED --- Girl about 13 to help during day. Apply 238, Kilmore street

WANTED --- a general servant for the country. Apply T.B. Williams.

SUDDEN CLIMATIC CHANGES give you "that tired feeling." The real cause of rheumatism is disordered blood. Dr Williams' Pink Pills make rich, red blood and invigorate the system, so that rheumatism is dispelled. By their tonic action on blod and nerve they also cure anaemia, debility, liver trouble, dyspepsia, sciatica, consumption, rickets, ladies' ailments, etc. Sold by chemists and storekeepers.

WANTED --- a cook for the Newmarket Hotel. Apply at once.

WANTED --- energetic and intelligent persons to lead and commence at once the design and construction of ingenious new search engine contraption for MATASANO and SONS, reputed software security concern, to be used and appreciated by banks, manufacturers, and all manner of heavy enterprise. A1 references & experience required. A SOVEREIGN OPPORTUNITY FOR ENTERPRISING SOULS. Inquire with "tqbf" at Matasano.

F. J. PETHERICK has commenced business as a SADDLER and HARNESS-MAKER in premises next to Messrs Gorton and Son's, Fielding, and hopes, by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of patronage and support. REPAIRS OF ALL KINDS UNDERTAKEN AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. A trial solicited!

[+] eru|15 years ago|reply
Is there a joke that I don't get?
[+] paraschopra|15 years ago|reply
Delhi, India. We're looking for a Software/Support Engineer (everyone in our startup does support). Remote work is a possibility.

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ (no jobs page yet)

Contact [email protected] if interested.

EDIT: Added location at the beginning

[+] rb2k_|15 years ago|reply
"Please lead with the positions' locations."
[+] kchodorow|15 years ago|reply
MongoDB (10gen)

New York City and Redwood City, CA.

Looking for software engineers, QA, support engineers, interns, and more: http://www.10gen.com/jobs. Working remotely depends on the job.

Working on MongoDB is great: there are tons of interesting programming problems, an awesome community, my coworkers are brilliant, and you get paid to work on open source software.

[+] steven_h|15 years ago|reply
I'm looking for somewhere to intern at Summer 2011 and I see that you have a posted internship. Do you have any details about internship at 10gen? If you do, I would love to talk to you about it. My e-mail is in my profile.
[+] ericsilver|15 years ago|reply
Pittsburgh, PA (no remote) http://pikimal.com/jobs

We're looking for Semantic Web and Ruby Developers but if you're a strong developer who doesn't know Ruby yet that's no obstacle. We have extremely flexible hours, collaborative coder DNA, and we provide good tools, lunches, and great health care.

Pikimal is working to change how people use the web to make decisions. Once users tell us what's important to them, we can tell them what's best for them. Since all of our recommendations are based solely on facts, users receive results separate from marketing.

Please include a link to public code you've written or your Github repo when you apply. Feel free to reach out directly to my first name @pikimal.com

[+] JoelMcCracken|15 years ago|reply
Pikimal is a great company to work for. At this point in my career, the opportunity to grow as a coder is super important to me, and I'm getting plenty of opportunity here.
[+] tghw|15 years ago|reply
Fog Creek Software - New York, NY (no telecommute) - http://fogcreek.com/

Current Openings:

  * Software Developer
  * Marketing Analytics Focus    
  * Sales: FogBugz and Kiln     
  * Intern in software development (Summer 2011)
Fog Creek Software is a small, friendly software company in New York City that was designed from the ground up to be a great place to work. We work on interesting projects with smart people, treat everyone like royalty, and eat lunch together every day.

Software developers at Fog Creek get spacious, sunlit private offices, unlimited computer gear, electronic height-adjustable desks, Aeron chairs, and a plush office featuring marble showers, a library, a salt water aquarium, professional espresso machine, daily gourmet catered lunch, unlimited snacks, video games and movie nights, and the opportunity to work with a great team.

We've been profitable since inception, and are growing rapidly, developing software products that help software developers make great software. We offer world-class compensation and benefits and a terrific work environment. We're always on the lookout for great people to join the team.

http://fogcreek.com/Careers.html

[+] samd|15 years ago|reply
I love that a company as famous as Fog Creek still took the time to tell applicants about themselves and about all the benefits of working there.
[+] 0x44|15 years ago|reply
Pavia, Italy/Zurich, Switzerland.

Global Earthquake Model Secretariat is hiring a Senior Software Engineer who is familiar with large scale computing, has serious Python chops, and some experience in open source development. GIS, numpy/scipy experience is a plus.

http://globalquakemodel.org/node/76

[+] pcowans|15 years ago|reply
London, UK: Songkick (YC07) is looking for a Systems Engineer and an Agile Tester. In both cases we're looking for someone who can work on-site with the rest of our team.

See http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs for details, and contact [email protected] if you're interested.

[+] sghael|15 years ago|reply
What the heck is an agile tester?
[+] squirrel|15 years ago|reply
London (UK) and Boston (US) - youDevise, Ltd.

We're a 60-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We're 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 successful candidates relocate to London or Boston. We relocated a HN reader from Denmark earlier this year for example. We sponsor London HN meetups and wouldn't mind doing so in Boston too.

[+] speek|15 years ago|reply
Boston, MA

We're looking for a Rails (we use a lot of cool tech, like rails 3 and mongodb) and/or Android (wanna port our app over to scala?) guy to help us out. I'm the CTO of Zazu -- http://getzazu.com --, where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). Get in touch with me at [email protected]

We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.

[+] speek|15 years ago|reply
Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out):

The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine.

We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day.

We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.

[+] philfreo|15 years ago|reply
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - (on-site only, we can help relocate)

Quizlet (http://quizlet.com/) - creating a better way to study, over 1 million users, great JavaScript games, voice recognition, text-to-speech audio

Check out jobs page for real-time stream of what people are studying: http://quizlet.com/jobs/

Looking for: great back-end (PHP5, Memcached, MySQL) and front-end (JavaScript/Ajax) developers who want to work on products to help making studying better for 3 million people/month.

FULL-TIME and January internships!

Tell me about yourself - Email phil@(our domain)

[+] maverhick|15 years ago|reply
Mumbai, India. Only full time positions, on location

Looking to hire a) System Developers b) Software Developers c) Frontend Engineers d) Graphic/Web Designers

Technologies/languages used: Scala/Python/Cassandra/Tornado/Redis

http://www.pagalguy.com/join-us/

[+] SingAlong|15 years ago|reply
I was surprised to see a huge ad on the page and thought it was spammy or high-schoolish.

You might want to remove that ad on the header atleast on the careers and the about us pages on your site. IMHO, it doesn't make a good first impression.

[+] brandon|15 years ago|reply
San Francisco, CA - Elation EMR

Telecommuting considered for the right candidate http://elationemr.com/

We're a small (there's only four of us!), angel-funded startup building revolutionary electronic tools for physicians. Our investors include Ron Conway, who recently named us one of his 12 startups to watch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/ron-conways-crystal-ball-12...

We're doing some really awesome things with a number of technologies.. Our stack includes Python/Django, MySQL, jQuery, Java. We'd like to add at least two more people to the development team in short-order (more details here: http://elationemr.com/jobs.html).

Please be in touch. We'd love to tell you more about what we're up to!

[+] photon_off|15 years ago|reply
If you're in San Fran, I cannot recommend looking into this company highly enough. I interviewed with them and was thoroughly impressed, and would have taken the job but chickened out on moving away from NYC. That's good news for you. Don't be put off if you know nothing about the health industry or EMR -- it's an exceedingly interesting space once you learn about it.

They're backed by well-networked investors with solid records of success, the founders are extremely familiar with the health industry and have a solid plan to take it on (not to mention, EMR is about to explode and all current implementations of it are stone-age), and the problems you'd be working on are absolutely awesome. You'd be creating a highly sought after product that's poised to create a tremendous amount of value, both in the way patients and physicians interact, and as a profitable product.

If UI and Javascript are your specialty, then I can guarantee you that you won't find more interesting work, and if you do, it certainly will not have greater possible upside or impact on an industry.

[+] jorgeortiz85|15 years ago|reply
Foursquare, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA: http://foursquare.com/jobs

iPhone, Android, Blackberry Developers

Front-end and Back-end Developers

Engineering Interns

Developer Advocate

Foursquare encourages you to explore the world around you, discover new and interesting things, and have fun with your friends. We're changing the way people interact with the physical world, and we need your help to do it.

HQ is located in New York, but we recently opened an engineering office in San Francisco. We're hiring aggressively for both offices. There are currently only 4 people in the SF office, but we're looking to grow it to a full-fledged 10-person office in the next few months.

We're using Scala, Lift, and MongoDB on the back-end; jQuery and HTML5 on the front-end.

NYC and SF only at this time. We can help relocate you.

Learn more at http://foursquare.com/jobs

Please contact me at [email protected]

[+] intranation|15 years ago|reply
London, UK: Smarkets Limited, a social gaming site, is looking for a front end developer (Websockets, Python, JS, CSS3 a bonus) and an Erlang developer to join our small tech team. [email protected] for more information.

Unfortunately remote working isn't a possibility for us, but we're located in central London!

[+] afshin|15 years ago|reply
New York City, 1010data

http://1010data.com/company/careers/current-job-openings

We're looking to fill a couple roles: Web Application Developer, Systems Developer, Infrastructure Engineer, and Data Analyst.

We're a 'big data' company and the problems we work on are pretty interesting. Among other reasons to be curious, our programmers all learn K. Contact jobs at 1010data (and mention HN).

[+] cdr|15 years ago|reply
The descriptions being .pdfs is a turn-off. I see no reason for them to be PDFs at at all either - they're just a logo and some text.
[+] shadchnev|15 years ago|reply
Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.

You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN recently), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December (meet us all there next Thursday) and we've recently returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at [email protected] with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.

[+] arosien|15 years ago|reply
Wealthfront (formerly kaChing), Palo Alto CA (no remotes)

Wealthfront is intent on disrupting the $10-TRILLION mutual fund industry, an industry that's seen little innovation in the past 25 years. To reach this goal, we put our customers and our technology at the heart of everything we do. Java, Scala, JRuby on Rails. We have a 5-minute commit-to-production continuous deployment system. Read our eng blog at http://eng.wealthfront.com.

Lead UI Designer / Frontend Software Engineer / Backend Software Engineer

Email [email protected] / More at: https://www.wealthfront.com/jobs