Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

[+] dmnd|14 years ago|reply

Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round)

Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly.

Our students answer over 2 million math exercise problems per day, all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises, http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/), and Sal's videos have been viewed over 78MM times.

Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine.

We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs

[+] hokua|14 years ago|reply

I applied to Khan and they told me they have no slots to fill anymore (but thanks for trying...and feel free to contribute in your spare time). I can program in jQuery and know Django -- I sent them several demos directly related to generating math exercises. Either they are getting many applications from talented devs (and I didnt make the cut) or they arnt really hiring. I just hope they arnt using the prospect of a job as part of some viral marketing scheme.

[+] hendler|14 years ago|reply

Full-time, on site. Hiring devs of all sorts.

If you're in the Boston area and interested in a similar mission with a focus on teacher impact - http://betterlesson.com

[+] NateLawson|14 years ago|reply

Oakland, CA - Root Labs

We are a fully-funded startup with a major paying customer, building a web-based service for analyzing and searching code. You will be in charge of building a large, distributed computing system for parsing and indexing code for our search engine. We've been creating the code analysis tools for existing customers, and we need you to build the automation framework to help us scale. We are building something really uncommon for a HN hiring thread, so contact me even if you're just curious!

We're solving problems that will have a major impact on the software industry. For example, one goal is that independent, open-source authors have a way to get paid for their work.

You'll team up with us to implement solutions to some challenging problems. (But don't worry, you don't already need to be an expert at all of these).

    * Nearest-neighbor search in high dimension (or knowing how to
      avoid this by projecting to a lower dimension)
    * Classifying code by various metrics (structural flowgraph analysis,
      symbol sequences and frequency, etc.)
    * Map/reduce deconstruction of complex queries
    * Distributed computing design, cluster management, software deployment,
      load balancing

Being a good programmer is the most important part. We mostly work in Python and C/C++ although considering Scala or other options for some tasks. We use PostgreSQL, Redis, and Riak for a lot of the existing components.

You need to understand distributed computing, fault detection and error recovery, messaging, etc. An interest (but not expertise) in low-level details like compilers, operating systems, and reverse-engineering is a good plus.

We have much more details here:

http://www.rootlabs.com/developer-job.html

Ask any questions in the comments, or contact me directly at the address in my profile. Thanks!

[+] ScottBurson|14 years ago|reply

For example, one goal is that independent, open-source authors have a way to get paid for their work.

How do you see your service helping with this?

[+] agotterer|14 years ago|reply

New York, NY

Lot18 is revolutionizing the way Americans buy wine. We provide a highly curated marketplace for wineries and epicurean product producers to sell direct to consumers.

We are hiring software engineers to join our small but growing 10 person dev team. You can apply by sending your resume and a link to your github profile to [email protected].

Why you should work here:

- We work with a ton of awesome technologies (Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Tornado, Chef, git, Vagrant, MySQL, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, jQuery and more)

- Well funded. We’ve raised $14.5M from tier one investors.

- People actually use our product. Over 500k users have joined since we launched in Nov 2010.

- It’s not social media. We have a real business model and do 7 figures a month in transactions.

- Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental paid in full, unlimited vacation, plenty of wine, lots of challenges and interesting business/tech problems to solve.

[+] unknown|14 years ago|reply

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[+] gcampbell|14 years ago|reply

San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

Twitter is hiring: https://twitter.com/jobs

Twitter (https://twitter.com) is a real-time information network with the mission of connecting people everywhere to the latest information that is interesting and relevant to them. We're hiring across the organization, for a broad range of technical and non-technical positions. Come help us solve some hard problems!

[+] x5315|14 years ago|reply

Dammit Greg! Sure, me posting this months ago helped you get a job at Twitter, but that doesn't mean you get to post it in the future. :).

P.S. Come work at Twitter, it's awesome.

[+] fizx|14 years ago|reply

Also, we're generally H1Bs and intern friendly.

[+] tptacek|14 years ago|reply

I really wish we could figure out a way to stop posting these on Saturday, which guarantees the hiring thread won't be on the front page on a weekday.

[+] icey|14 years ago|reply

On the other hand, job-seekers who have been here for longer than a few months probably remember the hiring threads always happen on the 1st.

I think that's easier to remember than "1st of the month, unless that falls on a weekend, then it's the 1st business day following the 1st of the month"; which tends to get further conflated to include holidays.

[+] veyron|14 years ago|reply

Couldn't pg add a way to pin these posts on the front page for a week or add a link on the top bar ?

[+] apaprocki|14 years ago|reply

It would make a lot more sense if the monthly job post was listed on the 'Jobs' page alongside the handful of YC companies listed.

[+] michaelochurch|14 years ago|reply

I could be wrong, but I think Saturday is a great day for these threads. The work week is mainly relevant to people in 9-to-5 jobs. If I were looking for a job (I'm not) I would generally avoid doing the search during the week. Why? At least on Wall Street, people get fired if their bosses figure out that they're looking for jobs. Once you start searching, you've effectively quit as they see it.

That said, I'm coming to the conclusion that one should always be looking for jobs at least in a limited sense (networking, skill building). It's not disloyal. It's just smart. Jobs end, sometimes suddenly and involuntarily. It's a fact of life and people need to be prepared.

[+] cperciva|14 years ago|reply

Wait until next month. :-)

[+] veyron|14 years ago|reply

Rockefeller Center NYC, onsite: #1 looking for #2

Bootstrapped prop ultra low latency trading firm (as opposed to a firm which originally had investors and later kicked them out), and I'm willing to cut significant equity. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835656 for some discussion of what I do.

I'm not a traditional finance guy, and I'm definitely not looking for a banking drone. Most of those tasks are handled by cron anyway. Sanctity of weekends are preserved.

The ideal candidate: mastery, to the level of obsession, with C/Python/coreutils; insatiable curiosity; inquisitive to a fault; chutzpah to challenge every assumption and assertion; calm under pressure; and desire to be involved in every aspect of the business.

Windonauts need not apply (I currently use 2 27" iMacs in the office)

Excited? [email protected]

[+] FameofLight|14 years ago|reply

This looks like a quite a example of arrogance.

Remember the more egoistic you are , more you double your chances of failure. Just a advice , take on its face value.

[+] dabent|14 years ago|reply

Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area) also possibly SF Bay area or other cities, but most jobs are in Santa Monica.

TRUECar - Put simply, TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guide them to dealers we've certified. We bring transparency to auto pricing and so far we are getting a solid piece of a huge market.

We're looking for Python/Django developers, front end developers, Java and Ruby talent, Linux engineers, and an "EDW SQL DB Developer," whatever that is. There's a lot to do, so if you're a solid developer, there's a chance we have a spot for you.

I moved from Atlanta all the way out to Santa Monica after stopping by the TrueCar booth at PyCon 2011. I started here a month ago and have absolutely loved it. I'm working with a great team that knows how to develop software and for management who seems to "get it" with regards to software developers.

The Python team in an open workspace that has a view of the ocean (http://picplz.com/user/dabent/pic/tpc4v/), and all the Santa Monica offices are blocks from the beach. They have great benefits, including company equity, 100% paid family medical, dental, vision, and a healthy 401k. They also offer gym membership reimbursement ($50 a month), 12 holidays, career training, 3 weeks PTO and have a kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and such. I've honestly never had a job this good. We're also making money and recently got some really solid investment (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/07/car-price-comparison-compan...).

If you're interested, send me your resume. My email is in my profile.

[+] Jarred|14 years ago|reply

TrueCar's an awesome company, they host the SFRuby meetups every other week.

The people there are some of the most intelligent people I've ever met.

If you get the chance to work there, do it.

[+] dabent|14 years ago|reply

Someone downvoted this? Why?

[+] jonbischke|14 years ago|reply

San Francisco, CA (SF/Mission)

RG Labs is hiring: http://www.rglabsinc.com/#jobs

We operate under the premise that the most important decisions we make are decisions about people (e.g., who to start a company with, who to hire, who to date/marry...) We also feel like the Web is in its infancy in terms of helping us to make better decisions based on data and that this space will explode in coming years.

We're planning to help detonate that explosion. :)

We have a long backlog of customers waiting to use our product when it launches and a big market in front of us. We're building an engineering-centric organization and working out of a cool work/live space in the Mission. Our current stack includes Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Resque, and elasticsearch and we'll be diving in soon on Hadoop, graph databases/neo4j and a whole host of other fun stuff. We're also planning to contribute to open source as much as we can (e.g., https://github.com/rglabs/teleport).

We're funded but also really early so it's a unique opportunity to be a major contributor and help to set the tone for the future for our company.

To hear more drop me a line directly at [email protected] or contact via our website. We'd love to tell you more.

[+] kemayo|14 years ago|reply

Really REMOTE. You don't even have to be in the USA.

deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) wants developers. We're fully remote[1]; there's no central office with a devteam located there. We expect all hires to be comfortable working in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL; we like our developers to be able to hack on any part of the site, rather than being frontend/backend specialists.

One exception to all that: there's an Infrastructure Engineer position which is located in Vancouver. It's C++/Java focused, and involves developing backend services used by the rest of the site.

We post information about our development process here sometimes: http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/ Apply here: http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply?source=hn

[1]: http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/We-re-all-remote-220038037

[+] robinduckett|14 years ago|reply

I've applied for this multiple times, and as I see here you haven't replied to a lot of people. I've met one of your developers at a DeviantArt meeting, and he seemed like one of the nicest blokes I've ever met.

Extreme shame about the management.

[+] rinnytinny|14 years ago|reply

Note: I've applied to this opportunity before. Did not receive a response. Funny to see it posted again...

Maybe they are looking for something different than "PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL"? Hard to say...

[+] JoeCortopassi|14 years ago|reply

I would encourage anyone wanting to apply here to read this first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061860

[+] mkeblx|14 years ago|reply

Madison, WI - (REMOTE possible)

Circuit - http://circuitapp.co

Github for hardware. Circuit is a social webapp for designing and building electronic projects (circuit boards), aimed at the exploding Maker/hobbyist market. We're going to disrupt hardware with a tool that makes things 10x easier & faster. Programmer: We are looking for a passionate all-around programmer, experienced with creating advanced frontend interfaces as well as backend systems. Mainly would be doing a large amount of challenging HTML5, Javascript, and using PHP (Cake) & MySQL on the backend. Big bonus points if you have a hardware background: microcontrollers, designing PCBs, tearing things apart, and familiarity with the Maker movement.

UI/UX Designer: You: experienced with the design of web applications with a strong emphasis on the UX to make a simple and clean interface. Also wireframe concepts, diagram workflows and create various assets needed for the application.

Interested, questions? [email protected]

[+] lacker|14 years ago|reply

San Francisco - Parse (http://parse.com)

Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. Some have called us "Heroku for Mobile." We believe mobile developers shouldn't be writing server code or worrying about servers at all.

About Parse:

- We move fast. We launched our private beta a little over two months after starting the company. Since then we've signed up over 3000 developers and have dozens of production apps in the store.

- We have difficult and interesting engineering problems.

- We build products for other developers. You'll be your own customer.

- We are four very technical cofounders who have been early employees or founders at successful startups.

About you:

- You'll be employee #1.

- You'll be responsible for architecting and implementing features in their entirety.

- You'll write code in Ruby, Objective-C, and Java (so far). You don't need to know these coming in -- we like generalists who can pick up anything.

- You'll have the opportunity to grow into a large leadership role.

We offer significant equity, market salary, fully covered health insurance, your choice of equipment, etc. We're based in San Francisco and are looking for people that can hack in the office with us.

Please get in touch -- email Tikhon at [email protected]

[+] dshankar|14 years ago|reply

Berkeley, CA or San Francisco Bay Area

Flotype (creators of popular open source projects like NowJS) is hiring engineers. http://flotype.com and http://nowjs.com

-(very) well-funded company tackling huge technical problems (A16Z, YC etc.)

- we build enterprise-grade web infrastructure and sell to startups, corporations and enterprises

- we use cutting edge technology and love Node.js

- you would be a very early employee that gets a "whatever you want" benefits package.

The best benefit is honestly working on new technology problems. You get to build massively scalable software, solve highly technical problems, with the awesome startup lifestyle. And you get to test on several 800-core clusters.

Open to remote intern h1b fulltime parttime etc. Email us at [email protected]

[+] calbear81|14 years ago|reply

Mountain View, CA

Room 77 (room77.com) - REMOTE / H1B Welcome

We're building the next generation of hotel search and we're looking for a few good engineers. We're attacking a $50B online industry that hasn't seen a lot of innovation in the last several years. We're funded and backed by travel rockstars including the founder of Expedia.

Software Engineer - 5 Positions Open - http://www.room77.com/jobs/software_engineer.html?s=HackerNe...

We're looking for software engineers who are smart and can roll up their sleeves to get things done. We don't care what programming language you've used before or what operating system you're familiar with, but we need people with demonstrated passion for programming and problem solving, as well as a hands-on attitude and hacker mentality. Our technology stack is primarily C++ / Javascript / Python / PHP / MySQL, on top of Ubuntu Linux and AWS.

iOS/Android Mobile Developer - 2 Positions Open - http://www.room77.com/jobs/mobile.html?s=HackerNews

UI/UX Designer - 1 Position Open - Help lead the design of a next gen travel search product - http://www.room77.com/jobs/ui_ux_designer.html?s=HackerNews

Hacker in Residence - 3 Spots Available - This is an exciting new program to get FREE office space, FREE food, and FREE mentoring from our team of advisors/investors and engineers. We've got some free space in the new office so we want to bring in some folks who are interested in working on their own projects while spending a few hours a week working on open source projects we are sponsoring. Our engineering team is happy to help flesh out your project as well and you can always talk to the rest of the team, all of which have built, run, and sold startups. - http://www.room77.com/jobs/hacker.html?s=HackerNews

[+] exogen|14 years ago|reply

Seattle, WA

BigDoor: http://www.bigdoor.com/

We're a gamification platform – we make it easy for anyone to add fun, relevant loyalty programs to their site or app. Lots of people are focused on badges and leaderboards – and we do that – but we consider that the simple, boring stuff. We're way ahead of that. We're also working with some major brands.

Positions:

2 x developer: Python, Django, JavaScript.

1 x sysadmin: Linux, Apache, MySQL.

1 x DBA: MySQL.

2 x tester: Python a big plus.

1 x content manager: Help our partners create and maintain their virtual economies.

http://www.bigdoor.com/about-us/careers/

[+] jedberg|14 years ago|reply

Los Gatos, CA Netflix

Looking for Senior SREs.

Basically, we're starting a new company to take streaming global and make it so convient that it is better than the free options.

I'm looking for people to help make sure that any time someone wants to find and play a movie, they can.

You can get more info here: http://jobs.usethesource.com/item?id=166

Or here: http://www.reddit.com/comments/jyaqd/

Or here: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs?id=7563&jvi=olLGVfwr

[+] andrewljohnson|14 years ago|reply

Freelance to hire, iOS and Android development, with a focus on mapping apps. All brilliant engineers considered, regardless of skillset.

We raised $45K from angels and won a $25K fbFund grant early on (2008), and we're now profitable from sales of apps and royalties from software licensing. We had a killer summer, which is the season for our apps, and we were featured in a slew of press: http://www.gaiagps.com/press

Apply to [email protected] or http://www.gaiagps.com/jobs

[+] mkramlich|14 years ago|reply

> All brilliant engineers considered, regardless of skillset.

More folks should have this attitude.

[+] ericedge|14 years ago|reply

San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY

Flurry needs engineers to help build our burgeoning mobile analytics platform--hiring for server-side software engineers, mobile client programming, operations engineers, a data scientist and more. Also looking for some non-engineering roles if that's your specialty.

More at http://www.flurry.com/jobs -- if you think Flurry is perfect for you but don't see an exact fit in any of the roles, don't hesitate to let us know how you could help us grow!

Tell 'em Eric sent ya.

[+] harper|14 years ago|reply

Chicago, IL - Obama for America (http://barackobama.com)

We are looking for QA, iOS, DBA, and DevOps engineers to join our department through November 2012 at our Chicago headquarters.

The Obama for America Technology department builds and maintains the software that powers the campaign’s websites and interactive online presence. Our team’s products support the campaign’s efforts to inform voters, organize supporters and raise money.

Email us at [email protected] for more info.

[+] ropiku|14 years ago|reply

FreeAgent (Edinburgh, UK), a startup making accounting easy and fun. We've just moved to a new office in central Edinburgh.

We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who value the work/life balance.

Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...

Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Email us at [email protected]. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).

[+] ropiku|14 years ago|reply

I forgot to say we're also looking for interns. We had 2 this year and I started as an intern last year.

[+] arfrank|14 years ago|reply

Boulder, CO

Simple Energy - TechStars company

http://www.simpleenergy.com

4 Positions: http://www.simpleenergy.com/jobs

* Product Manager (gaming experience pref'd)

* Front-End Engineer

* Back-End Engineer

* SysAdmin/DevOps

Simple Energy is making saving energy social, fun, and simple. We change how millions of people save energy by changing how utilities engage their customers. We take real energy data and create social games and contests that drive people to save energy. You could be the fifth member of a funded startup that Mashable recently named one of "8 Startups that are Changing the World." http://mashable.com/2011/08/19/startups-for-good/

* Generous moving benefits to beautiful Boulder, CO

* Awesome Mac setup

* Sweet office w/ standup desks overlooking a creek

* Every new employee saves enough energy to power 1,000 homes

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