Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
310 points| whoishiring | 14 years ago | reply
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (November 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3181801
310 points| whoishiring | 14 years ago | reply
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (November 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3181801
[+] [-] timsally|14 years ago|reply
I work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (http://www.ll.mit.edu), a research and development center run by MIT that does work for the government. My group has about 20 people in it and does application security, reverse engineering, and other low level systems stuff. Knowledge of things like assembly, operating systems, and systems are pluses but not required. It's great if you have some experience in those things, but if you can code I want to talk to you. The pluses:
* Extremely difficult and rewarding problems. In the past few weeks my work has had me hacking on a compiler, scaling up databases, reversing malware, etc. We're a really agile and tight knit group.
* Awesome workplace culture. We're a 9-5 shop, you pick your laptop, and you can order any books that you need.
* We reimburse tuition for classes at MIT. Last semester my office mate took operating systems with Robert Morris. We send you to conferences, including Blackhat and Defcon.
* We sponsor relocation and have multiple positions we want to fill.
You do need to be a US citizen and you will have to get a security clearance. I'm happy to talk to you about how the clearance process works and answer any questions you have. If you're local I'll buy you a cup of coffee while we talk it over. You really can't waste my time. The first step is to get in touch with me and I can explain to you how our hiring process works.
Email: [email protected]
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[+] [-] harshaY2K|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] edd|14 years ago|reply
At spider.io, we look to catch bad people doing very bad things.
We catch botnets, browser emulators, clickjackers, traffic launderers, bots that probe for weakness, bots that learn. At spider.io, we look to distinguish legitimate human website visitors from nefarious automated traffic.
It’s a hard engineering problem. It would be a hard problem at toy levels of traffic. We need reverse Turing tests. We need to analyse from the application layer to below the TCP layer. We need clever stateful classifiers, that classify information based on previously received information. And if this isn’t hard enough, imagine doing this across four times the number of messages each day than the number of tweets received by Twitter each day. This is where we’ll be before the year is out. And for us this is just the beginning.
If you're an engineer and would like to help us make this happen, check out our careers page: http://spider.io/careers/
[+] [-] dazbradbury|14 years ago|reply
Firstly, a really nice guy and clearly awesome team, who helped me think about some of the issues we're facing in my own startup.
Secondly I have to say this if the state of the web is as they claim, they're onto an awesome product here. If I wasn't working on my own start-up, I'd definitely be interested!
Good luck guys.
[+] [-] umeshkacha|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] kamens|14 years ago|reply
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 1.75 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 88MM times. We're just getting started feeding this data we're collecting back into the product to help our users learn more. If you're interested in data, analytics, and education, this is a dream gig.
Plus, it's 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
[+] [-] daeken|14 years ago|reply
Matasano Security
Do you like to break things? Was your childhood room full of toys you'd taken apart and put back together in ridiculous ways? You may be just who we're looking for.
At Matasano Security, some of the most interesting companies in the world hire us to break their code/hardware in terrible, terrible ways, and we're looking for people to join the team. Security experience is great but not required, and we love people with interesting backgrounds and insights. Above all else, you have to be quick on your feet and be comfortable learning entirely new languages, frameworks, platforms, etc while attacking a product. You'll be pushed to the very limits of your capabilities and love every minute of it.
If this sounds like fun to you (and it is!), check out http://www.matasano.com/careers
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[+] [-] pquerna|14 years ago|reply
Rackspace is looking for various roles right now in our new location in SOMA (previously we were in the pre-acquisition Cloudkick Office):
* Node.js: For some really sweet distributed systems, looking for good systems programmers who either already hack on node, or can pick it up quickly. (No, no one has 5 years of node.js experience, but using Twisted, EventMachine, Java NIO, or lots of C are good introductions to things you need)
http://jobs.rackspace.com/job/San-Francisco-Sr-Python-Develo...
* Frontend Javascript: We are developing Rackspace's next generation of UIs for our customers. We need great frontend engineers, with a heavy focus on javascript to help us.
http://jobs.rackspace.com/job/San-Francisco-Front-End-Web-De...
* Python Hacking: We use a mixture of Django and Twisted Python, utilizing many interesting technologies like Libcloud and RabbitMQ.
http://jobs.rackspace.com/job/San-Francisco-Python-Developer...
More general info on our location: http://rackertalent.com/san-francisco/
If interested, check out the links above, or drop me a line, [email protected]
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[+] [-] RichardPrice|14 years ago|reply
Academia.edu is an engineering-focused company whose goal is to revolutionize the way that researchers share research. We are the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for academics to share research. Over 700,000 academics have signed up, and 90,000 are joining each month. The value that the site provides is that we help academics distribute their papers to a large audience quickly, and we also help them keep up with the latest papers in their field.
We have about 2.7 million monthly unique visitors, and that number is doubling roughly every 7 months. The journey is 1% complete - we are just getting going.
We're a 6 person team based in downtown San Francisco. We have a strong engineering culture. We're a Rails site, and we also use Redis, MongoDB, Beanstalkd, Varnish, Solr, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Memcached.
Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. The kinds of things you would be working on include:
★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)
★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)
★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site
What we're looking for are:
☀ 2+ years of web development experience
☀ Experience with the full engineering stack
☀ Passion for engineering
We have raised money from Spark Capital (investors in Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare), and angels including Mark Shuttleworth (from Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).
All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture.
For anyone interested to learn more, please email me directly at richard [at] academia.edu.
[+] [-] kloncks|14 years ago|reply
Kout is part of the latest AngelPad class. Our investors include six ex-Googlers and two top Silicon Valley VC firms.
We're looking to hire our first employee. Offering a real equity stake, competitive salary, and a chance to revolutionize eCommerce.
Kout is a dead-simple eCommerce platform that enables anyone, anywhere to be a merchant across any platform with ease, elegance and simplicity. We make it fast & easy to both sell items and collect money online and do this by generating a simple one-page checkout that corresponds to a unique URL. We're also doing really cool things with dynamic pricing, payments, as well as social & mobile commerce.
We're simplifying eCommerce and removing the barriers to entry, enabling anyone to be a merchant. We'd love to do that with you; let's talk about the details.
Contact [email protected]. Mention you're from HN :)
[+] [-] jnovek|14 years ago|reply
OwnLocal is looking for a full-time web designer as well as a full-time software engineer.
We're also looking for paid and unpaid software engineering interns in Austin.
We have full health coverage, you can work from home most of the week and we have free beer.
Check out http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/ or apply at [email protected]. Tell us about projects that you've worked on. A resume isn't really necessary, but if you send one it may get some mundane details out of the way.
[+] [-] agotterer|14 years ago|reply
Lot18 (http://www.lot18.com/careers) is revolutionizing the way Americans buy wine. We built a platform that powers highly curated marketplaces for wineries and epicurean product producers to sell direct to consumers.
We are hiring software engineers, front-end developers, product managers, project managers, data scientists and mobile developers. 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 great technologies (Python, JavaScript, Tornado, Chef, git, Vagrant, MySQL, Linux, Apache, nginx, HAProxy, Amazon Web Services, Varnish, memcached, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, jQuery and more)
- Well funded. We’ve raised $14.5M.
- People actually use our product. Over 500k users have joined since we launched in Nov 2010.
- 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.
You can apply by sending your resume and a link to your github profile to [email protected].
[+] [-] josephjrobison|14 years ago|reply
San Francisco (City) - 41 New York - 15 London - 13 Boston/Cambridge - 11 Palo Alto/Mountain View - 10 Seattle - 9 Chicago - 8 Los Angeles - 4 Philadelphia - 4 Toronto - 4 Berlin - 4 Amsterdam - 2
[+] [-] jamesjyu|14 years ago|reply
Parse is building a new layer of services that abstracts the internet away for mobile developers. We need great engineers to join us in this ambitious goal. This isn't some Web 2.0 company flipping bits for ad sales. We have difficult and interesting engineering problems to solve. We need people who will not back down if they have to write a compiler, work in a new programming language, or hack a fast approximate solution to an NP-complete problem.
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 running on Parse.
We are four very technical cofounders who have been early employees or founders at successful startups. No matter your background, you will learn a lot working with the team at Parse.
We offer significant equity, market salary, fully covered health insurance, your choice of equipment, but most importantly the opportunity to reinvent how applications are built.
Please get in touch - email [email protected] Find out more: https://www.parse.com/jobs
[+] [-] ivanzhao|14 years ago|reply
Inkling is a publishing startup. We are a new medium, the future of books and publishing (currently with a focus in textbooks on iPad); our platform is so good that completely leaves ebooks in dust, and even most major publishing houses are invested in us.
We are pretty much hiring in ANY POSITION - from the JavaScript/Python/Scala/iOS to UI/UX design to marketing to product management. We are Sequoia-backed and just recently secured another round of $17 million funding.
The team is lean and flat. Located in the downtown SF, TV-celebrity chef in house, best gym in town, plus generous salary and options.
http://www.inkling.com/jobs/openings/
Contact me if you are interested ([email protected])
[+] [-] physcab|14 years ago|reply
Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Account Manager, Sales, Full-time, Part-time, Intern, Contract
New Office Pics!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/69285966@N05/
Let's face it, as an engineer you can work ANYWHERE. You are in demand and if you're good you know it. You don't want to take the time to interview unless you know a company will be good for you.
At Kontagent, we believe that culture is everything. We have a strong community here and people are excited to come into the office. We're tackling big problems, but more importantly we're having uuuuubber amounts of fun doing it. Honestly, its a blast. Your co-workers will be some of the smartest people you know, but also some of the nicest.
We have:
- A game room for the Rockband literate
- A kitchen stocked with delicious food and drinks
- Nerf guns
- Wine and Cheese Thursdays
- Clients that can't run their businesses without us
- A new office with incredible views
- Catered lunch daily and team lunch Fridays
- Beer
- An ACTUAL work-life balance Read this for more information: http://bit.ly/n4BWGg
If interested, contact me at the e-mail listed in my profile.
[+] [-] iandanforth|14 years ago|reply
Numenta is building a large-scale, next generation distributed analytics engine, based on some pretty cool biologically inspired algorithms.
You
* Love data * Have helped scale a web service * Consider yourself a full-stack developer * Know JS, Python, Java or C++ * Care deeply about good design
We
* Pay well! Give stock! * Have a stellar team of proven entrepreneurs * Are well funded, pre-launch. (Stealth mode woo!) * Are committed to making a huge positive impact in the world
You should:
Check out our founders book: http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-ebook/
Apply!
Resume and cover letter to [email protected]
[+] [-] kabir_h|14 years ago|reply
The Echo Nest powers amazing music apps with our API, including apps from the BBC, MTV, iHeartRadio and other music services you use and love.
We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you can help shape the future of music. Come meet the whole company and see what it's like this weekend at Boston Music Hack Day: http://boston.musichackday.org/2011/
The after party is at our offices and Questlove is playing. How many of your company parties has Questlove played?
Jobs:
Engineer
Junior Engineering Intern
Music Information Retrieval Scientist
Senior Engineer
http://the.echonest.com/company/jobs/
[+] [-] makeramen|14 years ago|reply
We're looking for more engineers and salespeople to help us revolutionize healthcare through mobile and web interfaces. Our stack includes Python/Django, iOS, Android, but you don't need to be an expert, just ready and willing to learn fast!
Our product supports thousands of doctors who depend on our systems daily to provide quality care to their patients, iPad in hand.
The usual startup benefits included: competitive salary, healthcare, whatever hardware you need to be most productive.
email: jobs@[our-domain-name].com
http://drchrono.com/jobs/
[+] [-] davidtyleryork|14 years ago|reply
Love games? We have a job for you.
Betable is looking for a self-motivated, full-stack senior software engineer to join our founding team. We want someone who is passionate about web development and can help us build a world class platform.
Betable is committed to challenging the status quo by building disruptive technology that helps developers monetize their creativity in a very lucrative, proven way. We expect that millions of people around the globe will engage with this product & that it will transform at least two multi-billion dollar industries - gambling & gaming.
The company is backed by Atomico Ventures, the venture capital fund started by the founders of Kazaa, Skype & Rdio, Niklas Zennistrom & Janus Friis, as well as various top tier angels. Our Advisory Board includes Chris Larsen, Founder of Prosper and E-LOAN, Roger Dickey, EP/GM at Zynga and Founder of Mafia Wars and Fishville, Owen O’Donnell, CFO of Betfair, CFO of King.com, CFO of the Financial Times and Director of Rank Interactive, and Ash Muarya, Lean startup evengelist and author of, “Running Lean.”
We are looking for people who are great coders in any language and are flexible to adapt. We need those with both platform experience to build our API and front end experience to build our suite of consumer facing sites.
We offer great compensation, flexible scheduling, and a fun, hard-working startup atmosphere. If you're interested, drop us a line at [email protected] to find out more.
[+] [-] Aloisius|14 years ago|reply
SeatMe is hiring! We're a cozy 13 person startup in downtown San Francisco. We're revolutionizing the restaurant industry and we need your help! We're in search of:
How often do you get a chance to work at a tech startup where eating out can be written off as a tax-refundable business expense? Well not here, because our CEO would go to jail (and he's never going back to the big house), but we do work in an awesome intersection of technology and fine dining.We offer a very competitive salary, benefits, moving costs and equity options for all full-time employees.
Apply online - http://www.seatme.com/jobs/
Questions - [email protected]
[+] [-] kemayo|14 years ago|reply
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 keep posting this ad because we have some open-ended hiring intended to grow the company. Available developers are currently a bottleneck on the projects we can work on, and we'd like to change that.
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
[+] [-] transmit101|14 years ago|reply
At Mixlr, we’re currently looking to meet developers.
Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including some of the world’s top DJs and radio stations. We also have an interesting and scaleable backend architecture which involves not only Ruby but lashings of Java, C and C++, with heavy usage of Redis and MongoDB.
We practice test-driven development, use Puppet to automate our server configuration and live by the mantra of rapid deployment: join us, and you can expect to see your code being put through its paces by thousands of users - within hours (or quite possibly, minutes).
We would love to meet developers with:
- deep web development knowledge - most likely involving Ruby on Rails.
- a strongly test-driven approach to coding.
- a love for learning new skills and technologies, and the enthusiasm to break out of Ruby and try their hand at unfamiliar languages and frameworks.
- a driving passion not just for coding, but for audio, music and startups as well.
For the right person(s), we are able to offer:
- A competitive, full-time salary - negotiable dependant on experience.
- Meaningful stock options.
- Offices a stone’s throw from Old Street tube.
- The opportunity to take a leading, hands-on role in building an exciting and ambitious music company.
If the above interests you, or you’d like to discuss anything further, then we’d love to talk. Contact me: rob <somehow> mixlr.com.