Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
243 points| whoishiring | 14 years ago
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (May 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001
243 points| whoishiring | 14 years ago
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (May 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001
[+] [-] dgunn|14 years ago|reply
For example, if I am looking for H1B opportunities, ctl+f finds basically every listing because those who aren't willing to accept H1B say, "no H1B". If you don't accept these candidates, the convention assumes that by default. Don't explicitly say it.
[+] [-] kamens|14 years ago|reply
Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly.
Our students answer over 2 million math problems per day (over 500M total so far), all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises), and our videos (now from a variety of authors including Sal) have been viewed over 145MM times. We're tracking all that data and using it to customize each student's experience. We could use your help.
Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine.
We're hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.
http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs
[+] [-] sycren|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] phillytom|14 years ago|reply
Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We do real-time DOM modification on our clients’ sites to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.
About us:
* Founded in 2008
* Funded by First Round and OpenView
* Market comp
* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.
What we're looking for:
* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve problems
* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here
* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack
* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of deep problems to work on
We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/
We've hired great people from HN in the past.
Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com
[+] [-] jawns|14 years ago|reply
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
If you're just curious about life at Monetate or about the interview/hiring process, here are a couple of recent posts from our engineering blog that should be of interest:
http://engineering.monetate.com/2012/04/23/dom-doodles-from-...
http://engineering.monetate.com/2012/03/27/get-to-know-monet...
And if you'd like to find out if you have what it takes to get hired, feel free to try the CSS, Javascript, or Python mini-challenges at the top of our blog pages.
[+] [-] MattRogish|14 years ago|reply
We're a well-funded (angel, strategic - not VC), pre-revenue (just starting development, please help me! :D) company in NYC hiring awesome Rails and JS (Ember is nice, but not necessary) developers.
We believe strongly in quiet work environments, work whenever, wherever you want (http://www.gorowe.com), the best tools money can buy (unlimited computer/desk budget), 20% time to do whatever you want (but you must share it with the team), hiring smart people and getting out of their way, and generally making the best software company in the world.
We're hiring for engineers #1, 2, 3 - so at this time our core team should be either in NYC, or relocatable (we'll cover it!). As we grow the core team we'll be more flexible and able to take the culture hit a remote person brings, but not at this time, sorry!
I hope to hear from you. rogish [at] fundinggates dot com
[+] [-] lpolovets|14 years ago|reply
Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that developers, startups, and big companies can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We believe in openness and transparency rather than proprietariness and obfuscation. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense).
In late 2010, we raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers and partners include Facebook, Newsweek, Yelp, and Blekko. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.
We have job openings for software engineers of all levels. You would ideally know Java and/or Clojure, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.
If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it just opened in December of 2011 and is very small, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.
You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:
Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews
Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews
Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews
[+] [-] btucker|14 years ago|reply
Green River (http://greenriver.com) is looking for two experienced Rails developers to join our team. We're a Southern Vermont-based consultancy which was founded in 2000. We started writing production apps in Rails in '05 and have grown to a team of eight developers, two project managers, and a UX designer. We focus in the areas of Education, Health and the Environment, and have many great projects ranging from a scoring system Starbucks uses to facilitate the inspection of 90% of the farms they buy coffee from[1] to storytelling software for people with memory loss[2].
If these types of projects sound interesting, we'd love to hear from you. You'd have the option of either working out of our beautiful Vermont office overlooking the Connecticut River, joining our new Cambridge-based team, working remotely, or some combination thereof.
Email us: [email protected]
-Ben
[1]: http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/sourcing/coffee
[2]: http://www.timeslips.org/
[+] [-] btucker|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jblz|14 years ago|reply
Automattic is currently hiring for the following positions:
- Account Engineer - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/account-engineer/
- Code Wrangler - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/code-wrangler/
- Community Handyman - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/community-handyman/
- Designer - http://automattic.com/jobs/designer/
- Growth Engineer - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/growth-engineer/
- Happiness Engineer - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/happiness-engineer/
- Mobile Wrangler - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/mobile-wrangler/
- Systems Wrangler - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/systems-wrangler/
- Theme Wrangler - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/theme-wrangler/
We build WordPress.com, contribute to the WordPress Open Source project (http://wordpress.org) and work on a lot of other really cool stuff.
Join us if you are passionate about making the web a better place.
http://automattic.com/
http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
[+] [-] jarek|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] seanp2k2|14 years ago|reply
Let me know if you want to talk!
[+] [-] nedwin|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] seldo|14 years ago|reply
We're building conversion tracking for social media: think "Sendgrid for social media".
What's that mean? It means we're building a platform that lets other companies abstract away a complex problem that lots of people have been reinventing the wheel for: measuring traffic, page views, signups and sales generated by users sharing with each other on Twitter, Facebook et al. We have a bunch of APIs and are building more all the time, as well as a GUI that attempts to make our data easy to use.
We're hiring front-end engineers, back-end engineers, and those who fall into both categories, who we call "full stack" engineers:
http://awe.sm/jobs
On the back-end, we use a variety of languages including PHP and Ruby (and bash) to build high-performance, high-volume, real-time data collection and processing systems, connecting to a bunch of different data stores including MySQL, Redis and Sphinx. We are more concerned with the "smart and gets things done" type than a specific line on your resume, and are willing and eager to provide training and mentorship, both internal and external.
We're a team of 13, rising to 14-16 once we hire you people. Our perks include offices with an awesome view ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/seldo/6326815086/in/photostream ) at 22nd and Mission, catered lunch 3x a week, and a company IRC server, which should tell you a lot about the kind of devs we are.
[+] [-] eli|14 years ago|reply
Washington, DC (just off Dupont Circle)
Industry Dive builds mobile apps and websites that help business executives excel at their jobs. We're a young company with experienced founders and a bit of seed money. We are hard at work building out our publishing platform and creating apps for each industry vertical. Pull up constructiondive.com or utilitydive.com on your phone to get a rough idea of where we're headed. (I'll let you in on a little secret: B2B isn't as sexy as working on the next Instagram of Spotify, but there's a lot of money there and the B2B publishing industry is ripe for disruption.)
We've got a variety of projects that would be a good fit for a developer intern interested in web design, mobile apps, and/or stable and scalable architecture. Our primary stack is Python/Django (with a little bit of PHP), but being smart and eager to learn is more important than any prior specific technical skills.
We're also looking for editorial interns interested in aggregating content and writing features & news summaries.
Email eli-at-industrydive.com for details.
[+] [-] flyingyeti|14 years ago|reply
The Prometheus Institute is looking for developers to help architect and build our web and mobile infrastructure and support our goal of revolutionizing the way citizens interact with their government.
We a civic technology startup whose mission is to pioneer innovative software to advance freedom and civic engagement. We build tools, such as our iPhone app, Do-it-Yourself Democracy, that make it fun and easy to help citizens protect their freedoms and hold government accountable.
We are currently focused on rebuilding the DIY Democracy experience as a full web and mobile platform. Our technology stack is built around Python, Django, Postgres, PostGIS, Redis and similar tools.
Web Application Engineer: http://prometheuscivic.theresumator.com/apply/Tia2pG/Web-App...
Web Front-End Engineer: http://prometheuscivic.theresumator.com/apply/bYzV4d/Web-Fro...
[+] [-] j4mie|14 years ago|reply
DabApps is looking for a junior to mid-level software developer with minimum one year of experience. May suit graduate with internship or sandwich year experience.
DabApps is a growing company based in the centre of Brighton. We concentrate on web and mobile application development, and are passionate about producing high-quality work that we and our clients can be proud of. Our values are based on standards compliance and best practice and we are constantly working to improve and streamline our development process. We use open source technology wherever we can, and contribute back to the open source community as much as possible.
Below is a list of core technologies and skills we are looking for. We are not expecting any candidate to have experience or knowledge in all of these areas. What we are looking for is the ability and desire to learn in a self-motivated way to fill in the gaps in your knowledge as required.
Python, Django, Objective-C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Relational databases, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB or other NoSQL databases, Solr, ElasticSearch or other search solutions, "Big Data", distributed systems, data analysis/indexing, Linux server administration, Mac or Linux desktop experience, User experience analysis and design, prototyping
See http://dabapps.com/careers/current-vacancies/2012-04-softwar... for full details.
[+] [-] simonholroyd|14 years ago|reply
At GO TRY IT ON (http://gotryiton.com), we're developing a platform to help the world answer the question, "What should I wear?" We build slick iPhone apps and desktop experiences for a passionate and helpful community that spans the globe. We build fast API's to power social sharing and networking, and fashion discovery. We're growing a database that maps large datasets of user preferences to a growing fashion catalog of products from all over the web. We're working to harness and democratize the value of personal stylists through technology.
Tech we use: PHP, jQuery, Node.js, Compass, MySQL, S3, Chef, Capistrano, Jenkins, Github
We have: Series A funding from SPA investments and Index Ventures, a small, growing team of very smart people, a sweet office on the 21st floor with awesome panoramic city views [n: http://twitpic.com/6udocv, e: http://twitpic.com/6udp0j, s: http://twitpic.com/6udphj, sw: http://twitpic.com/6udpsx]
ios developer: http://gotryiton.com/jobs/ios
front end developer: http://gotryiton.com/jobs/front-end
*REMOTE & HB1 considered
Email [email protected]
[+] [-] adrianhon|14 years ago|reply
Mobile Engineer / Full Stack Engineer, Fulltime
We're the creators of Zombies, Run! (http://zombiesrungame.com), a running game and audio adventure for iOS. ZR was #1 Top Grossing Health and Fitness across the world for two weeks and continues to stay in the top 5; we have an Android version coming out soon and are working on extending and expanding the game.
We're a small team of five people, but we're growing rapidly off the success of ZR since we're already profitable and not reliant on any investors. At the moment we want to continue developing ZR across mobile platforms, as well as begin development on new and highly innovative mobile games.
You'll have the opportunity to make a big difference on the games that we make - games that aren't like anything that people have seen before. At $7.99, ZR is the most expensive game in the Top 200 Paid, and the third most expensive app after Apple's. In other words, we make games so attractive that people are prepared to pay eight times the going rate. That's our business model.
We're not interested in gamification or making casual games - we treat smartphones not as faster Gameboys, but as the very first wearable computers. Are you?
This position is for London, UK. Email hello (at) sixtostart.com
[+] [-] DavidChouinard|14 years ago|reply
Front-end (UI/UX) Developer
Here’s a profile of us from 37signals (we do flight tracking software, 2M+ pageviews a day): http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2780-bootstrapped-profitable-...
We have very interesting data visualization and UI problems and your work will reach millions of users. We've also released a bunch of open source projects. You get top-of-the-line Apple gear and our kitchen is always stocked with snacks and beverages, including a free (!) beer kegerator. We’re a fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.
We’ve been around for a while and are profitable, but we’re still growing like mad. Compensation is very competitive.
Who you are:
• You have a trail of cool projects you’ve worked on, including some you’ve written to scratch your own itch.
• You obsess over the design of everyday things, from door knobs to teapots or light switches.
• You have a passion for software and desire to change the world.
• You have excellent implementation skills, including deep expertise in Javascript (jQuery).
• You enjoy working on tricky UI problems with equally smart people.
You can apply on our website: https://flightaware.com/about/careers/position/frontend_deve... or shoot me an email: [email protected]
[+] [-] TwoSigma|14 years ago|reply
At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing.
We are looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork. We teach and learn from each other.
We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you.
[email protected] http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
[+] [-] chittis|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] mcholly|14 years ago|reply
We've got lots of engineering work to do, with some cool technologies like rails 3.2, html5, node.js and redis. We've got internal and external projects, and flexibility for you to settle in at any part of the stack. We look forward to the day when all the content on the web is interactive and we need help to make that happen. Help us get the ad world off flash and into html5.
We do interactive ads and ads pay. Spongecell is spryly booming with a 3 year growth of over 3,000% and a recent $10 million investment.
We've got a supportive and flexible development environment with a small but great team of experienced entrepreneurs, tech startup leaders, Railsconf and MySQL conference speakers, a competitive water skier, a restauranteur and a Starcraft wizard. We know where to get good sushi and like bacon and beer.
The company offers a very competitive pay, equity and benefits package along with flexible meatspace arrangements.
We need good additions to team. If you'd like to talk more send stuff here http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/spongecell/list or email at [email protected].
[+] [-] adoherty|14 years ago|reply
IMC Financial Markets is a proprietary trading firm. We're primarily a java shop but we're also looking for web devs and sys admin types. We're open to new technologies and open to change; your job will be to use whatever is available to solve the task at hand the best way, and not to waste time reinventing the wheel. Depending on what role you think you’d be best for, you will be writing code that runs on boxes colocated in exchanges all around the world, writing scripts that manage these boxes and tuning them for increased performance, or working on ways to improve testing our code.
Perks include: Opportunities to travel - we have offices in Amsterdam, Zug, Chicago, Sydney and Hong Kong
Commuter Benefits
Free Gym Membership
Annual Company Trip
A fun environment – Pool, foosball, ping pong
Massage Therapist on site everyday
Fully stocked kitchen, bar, breakfast, lunch all week, and a happy hour every Friday
You can apply on our website: http://www.imc-chicago.com/Financial-markets/Offices/Chicago... or shoot me an email: [email protected]
[+] [-] dmarble|14 years ago|reply
The founders are straight shooters who value clear communication and getting stuff done. We're obssessed with creating a product that fills what we see as a major hole in social networking software -- helping people more efficiently connect in real-life with close networks so they can spend more of their time building and enriching real relationships.
Technologies:
We need some knowledge/experience optimizing and scaling some or all of the above technologies to handle growth, and building real-time single-page architecture sites or mobile web.Immediate front-end needs include design and development of our desktop web and mobile web versions and giving thoughtful consideration to iPhone workflows as we get feedback from users.
Full-stack devs are needed to help optimize and expand our API, re-assess our real-time web architecture, add background processing for actions triggered by the API calls, optimize queries, and support what's going to potentially be a wild ride as we do launch events over the next few months.
gmail - davidmarble (main tech guy on the founding team)
[+] [-] MikeKaplan|14 years ago|reply
Retroficiency is a venture backed start-up that's developed cloud-based software to change the commercial energy efficiency game. We aim to put a significant dent in building energy consumption (more than 40% of the U.S. total), and our approach – driven by sophisticated energy analytics and rapid building modeling – is uniquely positioned to enable current manual processes and scale the evaluation of energy conservation measures like never before.
Want more proof we are the real deal? We just surpassed 100 million square feet evaluated in our first year of availability. We are growing rapidly and need great developer talent.
We are looking for great Front-end Software Engineers, Server-side Software Engineers and Web Developers
Check out our openings at: http://www.retroficiency.com/careers/
[+] [-] gustaf|14 years ago|reply
Voxer is a Walkie Talkie application for iOS and Android. We launched in 2011 and have since become the fastest growing mobile voice application in the world. We're also the largest user of Node.JS in the world.
What we've built is already an important part of the daily lives of millions of people. We're making voice communication faster, more efficient, and more social. Our goal is ambitious - we're building the next generation communication service at the intersection between phone calls and SMS.
We're a surprisingly small team doing this. Only about a dozen engineers who previously worked at Danger, Android, Apple, Twitter and Heysan(YC07). We helped build things like redis for node.js and are contributors to the node.js community.
Ryah Dahl talks about Voxer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
We use a lot of:
★ Node.js
★ Riak
★ Redis
We try to stay out of the spotlight and focus on building something amazing. The problems we're facing are at a scale only seen at companies like Twitter and Facebook and we're looking for exceptional people who can help us tackle them.
We're hiring for:
★ Node.js / Infrastructure Engineer
★ Analytics / Hadoop Engineer
★ Data Scientist
★ Android Engineer
★ Engineering Internship
★ Growth Engineer
★ iOS Engineer
★ iOS Product Manager
★ QA Client Automation Engineer
★ Engineering Recruiter / Talent Lead
http://voxer.com/jobs
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/popular-like-voxer/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/11/walkie-talkie-app-voxer- goes-big-ivp-and-intel-lead-30-million-round/