Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)
181 points| whoishiring | 13 years ago | reply
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184757
181 points| whoishiring | 13 years ago | reply
Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184757
[+] [-] JunkDNA|13 years ago|reply
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization.
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We are seeking an experienced software development professional to join our small, highly focused, entrepreneurial R&D application development group within the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a member of our team, your technical expertise can have an immediate impact on patient care through our mission to accelerate pediatric research with novel applications and data solutions. Furthermore, your work here has the potential to impact the future of healthcare through our research into software solutions supporting genome-enabled personalized medicine. Our research mission fosters an environment where creativity and exploration of new technologies are promoted and encouraged.
Likely candidates should have solid experience and working knowledge in three or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, or Scala experience is highly desirable) and be comfortable with one or more relational database platforms.
Our dynamic academic research environment demands an individual with exceptional written and oral communication skills who can rapidly translate requirements from a variety of disciplines into intuitive, high quality software solutions that support our strategic vision.
Candidates with prior experience in the biomedical field, especially using highly complex genomic data and/or data from electronic health records are very desirable. Participation in one or more public open source projects is an added bonus.
Full details and application here: http://bit.ly/cbmijob1
[+] [-] apaprocki|13 years ago|reply
http://www.openbloomberg.com/jobs http://www.bloomberg.com/ux
There are many jobs open at Bloomberg, but I'm particularly looking for intelligent software engineers and UX professionals to work under the CTO and Infrastructure team in R&D. We do a huge variety of things and we like to run our teams with a startup results-driven feel.
We are primary consumers of billions of incoming pieces of data daily and redistribute it to over 180 countries on one of the largest private networks in the world, producing software which provides discovery, analytics, visualization and much more.
Contact me if you want to discuss at [email protected].
If you want to chat in person, we are a sustaining sponsor of NYTM and are at all the meetups. I'll be at GothamJS and dotJS later this year. Also, Matt Turck @ Bloomberg Ventures runs the NY Data Business Meetup at our offices every month and I'm almost always there.
[+] [-] tptacek|13 years ago|reply
If you're debating reaching out about this role: DO IT.
[+] [-] dget|13 years ago|reply
Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.
Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.
Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet.
Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.
Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later.
As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.
If you're interested, shoot us an email at [email protected], with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.
You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/),
[+] [-] streeter|13 years ago|reply
Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance.
At Educreations, we've made it simple for anyone to teach online. Teachers and students are loving our app and using it to share their knowledge with the world. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are looking to grow the team.
If you want to make a dent in the universe and are a strong Python hacker, have experience with Objective C or are an awesome designer, we want to talk to you.
http://www.educreations.com/careers/#jobs or http://educreations.wufoo.com/forms/join-educreations/
We are looking for:
[+] [-] jedberg|13 years ago|reply
We have a ton of jobs open, but I'm particularly looking for Site Reliability Engineers. After yesterday's Amazon outage, you can see we still have some work to do.
Looking for someone who can code who also has experience driving unix. At the interview we ask you to code on the whiteboard and also tell us how to troubleshoot Linux.
Netflix is an awesome place to work with lots of smart people and top of market pay (and free movies!).
http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=oHxbWfw5
[+] [-] bcrescimanno|13 years ago|reply
We have similar openings in our Mobile / Tablet group and working on the website if TV doesn't suit your fancy. Great team, fun people, great pay.
http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=orV9Wfwb
[+] [-] beaucronin|13 years ago|reply
P(K) is a small team in downtown San Francisco pushing the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning to the masses. Our first product is Veritable, a predictive database. We like to think of it as a database for things you don't (yet) know.
We're passionate about discovering the hidden causes behind data, and are currently split pretty evenly between machine learning experts, scalable systems engineers, and people used to working with horribly messy, complex, and sparse data. We're backed by Peter Thiel's grou, Founders Fund, who share our commitment to long-term technical innovation.
http://priorknowledge.com/join-us describes a bit more about what we're looking for, and you can always e-mail me ([email protected]) for more info! Or swing by our offices at the intersection of 3rd and Market to meet the team.
[+] [-] wensing|13 years ago|reply
We are a profitable, bootstrapped company disrupting the $1 billion weather business with a unique, counter-intuitive product used by 6 million people last year. Our clients include many of the world's largest companies--and the White House bunker. More and more often I can drive down the road, point to a sign or a truck and say 'hey, they use Stormpulse!'. It's fun.
We are designers. We are independent. Our mapping and weather data systems have been written from scratch. We have a vision to take our product far beyond what anyone else has ever seen or imagined in the weather space, which effects every person on the planet.
Our platform is written in Python, JavaScript (jQuery, backbone, bootstrap), nginx, Postgres, PostGIS, Flash, haXe, MySQL on Amazon EC2 + S3.
We are Matt, Brad, Josh, and Bryan. Come create with us: [email protected]
[+] [-] iamdave|13 years ago|reply
Good luck with your hunt!
[+] [-] maxinep|13 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] mehuln|13 years ago|reply
Flutter (http://flutterapp.com) is looking for engineers & designers interested in innovating, crafting, and solving very challenging problems.
We recognize gestures over the webcam, and our first app Flutter allows you to control iTunes & Spotify using gesture.
Check it out on Mac App Store. We are looking for folks interested in computer vision, machine vision, using JavaScript to integrate gestures into browsers both computers and tablets.
Here's our link to iTunes Mac App Store page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flutter/id522248613?mt=12
JavaScript Engineer, Node.js, jQuery C or C++ Engineer Python Engineers Engineers with experience in Hadoop/MapReduce with Machine Learning and writing API & SDK - Gaming Engineer - Design and build gesture based games Visual Designers - this is a unique challenge to design UI for gestures based interaction world.
We are still a small team, so you will have opportunity to set direction of the company both eng/product wise. You will learn, you will be challenged, you will have to strain your brain, and in many cases, solve problems that seem impossible! I
If you're up for challenge than send an email to jobs [at] flutterapp.com.
[+] [-] avibryant|13 years ago|reply
We're building tools to understand Etsy's marketplace and help Etsy's 800,000+ active sellers operate better, more efficient businesses. We need hackers who can learn enough economics to ask the right questions, enough about large-scale data analysis to find the answers, and enough about how our users think to present the answers to them in ways they'll understand.
Etsy has offices in Brooklyn, NY, but being remote is the default for this team. Contact me at [email protected] if you want to talk.
[+] [-] phillmv|13 years ago|reply
How hard has it been for you to hire? Curious developer seeks more anecdotes to complement pet theories regarding current labour market.
[+] [-] tptacek|13 years ago|reply
What more can I tell you?
(We're always hiring: http://www.matasano.com/careers --- we love talking to devs from HN.)
[+] [-] rms|13 years ago|reply
Well, it seems the marketplace has updated somewhat more towards paying programmers what they are worth.
[+] [-] snowmaker|13 years ago|reply
Scribd (social publishing, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.
We've hired TWO people from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!!
We're looking for people who want to work with:
* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)
* Javascript
* iOS
* Machine Learning / Data mining kinds of problems
* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, analytics
That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.
We're very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.
Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.
Looking for full-time and INTERN hires (junior year or older). H1B and relocation are no problem. See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
[+] [-] rw|13 years ago|reply
Front-end developer
About us: QLabs is a tech incubator based in Noho, NY. We’re a small group of hackers who rapidly prototype new products every 10 weeks, then test them in the market for long-term potential. Our primary focus is the consumer web, though we experiment across a broad spectrum (e.g. hardware).
We have corporate backing, which means competitive salaries, corporate perks, and full benefits.
Our management structure is extremely flat: we succeed or fail as a team.
Our office is arguably the coolest place to work in New York: It's a 22,000 sq. exposed-brick loft, which we share with Codecademy, Turntable.fm and MoviePass.
We’re about to graduate our first product, Huntsy, and are proving an exciting new model for incubating startups.
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About you: We are searching for a developer with front-end expertise to join our NYC team.
We are constantly vetting and integrating the latest technologies into our development stack, so you may be the person we’re looking for if:
Send your resumé, your github and links to the project(s) you’ve built that you’re most proud of to [email protected][*] Our current project uses ember.js for the entire frontend.
[+] [-] olivercameron|13 years ago|reply
Ruby on Rails Engineer
We are looking for people who can work up and down the web stack and who can pick up new languages quickly. If you are a super smart generalist who can work on the servers one day and optimize complex algorithms the next, we want to hear from you. You will be our first non-founder web engineer and will work directly with the founders.
Ability to work from our Backbone.js front-end to our Ruby on Rails back-end is a must. Experience with server management and databases is a plus. Some days you will help keep the servers up and others you will be adjusting algorithms and designs that affect 100s of thousands of people.
We're currently a tiny team of 5, and have an open and friendly culture, where ideas are encouraged to be shared by everyone. Did I mention that we have a ping-pong table?
We're building something incredibly meaningful. Everyme is bringing together families, couples and best friends who otherwise wouldn't communicate. This isn't just another social network, but a significant mission to change how people share. Candidates will hopefully understand and have a passion for privacy, not to mention have an appetite for going up against Goliath.
We are well funded by top-tier VCs and angels, including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, CrunchFund, SV Angel and more. Come and join our small team of 5, which includes ex-Facebookers, ex-MySpacers, and successful iPhone and Android app developers. We offer market salary, generous equity and awesome perks!
To apply, please get in touch with me or email [email protected]! More roles open at http://everyme.com/jobs
[+] [-] rickyyean|13 years ago|reply
We've built the best way for businesses to get fast, actionable data about their social media accounts. Tens of thousands of businesses use us every day, including Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies, coffee shops, sports teams, rappers, politicians, and more.
Some more things about us:
-We have a legit technical team including two Stanford engineers with backgrounds in machine learning, human-computer interaction, and databases.
-We believe in simplicity, minimalism, and creating things that are a joy to use.
-We're here to help businesses use social media to build real relationships, not spam, and we’ll never compromise on that.
-We're funded by some of the best early-stage investors in the valley, including SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, Y Combinator, and several early investors and employees of Facebook, Twitter, and Slide.
What we'd like to see from you:
-While your peers might describe you as a rockstar, the term embarrasses you. We love rockstars (many of them are Crowdbooster users!), but we've made a conscious decision to have a culture that revolves entirely around our product, not our egos.
-You've wrestled with big data before. Crowdbooster requires storing terabytes of data, extracting insights using statistical learning techniques, and making it available to our users in real-time.
-That said, you like working at every level of the stack, not being pigeonholed as a backend developer.
-You care a lot about the products you ship, and don't need a manager or "product guy" to motivate you to get every detail right.
-You're familiar with several parts of our stack, and willing to learn the rest. We use Python, Django, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, jQuery, Protovis, RabbitMQ, Celery, HAProxy, EC2, git, and more.
-You have projects of your own to show us. It doesn't matter whether it's an open source project, a startup idea, or just a really fun toy project. Just as long as you shipped it.
If this fits you, definitely email us at [email protected]
[+] [-] asterix|13 years ago|reply
Neo provides affordable car loans to consumers new to credit, such as youth and recent immigrants, by assessing their credit risk based on real-time financial and social data as these individuals have not yet built up a credit score. (Yes, it is about time somebody tried this, and we have the chops to do so)
We are a team of three, with high profile advisors. We have seed funding from a top VC. Our beta product is ready. We are gearing up to launch our pilot loan program in coming days.
We are looking for a serious hacker to join our core team and help us execute our pilot loan program. This is an opportunity to get involved in a cutting edge consumer risk analytics project that aims to disrupt the US credit system. Plus, consumers are our customers, so the project also involves working on all the cool tools consumers expect these days (web, mobile, social, etc). As a very early member of our team, you will have direct input into many of the decisions that will affect the future of our company
Drop me a note at [email protected] if you are interested.
[+] [-] eshvk|13 years ago|reply
I have been working in the Applied Research team here @ StumbleUpon for the past 3 weeks and it has been a fun ride so far. They are hiring folks in three different areas (Search and Recommendation, Analytics and Applied Research). We are looking for folks who have been doing a lot of ML( recommendation systems, statistics), search and have experience scaling up (E.g. Hadoop). Refer : http://www.stumbleupon.com/jobs for more descriptive details.
Although we have been here for a while, we have been doing significant changes to our system which will be an exciting opportunity for some one to own and work on large scale machine learning projects. The company is profitable, has the usual goodies (nice salary, 401K match, gym, Uber/Commute reimbursement etc). Anyways, if any of this sounds interesting to you, email me @ [email protected] and I will answer any of your questions and help get you in touch with the right recruiters ASAP.
[+] [-] seldo|13 years ago|reply
With 50% of traffic now driven by social media, and referrer information increasingly useless with mobile clients and HTTPS, traditional web analytics are no longer working. awe.sm is building full-featured social media conversion tracking and analytics.
Right now and in the medium term, we're providing immediate value to our customers by giving them firm numbers on the ROI of their social media efforts, in terms of dollars, signups, pageviews or any other metric they pick. Our APIs allow app developers to easily integrate social features into their products and easily present the analyzed data back to their own customers, without having to build their own processing clusters and workflows.
Longer term, we want to know what's important on the Internet, and we believe that instrumenting social behaviour is the way to do that.
We're looking for back-end engineers who are interested in learning how to handle large volumes of data for aggregation, geo analysis, and graph analysis, in close to real time. Our stack is mostly PHP and Ruby right now (I know, I know) but we believe in picking the right tool for the job and are not afraid to use new tech.
We're also looking for front-end developers to continue to build out our GUI, which is a backbone JS app built on top of the same APIs our customers use.
http://totally.awe.sm/jobs?source=hackernews
We're 13 people right now. We have a cool new office with awesome views ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/seldo/6326815086/in/photostream ) in the heart of the Mission. We have catered lunches, and full health, vision and dental coverage. We use an IRC server for team communication and are agile in the sense that we move quickly and react fast, not in the sense of having attended an overpriced training course.
[+] [-] mmihaljevic|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sofuture|13 years ago|reply
Canvas Networks (USV Funded) is looking for engineers #3 and #4 to join a small close team building the rich-media community platform of the future. Our stack in Python/Django/MySQL/Redis/a whole-lot-of JS/EC2 but we're generalists and looking for the same, so it doesn't matter what specific tools you've used before.
The job title says "Software Engineer" but really we're looking for "Software Entrepreneur" or a "Startup Engineer". Shipping a great feature is important, but positively changing user behavior is the ultimate success criteria. Built-to-spec takes a backseat to moves-the-metrics.
Free lunch, flexible hours, one of the biggest arcades in Manhattan (3 cabinets!), competitive salary and benefits, take-what-you-want vacation.
More details and how to apply: http://canv.as/jobs
[+] [-] tonydev|13 years ago|reply
Peddl - http://www.peddl.com
Jobs - http://www.peddl.com/jobs
– About Peddl –
Peddl makes selling as easy as snapping a photo. With the push of a button, Peddl automatically prices and categorizes whatever it is you’re selling, creating an instant online storefront which accepts credit card payments. Peddl turns the mobile device into the most efficient tool for selling things to the people around you.
We’re a small team spun out of the MIT Media Lab set to change the way people think about buying and selling second hand goods online and we aren’t stopping until it’s done. Learn more about the founding team at http://www.terrarium.io
– Current Positions –
Back End Engineer:
We’re building a next generation transaction platform which brings insanely simple payment to the masses. We care deeply about both external and internal craftsmanship of our products and look for candidates that do too.
Android Engineer:
We’re looking for a talented front-end engineer to help us create best in class mobile apps for Android and iOS. We care about every pixel and look for candidates that do too.
Growth Hacker:
We’re looking for an exceptional marketer with a high level of exposure to technology and experience with code. We believe that marketing, product, and engineering work together to make the product market itself.
Intern:
We are looking for a handful of super smart, passionate interns who have serious interest in local marketplaces. If you’re interested in app development, the mobile web, and have a sense for great design, Peddl has a spot for you.
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More information and application instructions can be found at http://www.peddl.com/jobs
[+] [-] midas|13 years ago|reply
Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. We're a team of four who are passionate about reinventing how people search, discover, and purchase products.
Crawling & indexing millions of pages per day is not an easy task, but you're good at it. You enjoy optimizing systems, making them perform faster, and appreciate git commits where more code is removed than is added. Our backend stack currently consists of Postgres, Celery, Django, and ElasticSearch. We need to be able to handle billions of data points, and hope you can build something to that can do much more.
Small puzzle with instructions to apply:
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