Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
256 points| whoishiring | 13 years ago
Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379
256 points| whoishiring | 13 years ago
Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379
[+] [-] spicyj|13 years ago|reply
We're a non-profit whose 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 700mm total so far), all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises), and our videos (now from a variety of authors including Sal) have been viewed over 190mm times. We're tracking all that data and using it to customize each student's experience as well as building brand-new tools like our new programming environment (http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/). We could use your help.
Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine, and we've been called by Wired one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157078.
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/careers
[+] [-] nnash|13 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] czue|13 years ago|reply
Dimagi
Role: Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder
At Dimagi, your work can take you literally anywhere. We're looking for talented, adventurous coders to dive in to one of our core mobile health platforms already affecting hundreds of the world's poor and underserved. Our team of top-notch coders has on-site experience in over 20 countries covering East Africa, Central Asia, South America, and the Indian subcontinent, and travel is an important part of every developer's experience. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction over the bottom line makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, and keeps us all honest about what we're in it for.
http://www.dimagi.com/careers
You can also read about our company's recent month in Brazil here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/adam-bluestein/letting-em... (HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589978)
[+] [-] clueless123|13 years ago|reply
*I am a Python/Django dev, temporarly(~2 more years) in Lima Peru and very familiar with the healthcare domain space.
[+] [-] svec|13 years ago|reply
Silicon Labs is hiring in downtown Boston for our low power wireless networking team. Silicon Labs acquired Ember in July of 2012, which is where this team came from.
We do it all (we design the chips, hardware, firmware, and software), and we have a lot of fun doing it. I've been at Silicon Labs / Ember for more than 3 years and I love it. It's most socially healthy place I've ever worked.
We've got a number of positions open, including:
* Embedded Software Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* Networking Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* Tools Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
* QA Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...
Please email me directly if you'd like any info: [email protected]
[+] [-] noahbrier|13 years ago|reply
Percolate is a very quickly growing SAAS company in NYC. We are building a tool that helps brands create content across social. What makes us unique is that we're the only platform that doesn't already assume a brand knows what to say. To help them figure that out we pull data from across the web and make recommendations on interesting content (whether their own or third-party) that might be interesting at any moment.
We're looking for backend (all levels) and frontend engineers (we run backbone.js alongside our RESTful API) to join the team (the company is 21, product team is currently at 12). On the backend, we're especially interested in folks with good experience working with lots of data and excited to build real-time systems (we run python).
Here's a few reasons why you should come work here: - You are gonna work in SOHO on Broadway - Your chance to work with big data - You come in early: We're only-and-a-half a year old - As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at - We are all different and we love it - GPL compliant company - You choose your workstation - You choose your tools - No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental - No vacation policy - does not mean no vacation ;) - Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences - We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage - Your voice will be heard
If you're interested email us at [email protected]. If you have any questions you can email me directly at [email protected] Thanks.
[+] [-] drats|13 years ago|reply
This seems like you'd want to explain it a little more, given plenty of other companies cover flights to conferences and while that's a nice perk nobody considers it to be a vacation.
[+] [-] jayzalowitz|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] 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 believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.
As a first step, we've made it easy for teachers to create amazing online video lessons. Our top-ranked app transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and students are using it daily to learn from each other anytime, anywhere.
We're looking for some rock stars to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are funded by Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels.
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:
[+] [-] jamieiles|13 years ago|reply
The Ksplice group at Oracle
Does writing Python clones of your favorite childhood computer games sound like a fun weekend project? Would you hack on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time? Have you ever told a joke whose punch line was a git command? If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
About us
We are a small, tight-knit team of 12 women and men excited to work on technology that most people will tell you is impossible: updating an operating system kernel while it is running. Our product, Ksplice Uptrack, is a subscription service for Linux that provides completely non-disruptive, rebootless kernel updates. (You can read more about the underlying technology at http://www.ksplice.com/paper)
We're looking for a full-stack engineer with strong Python experience: Help us bring the Ksplice Uptrack client to new Linux distribution releases, improve our server infrastructure, and develop and extend our REST API and Django-based web interface.
If this technology excites you, let's talk! Feel free to direct questions to me at [email protected] or to [email protected]. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer.
[+] [-] SoftwareMaven|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ladon86|13 years ago|reply
FULLTIME or INTERN in SAN FRANCISCO, CA
ClassDojo is used by over 4mm teachers and students to manage behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup with $1.6mm in funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. Paul Graham invested in us, but we didn't do YC.
We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:
Or email [email protected]. You can read about the work and environment here: http://www.classdojo.com/jobsWe are looking for:
If you think you're a good developer but don't fit into those buckets, get in touch anyway.[+] [-] ofmofm|13 years ago|reply
We create tools and services that help optimize the day-to-day of music professionals: labels, artists, etc. We use the latest technologies in order to rapidly iterate and build the best possible product for our users. We are a small company of around 20 creative people and our lean structure allows us to move fast, cut the crap, and ship.
We are not afraid to try new things: our labs team has written audio decoders in JavaScript for MP3, ALAC, FLAC, and AAC, along with a pitch detector. We know the difference between production code and research code. We love open-source and it loves us back.
The ideal candidate has:
* Expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and related technologies.
* Familiarity with modern tools, such as Git, SCSS, and other.
* Experience with agile methodologies, TDD, sprints and poker planning, daily stand-ups.
* An opinion. We want you to argue about the right way to do things. If something isn’t up to our level of quality, we expect an intervention.
* Excitement about music and desire to work in this area.
Our stack includes:
* Ruby on Rails 3
* Nginx + Passenger
* PostgreSQL
* Full text search
* Message queues
* JQuery
* Backbone.js
* Git
We’re offering you a full-time, permanent position in New York City to create the second product of our music platform (ask us for details).
If you think you’re fit for the job, ping us at [email protected] and let’s talk!
[+] [-] shadchnev|13 years ago|reply
Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.
We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.
We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise. Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/jobs/lead-developer-for-various...
Email me at [email protected] for details.
[+] [-] wilfra|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dubisaweapon|13 years ago|reply
Did you know there's a company based in Soho that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?
You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. 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're 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 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!
Dave Hahn [email protected] http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
[+] [-] ozataman|13 years ago|reply
Looking for Haskell developers
We prefer local candidates, but may accept remote for specific cases or arrange for relocation
Soostone is a SaaS technology provider for advanced customer segmentation, targeting and experience personalization capabilities for e-commerce clients around the world. We go above and beyond the market norms in the amount of data captured/analyzed and depth of specific capabilities built into our platform in order to take advantage of optimization opportunities for our clients.
Located in NYC, we are looking for folks who:
- would be excited to use Haskell for 90%+ of their work producing highly scalable commercial software
- have a strong command of Haskell and its various abstraction concepts to produce working commercial code from the get go
- are execution oriented and enjoy producing working code fast
- have a solid software design sense, good judgement and an interest in plugging into the discussions on design/architecture of challenging new capabilities
- have an interest in working on a variety of problems, including big data crunching, large scale real-time computations, application of machine learning algorithms, performance and scalability and web/ui development.
- may have an interest in data analysis and application of machine learning, statistical and/or AI concepts
If you are interested, we'd love to have a conversation. Just shoot us an e-mail at [email protected].
[+] [-] Cieplak|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] glou|13 years ago|reply
Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.
Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We've got a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (might be the coolest office you'll find in NYC). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year. VC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins among others.
We're looking to hire rockstar rails, front end and back end developers.
More details here: http://www.quirky.com/about/careers
If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com.
Relocation is definitely available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
[+] [-] tarmigan|13 years ago|reply
The Stationary Storage team at Tesla Motors is growing and we’re looking for smart and versatile developers to add to the team. Our current team is very small and we’re looking for a hand-on, generalist who will get things done. You will work on a variety of subsystems, some are existing codebases (with other users and developers) that need modification for our application, while other projects are new and specific to our group. The team is small and you will be able to shape the direction of the product and a large amount of ownership of the firmware and software that is specific to this application ranging from architecture to implementation to testing.
Here are some of the projects that we see coming up soon:
* Embedded C on a microcontroller with an RTOS
* Communication over CAN, Ethernet, zigbee, and GSM networks
* Machine learning for analyzing and modeling energy systems (We’ve been using Matlab and Go, but would love to explore R, Hadoop, and AWS)
* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets (think Quant algos but controlling real hardware and moving energy instead of money).
* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources
* UI for customer facing control and data viewing
* Development of parsers/compilers/code-transformers/DSLs for templating and code generation.
While this isn’t the typical HN job, we could see many of these projects appealing to people who are excited about at least several of:
* Green Energy
* Physical hardware
* Parsers/Compilers/DSLs
* Machine learning/algos for people who don’t want to work in Finance
* A variety of languages and technology (in the last 6 months I have used C, Python, Perl, Go, Matlab/Octave, Tcl, VB, and in my small circle people are using Ruby, Java, php, R and probably others.) We are a small team working on energy and designing physical hardware (which you will control!), so our internal conversions are more likely to touch on “watt-hours” and “tooling costs” than “closures” and “apps”. We would love to see (but we have some positions that don't require these):
* Comfortable with embedded C
* Degree in Engineering or experience with Energy
If you are interested in this job please email [email protected]
There are also many more positions available in other groups at Tesla Motors, which you can see here: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/careers
[+] [-] HorizonXP|13 years ago|reply
Can you tell us more about what the stationary storage team works on? From the name, it sounds to be the systems that the user uses when they store the vehicle at the end of their trip?
[+] [-] HeyLaughingBoy|13 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] saumil07|13 years ago|reply
Dear (Future) LocBox Engineer,
It’s only October 1st and this thread has become so noisy that you’ve either a) resorted to keyword searches OR b) gone back to the 10 blank check offers you’ve received in the last 6 minutes OR c) rightfully concluded that YOU are the world’s most interesting man/woman.
With that in mind (and after this author has cried quiet tears about the cooler job market when they graduated MSCS ‘05), let’s get the relevant keywords out of the way: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Information Retrieval, CoffeeScript, Backbone, San Francisco, product/market fit, Local, Offline-to-Online, Predictable Revenue, Not-A-Game.
Now that generic recruiter-style keywords are published, let me attempt to stand out from the crowd - I’m CEO at LocBox (http://www.getlocbox.com) and we’re rethinking the way local businesses generate revenue and foot traffic from their customers.
Most local businesses resort to unsustainable daily deals or boring Email Marketing to acquire and retain customers. We reject that status quo and our hundreds of (paying) customers agree. We’ve also developed a new search/crawl/tech-centric way of acquiring our own customers and disagree with the wildly obsolete feet-on-street Sales model. The company is small but generating material and predictable revenue.
We’re venture-funded (2.5+ years cash in the bank), are working on interesting technology problems and pride ourselves on working hard, drinking bacon-flavored vodka and keeping bureaucrats out. And if you care about it, yes, we have a super-nice office with Bay Bridge views and non-mandatory Halo parties.
Talk to Us? http://www.getlocbox.com/careers, saumil at getlocbox dot com, http://blog.getlocbox.com
[+] [-] dman|13 years ago|reply
Work with core Python / Numpy / Scipy contributors.
Python development for scientific applications, financial applications and Python toolset development. Enthought has offices in Austin, New York, Cambridge, Mumbai. If you use Python and love numpy / scipy then Enthought would be a great place for you. Come work with numpy / scipy hackers on solving interesting scientific analysis and data visualization problems. We are building the next generation of Python development tools, so there is no shortage of interesting problems to work on. Send applications to [email protected] and mention that you saw this on the hacker news Oct 2012 thread. Looking forward to working with some of you. If you have any questions about Enthought, what jobs are on offer and what problems keep us up at night feel free to reach out to me at dsharma at enthought dot com
[+] [-] bryanh|13 years ago|reply
We want to bring the power of APIs to the masses and make all web apps talk to each other.
We're primarily Python & Coffeescript touching a bit of everything from Redis and ElasticSearch to Node.js and RabbitMQ. As far as we're concerned the stack is always in flux, we subscribe to no dogmas.
A full stack engineer would fit right in, and prior experience isn't a big deal: good hackers love learning new stuff (as do we, so we hope you can teach us awesome new things).
A designer with a UX background would also have major impact. Trying to represent the insane complexity around mapping disparate APIs is hard, but even more challenging is giving non-technical users the tools to do it.
We'd love to talk about the problems we're having, you can visit http://zapier.com/ and chat us up.
[+] [-] bigmac|13 years ago|reply
Some specific positions we'd love to fill:
Standing invitation to all security folks in the Bay Area or visiting: come have lunch with us at Square. We'd love to meet you and talk about what you're working on. It is almost certainly relevant to us. Contact me: mccauley [at] squareup.com[+] [-] donohoe|13 years ago|reply
Javascript (proficient with and without jQuery etc), JSON/APIs, CSS3, Web App, Mobile, with some PHP/similar
Quartz (http://qz.com) just launched last week. We're a global business news web site working out of Downtown NYC.
We're looking to grow the team (me + 3 devs + PM embedded with editorial). We have a lot to do - still heavy optimization on our current site (mobile first approach). We have a pretty ambitious idea of what we want to tackle and there is a lot to be done in terms of readability, user experience and ubiquity.
The job description below aims at an experienced fronte-end dev but I'd also consider fresher candidates too if they have a relevant portfolio.
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=168pV4wtpaJ4Iwu1g66E...
For some more background:
"Covering the World of Business, Digital Only" by David Carr
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/business/media/with-digita...
"Quartz: The new biz-news site is a technological and structural innovator, with only a few hiccups"
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/quartz-the-new-biz-news-sit...
"The Atlantic's Quartz: interesting … but will it make a profit?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2012/oct/01/the-atlantic...
Send resumes/links-to-previous-work to [email protected]
PDF, markdown, text preferred. Github, StackOverflow, LinkedIn profiles help.
[+] [-] jedberg|13 years ago|reply
Los Gatos, CA
I'm still looking for SREs who want to help me run the biggest subscription internet video service on the planet with better reliability than the cable providers.
If you're interested mail [email protected] and tell them you saw my post on Hacker News.
Here's the official job link: http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=NFX00315
[+] [-] sjg007|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nlavezzo|13 years ago|reply
FoundationDB (http://foundationdb.com) is fundamentally new database technology, built completely from the OS up. It is a NoSQL database (distributed, ordered key-value design) with high levels of fault tolerance and performance, but with the most important missing feature given up by other NoSQL databases - true ACID transactions. Our primary value proposition is that we give you the best of both worlds - the distributed design / scalability, fault tolerance, and flexible data models of NoSQL, and the strong data consistency guarantees of single machine relational databases.
We are well funded, and are currently in the latter stages of our alpha program and have a very long and impressive list of alpha users that includes "household" tech names. Public beta is expected soon.
Who we're looking for:
A software engineer to add to our core development team. The most important traits this person should have are a strong background in computer science, experience working with distributed systems, and a desire to work on and solve difficult problems in an interactive team setting. Some pluses would include C++ and Java experience. Must be a friendly person who enjoys working with other people as we are a very team-centric environment.
A Developer Evanglist - this person should have experience building interesting applications using popular technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. and be able to show us a few cool projects they've worked on. They should also be able to interact well with new people (they will be attending conferences on our behalf, visiting offices of other startups, etc.) and be well spoken, both in small groups and on stage giving presentations. Must also be willing and able to interact heavily with the developer community on popular social networking sites. The ability to write some thoughtful blog posts would be great as well. Ideally this person would be located in (or willing to move to) NYC or the Bay Area, so that we can have a more ongoing presence in those places.
Apply at [email protected]