Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

[whoishiring]

Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653426

[sdevlin]

Matasano - New York City, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area

We test software for vulnerabilities.

Sorry, that's too clinical - the reality is that we torture and flay software, twisting it to serve our nefarious ends.

If that sounds like fun, consider applying.

NO PRIOR APPSEC EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED. Just a keen technical acumen and a thirst for blood.

Perks: crazy-smart coworkers, health benefits, free books, etc. For more information, visit http://www.matasano.com/careers/

FEED YOUR HEAD:

As a bonus, try your hand at this problem from our never-before-published set of crypto challenges: https://gist.github.com/sdevlin/52e1d8898bda7ad35567

It's not required, but writing code to solve this problem would be a good way to get our attention. For more information on the crypto challenges, visit http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/

[tptacek]

If you've only seen the first set of our crypto challenges (you have to finish the first 8 problems before you get the next set), and you're wondering what the remaining 56 (soon to be 64) problems are like, the crypto challenge Sean just posted is much more representative of the whole than anything in set 1.

We use set 1 primarily to weed out people who aren't serious about writing code.

[swordswinger12]

I'm working on that one right now. My solution will work but it seems very slow and painstaking - is there an insight I'm missing that will make for a more elegant algorithm?

[old-gregg]

We're Rackspace cloud infrastructure team. We solve hard problems building products that other developers use and love. We're looking for smart Linux/Python software engineers located in San Francisco, Austin or San Antonio. We'll relocate you if needed.

About our team:

    - We love Linux and open standards.
    - We solve problems with software and hardware. We love hardware.
    - Our favorite GUI is ssh/bash, preferably served grey on black.
    - We deploy to many data centers all over the globe.
    - We have a hot key for everything.
    - Some of us have never dragged or dropped anything.

About you:

    - You believe the actor-model concurrency is a better idea.
    - You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker.
    - You want to have an enormous impact on a product developers love.
    - You know what an architecture astronaut is and you're not one.
    - You want to learn from us and you have something to teach.
    - You've managed your own memory on multiple occasions (successfully).

We need help with:

    - Running software at scale. Running it well. We want to re-invent a data center.
    - Hacking on OpenStack/Python, especially on Nova.
    - Systems-level hacking: PXE Booting, BMCc, iDRACs, hardware management.
    - Controlling the new generation of network devices and SDNs.
    - Good knowledge of Python and Twisted is helpful but not mandatory.

Also, if you're a hacker who're generally unhappy with the state of cloud hosting - or generally with hosting - and want to do something about it, we want to talk to you.

Lets chat: [email protected]

[davidddavidson]

> - You believe the actor-model concurrency is a better idea.

Better than using stateful concurrency? If you have read "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" you would see that each approach is not necessarily "better", they each have their own unique advantages and disadvantages

To quote from CTM: The message-passing approach is often the best for multi-agent programs, i.e., programs that consist of autonomous entities (“agents”) that communicate with each other. The shared-state approach is often the best for data-centered programs, i.e., programs that consist of a large repository of data (“database”) that is accessed and updated concurrently. Both approaches can be used together for different parts of the same application.

[will_critchlow]

Distilled, London - Front End Developer

http://www.distilled.net/jobs/creative-front-end-developer/

Distilled is looking for a front-end developer to work on all sorts of fun projects. You’ll be a recent graduate or someone with a few year’s experience. We’re more interested in hiring the right person than the number of years under your belt.

You’d be joining a fun, sociable office with a great culture and work-life balance. Perks include weekly beer o’clock, bi-monthly parties, a Mario Kart room, table football, and a personal happiness & productivity budget (which you can choose to spend however you want - anything from training courses to noise-cancelling headphones and iPads).

£30,000 to £35,000 - with opportunity for rapid salary growth (we're also willing to consider any reasonable salary request). Applying takes 3 minutes - just send your CV and some examples of your work.

[salar]

Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No remote work – must be able and willing to work at our Amsterdam office.

Silk (www.silk.co) is looking for Javascript, TypeScript and Haskell engineers.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.

For more info & open positions: http://jobs.silk.co/

[zerr]

Interesting, it is several years since you've launched and still unable to sponsor a work permit/relocation? (especially considering that for Netherlands, it is quite easy).

[hyfen]

Toronto, ShopLocket

ShopLocket is the fastest way to add ecommerce functionailty to any web site, whether that's adding a simple shopping cart or taking preorders and charging later.

At ShopLocket, we're currently spending a lot of time on: - building a product that can live anywhere throught the magic of third-party Javascript - turning our simple service into an API that other developers can build on top of - designing a tool that gets out of the way when it has to but be intuitive and pleasant to use when it can't - investing in automated testing so that we can adapt our codebase without (too much) stress and deploy confidently - giving ourselves a quantified view into how both buyers and sellers use our platform

We do our work in Rails, AngularJS, Coffeescript, Sass, deployed on Heroku; however, we're reaching that exciting stage where we're running into some of the limits of what these tools can do well.

We're looking for a VP Engineering, Backend Developer, Front-end Developer.

In exchange for your passion and expertise, we can offer a competitive salary, a great office in downtown Toronto, full benefits, and access to a variety of stimulants and depressants, where legal and appropriate.

Please get in touch: [email protected]

[ZoFreX]

London, UK - full time mid-level and senior developers

Zipcar ( http://www.zipcar.com ) is the world's largest car-sharing company. We're trying to build a world where car club members outnumber car owners in major cities around the globe.

The mobile app is a key part of Zipcar's strategy for the future, so we have created a new mobile engineering team based in the UK.

We're looking for developers to help us take our mobile apps to the next level. Experience with mobile is a big plus of course, but we are more concerned with good general development skills - we can teach you the mobile stuff!

If you join us, you will be:

* Working on exciting 'greenfield' projects

* Writing native Android code

* Part of an empowered team making tough decisions about our infrastructure, technology, and working practices

* Working as part of an Agile Scrum team and helping us continuously improve our process and product

* Helping us define TDD best practices (prior TDD experience isn't essential)

We foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement, so if you enjoy teaching, sharing ideas, pair programming, and having time to read books at work, get in touch!

A longer description of our job openings is available here: http://jobvite.com/m?3xiT7gwA . You can apply through Jobvite or contact us at [email protected] with applications or any questions you have.

We are not interested in talking to recruitment agencies at this time.

[schoen]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is hiring a Web Developer and a Staff Technologist in San Francisco.

https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

[jslatts]

NYC or SFO Full-Time and Interns - Dev, Devops, Design - Major League Soccer Digital

MLS Digital is hiring developers, operations developers, and UX designers at all levels.

My team manages the development and operations for web, mobile web, and APIs across the entire league (20 sites) and the products we build are used by millions. We are very forward thinking for a sports league. Our CMS is built on Drupal and our matchcenter and APIs run on Node.js, and we are constantly evaluating new tools and technology.

Specific job descriptions are here: http://www.mlssoccer.com/jobs/opportunities, but the bottom line is that we are looking for people who are passionate about software and soccer. If this is you (even if the job descriptions don't match exactly) we would love to hear from you!

Drop me a line! justin dot slattery at mlssoccer.com or @jdslatts on twitter.

[DoubleMalt]

Vienna, AT - full time machine learning enthusiast

(local in Vienna, the city with the best quality of life in the world http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/972..., we can provide relocation assistance)

We, nextSociety Inc want to help people find and connect to the subset of their social network contacts that is actually relevant to them.

To achieve this we need people that like hard challenges, want to work with cutting edge natural language processing and machine learning tools, and know that to deliver value to the customer even the loftiest algorithms have to be glued together with solid software craftsmanship.

We are a python shop with the frontend written in Backbone for fast prototyping, but strongly believe that real programming talent is not language bound.

We have an office in the center of Vienna in walking distance to innumerable bars and pubs, regular happy hours and regularly host guest start ups to cooperate and learn from each other.

If you are interested or know someone who is, shoot me ([email protected]) or our CTO ([email protected]) a mail, recruiters shouldn't bother.

[westi]

Worldwide Telecommute / REMOTE Automattic is currently hiring for a variety of positions including for new VIP Wranglers

We are passionate about making the web a better place and are strong believers in Open Source. We build WordPress.com, contribute to the WordPress Open Source project (http://wordpress.org) and work on a lot of other really cool stuff including Gravatar and Akismet. Join us if you are passionate about making the web a better place.

Through our WordPress.com VIP program, we provide support, hosting, training, and other services to some of the biggest and best WordPress sites on the web. Our engineers (affectionately called VIP Wranglers) are responsible for providing support to all of our customers, building and shaping our products, and just generally Making Stuff Go.

Head here to read more - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/vip-wrangler/

We also have a number of other open opportunities - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/

[leeny]

Udacity - Mountain View - F/T

At Udacity, we're working on fixing higher education. Since our first online AI class (co-taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig), we've grown to hundreds of thousands of students and have course offerings in computer science, physics, biology, entrepreneurship and more.

We also recently the world's first accredited, top-notch CS master’s degree completely online for a fraction of the price in partnership with Georgia Tech. You can see HN discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509335

We're looking for:

- Front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineers. To read more about our stack and what we're working on, go here: http://qr.ae/NuSm7

- iOS engineers to work on our first-ever iPad offering

- A Curriculum Director to help us build out our first comprehensive computer science curriculum

Sounds interesting? Email [email protected]

[aturley]

Company: TheLadders (http://www.theladders.com)

Location: New York, New York

Position: Full-time on-site software engineer

We are looking for great software engineers to help us match people with the perfect jobs. If you are committed to building solid software as part of a cross-functional team, we would love to hear from you. Our current stack includes JavaScript, iOS, JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure), MySQL, Couchbase, ElasticSeach, and RabbitMQ. While it is nice to find people who have experience in these areas, the first qualities we look for are curiosity and a willingness to learn how to do new things.

As an engineer you will help us tackle big technical problems. We have millions of users and thousands of jobs, with historical data going back nearly a decade. In order to provide our users with an experience that they are willing to pay for, we need to build smart, scalable solutions. You will be at the heart of this, designing and building products using your skills and the best available technologies.

We are committed to taking care of our engineers. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and unlimited vacations. We also want to help our engineers grow. Inside the office you'll see this in things like our onboarding process (http://dev.theladders.com/2013/03/theladders-on-boarding-a-r...), code reviews, technical discussions, and our developer blog (http://dev.theladders.com). Outside of the office it will take the form of conferences and training programs, paid for by the company.

If you would like to learn more, please send me an email at [email protected].

[jboggan]

Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were recently named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience .

If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

You can email me personally at [email protected], or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Los Angeles/SF Bay Area Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

[jasontan]

Sift Science - San Francisco, CA. Full-time.

Sift Science (http://siftscience.com) uses large-scale machine learning to fight online fraud. It's a problem that cost U.S. merchants > $10B last year, and 70% of it is organized crime. Attacks have rapidly evolved in breadth and depth, but current rule-based systems don't scale. We're looking for engineers of all flavors -- distributed systems, web development, data visualization, and of course, machine learning. We're a tight-knit team that likes board games, yummy food, and solving challenging technical problems. Check out https://siftscience.com/jobs We're also looking for account managers, integration engineers, and someone to lead our B2B marketing efforts.

Feel free to email me personally - jason at siftscience dot com

[pallavkaushish]

There is no listed position for B2B marketer on the website. Are you guys open to H1B?

[joshAg]

what languages do you guys use primarily?

[frederickcook]

Moveline (TechStars NYC '12) is transforming an industry older than the internal combustion engine.

We’re looking for a solid full-stack javascript engineer who loves Settlers of Catan, remote development, and can tell the difference between an IPA and a Lager.

ABOUT US

We’re passionate about building software that dramatically improves the customer experience, end-to-end, around moving. Our web product is at the heart of it.

We are also working with a world-class set of investors and advisors, who you’ll have the opportunity to meet and interact with on a regular basis.

ABOUT YOU

- You are fluent in Javascript – our stack is MEAN: Mongo/Express/Angular/Node (and Backbone) – and you are interested in Golang, which we're using to build out some sweet services

- You are passionate about code and elegant solutions as well as user experience, and want to work with others who are similarly so. You can’t sleep at night knowing you left something not DRY’d and tested

- You have architected and developed end-to-end products that are currently running business applications on a production environment

- You have an obsessive attention to detail

- You thrive when you are working closely with others on a small team

- You want to build stuff that solves real human problems

- You can explain the differences, chemical and philosophical, between a lager and an IPA

- You have a panic attack if you don’t push code before noon

- You don’t care that the moving industry isn’t sexy

- You would rather make money than make the front page of TechCrunch (though we do that too)

COMPENSATION

Market salary and meaningful equity is available. We’re primarily a remote engineering team, with the company (ops, marketing, customer service) based in Las Vegas in the heart of Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project. Hackers in Vegas or remote in the US welcome.

Full Time or Contract-to-Hire only please. No freelancers or recruiters need apply.

https://www.moveline.com/careers#senior-engineer or [email protected]

[krakensden]

Are you concerned at all that your job posting may be unnecessarily gendered? I understand that lots of people enjoy board games and beer, but in America they have a lot of strong associations with male-only culture.

[Schwolop]

How am I supposed to play Settlers with you if I'm remote?

[gatsby]

42Floors (http://42floors.com/)

San Francisco, CA

We're looking for extremely talented people to help us bring the commercial real estate industry into the 21st century.

Hiring experienced full stack engineers, back-end engineers, inside salespeople, and account managers. (Apply: http://42floors.com/jobs)

All positions are full time, SF-based. We are also accepting full-time or part-time SF-based interns.

YC W12, 17 full time employees, $18m in funding from NEA, Bessemer, Thrive, SV Angel, etc. (http://42floors.com/investors)

Learn more about us here: http://42floors.com/press or email me with any questions!

[ryeguy]

North American Bancard

Company Overview:

North American Bancard is a privately held multifaceted payment solutions provider. Our team of 750+ employees within NAB and affiliate entities facilitate the processing of electronic payments for over 180,000 merchants nationwide. The launch of our mobile POS solution, Pay Anywhere, has enabled us to remain on the forefront of technology and meet the evolving needs of our customers.

This position offers a competitive salary, based on experience, medical, dental and optical insurance and 401K. NAB has been selected as a Best & Brightest Wellness Champion, as we offer healthy vending options and reimbursements for race participation. We also receive discounts on cell phone plans, online retailers, vacations, entertainment tickets and much more!

About us:

    - We practice agile development using scrum.  
    - Flexible work hours.  
    - Laid back environment (casual dress, open floor plan, lan parties, etc)  
    - Headquartered in Troy, MI.  
    - We just moved into a new space with a pretty cool design, check it out:
      http://i.imgur.com/mft0wbR.jpg  

Technology stack:

    - PHP 5.3+
    - Symfony 2 and Doctrine 2 for most new projects
    - Postgres
    - RabbitMQ
    - Git and SVN (SVN is on its way out here)

Technical goals:

    - Move to a service oriented architecture, using RESTful web services for our
      internal systems.
    - Rewrite and rework some of our older systems, improving user experience and
      code modularity.

You should:

    - Have experience writing PHP applications in MVC style.
    - Have experience working with large enterprise-level codebases. 
    - Follow excellent object oriented design principles.
    - Have experience with unit/integration testing, or at least be familar with it.
    - Believe that refactoring is an integral part of development.
    - Be able to write complex SQL queries as well as understand ORMs.
    - Be able to work on-site in Troy, MI.

Other beneficial skills:

    - Experience working in a PCI-DSS compliant environment
    - Experience with service-oriented architecture

Positions:

    - Sr. PHP Developer
    - Web Services Developer

Email your resume or questions to [email protected]

[svec]

iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA)

Do you think robots are cool? So do we!

iRobot is looking for software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers.

Here's a few of our 40 job openings:

* iOS developer

* Web developer

* Embedded software engineers * We're hiring for "big embedded" (Linux and big cpus) and "small embedded" (bare-metal, small cpus)

* Software engineers for navigation, mapping, and computer vision * That's multiple positions; you don't have to be an expert in all three. :-)

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

If you have robotics experience, great! If you don't have robotics experience, that's still great!

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but no robotics background is required.

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: [email protected]

[jdmargulici]

Oakland, CA - Director of Engineering at Geospatial Startup

Vehicle Data Science Corporation is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead design and implementation of software that processes and analyzes big spatial data sets. The company is an early-stage startup located in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood with initial funding from a National Science Foundation grant and a major automobile client. We use location data from vehicles to derive driving behaviors which we capture in a proprietary database. This database feeds applications in the areas of driver safety, fuel economy and autonomous vehicles.

We are looking for a smart, adaptable individual with plenty of skills and breadth in computing to build products from our data streams. By joining us today, you get a unique chance to engineer new technology from the ground up. Working in tandem with the company’s CTO, you will tackle both back end infrastructure and a web front end. Initially, the position will primarily involve hands-on coding and systems administration, but it can evolve toward more supervision and/or architectural work as we grow, based on your inclinations.

Our current systems are built 100% in Python, with a PostGIS database in the back end. Our roadmap includes two key tasks that the Director of Engineering must be equipped to lead: * Take the back end to the next level by splitting it into multiple databases that each fulfill a specific purpose, and shard our primary data warehouse so it can handle tens of terabytes. The choice of technologies is still to be determined, so a broad range of experience with distributed systems and nosql databases is desirable; * Build an interactive web front end that dynamically displays geospatial data, in the form of both maps and charts. We are looking for a track record delivering interactive web applications, experience with web maps, and good programming skills both server-side and client-side.

Individuals who are creative, honest, open-minded, enterprising, kind and attentionate to details will fit our team the best. The project is incredibly fun and innovative, addresses major societal challenges in the areas of public health and sustainable development, and eyes a huge market opportunity. Come help us grow the company you want to be a part of!

To reach us, e-mail: [email protected]

[stevem-newrelic]

New Relic - Portland OR/Seattle WA/San Francisco CA (http://newrelic.com/jobs)

We make the best application performance monitoring solution, and deliver the only serious SaaS APM. >40K users can't be wrong. It gives deep visibility in production apps running on Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, and .NET (with more on the way) -- AND provides an open platform with which you can integrate customized plugins to monitor your entire stack (newrelic.com/platform) .

Making it easy for our users, however, is hard work for us. Our answer is to hire top notch people, give them whatever they need, and turn them loose to solve tough problems.

We're looking for a number of technical positions (check out the Jobs page), including engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1-Bs and relos welcome.

We also take our company culture seriously -- Best Place to Work and all that, of course. But we also provide an unusual and exciting development environment, one where managers are working to enable developers, not the other way around.

More about us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZL7mMI-CKU http://newrelic.com/nerdlife

Come take a look at our jobs. http://newrelic.com/jobs