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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

240 points| whoishiring | 11 years ago

Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA 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.

Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.

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[+] jjarmoc|11 years ago|reply
-= MATASANO SECURITY =- Chicago. New York City. Sunnyvale. Application Security Consultant

Full-Time or Internship, work visa sponsorship available.

The start of a new year is a time many people become a bit introspective and reflect on their lives and careers. Those of us who enjoy what we do, and find satisfaction in our work take account of our accomplishments and achievements in the past year. Others may be less satisfied with their current position, and resolve to improve it. If you find yourself in the latter camp, my advice is to find a job for which you are passionate, motivated, and talented. Find your muse; something which engages your heart and mind, and gives you a sense a fulfillment.

For those of us at Matasano Security, this sense of pride and accomplishment comes from assessing the security of application software. We find few things as inately satisfying as discovering ways to abuse application logic and bend it to our will. Better yet is the satisfaction that comes with knowing our clients can now use our information to secure their applications and protect their clients. It takes meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to think outside the box and consider cases the application's own developers didn't. Application Security can be both an intriguing mental puzzle, and an extreme adrenaline rush in a way few disciplines of computing are.

In the coming weeks, gyms will fill up with new members intent on exercising their bodies. Me? I'll continue soldiering on, breaking and helping fix software, exercising my heart and mind. If you'd like to join me, check out matasano.com/careers and contact us at [email protected].

[+] letharion|11 years ago|reply
Hi!

This caught my interest, and I sent of an e-mail to you on Sunday. I understand that people may be busy catching up on e-mails from the holidays and everything, but it's now Thursday and I would have expected at least an acknowledgement of receiving my e-mail by now. :)

Maybe the mail has gotten lost somewhere?

[+] oddtarball|11 years ago|reply
I've read much of Matasano's work and would love to join. Are you truly "always hiring", or would you recommend starting a dialogue sooner rather than later?

I promised myself that I wouldn't apply/interview until I get the OSCP out of the way this month, but would hate to watch a good opportunity slip away.

[+] ox00ffe0|11 years ago|reply
How does Matasano feel about candidates having or not having university degrees?
[+] leowidrich|11 years ago|reply
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - from wherever you want to be in the world (fully remote), we're looking for a Product Designer.

Over 30,000 people pay for a Buffer subscription to help them with their social media efforts, which helps us generate $420k MRR. With that we spend about $223k/mo on salaries, which is about 66% of our total spending (https://open.bufferapp.com/transparent-pricing-buffer/).

We work without managers and are fully self-managing. You pick your own projects, recruit team members from within the company or join task forces that you find interesting ( https://open.bufferapp.com/decision-maker-no-managers-experi...)

Like with everything else, our hiring process is fully transparent (more here https://open.bufferapp.com/how-we-hire/ )

There are so many exciting projects people are working on and it'd be awesome to have you lead the design efforts product experience of some of them. Just email Brian Lovin from this page: http://jobs.bufferapp.com/designer and he'll be in touch.

If you have any questions about how we work, I'd love to answer them.

[+] Kompulsa|11 years ago|reply
I appreciate your transparency. I'm also a designer. I'd love to work for Buffer.
[+] webhat|11 years ago|reply
I love Buffer, if I didn't already have a start up I'd certainly work for buffer, if they'd have me.
[+] justintbassett|11 years ago|reply
Wow, I love the transparency. That's definitely refreshing
[+] PhantomPhreak|11 years ago|reply
Counterparty - REMOTE - http://counterparty.io

Counterparty is a freely licensed and open-source platform for peer-to-peer finance that lives on the Bitcoin blockchain. The network has been live since January, and it has seen over 130k transactions since then.[1] Overstock.com recently announced that it would be building the world's first SEC-regulated stock market for cryptosecurities on our platform.[2]

The non-profit Counterparty Foundation is hiring a developer to join a team of two (myself and one other) dedicated to further developing the Counterparty Protocol and software ecosystem (e.g. wallet software, block explorers). Experience with Python is strongly preferred, as much of the work will be with the protocol's reference implementation, counterpartyd.[3]

It goes without saying that this is an unconventional position requiring a great deal of independence, self-direction and creativity. More details about the position: http://counterparty.io/jobs

Contact: [email protected]

Web Wallet: https://counterwallet.io

[1] - https://blockscan.com

[2] - http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-hires-counterparty-develop....

[3] - https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd

[+] padkontrol|11 years ago|reply
Open-source decentralized financial software is a really amazing phenomenon of our era
[+] longlho|11 years ago|reply
I clicked on Team and there're no engineers there. Does the company not value their engineers?
[+] handsomeransoms|11 years ago|reply
Freedom of the Press Foundation https://freedom.press -- DevOps Engineer

Full-time, Bay Area local preferred but remote possible for exceptional candidates.

We develop SecureDrop, an open source whistleblower submission system. SecureDrop is currently used in over 15 major newsrooms, including those of the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and ProPublica. [0]

One of our big challenges moving forward is scaling. For legal and security reasons, we require every organization to deploy their own SecureDrop instance on dedicated hardware. We do not offer SecureDrop "as a service". As a result, traditional scaling techniques do not apply. However, we believe that by automating the testing, development, deployment, and troubleshooting of SecureDrop systems, we can continue to support a growing base of SecureDrop installs without becoming overwhelmed. That's where you come in :)

For more information on the job, see our full job description, which includes instructions for applying: https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-devops-engineer-secur...

[0] https://freedom.press/securedrop/directory

[+] squirrel|11 years ago|reply
London UK - Osper - http://osper.com

We provide a real prepaid debit card for young people, aged 8-18, so they can make independent decisions with money: online, in shops, at cash machines, & abroad. Thousands of kids have already signed up to our service.

But we not only help young people buy Legos and save for bicycles - we are building an awesome technology team that eliminates legacy code, keeps the bug rate tiny, and stays small & joyful. We are doing this by adopting techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, continuous deployment, and microservices. You can read more about our plan to be awesome on our tech blog http://tech.osper.io. We want to meet and work with smart technical folks of all varieties - from server-side devs to sysadmins, mobile coders to testers, security analysts to data crunchers - but especially front-end experts who like mobile app development of any kind (we happen to use PhoneGap/Cordova but don't expect candidates to know this framework).

We are willing to arrange relocation to London for the right candidate. Sorry, we're not ready to take on remote team members at this stage.

[+] andyskipper|11 years ago|reply
Can really vouch for Osper - what Squirrel and the team have built so far is technically excellent, with much more to come. Also, all incredibly nice people to work with. Well worth a chat.
[+] hueking|11 years ago|reply
I've always was hesitative in moving to London. Totally unrelated question to this offer. Can you live in London on developers pay on the same standard as in Bristol?

I'm a foreigner and until now I lived only in South Wales and Bristol.

[+] olegp|11 years ago|reply
Backend Engineer, UX Designer (two separate positions) - Omniata, Helsinki, Finland - visa, full time

Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata (http://www.omniata.com) integrates analytics, CRM, user engagement and A/B testing platforms into one solution. The company is well funded (http://www.creandum.com/why-creandum-invested-omniata/) & headquartered in SF. The bulk of R&D will be done in the Helsinki office which at the moment only has a small team, so this is a great opportunity to get in early and grow with the company.

As a backend engineer you’ll be part of the team responsible for infrastructure code handling millions of events each month. Tasks will include improving existing components and creating new systems for scaling, automating and monitoring of processes. Knowledge of Perl & Bash is expected, however if you’re more comfortable with another dynamic language like Python or Ruby and have a good grasp of low level Linux, we should still talk. Familiarity with C would also be an advantage.

As a UX designer you will be responsible for a creating the UIs and improving the UX of Omniata's web interfaces that allow Omniata's customers to make the most of their data. Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript would be a plus, but is not a must.

If you're at all interested in this area and Helsinki as a place to live and work, drop a one line email with a link to your LinkedIn and GitHub profile (in the case of backend) or portfolio (in the case of UX) to [email protected]

[+] phila76ers|11 years ago|reply
Basketball Operations Analyst Philadelphia 76ers - Philadelphia, PA Full-time/Intern The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to add talented new developers, software engineers, statistical analysts, and data scientists to the team. Basketball analysts will work as a part of the front office and collaborate extensively with the entire basketball operations department including President and GM Sam Hinkie. Experience in basketball is not required; analytical talent and learning easily is. The Sixers are looking for both permanent employees and interns. Most basketball analysts will work in our basketball operations office in Philadelphia but other arrangements may be possible. If you're passionate about basketball and have technical skills that you think could help an NBA team, please see the official posting and apply here: http://nbateamjobs.teamworkonline.com/teamwork/r.cfm?i=71706 If you have questions, you can reach us at [email protected].
[+] danielforsyth|11 years ago|reply
Tried to send an email and got "554 rejected due to spam content"
[+] pbiggar|11 years ago|reply
CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK

More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work.

You might love it too if you like: - working with great people who you can learn from - to work on developer tools - building a product that customers love, and pay for - working with Clojure and ClojureScript (for developer roles) - transparent cultures (we're inspired a lot by Valve and similar companies) [1] - to work remotely, or to have your own private office in SF [2]

We're hiring lots of roles, esp in product management, design, and support engineers.

[1] http://blog.circleci.com/kindness-is-underrated/ [2] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

Check out https://circleci.com/jobs for details.

[+] davidknezevic|11 years ago|reply
Akselos (Software Engineer, Boston or REMOTE)

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Akselos provides an advanced cloud-based engineering simulation platform for "accelerated Finite Element Analysis" based on over 10 years of award-winning research at MIT. This platform enables engineers to perform detailed, fully-3D analysis of large-scale complex systems in seconds, which eliminates a major pain point across a wide range of engineering disciplines.

We currently have major engineering firms from the mining and power systems industries as customers. Our software has been used by over 7000 students in an engineering course on edX. Also, we were recently featured on the Google Cloud Platform blog: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2014/12/mitxs-edx-cou...

We have offices in Boston, Lausanne and Ho Chi Minh City. Working remotely is a possibility.

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Send job inquiries to: [email protected] (or contact me directly at [email protected])

We're looking for a Software Engineer to assist with our GUI development. The GUI is written in Python (Qt bindings) and allows users to create 3D models, send simulation requests to our cloud-based back-end and then render the results locally. For more info about the GUI see:

http://www.akselos.com/platform/akselos-assembler.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cL2hn2wpoA

More info about open positions is available here: http://www.akselos.com/join_the_team.html

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[+] nsainsbury|11 years ago|reply
RateItNow - REMOTE - http://rateitnow.com/new/

We're a small new startup that has successfully raised funding and we're looking for a mobile app developer and a back-end engineer. We all work remotely on the team - currently spread out in Australia, Singapore, and Poland. We have close ties to Microsoft (via mgmt) and are leveraging the MS stack heavily on the back-end (ASP.Net, Azure, etc.)

We're looking for:

1) Windows Phone, Android/iOS (Xamarin) Developer

We are presently working on a Windows Phone application to be deployed in a B2B type environment with consumer-facing iOS, Android, and Windows Phone applications to also be developed. We have standardized on C# and Xamarin for the app development.

Ideally you will have a demonstrated experience using .NET/C# and Xamarin for mobile app development, but developers with only native iOS and Android development experience will also be considered. Specific experience developing for Windows Phone is nice to have, but not necessary.

2) Back-end ASP.Net Engineer

You must have a strong demonstrable experience with ASP.NET Web Api, ADO.Net, MS SQL Server and be comfortable with handling devops type work within Azure (deployment, management, scaling). Your role will be to build out a fast, secure back-end and APIs in support of consumer-facing apps & website.

For both roles prior experience working remotely is a plus. Above all though, we're looking for smart people with a can do attitude.

Contact me at [email protected]

[+] softwarehippie|11 years ago|reply
Mapbox, (REMOTE worldwide or LOCAL in SF/DC) https://www.mapbox.com/jobs/ Directions Developer

We’re building a routing service unlike any other. It is flexible, fast, and customizable for every use case. We are looking for people who know graph theory, efficient algorithms, and have the desire to run fast on creating a scalable API.

While having a background in routing is a bonus, we’re really looking for C++ coders with a deep understanding of algorithms and data structures. Knowledge in C++11, cache effiency as well as I/O effiency are certainly a plus.

Primary focus would be extending an open source routing engine.

[+] arobbins|11 years ago|reply
Factual - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai

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 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

[+] paulczy|11 years ago|reply
Web UX Developer and .NET full-stack developer

Eagan, MN (No remote, full-time onsite only)

TempWorks Software for 20 years has been providing solutions for the staffing companies across the US and Canada with our sights set on the UK. We provide a fully integrated solutions from applicant tracking systems to payroll and billing.

We are seeking developers to help us create a new API-first platform and modern browser-based applications.

A UX developer with a strong background in AngularJS and Bootstrap. Excellent Responsive CSS skills are a must.

A .NET/C# developer with a background in WebApi, RavenDB and SQL Server is also helpful.

You should be willing to adapt quickly and take initiative to learn independently. We expect our developers to be creative and contribute to the architectural and design process. We also encourage developers to bring new concepts and technologies to the table. We are small "skunkworks" team and you will have a direct impact on software design decisions.

Contact: [email protected]

[+] yegg|11 years ago|reply
DuckDuckGo (REMOTE or local in Paoli, PA). If you're an avid DuckDuckGo user, please check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring In particular, we have the following explicitly open positions but are always looking for good fits regardless:

- Site Reliabiliry Engineer (keep our systems up and fast!)

- BD (work with new & existing partners)

- Community Management (duck.co, social media, interacting with contributors)

[+] cedsav|11 years ago|reply
Web Developer - PHP / Javascript - REMOTE or Bloomington, Indiana, United States

We’re looking for a talented and passionate web developer to help improve and expand our web-based application, FormAssembly.com.

The ideal candidate can craft code that is robust and easy to maintain, switch between back-end and front-end development, and keep usability and user experience in mind at all times.

Your work will get in front of tens of thousands of users and help make data collection easier for a lot of people, from schools enrolling students to large corporations improving their business processes.

Veer West is a bootstrapped, profitable and growing company. If you're looking to make a difference, our small team, lean operation and impressive roster of customers is the perfect environment for you.

Position is full-time, local or remote. To apply, visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs

[+] brendan_gill|11 years ago|reply
OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent) At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first sensor network is for wireless signal [1] where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills. We also recently raised our $4million series A [4] from Qualcomm Ventures, O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures & Passion Capital so are growing fast.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/ Email us: [email protected]

[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3... [2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal... [3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/ [4] OpenSignal Series A: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/opensignal-series-a/

[+] EmilLondon|11 years ago|reply
CITYMAPPER (LONDON, UK). https://citymapper.com Full time software engineers in London. (We will consider relocating exceptional candidates.)

Recent HN post! (help us solve the problems mentioned) Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8238260

We're building one of the most important apps on mobile, an urban transport app built on the back of open data, to help navigate and use cities.

We're a VC-backed startup (Balderton, Index, Greylock, Connect) based in London with a team with backgrounds from Google, academia and startups.

We're looking for great people first and foremost, but especially the following roles:

- Platform engineer. Be responsible for our infrastructure in the cloud, shape the tool chain, and ensure that the moving parts of our system can communicate, so that we can expand to all the cities in the world.

- Routing. We're reinventing getting from A to B in the world of mobile, multi modal and real-time data.

- Android and iOS developers. We're reimagining mobile interfaces and developing all the features that we dream about. You care about the "little big details" and know the grotty implementation details required to make things work across a range of devices and future platforms.

- Data pipeline/data science/analytics. We're building an omnivorous transport data processor that fuses together loads of data sources, and a psychic city brain.

- Software engineers. We're looking for great engineers to solve a range of other big problems, including search, data analysis, natural language processing. We use a lot of P Python, and some C and Java.

If interested, please contact me at [email protected] or apply at https://citymapper.com/jobs.

[+] cedsav|11 years ago|reply
Front-End & UX Engineer (Veer West / FormAssembly.com, Full-time, Bloomington, IN or REMOTE)

Designing user interactions around web form building and data collection is a real challenge. If you’ve ever had to fill out a form online and cursed at your screen, you know what we’re trying to improve.

We’re looking for a user experience designer with strong technical skills (Javascript, HTML, CSS, iOS, Android) to join our team.

Veer West is a bootstrapped, profitable and growing company. If you're looking to make a difference, our small team, lean operation and impressive roster of customers is the perfect environment for you.

Position is full-time, local or remote. To apply, visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs

oh, and Happy New Year!

[+] xenadu02|11 years ago|reply
San Francisco - PlanGrid (YC12). Near 16th Street Mission BART. VISA, INTERN, FULL-TIME.

We sell an actual useful product for money (think version control for blueprints but our ambitions are much larger). We intend to own the construction software business, which is vastly under-served. The market is huge; construction is a multi-trillion dollar industry globally that still operates like they did in 1950. Our customers are so happy that up until the past three months we've had no marketing or sales whatsoever - we were profitable in year one just from word of mouth.

Our primary hiring philosophy is as follows: Wicked smart, NO DICKS.

We are looking for engineering and non-engineering positions. You can see the jobs and/or apply here: http://grnh.se/r1nhcp

* Senior iOS. We are shipping Swift code this month (see my Swift blog at http://russbishop.net ).

* Android. Small but growing team.

* Backend/API. Python and mongo, but we're investigating alternatives (Postgres? FoundationDB?) because we are steam-rolling to the trillion-with-a-capital-T mark on records.

* Windows. We are just starting this team so you have complete freedom. Will probably be C# with a shared library supporting a Desktop app and RT app.

* Data Science. You would think blueprints were created by professionals with standards. You'd be wrong. Put your machine learning skills to work on real world problems where a 1% improvement saves man-years of effort.

* Web. We do some real magic on the web; check out our blueprint annotating. This team is about to do some major re-factoring/re-writing with a focus on speed and maintainability.

Also hiring an IT Manager, Customer Support Heros, Marketing specialists, a Marketing Director, Field Sales, Biz Ops, and more.

Feel free to get in touch via my blog. I'm happy to answer any questions about what it's like to work at PlanGrid.

[+] erishabh|11 years ago|reply
Hi, how do I get in touch via your blog?
[+] mopatches|11 years ago|reply
At Periscope (San Francisco, USA), we make really fast charts and dashboards.

We're constantly making the SQL faster and the charting more powerful. You'll be working on the full stack: from the Go and Java servers managing giant database clusters to the Rails and CoffeeScript frontends.

* In your first day you'll ship new code to production.

* In your first week you'll ship at least one customer-facing feature.

* In your first month you'll write code at every level of the stack, from cache backends to web servers to UI code.

* In your first 6 months you'll rebuild a major piece of the Periscope stack to support our ever-increasing scale.

More: https://www.periscope.io/data-obsessed-engineer