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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

461 points| whoishiring | 11 years ago | reply

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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[+] sinak|11 years ago|reply
The Electronic Frontier Foundation - San Francisco - Full time - Frontend/Backend Developers

The EFF fights for an Internet free of surveillance and censorship, and we’re hiring. EFF's technology team implements EFF's activism campaigns, builds exciting new activism tools and creates new technologies to protect the Internet as a whole.

A small sample of projects we've worked on in the last year:

- Worked with over 100 volunteer developers to crowdsource and populate contact-congress, an open dataset describing the contact forms of members of congress.

- Created and open-sourced congress-forms: a delivery mechanism for sending emails to congress based on the open data we crowdsourced.

- Created a new (and soon-to-be open source) activism platform that’s currently live at act.eff.org.

- Launched numerous projects including Surveillance Self-Defense, DearFCC.org, The Day We Fight Back, Trolling Effects, Tor Challenge and others. - Launched a preview version of our OpenWireless open source router firmware.

We're currently hiring a frontend designer/developer and a backend developer with experience with Ruby on Rails and/or Node.js. Both positions are listed here: https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

If you think you might be a fit for either role, take a moment and get in touch: [email protected]

[+] aryamaan|11 years ago|reply
Do you guys sponsor visa?
[+] Old_Thrashbarg|11 years ago|reply
EFF is an amazing organization! I wish you guys had a Data Scientist position open!
[+] krrishd|11 years ago|reply
Any summer internship opportunities for students who fit the job description?
[+] larsberg|11 years ago|reply
Mozilla Research (Remote or any of our offices)

I will be hiring for two positions in the coming month, associated primarily with Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo ) and Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ ).

1) Senior browser engineer. I am looking for a developer with deep familiarity with web platform standards, especially related to the implementation of the DOM and integration with the JS engine, to help build out this support in Servo. Experience developing systems software required.

2) Experienced operations engineer. Working in concert with the larger Mozilla release and build teams, build out the Mozilla Research continuous automation, release, testing, etc. systems, focusing first on Servo and Rust. We explicitly want candidates with a history of reuse and contribution to existing projects. Experience with build systems, automation, and cloud systems preferred.

Please feel free to contact me directly with more questions - larsberg AT mozilla DOT com. Job postings with more details should be coming online soon...

[+] eli_gottlieb|11 years ago|reply
Damn, damn, damn. If only I actually had the qualifications for those precise positions!
[+] moxie|11 years ago|reply
Open Whisper Systems (https://whispersystems.org) - Bay Area - Full time - Lead iOS Developer and Lead Designer.

No security or cryptography background needed.

Open Whisper Systems is working to make private communication simple. Building well designed, free, and open source privacy products is the sole mission of Open Whisper Systems. We are not a business, which means we have no VC obligations, and no management to appease. Our technology is currently used by hundreds of millions of people.

Open Whisper Systems is looking for a lead iOS developer in the Bay Area to direct the continued development of our iOS client.

Open Whisper Systems is also looking for a lead designer in the Bay Area to shape the look and feel of our entire suite of applications.

We're looking for people with opinions, vision, self-direction, and responsibility. Substantial experience in the domain of iOS development or design is a must, but we are not looking for experience with security or cryptography.

The position is full time in San Francisco. We can help with relocation.

Interested? [email protected]

[+] stingraycharles|11 years ago|reply
For the uninitiated: if you land a job at this company, you're going to be working with a few of the smartest people in the security/cryptology world, and OP is a legend in that community.
[+] 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 areas, but are always looking for good fits regardless:

- Site Reliability (keep our systems up and fast!)

- BD (work with new & existing partners)

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

- Front-end (JS/CSS)

- Technical writing (improve our DuckDuckHack documentation)

[+] svjozi|11 years ago|reply
Unata (Toronto) - Full-time

Unata (unata.com) is a VC-backed, Toronto-based startup in the enterprise retail space. We are building the retail experience of the future. We work with large retailers to power their digital experiences, while personalizing each shopper’s content and offers based on their purchase history. We’re connecting the physical shopping experience with the best of the digital world. We are growing fast and need to scale our core product team. We are looking for the roles below.

Current stack

Backend: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Numpy, Pandas), PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Jenkins CI, Redis, Memcached, CentOS

Frontend (including Mobile): Angular.js, Sass, Grunt

- Back-end developer - Python experience, intermediate/sr, understanding of service-oriented architectures (more info > bit.ly/1ExBxbe)

- Data Science developer - Application development experience, machine learning knowledge & experience, , (more info > bit.ly/1ExBD2l)

- QA developer - Test automation, development experince, process minded, familiarity with CI systems like Jenkins, (more info > bit.ly/1ExBCLR)

Why you should work for us:

- Competitive compensation and stock options, comprehensive health benefits, flexible paid vacation

- Relaxed work environment in downtown Toronto (King & Bathurst), Work-from-home-Wednesdays, fun company activities

- Opportunity to make a big impact in digital retail! Your work will be seen and used by millions of retail customers!

[+] webwright|11 years ago|reply
Glowforge - Seattle - Full time - Full stack / back-end-leaning developers

Well-funded and founded by three technical founders (one YC alumnus) with 7-9-figure exits. We're building an insanely challenging hardware+software product straight from the pages of science-fiction. It's early-- our product team is just 4 folks and we could use two more.

https://jobs.lever.co/glowforge/fd6f421a-b6cc-413e-8b0f-7523...

(also interested in mechanical engineers with injection molding experience and a visual designer)

[+] Apperio|11 years ago|reply
Apperio (LONDON, UK). https://apperio.com/ - Full Time - London

Lead Developer - Full Stack - London

Apperio enables businesses to track their legal spend in realtime, preventing surprise bills and optimising spend.

Based in London, we are an experienced team passionate about shaking up the legal industry. We are Seedcamp winners and VC backed with a great roster of investors and advisers who are experienced former and current entrepreneurs and have built companies like Mendeley, Duedil and Tradeshift.

We are looking for a Full Stack developer to take ownership of the Apperio product and see this role ideally developing to CTO as the company scales. We’ve outsourced development to date and now want to bring in-house, re-build and scale. You would be working closely with the founder and have responsibility from the get go.

Ideally would have strong front end and back end modern web development skills, including HTML5 & Javascript and experience with our stack of technologies: AWS, Django, SQL, git, jenkins CI

If interested, please contact us at [email protected] or apply directly at http://apperio.workable.com/jobs/31613

[+] beck5|11 years ago|reply
I can vouch that this is a great company to work for. It is a very rare opportunity to make a mark as the person leading all the tech for a funded company.
[+] G228|11 years ago|reply
REMOTE. Software Engineer positions working in Haskell development with FP Complete.

Depending on your current jurisdiction, this will either be a full-time contractor position, or an employee position. This is a telecommute position: you can work from home or wherever you choose, with little or no travel. Location in North America preferred; but you will work with colleagues who are both on North American and European hours.

FP Complete is looking to hire several engineers to join our Haskell development team, both to build great new core products and to work with our clients.

Activities: - distribute existing and new code over large clusters - code parallelization and performance tuning, - interface with foreign math and scientific libraries, - relentlessly refactor for composability, testability and clarity, - identify performance bottlenecks and debug known issues, - implementing unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests, - write clear and concise documentation.

Skills: - strong experience writing process driven application code in Haskell. - experience building reusable components/packages/libraries and demonstrated ability to write well structured and well documented code, - ability to evolve and refactor large code bases, - experience working under test driven methodologies, - ability to interact with a distributed development team, and to communicate clearly on issues, in bug reports and emails.

These further skills are a plus: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or mathematics, - experience developing products in a regulated environment (avionics/medical/finance). - experience building scalable server/Web applications, (web) UI design and implementation experience, - an understanding of the implementation of GHC’s multithreaded runtime, experience as an architect and/or a creator of technical specs.

If you’d like to be part of our team please send a resume or CV to [email protected]. Any existing work - either a running website or an open source codebase - which you can include as links is greatly appreciated.

Full job listing here: https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/01/hiring-software-engi...

[+] gclaramunt|11 years ago|reply
heh, need to upgrade my Haskell skills from n00b to experienced first
[+] paulaminc|11 years ago|reply
Boston, MA - Xamarin - Full time onsite

Founded in May 2011, Xamarin is a fast-growing mobile startup with offices in San Francisco, Boston, London, Århus and Buenos Aires. We have almost 1 million developers and over 14,000 customers using Xamarin because we provide the best platform to create and test fully native mobile apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.

Miguel and his talented engineering team in Boston are looking for: Xamarin Studio Lead Software QA Engineer http://xamarin.com/jobs/oddnZfww

Complete list of all Xamarin Opportunities (multiple locations): http://xamarin.com/jobs

Interested to learn more, chat about what it's like to work at Xamarin? Email me: [email protected]

[+] 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, and abroad. Thousands of kids have already signed up to the service and we will be growing enormously this year.

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 and 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 sorts - 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, or Appium which we plan to use for on-device testing).

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

[+] francescolaffi|11 years ago|reply
Ecobnb - REMOTE - Trento, Italy - Frontend Engineer

We’re a small growing 5-persons startup based in Trento, Northern-Italy. Our online travel agency’s specialized in offering a selection of eco-hotels all around Italy and is currently expanding to Europe. Ecobnb makes it easy for responsible traveller to search for a place to stay for a short or long period, vacation or work and for eco-accommodation business owners to market themselves in the growing green sector.

Coming up on our roadmap is a big refresh of the current UI. When we say you’ll have significant impact on the product right off the bat, we mean it.

On the front-end we are using bootstrap, less and jquery. On the back-end we have a monolithic symfony application moving toward service-oriented, with the web UI more and more talking directly with APIs we are open to new tech and libs on the front-end.

Our current engineering team is composed by two full-stack-but-mostly-back-end devs, you’ll be an integral part of the team to strengthen the front-end side and complete the skillset.

We are a remote friendly team, using the best collaboration tools and communicating asynchronously with occasional video calls.

more info / contact: http://blog.italygreentravel.com/jobs/

[+] appplemac|11 years ago|reply
I think I just understood where I am going to spend my next weekend :) Hello, Alto Adige!
[+] mpdaugherty|11 years ago|reply
AngelList - San Francisco, CA and New York, NY https://angel.co/angellist/jobs Engineers and Designers

There's nowhere I'd rather work right now than AngelList - our motto in hiring is "Would I start a company with this person?", so all of my coworkers are amazing, skilled people.

Together, we're not just funding 40+ startups per month - we're connecting these startups to a diverse group of investors whom they can reach out to for advice, connections, etc. And for the investors, this is a 10X improvement over any other way to invest (https://t.co/7AmuxYWHe3).

Fundraising is a complex market with multiple sides, so we are looking for great engineers who are excited to tackle this problem and streamline the entire market.

Our other business is matching people to their next startup job. On AngelList Talent, we believe in transparency (all jobs have salary and equity ranges disclosed).

This model has led to tremendous growth, but we still have a lot to do. There's room here for any engineer or designer to have a huge impact on the next iteration of AngelList Talent and change the lives of thousands of your peers.

[+] devinfoley|11 years ago|reply
IFTTT - San Francisco, CA

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IFTTT is looking for engineers to help build the next generation of its platform. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the core architecture of one of the web’s most innovative and exciting services. You’ll get to work on challenging technical problems alongside a small but driven group of developers, and play a key role in shaping both the product and team culture.

IFTTT’s mission is to help people to create connections between the services and devices they use every day. We’ve built a system that enables users to set up simple “if this, then that”-style recipes, which allow activity from one web service to trigger activity in another. The current system supports over 90 unique services and runs hundreds of millions of recipe-handling tasks per day, and we plan to dramatically expand on our flexibility and scalability. Under the hood, this translates to building a platform that can talk to and move data between virtually any API you can think of, all in realtime and at massive scale.

We're well funded, and we work hard to do right by our employees. New hires at IFTTT enjoy competitive salary and equity, full benefits, and a flexible vacation policy. Much more than that, we offer interesting, deep projects and an amazing team experience. We operate on the philosophy that the best job perk is fantastic teammates, and to this end we’ve assembled a staff of intensely curious, well-rounded, talented people who happen to be great engineers. We’re hoping you can be the next one.

Visit https://ifttt.com/jobs for more information.

[+] marcgg|11 years ago|reply
Drivy - Paris, France - Senior Software Engineer

We are building the leading peer to peer car rental service. Our goal is to replace car ownership by a better service: shared cars available at every corner offering the flexibility and proximity of ownership without the burden of maintenance. We already have a significant traction and rank #1 worldwide on the market of peer-to-peer car rental, but we believe the adoption should be 100 times larger in just a few years.

We're looking for a senior developer to join our team and help us on subjects such as:

- Improving our search algorithm (matching supply and demand) to improve our search-to-book conversion

- Scaling our payments infrastructure

- Designing and implementing new API endpoints for our native apps (iPhone/Android)

- Detecting and preventing fraud

- Monitoring and scaling our platform and tools

- Implementing new features for our end users to enjoy

We build the service using mostly Ruby on Rails. We care a lot about maintaining a good code quality, testing coverage and shipping everything continuously.

You can read more about this position here: https://en.drivy.com/jobs#2015-backend

If this sounds like something interesting and you feel like you fit the job description, contact me directly via [email protected]

[+] haleykoike|11 years ago|reply
Crowd Cast - Tokyo, Japan - Full Time (REMOTE OK. CAN OFFER VISA / RELOCATION SPONSORHIP) - Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Crowd Cast is a Tokyo based FinTech startup. Our quest is to build applications that simplify and take the pain out of business processes. Staple, our focus product, is an expense management application that makes it easy for users to enter, manage, and track expenses anywhere on any device (https://staple.jp/).

We are looking for a talented and accomplished Senior Ruby on Rails developer to join our global engineering team to build on and expand our existing applications to the next level. You should have a strong portfolio of web apps built on rails and be confident in working in a small hands on development team.

Our ideal candidate will be comfortable in a startup environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work. Our priority is to hire the best talent and team players, regardless of location, but we prefer those within Asia.

Skills & Requirements

- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar fields

- Previous experience at software company (preferably a startup)

- Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails, database programming, etc. Multiple application experience preferred.

- Hands on experience with Agile software development process and usage of Github, JIRA, Heroku or similar tools

- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures

- Comfortable with B2B systems like Accounting, POS, CRM (QuickBooks API, Square API, Salesforce API) systems Comfortable in a small, intense and high growth start-up environment

Please email: [email protected] (and put “HN” in the subject)

[+] MattfromHall|11 years ago|reply
HALL Real-time chat & texting for business teams. https://hall.com/careers

San Francisco, CA (local) VISAs OK

Hiring locally for the following full-time roles:

Sr. Fullstack Engineer - JS focus

Node.js Engineer

Frontend Engineer

Mobile Engineer

___________________________

Transforming the way companies communicate.

Why work at Hall?

Work on a product you'll be actively using every day We use node.js, rails, redis, mongoDB, capistrano, chef and EC2

We're a design & data-driven organization.

Recently raised a $5.5m series-A when the company was just 2 people led by the early investors in Mint.com, Google and Box - Felicis, PivotNorth, Founder Collective and AngelPad.

Located in SOMA, San Francisco near 4th and Bryant. Just a 5 minute walk from Caltrain.

Hall's CEO & founder Brett Hellman joined his first startup at 14, and also spent time building new products at Yahoo & Intuit.

Hall's CTO & co-founder Ron Adams, previous led the engineer team at Yahoo! Sports.

___________________________

PERKS: Be a part of a world-class team, love what you do and have a huge impact!

Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 27" monitor

Generous equity grants

Weekly company-wide happy hours

Medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

https://hall.com/careers

[+] pepachino|11 years ago|reply
Blendle | Utrecht, Netherlands | Full time | Backend Developers, Front-end Developers, Operations

We build a paywall, a conversion tool and front-ends that result effectively in a portal that offers Pay-Per-Newspaper-Article. Currently we have almost 200.000 active accounts in the Netherlands alone. You can find a better explanation here: https://launch.blendle.nl/ and the actual product is here: https://blendle.com.

We use Ruby, Node.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Sinatra, and more Ruby.

All the jobs postings are in Dutch. They can be found here: http://jobs.blendle.nl.

(Currently, Dutch is the main language in all communications. But we're willing to change our ways for the right person.)

[+] 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.

[+] tomarr|11 years ago|reply
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I was wondering where you get the National Rail train data from. Is it based on the open data from ATOC/RSP or do you have your own agreement from them?

I ask as I was thinking about writing a lib to parse and use the ATOC 'fares data', and just wanted to know if anyone has had any success with it. The format is well documented but a bit massive (80 page specification), before getting started would be nice to know if the data is actually useful. Their site says it is updated infrequently which made me a bit hesitant, and I don't think I've seen any projects where it's been used. Love your app by the way!

[+] ianlevesque|11 years ago|reply
Digitally Imported http://di.fm/ -- Senior Native Mobile Developer

REMOTE or from our Denver, Colorado office.

Digitally Imported is seeking a talented Native Mobile Developer to join our distributed Product Development group. This is a full-time remote (telecommute) development position with a close-knit distributed team.

We currently support native apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, with other devices of all sizes and shapes still to come. Ideally you're already proficient with several mobile platforms, but if you’re rock solid in one and willing to learn others, we'd love to talk with you.

Visit http://di.fm/jobs for more info or email [email protected] to apply.

[+] baninooo|11 years ago|reply
The Blue house thebluehouse.io | Operations manager | Full Time | Taghazout, Morocco

The Blue House is a house for startups in a surf town in Morocco that is opening in March to offer Europe/U.S. startups a stimulating and healthy environment to work from.

We're looking for someone to - help run operations (i.e. hosting startups a,d taking care of the day-to-day business in the house) - take the lead on the organization of some events (logistic + communication) - ideally to lead meditation and yoga sessions.

Details : http://www.f6s.com/thebluehousemonth-longprogram/jobs/4038/o...