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pruth | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

Carv by MotionMetrics | iOS, Android, Product | London, UK and/or Innsbruck, AT | Full-time + Remote/onsite | https://getcarv.com/lp/careers-android-engineer (Only Android posting is live right now)

At MotionMetrics, we’re working to create digital sports coaching experiences. Our first product is Carv, a digital skiing coach that blends hardware, software and real-time audio instruction to teach people the sport of skiing - a world first across sports.

We’ve shipped 12,000 units to date and are doubling production every year to keep up with demand. This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a fast growing sports technology start-up in London, alongside a fantastic team of hardware and software engineers, marketing and customer service experts who are all passionate about changing the paradigm of coaching.

We're looking for mid/senior iOS and Android engineers to own delivery of our current mobile apps and a Product manager to help us push it further.

Please send an email to [email protected] mentioning HN!

pruth | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

Carv | React Native Engineer | £35k - £60k + equity | London/Austria ONSITE | https://www.getcarv.com/pages/careers

In 2016, we broke the sports wearables record on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. We delivered a v1 of Carv in Winter 2017 and have since helped over a thousand people improve how they ski. With a thin and intelligent insert, Carv measures your movement and weight distribution then relays actionable feedback through your earphones in real-time.

You’ll be working on all things mobile. You’ll be staying close to our users’ primary use-case. Which means skiing! You’ll get the chance to test and trial your creations in our mountain HQ in Innsbruck. You’ll be working with a variety of frameworks and tools including Bluetooth Low Energy, Realm, Mapbox and Protobuf. You'll be using CI and UI Testing to ensure quality.

There’s also plenty of scope for expanding out of mobile and getting involved with the core analysis engine written in C++ or our Python based server.

* You’ve had at least 1 year of experience with React Native and 2+ years with mobile development. You have shipped and iterated at least one app on the Play or App store. If you have shipped or iterated on at least one app React Native app on the Play or App store then that's a bonus!

If you are interested please email pruth (at) motionmetrics (dot) co

pruth | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Carv | Android Engineer - Junior | £35k - £55k | London ONSITE | https://www.getcarv.com/pages/careers

In 2016, we broke the sports wearables record on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. We delivered a v1 of Carv in Winter 2017 and have since helped over a thousand people improve how they ski. With a thin and intelligent insert, Carv measures your movement and weight distribution then relays actionable feedback through your earphones in real-time.

You’ll be working on all things mobile but focused primarily on Android and Kotlin. You’ll be staying close to our users’ primary use-case. Which means skiing! You’ll get the chance to test and trial your creations in our mountain HQ in Innsbruck. You’ll be working with a variety of frameworks and tools including Bluetooth Low Energy, Realm, Mapbox and Protobuf. We also use CI and UI Testing to ensure quality and you’ll be interfacing with other tools like Sketch and Paintcode. There’s also plenty of scope for expanding out of mobile and getting involved with the core analysis engine written in C++ or our Python based server.

You have a passion for the outdoors and have some experience skiing. You’ve had at least 1 year of experience with Swift or Kotlin and at least 2 years with software. If you have shipped or iterated on at least one app on the Play or App store then that's a bonus!

If you are interested please email pruth (at) motionmetrics (dot) co

pruth | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

Carv by MotionMetrics | iOS Swift Developer | London, UK / Vienna, AT | Full-Time | £35 - £60k

If you love skiing as much as we do and want to combine your hobby with your profession, then read on!

Carv is a wearable that speaks to you as you ski - it’s the world’s first digital ski coach. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to work for a well-funded start-up that broke the sports wearables record on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and is now months away from launch.

We’re a sports technology company born out of London making a huge impact on the world of skiing. Built in consultation with Olympians, Carv gives casual skiers access to the feedback and knowledge that only elite skiers have had access to so far. With an extremely thin and intelligent insert, Carv measures your motion and pressure distribution then relays actionable feedback through the user’s earphones in real-time.

Our team is looking for an excellent Swift engineer to come join our team full-time in London, Vienna or Tignes (yes that’s the French Alps!). If you love skiing as much as we do and want to combine your hobby with your profession, then read on!

In the role, you will:

- Get to ski! - Report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO. - Be responsible for all things Swift and iOS with a direct impact on our customers from Day 1. - Work with a variety of iOS frameworks including CoreBluetooth, Realm, MapBox and Swift Protobuf. - Use CI and UI Testing to ensure quality. - Work with other tools like Sketch and Paintcode. - Own the maintenance and updating of the app. - You may even get your hands dirty with our core analysis engine written in c++.

Our candidate is someone who is:

- A skier with a love of the great outdoors. - Experienced (ideally 1+ yr) in Swift and 2+ years in iOS with an app or 2 to show for it. - Willing to learn with a strong foundation to build upon. - Willing to get their hands dirty and communicate ideas effectively with an attention to detail - A person who finds a fast-moving, unpredictable and constantly evolving work environment to be buckets of fun.

Reach out to me at [email protected]

pruth | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

MotionMetrics (https://carv.ai/) | Software Engineer (Full stack engineer & mobile (Android or iOS) engineer) | London, GB | Shenzhen, CN

Compensation £18K – £46K , 0.0% – 2.0% (equity)

If you love skiing and technology, then you're in luck.

We're making Carv, the world's first digital ski coach (using some very intelligent sensors!).

We work with some of the latest and greatest skiers (Olympians included!) and are looking to boil down their knowledge into a personal ski coach that can help everyone ski better.

As a full-stack engineer engineer, you will be working alongside the CTO. Depending on your passion, skills and experience this could mean a mix and match of the following

Building Carv's iOS app in Swift

Building Carv's Android app in Java or Kotlin

Building Carv's server in Python or Swift

Building Carv's digital coaching in using C++

Improving technical processes across the board

Some of the tech we work with include. (Any experience with the following technologies will be helpful, but we're sure you can pick it up along the way!)

Android NDK, BLE, SWIG, Protobuf, Django/Vapor

Reach out to us for a chat at pruth -at- motionmetrics.co

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