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Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653426
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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software.
A little bit about us:
- We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US
- Though everyone here is fluent in Ruby, we don't artificially limit ourselves.
In the past few months, I've worked with Objective-C, Backbone.js (inside
PhoneGap), Angular.js, Ruby (of course) and a little bit of Java and C#.
- We practice a sustainable pace. We recognize that we each have lives,
activities, and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are
rare by design.
- We're agile, but not dogmatic about it. Our process evolves to suit our needs.
- We offer competitive salaries, health/vision/dental insurance, quarterly profit
sharing, retirement + match, weekly catered lunches, and a top-floor office
with snacks, guitars, and your choice of standing or sitting desks.
- 2.5 hours from Chicago and Detroit, less than an hour to the beach.
- Lots of great beer. Founders Brewery (a mile from our office) has 3 beers in
the Beer Advocate top 15. HopCat is a “World Class” bar on BA.
Just look here: http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/city/43
- If you’re renting anything larger than a breadbox in the Bay Area or NYC,
you can afford a house here. I bought a nice house with a mortgage payment
30% lower than the rent of my 1 bedroom apartment in Mountain View.
- A growing technology and startup community.
- You love writing software, and you have a few years of experience doing it.
- You learn new stuff quickly. You’ve used a lot of technologies, but you’re not
afraid to use more. It would be nice if you use and love Ruby, but not required.
- You believe software is written for humans, not computers.
- You want to come into work every day and enjoy the people you work with.
ej@mutuallyhuman.com
Your friendly reminder about WFH.io (https://www.wfh.io), a super-simple site listing full-time remote / work from home (WFH) tech-related jobs.
Since posting back in September, we've added the following numbers of jobs to the site:
| Software Development | 42 |
| System Administration | 8 |
| Customer Support | 4 |
| Design | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
Don't forget -- it's completely free to use WFH.io -- both to view and to post jobs. Please swing by and have a look!
Thanks, Matt @ WFH.io
CPASelect - http://cpaselect.com [Formerly http://teaspiller.com, acquired by Intuit]
-- Requirements
· Proven experience with Python/Django, Javascript (especially jQuery)
· Is relentless & resourceful in a fast-paced, startup environment
· Able to communicate complex ideas in simple terms
· Experience on AWS or other cloud-based infrastructure providers
-- Preferred
· Demonstrate on Github you’ve built something kickass
· Contrarian thinker able to prove an idea and execute perfectly to launch
· Handy with Linux command line (Ubuntu or Centos)
· Experience with performance optimization, scaling, event analytics
· Can write scripts on Fabric and deploy to a Linux instance
· Good sense of humor
-- About the team
Over 25 million people use TurboTax software every year to file their taxes. But many more millions still walk into a tax store. You will be joining the small team of successful startup people that are disrupting the multi-billion dollar tax industry with their first product, TurboTax CPA Select. The service provides high quality tax help at a fraction of the price of a tax store by allowing consumers to connect with quality tax professionals online. The unique team is heavily financed by Intuit---makers of TurboTax, Quickbooks, and Mint---while still living and breathing “lean startup” to ultimately build a service anyone can use.
Email: cpaselect-CPSL0193@applications.recruiterbox.com
If you want to reach me directly, feel free to contact me from my HN profile
We at Likeable Local are looking to grow our team and seeking two talented and motivated software engineers. One immediate role would be perfect for someone who is great with numbers and analytics. The other role is better suited towards someone who loves working in the front-end and loves making things look and interact beautifully- with html, javascript, and css. In both cases the engineers should love building cool things, learning, and social media. We are in Portland, Maine which is atypical for Hacker News, but is a great place to live! We aren't looking for remote workers at this time.
We are a tech-startup-spinoff of the award-winning (NYC-based) agency Likeable Media, and we are looking for people that are willing to jump right in and be on our small team (currently 3 other full-time developers) creating features that will be visible and impactful and used immediately.
We are hard-working and smart, and we love to solve challenging problems. We use a lot of node.js, javascript, python, django, and the Oxford comma.
You love being a substantial contributor and are interested in the “full stack” of technologies from details of server configuration, back-end, front-end, and mobile platforms. You are self-disciplined, self-directed, but also detail-oriented in your communication about what choices you make and what you are doing.
Likeable Local offers an integrated software solution that allows small businesses to create, enhance and manage their social media presence. Likeable Local was founded in 2012 and has a deployed product that integrates with Facebook and Twitter. The software is sold on a subscription basis, allowing for attractive recurring revenue economics, and is in use by dentists, dry cleaners, florists, and jewelers and we continue to expand.
Interested? Email me at hugh@likeable.com and lets connect!
PubNub runs a globally distributed "real-time network", a cloud service that developers use to build and scale large real-time applications. We power a wide variety of large-scale real-time apps including financial trading, social apps, online auctions, multi-player games, telecom infrastructure, retail apps etc. PubNub is based in San Francisco with an awesome HQ in SOMA, and a low-drama, hard working team of smart people. If you like mega-scale systems and tough engineering projects, PubNub is for you.
Check out http://www.pubnub.com/jobs to see the list of opportunities
Square! In October 2012, we acquired the design firm 80/20 and have had New York based colleagues for some time now. Our logical next step was to bootstrap a NYC Engineering presence to tap in the growing community here. We just started building the Engineering team in July.
As a company, we have four main focuses.
Go international. We're adapting what made us successful in the US abroad. This is harder than typical international plays since it requires translating our four major benefits to small merchants: 1. Shipping readers, 2. Card payments (physical world is much more complex than online), 3. Sending money quickly to our merchants, a.k.a. settlement: very localized and next-day is hard on a number of fronts), 4. Assessing risk of merchants as they sign up, aka underwriting: again, very localized most countries do have FICO scores, SSN, D&B numbers and such.
Move up market. One of the biggest success of Square is to have enabled merchants who were "non-consumers" to start accepting credit cards. In classic disruptor fashion, we have essentially alonged the long tail. We haven't been eating someone else's lunch, we've created a whole new category! Now it's time to move up to bigger merchants.
The other side of the counter. With Wallet, Square Market (http://squareup.com/market) and Square Cash (http://squareup.com/cash), we're going on the other side of the counter and interacting directly with consumers. We think that we can provide the best experience for consumer-to-merchant and consumer-to-consumer commerce. We're at the infancy, but extremely well positioned to succeed.
Data as product. We're leveraging our data. We know a lot about our merchants: daily sales, seasonality, growth of their business, correlation with other events (e.g. Mapping Square Payments During the Super Bowl). Lots of innovative products are in the making which will highlight the breadth of what we do.
In NYC, we're starting with a focus on infrastructure, distributed systems, and money moving systems. We're a small team, located in SoHo, and defining the culture of engineering for Square on the East Coast.
If you're interested; I'd love to chat. Shoot me an e-mail with your resume! seantabor@squareup.com