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Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545
- Wouldn't you want to work towards genuinely making the world a better place?
- Wouldn't you want to work in a close-knit team alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry?
- Wouldn't you want to work on solving interesting problems that haven't been solved before?
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At Khan Academy, I truly believe that you can find all of those things and more. We're a small, 50-person nonprofit tech startup making a big difference in the world. A few weeks ago, we found this great story through the fascinating blog "Humans of New York" – please take a moment to read it:
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...
This is just one story, but every month we hear about hundreds of lives that we've transformed, and there are thousands more we don't hear about.
Lots of people know us for Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge library of math practice exercises. Our 100,000+ practice problems have been done over 1.5 billion times total. That's a huge number.
This gives us the ability to study learning in a way that no one has previously been able to do. We've run tests which show that students learn more when they're advanced quicker by a custom machine-learning algorithm [1]. As I write this we're running dozens of A/B tests to learn what we can do to make people learn more, from testing how review scheduling affects accuracy to simply testing different teaching styles.
Whether you're a machine learning guru or you take pride in perfecting UI details for a dropdown menu [2], we have something for you. You'll be working alongside a small team with the best in the business – though we have "celebrity" devs like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee (and former Director of Technology) Craig Silverstein, we have many more you haven't heard of but who are just as awesome.
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I'm going to put in a special plug for mobile: Around 20% of our traffic comes from phones and tablets but we have only two people (me and one other person) working on our apps right now. Our iOS app is fairly basic, but it already has a few million downloads. We want to make it awesome. If you're a mobile developer we can build a great team around, please reach out. You can't find this sort of opportunity in very many places.
We're hiring engineers (web, mobile, data science), product designers, a community manager, and more. Oh, and if you want to have a great summer (or fall or spring) building real features for real users, we're hiring interns too.
Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers directly (say you saw us on HN!) or feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org with any questions.
[1]: http://derandomized.com/post/51729670543/khan-academy-machin...
[2]: http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...
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===========================Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)
Hardware -> prototyped with arduino, still using atmel uC but no longer arduino-ey. Manufacture-ready. In the process of sourcing for large scale manufacturing. Have some pilots running.
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Knewton's mission is to bring personalized learning to the world.
Knewton personalizes digital course materials by figuring out exactly what a student knows and what she should do right now. Knewton provides the tools and infrastructure needed to create continuously adaptive learning applications driven by real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, analytics, and more.
Knewton has been recognized globally as a "Technology Pioneer" (World Economic Forum in Davos), one of the world's "50 Most Innovative Companies" (Fast Company), and one of "The World's 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs" (Goldman Sachs). More at http://www.knewton.com/about/press/
http://www.knewton.com/careers/
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Some specific openings:
* Senior Database Administrator, Systems Engineering - http://bit.ly/19bUVXm
* Data Analyst - http://bit.ly/18fkQgB
* Senior Software Engineer - Java/NoSQL - http://bit.ly/17zDdkD
* Senior Software Engineer - Natural Language Processing - http://bit.ly/1b8rmJD
* Software Engineering Internship - http://bit.ly/1cTBTaP
* Senior Product Manager, Analytics - http://bit.ly/InFqoH
* Product Manager, API - http://bit.ly/ICsXy5
* Business Development Professional - US/UK - http://bit.ly/18SeNCx
* Technical Project Manager - Content Operations - http://bit.ly/1jXVDwx
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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/
Us
We build beautiful and powerful tools for real time collaboration and content creation, used by over 25,000 bloggers and dozens of big name brands and publishers. We're a ten-person team local to NYC that values education, personal growth, and work-life balance.
You
You're a highly motivated individual with proven and demonstrable skills in web application development and maintenance. You can build a full web app, set up a server, launch into a production environment and maintain the whole thing comfortably. You have strong communication skills and you're good on teams.
Technologies
As long as you have experience in most of these and are willing to catch up on the others you're OK to apply: PHP, mongo, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Linux server administration, Node.js.
Why us
- market salary commensurate on experience
- health insurance
- personal growth and training budget
- almost no overtime
- work with an enthusiastic and intelligent team
- work from home 1-2 days per week
How to apply
We prefer applicants who can commute into NYC, but please apply if you feel you would be a good fit no matter where you are in the US.
Email php@tid.al with the following information:
- cover letter
- résumé
- brief description of the project you did your best work on
- brief description of the project you did your worst work on
- geographic location and your level of willingness to relocate
- desired salary
Full-time devs. Frontend Backbone.js / jquery. Backend Python work, would likely be working with Django. Looking for more senior people, as well as a tech lead for the team. Also, QA people.
We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/a-very-harry-potter-pro... Or and r2d2 engagement ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/r2d2-engagement-ring/ Or a portal one: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/not-your-typical-engage... We're a small, tightly knit eng team. Boilerplate about stack / team here: http://engineering.custommade.com Various Engineering Positions open: http://www.custommade.com/careers/
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We're funded by Google Ventures and a ton of others: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/custommade-ventures so paying you well is not an issue. We recently raised an 18 million series B! We're growing, and with that comes scaling challenges. But it's all part of the fun. We have a great team and a great environment that focuses on customers and product development. When I'm working on product stuff, I get to collaborate with product / UX / support people day to day to build a product that meets a real business need, and makes everyone happy. But when I just need to bang out some code, people leave me alone. When I'm working on platform or architectural stuff, I get great advice and feedback from my coworkers. Expressing opinions and having discussion is encouraged. Friday afternoons are refactoring / innovation day to scratch your good code itch. Work / life balance is great. Bureaucracy is at a minimum.
Devs get a macbook pro, a huge thunderbolt display, and an Aeron chair.
We love contributing to Open Source, here is a list of what we've released so far, with more to come: https://github.com/SawdustSoftware We also regularly participate in and sponsor the Boston Python group, which is the largest python user group in the world. I've spoken there twice so far. We also often help stream the event for them, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/bostonpython/ Tech blog here: http://engineering.custommade.com/sawdustsoftware/
You're a low-ego programmer who is always learning, has pushed code to production innumerable times, and doesn't cringe at the prospect of collaborating with a team of non-techies every so often. You know the modern web stack well, and specialize in at least one part of it. Get in touch with our hiring person at ellen -at- custommade-dot-kom. Let her know that "Mali" sent you.
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If you have any eng-related questions, you can figure out how to get to my email.
Two years ago Justin.tv created Twitch, a website that's become the most successful application of live streaming video so far. Now we're working on doing the same thing again, for a different niche. We have access to the impressive resources of the Twitch juggernaut, but Justin.tv is still a small and largely independent group, so we get to make our own rules when we want to get things done quickly. It's easily the most fun I've had in my career, and I think the other guys on our team would say the same.
Contact: bill@justin.tv
More information: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/justintv/full-stack-software-en...
We're an eyewear company looking for engineers to help architect and build our API, which powers eyeglass orders for fashion brands. We are also looking for people to help us build our whitelabel eyewear software, and iterate on new UX features - we do a lot of AngularJS.
Our stack is Python (Flask) and MongoDB [1]. Including bits of Celery, nginx, and uwsgi. We do a lot of integration with the UPS (in fact, we maintain an open-source UPS library [2]).
We're building our API and internal dashboards (which we use heavily to process orders, eyewear prescriptions, customer information, gift cards, etc.) We white-label eyewear for other fashion brands; Classic Specs and Steven Alan are some of our brands. Email me!
jay@classicspecs.com
Do you think robots are cool? So do we!
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. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)
iRobot is looking for software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers.
Here are a few of our 30+ job openings:
* iOS developer
* Web designer
* Embedded software engineers * We're hiring for "big embedded" (Linux and big cpus) and "small embedded" (bare-metal, small cpus)
* Software engineers for navigation and mapping
* Test engineers
* RF engineer (electrical engineer)
Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx
Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com