Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

VaxTrac | QA Software Engineer | Washington, DC | ONSITE

VaxTrac is looking for talented QA engineer who shares our passion for making a difference in the world. We build tools to improve the delivery of health care to those that need it most. QA Engineers at VaxTrac are the primary conduit between our users and Software Engineers. They condense many, sometimes unclear, reports into actionable bugs. Once a fix is applied, the QA engineer tests the software and generates relevant documentation about the fix for internal teams and external users. QA Engineers are primarily responsible for: maintaining the bug-fix lifecycle, gathering supporting technical information from field reports, improving processes for bug reporting and features requests, testing fixed bugs for completeness, maintaining changelogs and providing technical support for the coordination of trainings.

We are looking for those who

+ Are committed to using their skills to generate real social impact.

+ Have an interest and passion for emerging technologies and novel use cases.

+ Thrive in loosely structured environments.

+ Share the conviction that we can make the world just a little bit better.

Skills and Requirements

+ Experience programming web, mobile or desktop applications

+ Extraordinary skill in distilling and communicating complex concepts

+ Eagerness to travel and spend time in remote corners of the globe

Bonus points

+ Experience writing or testing native Android applications

+ Demonstrable programming talent

+ Computational data analysis experience

+ A keen eye for visual elements and design

+ French language fluency

+ Primary or secondary technical support experience

+ Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline

Please email your updated resume and cover letter as attachments to careers@vaxtrac.com with “QA Engineer” as the subject of the message.

C++ Software Developer| Stevens Capital Management| Radnor,PA| ONSITE

An exceptional C++ Software Developer is sought by Stevens Capital Management LP (“SCM”), a registered investment adviser that manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that has been in business for 20+ years. SCM specializes in the rigorous development and disciplined implementation of empirically based quantitative trading strategies. As a C++ Developer you will be joining a highly productive team working in a fast-paced collegial environment, utilizing extensive data sets, technology and the scientific method to devise and employ trading strategies throughout the world’s most liquid financial markets.

We're seeking highly driven, production-oriented C++ Developers who possess strong technical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

Primary Responsibilities • Utilising your in-depth knowledge of C++ you will design, develop and implement proprietary trading programs, encompassing trade analysis, price validation, order routing, monitoring and risk analysis. •Develop and support multi-threaded applications with a strong emphasis on high performance. • Optimize our trading strategy implementation and performance analysis platform using network and systems programming. • Create tools to process, store and analyze quote, order and financial data. • Work closely with our quantitative research analysts, engineers and other groups to provide software solutions.

Requirements • Advanced C++ Professional level programming experience in a Linux environment. • A Computer Science or Mathematics degree. • Outstanding problem solving skills. • Knowledge of shell scripts and other languages including Perl, Bash or CSH is a plus. • Experience with relational databases including Sybase, SQL Server and Oracle is a plus. • Experience with GUI design is a plus.

Please submit your resume to recruiting@scm-lp.com Website: www.scm-lp.com

Pivotal | ONSITE SF, NYC, Palo Alto and many, many locations worldwide | Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists | Visa and relocation assistance

First things first. We look for aptitude over APIs. It doesn't matter whether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, know some stuff and have empathy, we want to work with you.

Pivotal's goal is to change the way the world makes software and we kinda sorta really mean it. We're broken into three basic divisions: Pivotal Labs (yes, that Pivotal Labs), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data. Rotations between divisions, temporarily or permanently, are possible.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York City, Santa Monica, Palo Alto, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Dublin, Tokyo and Sydney. We will soon be opening an office in Berlin as well, with more to come. Relocations, temporarily or permanently, are possible.

Each of the three divisions has a constantly evolving and deliberately cross-pollinated culture. We are constantly thinking about how we work and how we can work more sensibly, effectively and enjoyably.

-- Pivotal Labs, from which the company draws its name and cultural seed, helps clients to become better at development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile. In practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels. We have a growing data science practice, and some engagements include all four roles.

-- Cloud Foundry solves application deployment and management. We're the main contributors to CF. We're expanding what is the leading opensource PaaS and our distribution has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product ever. It's also the only PaaS I'd personally bet a company on -- except for integrated upstream code, every line is pair programmed and TDD'd. We dogfood the cutting edge of the technology on our own commercial public cloud (Pivotal Web Services). It works because we took the XP and Lean DNA of Pivotal Labs and scaled it up to build the best cloud platform bar none.

-- Big Data is home to a fleet of battled-hardened products that we have been progressively open sourcing. Greenplum Database tackles some of the largest datasets in the world with the comfort and familarity of PostgreSQL. Apache HAWQ (incubating) brings Greenplum's distributed query planner to Hadoop. Gemfire, which we donated as Apache Geode (incubating), is an in-memory distributed grid with years of high performance in high-stakes systems.

-- Generally

At our offices we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong is not mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.

We provide visa and relocation assistance. In the NYC office we have about 15 people from overseas, including Australians like me.

You can apply through our website: http://pivotal.io/careers. You can also email me at jchester+hn@pivotal.io to answer any questions you might have and potentially help me score one of our generous referral bonuses.

Connexity - Camarillo, CA (Los Angeles area) | on-site | http://connexity.com

Are you a web developer eager to gain some serious experience with big data (~10 billion transactions per day)? Help us build the web tools to wrangle billions of transactions every day.

#About Connexity

Our team is sharp and works well together. We enjoy perks such as daily paid lunch, a 9/80 schedule (to get every other Friday off) and unconstrained vacation (don't worry about having to build up enough vacation days for the family reunion); the culture of our team recognizes and respects the importance of your non-work life. Also, Ventura county is a pretty nice place to live/work (unless you hate temperate coastal weather). If you've got Rails or other relevant web app experience, that's a good start. More importantly, you'll be eager to learn display advertising (banner ads, RTB) inside and out. Attitude, ambition and sound judgement trump experience with a specific set of tools. We're a small team within a medium-sized organization, and we work hard to keep the small-team vibe while availing ourselves of the best bits from the mother ship in Santa Monica.

#Position: Rails + exposure to Scala, Hbase & Kafka

We need someone to contribute to our Ruby on Rails app. It's used to administer hundreds of advertising campaigns across hundreds of publisher sites. It's not just boring CRUD. It provides a ton of control and insight to the team that operates our clients' campaigns; it's truly the heart of our display advertising business. The business folks will know you, and you'll find that excellence will stir up a tremendous amount of appreciation for your work. This role is a great way to learn advertising tech at scale as well as other tools. In addition to Rails work, you'd get hands on experience with Redis, Hbase, PostgreSQL, R and Scala. Several on the current team started in the Rails app and have moved into other areas of development (low-latency RTB bidder written in C, sophisticated reporting pipelines or novel optimization algorithms); so it's a great position if you want to develop broader technical skills while really taking advantage of your growing knowledge of our vertical.

-- Unless you prefer to start with a HR-oriented chat, you can reach me (a lead engineer on the team) at david.larsen@connexity.com.

Wolt | http://wolt.com | Helsinki, Finland | ONSITE, REMOTE

We are working on making the food industry digital one meal at a time. Wolt helps people order restaurant food, takeaway or delivered. We are a small team of 25+ people expanding rapidly across Europe and there are already well over 300 Wolt venues. Wired chose Wolt as one of the hottest startups in Europe 2015.

We're looking for full-time engineers of all sorts! Check out https://woltapp.com/careers/.

Tell them Kenneth sent you ;).