Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

NGP VAN - Washington, DC and Boston/Somerville, MA

* Software Engineer (DC)

* IT Help Desk / Systems Administrator I (Boston)

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our engagement platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.

NGP VAN has been recognized by Inc. magazine as a fast-growing company and an awesome place to work. And they are right!

Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

NGP VAN believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes us a stronger company and better partner for our clients.  Two of our founders are a gay couple.  We’re committed to hiring people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation or gender identities, marital status, religions, and disabilities.  Women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.

We interview across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.

All job descriptions are available at https://github.com/NGPVAN/job-descriptions - feel free to flag issues or submit PRs, although if you try to radically redefine the role your PR may be denied. :-)

Keywords: ONSITE

Street Contxt | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | http://streetcontxt.com/careers | Full Time | On-Site

At Street Contxt, we're currently building the world's first global information exchange for capital markets. Now, if you're not currently working in the capital markets industry, you're probably asking yourself what the means (the complexity of the problem we're solving is not lost on us). Allow me to explain. We're building an intelligent communications platform that uses machine learning techniques to: understand what financial research our users are producing, what financial research our users are consuming, and facilitate massively advantageous connections between these research producers and consumers.

We’re a well-funded team of ~40 and over half of our company is represented by the Engineering team. Fair warning, our standards for our technical team are high - however should you be successful in your interviews you can rest easy knowing you’re joining an effective team that’s headed places.

Tech stack: Java 8, Scala, Spark, Kafka, PostgreSQL, WildFly/JBoss, Play, React, Redux, AWS

What we're looking for:

Full Stack Developers -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/920c1639-d26c-4836-afd8-6...

Product Managers -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/e11e6a67-ac48-4251-9154-3...

A Data Scientist Intern -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/52d703fb-ed18-48aa-992d-a...

What's in it for you:

Competitive compensation 100% employer covered, comprehensive benefits extending to your dependants and legal spouse $2500/year in personal betterment allowance, to be spent at your discretion, doubling to $5000/year in your 2nd year. Every breakfast, lunch, dinner, protein shake, coffee, tea, beer, and snack provided free of charge. A unique, well-lit workspace in the heart of downtown Toronto, steps from St. Andrew subway station and the PATH

Press:

http://www.businessinsider.com/street-contxt-funding-round-2... http://betakit.com/toronto-based-street-contxt-raises-8-mill... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/this-star... http://www.bnn.ca/video/disrupting-data-why-wall-street-need...

My name is Jackson, and I can be reached directly at jackson@streetcontxt.com if you have questions.

DTU Biosustain | Software Engineer (Front-end/UX/Back-end/Full-Stack Web) | VISA | ONSITE | Copenhagen, Denmark

Help save our scientists from their own data:

Our team is looking for one or more talented and enthusiastic software engineers to expand our scientific web platform supporting experimental and computational activities at our center just outside Copenhagen. The front-end consists of an integrated web UI with many individual components. It is supported by a collection of services for data storage and analysis methods.

We use primarily Python and AngularJS.

DTU Biosustain applies an engineering approach to the research of building new microbial cell factories to bring them to market faster and cheaper.

Read more & apply here:

http://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/english/about/vacant-positions/...

This is a public sector job. The salary will be negotiated based on collective agreement (with a union). We therefore do not have an official salary range, but expect something on the order of 450-550k DKK excluding pension & very good working conditions.

We provide administrative assistance with VISA & relocation.

The interview process consists of a phone screen, followed by a short online code test and then a round of interviews on-site or via Skype.

Questions? Email me at lays@biosustain.dtu.dk

Instacart | Sr Full-stack Engineer, Sr Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Sr iOS/Android Engineer | onsite in San Francisco | https://instacart.com

Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores, as well as being able to mix items from multiple stores into one order.

Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is magical. We aim to give our customers back their invaluable time so they can spend it doing the things they love with the people they love.

Hiring Process depends on the position, but will generally follow this flow: Phone screen + simple challenge / Take-home challenge / On-site. We're pretty flexible and can work with you on this.

We care that you can ship product and enjoy taking ownership over what you're working on. We don't really care where you went to school or what companies you've worked for.

Tech:

  • Ruby (and Rails)
  • ES6+ & CoffeeScript (which we are actively moving to ES6)
  • React.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch for search
  • Memcache / Redis

Data Analysis & Data Science: SQL, R, Python

Learn more about us and apply directly at:

  • https://careers.instacart.com/
  • http://tech.instacart.com
  • http://stackshare.io/posts/the-tech-behind-instacarts-grocery-delivery-service

Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development | Mountain View | Onsite | https://smartcar.com

We're a small team (8 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared and Connected. Smartcar is building an API platform to solve the "connected" part of it.

We just brought 3 more engineers on the team last month but looking to get 2 more with 2+ years of experience immediately. Our stack is Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS. In addition we are looking to fill a Business Development role.

If you are interested in helping us modernize transportation and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, we'd like to meet you.

$95K to $130K + up to 1.0% equity

If you want to learn more, email me at sanketh@smartcar.com or call me at 530 475 2882. No recruiters.