Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

Phaxio | Chicago | Full-time | REMOTE OK (U.S. only)

A bit about us: Phaxio is a simple, yet powerful, faxing API (you heard that right, faxing). We power small companies from places like YC and Techstars to major banks and Fortune 100 companies. Who we're looking for: As a full stack developer at Phaxio, you will be working with a variety of technologies on the front and back end. We recently rewrote our API in Rails and just rolled out a whole new look and feel.

On an average day you might find yourself: - Updating chef recipes to deploy a new service - Working to add a new feature to our Rails web dashboard or the flagship API - Tweaking our packer or vagrant development setup to optimize dev time for other engineers - Using Wireshark to diagnose issues with one of our carriers - Improving fabric scripts we use to automate our infrastructure on AWS - Answering a technical support ticket that involves a feature you created - Work on an open source library that helps developers or even non-technical end-users integrate with Phaxio

For interviews: After a brief conversation to make sure that we're all on the same page, we'll send over an interesting issue for you to diagnose and solve. Nobody looking over your shoulder or breathing down your neck :)

If you're interested, send an email to howard at Phaxio.com

MM.LaFleur |Senior Software Engineer| Full Time (Onsite) NYC

MM.LaFleur is a fast-growing professional womenswear company based in New York City. We aim to be the go-to wardrobe solution for modern women of purpose. How? By delivering luxury-quality clothing via a seamless, direct-to-consumer stylist experience. We're a varied group of go-getters who are all passionate about reimagining the way women shop and dress for work. We have a validated market and die-hard fans, a quickly growing revenue stream, and a whip-smart and energetic team. We take our work (but never ourselves) very seriously. We’re data obsessors who like nice clothes. We truly believe we can do it better and faster and smarter and have more fun. They are one of the faster growing e-commerce companies!

What will you do? Herein lies your opportunity: * Build an integrated CRM, marketing, and sales system with a combination of custom and third-party tools. Take our proven customer data-centric sales model and make it more efficient and scalable. * Define product and choose technologies as we grow, starting with a “free the data” architecture overhaul. * Help hire a team of engineers, both in-house and contract.

What skills do you have? * Know PHP backwards, forwards, and upside down. MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, too. Magento? Great! * Be good at (or ready to learn) commerce platform management and development. * Love the entire stack, from devops to cross-browser styling to A/B testing marketing campaigns to internal tooling. * Desire to set the foundation for an awesome engineering culture and help build the team. * Be excited about analytics and data-driven decisions. * Appreciate UX and the designers and engineers that make it possible. * Heart startups—you like flexibility and ownership; you move quickly and (sometimes) break things; you appreciate process, but don’t mind if it doesn’t exist sometimes.

Please feel free to reach out directly at john.ball@mmlafleur.com

https://boards.greenhouse.io/mmlafleur/jobs/134873#.WJIPNrYr...

SimpleReach | Senior/Lead Rails Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | $120-160k + equity

https://angel.co/simplereach/jobs/208333-senior-rails-engine...

I'm a backend engineer there for almost 3 months now. Tight knit team, tons of leadership opportunity, overall great place to work with lots of opportunity for an individual to guide the direction of the engineering! My interview process consisted of:

  - phone screening ~30 minutes
  - tech screening with CTO ~45 minutes
  - tech/culture screening with engineering manager ~ 60 minutes
  - onsite technical interview with Lead Engineer, Chief Architect,
 non-technical with VP of Engineering ~ 4 hours

Connexity | Santa Monica, CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Join a small, tightly-knit Data Science team as we transform our data assets into valuable business products. Although this group of 4 has a great deal of industry experience, we've only worked together in this capacity for about a year. This means that there's still a lot of opportunity and green-field work ahead of us.

The position could be described as a Sr. Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer. We work with billions of records per day and small hundreds of thousands of (messy!) features. We primarily use Scala/Spark and Python, but we employ R, Ruby, plain old SQL and other tools on a regular basis.

We'd like to find someone familiar with Bayesian systems, Random Forest and other classification. Experience in ad-tech, e-commerce or online retail is a plus, but we strongly favor hiring someone with the right qualities that transcend mere familiarity.

More than anything we value sound judgement. It's great if you have loads of tools in in your tool belt, but you really have to know when it makes sense to use them. As you get involved with research or optimization work, we want to have confidence that you'll have the right intuition about what questions to pursue and what questions to defer. With our high transaction volume, hundreds of unique models in production and hundreds of thousands of potential features, discernment is an essential virtue. We'll always have 5x more questions and curiosities than we'll have time to chase down. We're looking for that person whose judgement is guided by experience possesses a knack for uncovering valuable, actionable insights.

Within our team I lean strongly toward the engineering side of the spectrum, but I'd be happy to have a conversation about our work. dlarsen@connexity.com If you're more comfortable going the typical HR route, you can find the posting here: connexity.com/open-positions

PSPDFKit | Senior Frontend Engineer | Vienna, Austria, EU or REMOTE UTC +- 5 hours

We're looking to hire an experienced web developer to join our team working on PSPDFKit for Web. PSPDFKit is the leading PDF framework on iOS, it's used by Dropbox, IBM and Evernote, and we want PSPDFKit for Web to match and surpass that level.

PSPDFKit for Web is a ES2016+ React project, using Flow type annotations, Redux and Immutable.js. WebSockets are used for real-time communication. Our customers host the PSPDFKit for Web Docker container themselves and embed the JavaScript library in their web apps.

Check it out at https://pspdfkit.com/web

PSPDFKit is a fully bootstrapped company, with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and a team that can be found all over the world in places like Raleigh, Hamburg, Ljubljana, Kiev, Mexico City, Bratislava, Cologne and London. We are committed to having the best developers from all over the world.

Most of us are around the UTC timezone. We found that working with people within 6 hours of time difference works best and we have a few people in EST (UTC-5). Other, more distant timezones might work but only in exceptional cases.

We are looking for people joining our team - not for outsourcing companies or recruiting agencies.

Job ad: https://pspdfkit.com/jobs/#senior-frontend-web-engineer

Here's everything you need to know about our hiring process: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2016/hiring-a-distributed-team/