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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

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Pune, India - we are looking for a general purpose developer who is smart and gets things done. We are building a search engine/knowledge representation system for fashion. http://styloot.com/parametric_search/search/dress-search The best way to describe working here is to describe my last month: I built a document classifier (based on max entropy), a backbone.js app, fixed bugs in django-tyrant-cache and started bui…

look into mongoDB's geospatial indexing, don't reinvent the wheel.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#102
inPulse (YCW11/Mountain View/Hardware-ish) seeks 1st full-time Android Dev [H1B, TN, Interns are good!)

http://www.getinPulse.com Location: Mountain View, CA

Help us design and build intuitive and hackable wearable electronics. Our first product is inPulse, a $149 smartwatch. inPulse connects via Bluetooth to our smartphone (BB + Android) apps which acts as a conduit for watchapps, notifications and alerts.

We're looking for an experienced Android dev to help us improve our nascent app and spearhead integration with a cloud backend.

Almost everything is done in-house: architecture design, schematic/PCB layout, embedded drivers/firmware, Android and Blackberry app dev, industrial design... We push updates out over the air, flinging code to watches worldwide.

You'd be our 3rd employee which comes with multi-% stock options and a competitive salary. Flex work schedules, constant BBQs and food/beer come with the territory.

To apply, please send examples of apps you've worked on and your role in those projects to eric AT getinpulse.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#103
Madison, WI - (REMOTE possible)

Circuit - http://circuitapp.co

Github for hardware. Circuit is a social webapp for designing and building electronic projects (circuit boards), aimed at the exploding Maker/hobbyist market. We're going to disrupt hardware with a tool that makes things 10x easier & faster.

Programmer: We are looking for a passionate all-around programmer, experienced with creating advanced frontend interfaces as well as backend systems. Mainly would be doing a large amount of HTML5, Javascript, and using PHP (Cake) & MySQL on the backend. Big bonus points if you have a hardware background: microcontrollers, designing PCBs, tearing things apart, and familiarity with the Maker movement.

UI/UX Designer: You: experienced with the design of web applications with a strong emphasis on the UX to make a simple and clean interface. Also wireframe concepts, diagram workflows and create various assets needed for the application.

Interested, questions? jobs@circuitapp.co

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#104
Palo Alto, CA We are a small lab focused on creating the next generation of movie and TV recommendation technologies that go beyond traditional 5-star explicit rating systems. We have two engineering positions open, one for a Java developer and another with skills in scripting/Python and Linux administration. You will get an opportunity to work on the latest and greatest Machine Learning algorithms and build innovative prototypes that impact a newly created business unit. In addition, you will have opportunity to participate in conferences, CES every year. Please send you resume (if you are awesome!). H1B OK, no remote. Email me (cybernytrix@gmail.com) for more information or see http://www.technicolor.com/en/hi/technology/research-and-inn....

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#105
Edinburgh, UK - FULL-TIME, INTERN positions available

Amazon Development Centre Scotland are looking for candidates for full-time, intern and student summer positions.

http://amazondc.com/

We're settling into our shiny new office in the city centre (Waverley Gate, right next to the station) and just added a Dreamcast with House of the Dead to our game room, alongside the Wii, Xbox and SNES. Last month we held TechMeetup Edinburgh here, which was really fun :)

http://www.techmeetup.co.uk/

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#106
Onswipe - NYC

Come work with myself, @markbao, and some of the best engineers in the world working on touch, JS, nodejs, and HTML5.

Openings here: http://blog.onswipe.com/jobs

Short list of what we're looking for:

- Front end JS devs (hiring 2) - Back end node, php, and mongo knowledge (hiring 1)

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#108
Amazon.com - Seattle WA - No remote, but willing to relocate based on experience. H1B is possible, again, depending on experience.

I am looking for a strong Systems Engineer for our growing team. We like to describe our organization as a Startup within Amazon, as our part of the business is still growing rapidly and our engineers can have a lot of influence on where the product goes. For this role in particular, I am looking for someone with a strong infrastructure/hardware bias to help us make the changes we need to scale our business over the next ten years without having to lift a finger. We are moving more and more of our applications and services to AWS technologies and we are looking for someone to help lead this initiative.

Job description below. Contact me at ${hn_username}@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Amazon Marketplace team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running and our customers happy. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and solve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during business hours oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience

-Worked with AWS EC2 or RDS

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

#110
Fancy Hands - NYC

Hiring

  - 2 Python based engineers for Google App Engine.
  - 1 Front End (JS, etc)
  - 1 Marketing 
Definitely willing to work with engineers remotely, but would prefer you to be in NYC.

Email me for more info, etc: tedroden @ fancyhands

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