Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Life insurance is a $130B market where 98% of policies are sold through financial advisors and life insurance agents. Ladder is building a new type of insurance company that is all digital from the ground up and sells directly to consumers. We are a growing team of innovators going after this huge market by putting the user at the center of product design. We are creating a company built on technology, design, and data science so users can get the coverage they want and need.

-Know and understand our data elements and architecture deeply and comprehensively

-Use your expertise in modeling, quantitative analysis, and data mining to inform core business expansion, feature development, and channel optimization. Robust data science is foundational to Ladder’s business model. The work you do will have long term strategic impact, as well as strong value for short term decisions and prioritizations.

-Build production machine learning models; your models will create new best practices in real time underwriting.

-Collaborate with world class team members across engineering, product, risk, finance, and marketing Report to the head of engineering

https://github.com/ladderlife

If this sounds like you email me at casey@ladderlife.com

Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #2 | https://www.korukids.co.uk

Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our second full stack engineer.

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share great quality nannies. To do this, we’re building great software for our families, supporting our matching team with critical tools that make complex matching problems a breeze, and using technology to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

We’re continuously improving our product, building key features that will move the needle in a big way. Instead of an endless product roadmap, we run short development cycles to test assumptions and make smart decisions quickly. This isn’t a sprint and there’s no project managers, we work closely with the rest of the business to make sure we deliver the most value to our customers.

Our stack uses Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. We use modern front end tooling, with ES6, React and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, we love GitHub code reviews and making CircleCI happy before anything gets into production. We mostly deploy to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. We favour feature flags over staging environments and deploy to production as often as we need to; deployment cycles shouldn’t get in the way of delivering value.

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/jobs/622008 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

Thinkful Mentor (Data Science or Javascript Web Development) | Remote, Contract/Hourly

Help motivated learners get to those aha! moments.

Thinkful’s Data Science & Full Stack Javascript Web Development courses pair personalized, intensive mentorship with a curriculum tailored to launch careers.

On the Data Science side, you can mentor on everything from analytics and experimentation to building specialized machine learning models in your student’s domain of choice.

In the Flexible Web Development course, you can mentor on everything from the basics of front-end web development to fullstack Javascript with Node.JS and React.js.

Mentors benefit by expanding their network and boosting marketability as subject matter experts who use their spare time impacting learners while learning themselves.

Please submit an application at https://www.thinkful.com/apply#apply. Feel free to email melissa@thinkful.com with any questions!

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Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. The company provides 1-on-1 learning through its network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. Thinkful offers programs in web development and data science, with in-person communities in up-and-coming tech hubs around the U.S. To join the Thinkful network visit thinkful.com.

Micro:bit Educational Foundation | Lead Developer - website and services (fullstack) | Oxford, UK | ONSITE with flexibility, Full-time

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation (http://microbit.org) is a not-for-profit with the global vision of helping every child to be an inventor. We are enabling children around the world to get creative with technology and learn to code in school, in clubs and at home. We do this primarily through educational programs based around the BBC micro:bit board, and building technology that just works for teachers and students in a school environment.

To do this we're looking for a committed, flexible and collaborative software engineer to lead the development, deployment and maintenance of our systems and web presence at microbit.org.

This site is the first port of call for millions of students and teachers around the world who are learning about coding and technology using the BBC micro:bit. The role will require you to work with a range of languages and tools; we need someone who can start with what we have and lead the creation of our next generation platform.

Alongside this you will start to develop our community portals, ecosystem and accessory listings, and work with upstream communities to enhance the micro:bit code editors (makecode.microbit.org is Typescript and python.microbit.org is Javascript+Python). Our current stack includes Ruby/Jekyll and CircleCI deployments to AWS.

More info https://micro-bit-educational-foundation.workable.com/j/E27C...

As well as building our own suite of sites and services, we also need to be confident contributing to and staying on top of other open-source tools that our partners are developing in conjunction with us. Most significantly, these are Typescript (makecode.microbit.org) and JS+Python-based (python.microbit.org)

It's awesome working for a creative not-for-profit that's all about broadening the range of people that get excited by computing. We're flexible about office hours, working style, and the team's built from people passionate about EdTech. This person will be hiring other team members as we grow.

We've only got the web tech lead job up right now, but all future jobs will go up here: https://micro-bit-educational-foundation.workable.com/

PRIVATE INTERNET ACCESS | https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ | DevOps, Rails and Desktop Engineers | Full-Time

Private Internet Access is a VPN service which brings security and privacy to the average user that’s fast and simple to use.

We’re an activist organization at heart and are significant donors for organizations such as the EFF, Freenode, Fight for the Future, Creative Commons, FSF, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, etc. You can learn more about the companies we support here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/companies-we-spo....

We’re looking for experienced DevOps, Rails and Desktop (JS+Ruby) Engineers anywhere in the world. You will work on both the VPN service as well as our new product ventures as we continue to make amazing privacy products.

We offer: - Competitive Salaries - Flexible Vacation Time - Experienced Engineers

For US Employees we also offer: - Health/Dental/Vision paid 100% for Employee and Employee + Spouse - Employer paid STD, LTD, and Life/AD&D

If you’re interested about learning more about the positions, please email jobs@privateinternetaccess.com with cover letter and resume.