Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Select Star is a data catalog & management tool that solves data discovery problems inside organizations. Many data scientists and business analysts spend too much time looking for the right data, usually by asking other people. We provide a platform that anyone can use to search & understand their company’s data.

We’re looking for experienced engineers to join our founding team. We’re a small, well-funded, fully remote team working closely with our initial customers. Our stack includes React, Typescript, Python, Django, and Rust.

Read more & apply here: https://jobs.getselectstar.com/

We're building a software developement group from the ground-up inside a $15B bank. We're looking for experienced developers who will be instrumental in our strategic initiatives to architect, code, test and operate solutions for both internal and external customers. If you've ever wanted an opportunity to code a better bank, this is it!

Required Skills & Experience - Strong communication skills, curiosity, inquisitiveness - software development is as much about understanding the business needs as it is the technical implementation - Plays well with others - supporting our teammates and lifting the standards of everyone is critical to a well-functioning team that can maintain consistent growth - Excellent organization skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines and priorities - The ability to work cross-functionally with a variety of colleagues - you don't have to be a banking expert, but being able to learn the operating context for an application is essential - Strong knowledge in HTML, CSS, Javascript - our primary modality is the web - Firm grasp of functional programming paradigm, particularly Elixir's implementation of these concepts - Ability to choose appropriate data structures and properly model persistence mechanisms, especially RDBMS systems (we use Postgresql mostly) - Software quality assurance mechanisms - TDD/BDD - Version control with Git & GitHub

Preferred Skills & Experience - 4 year degree in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent program - Experience working in an agile software environment - Experience onboarding, mentoring and coaching more junior engineers - Experience integrating other systems via a variety of integration mechanisms, but especially XML/JSON over SOAP/REST and batch processing - Postgresql - Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView - Cypress - Github Actions

To apply, please submit resume to: jmartinez at navitascredit dot com

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small and agile team in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a sunny satellite office too. For the time being, thanks to Covid, we are in fully remote mode.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python, C++ (replacing still present Erlang[ß]) and Javascript for React & React-Native, relying heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. The tech stack sports Kafka, Postgres and Kubernetes. We use REST where we can, and gRPC where we can't. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Production environment is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent all across the board: frontend and mobile, infrastructure, trading engine, security - and of course generalists, those yet to find their calling.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers .

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ß: to pre-empt questions on why C++ or why not Erlang - our exchange team have promised to put together a proper write-up on the tradeoffs, design constraints, performance needs, etc. In fullness of time, that is, when the most painful (and probably interesting) migrations are behind them.

Hex is building a next-generation data analysis platform, combining the best of code notebooks, BI, and collaboration tools. Our product lets users connect to data, build analyses, collaborate with their team, and turn their work into interactive data apps anyone can use.

We're looking for another Software Engineer (open level) to join our core team of engineers and designers. You will be part of laying our technical foundations, and have a lot of ownership and impact as we grow.

Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and Kubernetes. Interesting things we're working on include real-time collaboration, distributed backend compute, security for user-executed code, data visualization, and frontend performance.

Efficient, fast interview process: intro phone call, interview with CTO, 2-3 technical interviews. Can do whole thing in a few days.

We are well-funded by great VCs and angels, so we have years of runway and can offer competitive salary. We also offer unlimited PTO, full benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Hex is a tight-knit, high-output team with experience from Palantir, Remix, TrialSpark, and other places. We value ownership, autonomy, clear communication, honest feedback, and high-quality work.

We're early, but already have a well-built out product and paying customers, and are moving fast toward expanding our user base through a public launch later this year.

Apply by sending us an email at hello [at] hex.tech. We will get back to you within a day if you're a potential fit!