Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

Spectral (http://spectral.energy) | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | VISA Sponsorship Available | Primarily On-Site after the pandemic, with flexibility for some remote working days.

Spectral develops technical solutions that help propel the evolution of smart energy networks. We are involved across the whole grid, whether it's a community, building, energy farm, neighborhood, or all at the same time! Some areas we focus on include: improving asset efficiency, unlocking the value of energy storage, facilitating demand flexibility, and locally produced renewable energy.

We believe that one of the most urgent issues of our time is the challenge of providing for our energy needs in a sustainable way. We are looking for engineers that share our mission.

ABOUT THE TEAM: An awesome, multicultural and very ambitious entrepreneurial team and the chance to change the world for the better by creating innovative software! No unnecessary hierarchy, but a team of like-minded individuals that are committed to making a lasting change in the energy landscape.

TECH: Python (with some golang and C#), Google Cloud, Postgres & TimescaleDB, gRPC, Kubernetes & Docker, RabbitMQ, Vue.js, and much more

WHERE DO I APPLY? https://jobs.spectral.energy

SPOTLIGHT JOB: We are hiring a software developer for our smart building team. This involves working with Python and developing the software that allows us to control buildings - in particular - to optimize comfort levels and reduced energy use: https://jobs.spectral.energy/software-developer-smart-buildi...

Stir | Backend Product Engineer | Full-time (SF or LA) | https//usestir.com/

Stir is where creators earn together. We want to empower a world where anyone can make a living from their creativity. We do this by building powerful tools to help members of the creator economy collaborate together.

We’re looking for an engineer who can do more than just write good code -- someone who cares about creators and wants to build something meaningful with a tight-knit team, enjoys talking to users and getting involved with other functions. We're looking for someone with 3+ years experience with backend development (GraphQL, Typescript, & Postgres)

We offer competitive compensation, health and family benefits, and invest in your development and creativity.

Find out more about the role & apply: https://careers.usestir.com/career-roles/backend-product-eng...

NWEA | Learning & Assessment Engineer | Full Time | Remote or Portland, OR (US only)

NWEA is a research-based educational not-for-profit that creates assessments and performs educational research. We’re hiring a senior individual contributor to join our Learning & Assessment Engineering team. The team is charged with building computational models to help assessments be more efficient and useful for both teaching and research. The ideal candidate would have:

- some experience using Stan/Jags/PyMC/Tensorflow Probability or another probabilistic programming language. We’ll be applying custom statistical models to understand learning, test-taking behavior, and create more informative reporting.

- a conceptual understanding of constrained optimization

- some experience with software engineering workflows and tools (e.g. using version control, SQL, etc)

- fluency in Python and willingness to become familiar with an existing code base

This is a great role for a technical post-doc looking for a job in industry, or an experienced data scientist looking to apply their skills in a new way. No experience in educational assessment is necessary.

This position has excellent benefits and is fully remote.

Apply here: https://www.nwea.org/careers/openings/?p=job%2Fomzrifwo

We also have several software engineering, DevOps, and other positions open: https://www.nwea.org/careers/openings/

I'm happy to answer any questions: thomas.christie -- at -- nwea.org

APPWRITE | REMOTE | WORLDWIDE | FULL TIME | PART TIME

We’re team Appwrite! We build secure, open-source back-end tools for all your front-end applications! https://appwrite.io/ We value simplicity and if what we do resonates with you, read on.

We’re a 100% remote team and we’re looking to expand our team to keep up with our ambitious plans. We have some exciting roles open for varying levels of experience, spanning various domains!

Here’s a brief of what we’re looking for: - [Junior - Senior] Full Stack Engineer : You love OSS and have some solid experience building full stack applications. - [Junior - Senior] Cloud Engineer : You have experience with cloud provisioning and management tools and share a passion for DevOps in general.

You can check out our careers page for more detailed info and other exciting benefits that we offer https://appwrite.io/company/careers

Course Hero | Redwood City, CA, USA & Vancouver, BC, CAN & Toronto, ON, CAN | Various Engineering, Product, Machine Learning, Analytics roles | Full-time | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf

Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 40 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared.

Course Hero has been recognized as Top 100 Best Places to Work and Top 50 Companies with the Best Benefits in the Bay Area. In the past 18 months, we've acquired four companies and have been recently valued at $3.6B. We are in hyper-growth mode, and are actively hiring across the board!

We are hiring for the following roles: - Senior Engineering Manager - Senior Data Scientists & Senior Data Analysts (3+ YOE) - Senior/Staff/Lead Software Engineers - Front End, Platform, & Full Stack (5+ YOE) - Software Engineer II, Android (2+ years)

Our tech stack: React, Typescript, Sass, Go, Python

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I'm the hiring manager for the EM/front-end roles so feel free to reach out to chat (contact details in profile)