Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

Washington, DC or REMOTE - LivingSocial is looking for passionate Rubyists! http://bit.ly/A8S6l6

We’re on the hunt for candidates who can make software languages bend to their will. Due to our high traffic, there are technical scaling challenges that few companies experience. As a member of our skilled team, you will build and maintain applications deployed to millions of users. This is a fast-paced agile environment where code you write today will be live on our site tomorrow (Continuous Deployment FTW!) and we need the best and the brightest to help us build better, more robust applications. We’re not saying it’s going to be easy but if you enjoy building awesome products that are widely known/used this might just be the opportunity for you.

Redwood City, CA - Full Time - Inflection Inflection is in the public records space. We collect data and build beautiful applications that use this data. We have 3 different product lines and that allows our employees to work on different challenges every day. We have a search product, a genealogy product and an identity management product. We are looking for all types of smart folks, and specifically a QA Manager, a data architect and a search engineer. We have a program for on-boarding fresh graduates (http://inflection.com/careers/class-of-2011.html) and helping them find what they are most interested in doing. We are particularly proud of this. Recently named on of the top 100 Data Innovators: http://data2summit.com/top-100 We know how to make money. We've always been profitable, more millions in revenue than people in the office! We get design and UX, we recently hired Peter Merholz, founder of Adaptive Path: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/09/merholz-strays-from-path/ Check out our beautiful website for company culture: http://inflection.com/careers/ Email me directly mbaird@inflection.com if you are interested. Thanks!

I was hired at Monetate this past summer after seeing a post about it on Hacker News. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the company or my own hiring experience.

email: sgallagher monetate com

Accidental downvotes are a lot more common on HN than you might imagine. The arrows are really small and close together, especially on an iPhone. I'd guess that's what happened.

Join Nulu in redefining the way the world learns languages!(San Diego, CA)

JOB DESCRIPTION: We are an innovative and fast-growing startup in San Diego developing technology that will transform how consumers around the world gain fluency in foreign languages. We've garnered significant market traction in the US and are looking to expand internationally in the very near future.

We are a small team with big ambitions! You'll be joining a team that knows how to launch successful products, and working with us to build tools that are going to change the world. Ideally, you have an exceptionally strong web applications development background, and you are familiar with Python (bonus points if you've worked with Django) or Ruby on Rails.

As an early employee, you'll be joining our CTO and developers as an integral part of our engineering team. You'll have a major influence in the products we build, the technologies we adopt, and the culture of our company.

Our current software stack includes Ruby, jQuery, HTML5, HAML, RSPEC, MySQL, and git, running on an EC2 Deployment of Ubuntu instances. If your background doesn't match up perfectly with our stack, but you're excited about what we're doing and learn quickly, we want to talk.

If you write awesome code, have a great eye for detail and care deeply about everything from the product architecture to its front-end design, get in touch with us to learn more about how we're changing the world.

To apply, send your resume to David Allison: david@nululanguages.com. If you have a Github account, please send a link as well.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Must have 3+ years of hands on coding experience developing high volume and/or e-Commerce websites using technologies such as: Ruby on Rails or Python with Django, jQuery, HTML5/CSS, HAML, RSPEC, SQL, git/github, EC2 Deployment, etc. Personality Traits: versatile, can adapt to new programming languages quickly, entrepreneurial Can write top-notch, cross-browser compatible, and W3C standards compliant code (Don't worry, we're not targeting old versions of IE) Comfort using source-code version control: experience specifically with Git is a plus Experience testing your code with testing frameworks

COMPENSATION: Competitive salary (DOE) + meaningful equity