Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

We launched Voxer in 2011 and have since become one of the fastest growing voice applications in the world. What we've built is already an important part of the daily lives of millions of people.

We're a surprisingly small team doing this. Only about a dozen engineers who previously worked at Danger, Android, Apple & Twitter. We helped build things like redis for node.js and are contributors to the node.js community. Voxer is built using node.js, Riak and Redis.

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San Francisco, CA - Hadoop Engineer

We are solving really hard problems at massive scale with Node.js, Riak, Redis and run on Joyent Cloud.

We are generating a lot of data in the process - more than 25 billion events every day. We just jumped into the Hadoop ecosystem and are running our own cluster which processes terabyte. If you love working on these kinds of problems, get in touch and maybe we can figure them out together.

You'll get to work on:

* Help scale and develop our Hadoop cluster.

* Understand the patterns of groups, billions of messages with location data and social graph patterns.

Some of the things we look for are:

* Some formal education in Computer Science or equivalent, but the exact degree or number of years of professional experience you have isn't as important as your enthusiasm and ability.

* If half of your resume talk about animal-named systems you're probably the right person for the job

* You’re interested in how we can better understand what drives our user growth and user engagement and we can engineer the product to increase it.

* Hadoop experience We are starting to incorporate these technologies into our operations

* Experience working with Hive, Pig or Hbase

* Thorough understanding of statistical analysis.

Apply: http://voxer.com/jobs

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San Francisco, CA - Web/Integration Engineer

Lead Engineer for new business unit

Voxer is hiring a lead engineer for this new business unit. You will help to define the enhancements needed across the board to support enterprise use of Voxer. You will then lead the implementation of those enhancements.

You'll get to work on: * Building a new division from the ground up

* Cutting-edge command-and-control systems that will help IT managers keep track of thousands of devices and users e-commerce and billing platforms of Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay, and others

Some of the things we look for are:

* Formal education in Computer Science or equivalent, but the exact degree or number of years of professional experience you have isn't as important as your enthusiasm and ability

* You have probably worked on large enterprise systems and know the pressure of delivering against tight SLAs

* Conversant and comfortable interacting with clients' engineers to understand market needs, train in using our systems, and provide general support

* Experience with Node.js, Riak, and Redis is helpful but not a requirement. These are the technologies we depend on every day.

Apply: http://voxer.com/jobs

At Causes, use your programming powers to help nonprofits effect change on the world! Ruby on Rails + jQuery stack, 12-ish person engineering team, the usual startup perks (catering, snacks, soda, etc), gym membership reimbursement, etc. Ways we're trying to make ourselves better engineers:

- deliberate practice with our tools. If you are a vim user, we have the programmer who wrote Command-T on staff and he's a great person to learn from - every changeset gets pushed to Gerrit where it waits to get a +1 from our build suite (that runs in 3 minutes) and a +1 from a human reviewer

- over the last 4 months, we've upgraded from Rails 2.1 to 3.2.3 and are using the static asset pipeline, SASS/Compass, and HAML. We're the largest site I know of on Rails 3.2. We gave a presentation on the upgrade at last weeks SF Rails meetup, slides at causes.github.com/migrating-rails-talk

- everyone is encouraged to take one hour from their day to learn about something they wouldn't otherwise (aka study hall)

- every story is scoped so that it can be completed in less than a day. We don't branch, we just work on top of master. We've found that the closer we stay to master, the less needless work we create for ourselves

Causes is a great place to better yourself and better the world. We're particularly looking for a systems/ops/network engineer to help wrangle our colo. Apply through the site or adam@causes.com if interested!

Python Developer

Healthcare is filled with unstructured and partially structured data. Join the Montage Healthcare Solutions engineering team to develop the next generation of tools that will unlock the knowledge within this data, improve care and lower costs. Montage Healthcare Solutions is looking for talented Python developers to help bring full-text search and analytics to healthcare.

Responsibilities

* Build an easy-to-use, cross-browser web front-end.

* Implement natural language processing algorithms.

* Design REST APIs.

* Optimization for large data sets.

Skills

* Strong background in Python web development. Experience in Django, Celery, South, & NLTK a plus.

* Strong understanding of SQL, specifically PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

* Knowledge of front-end tools and languages, such as HTML5, CoffeeScript, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, and LESS.

* Strong background in development best practices, including unit & functional testing and modern distributed version control systems.

* Experience working with healthcare data & protocols (e.g. HL7) is a plus.

* Experience with natural language processing and full-text search (e.g. Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Xapian, Whoosh) is a plus.

Benefits

* Stock Options

* Competitive Salary

* Medical insurance

* Vacation days

* Remote working is feasible

http://montage.theresumator.com/ or contact me directly (details in profile)

SparkBase, a leading provider of gift and loyalty programs.

We're hiring developers. If you have Ruby, Java, or PHP experience, we're interested. These are full-time positions. No remote.

Within the first six months of work, you will design, prototype, implement and deploy one or more core SparkBase platform services.

Perks:

* Full insurance benefits: Medical, dental... for you and your family.

* We have brand-spankin' new offices - and they're pretty spectacular.

* All the coffee you can drink.

* Macs or Linux desktops, two if you need 'em. Big 'ol monitors.

* We pick people over degrees... and reward awesomeness.

More details at: http://sparkbase.com/contact/careers/

StumbleUpon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com/jobs/ )

Hello all, My team, Applied Research, is rapidly growing. We are looking for people who have done work in search (Lucene etc) and also in recommendation systems. Any one who has done a bunch of stuff in Machine Learning, Scala and worked with lots of data (Any members of the Hadoop family) is welcome to join us trying to make better recommendations. We have been around for a while but are in the midst of doing significant changes to our system which personally to me has been an incredible learning opportunity. Please feel free to contact me ( eshvk@stumbleupon.com) if you have any questions and I will get you talking to a recruiter ASAP.

Perks:

Gym reimbursement, commute reimbursement, Uber Credits (yay!), free dental, vision and health insurance, 401K match, and the usual toys like get a macbook pro, play ping pong and wii. The best part of it is that we are in SoMa!