Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

i'm asking because it sounds interesting (and i'm german ;) ) and i'm looking for a new gig as a software developer right now.

A bit about us:

We built Harry’s with one simple belief: everyone deserves a great shave at a fair price. As such, we seek to provide our own brand of exceptional shaving products direct to our customers online. We launched on March 13th and have been humbled and flattered by the early customer response, and we're now looking to bring on more talented engineers to help make every one of our customers happy and change the world, one 5-o'clock shadow at a time.

We're looking for outstanding full stack engineers and data engineers who want to solve thorny e-commerce problems in {customer marketing, web performance, customer experience/support, operations, supply chain management} in innovative ways.

Technologies: our web site is built on Rails, we're hosted on Heroku, our data is stored in Postgres, and we write a lot of Python to consolidate data from various sources and analyze it.

For the full stack engineer who thrives on shipping features in the face of complex problems and processes: Our custom e-commerce platform powers the entire business, from the HTML on our homepage all the way down to our supply chain. We’ve got fun problems to work out every day, at every level of the stack, all with the hope to make purchasing and shaving with us the best experience out there. We’re looking for someone genuinely excited by the opportunity to make millions of peoples lives easier and build the Harry’s platform of tomorrow. Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Architect and implement core features of the production website

* Build infrastructure to support various external features and other units of the business

* Think about performance all the time, and proactively make changes to make our platform better

* Determine ways to operate more efficiently (e.g. optimizing our inventory and shipping algorithms)

For the statistically inclined engineer who communicates with data and hacks on data problems:

Data plays an integral role at Harry's, informing every facet of our business. We are constantly working to understand the behaviors of tens of thousands of customers, tailoring offerings to them so that we can make them happy and drive continued demand. To that end, we're looking for a statistically-inclined software engineer who is well-versed in building data systems and wants to use data to inform decisions at Harry's in a forward-thinking way. Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Build infrastructure to automate data collection, storage, processing, and presentation.

* Instrument our website and marketing communications to gather the data we need.

* Test changes we make to our site, emails, packaging, shipping options, -- everything, really -- relentlessly.

* Produce, analyze, and present data to users in a context that allows them to make meaningful strategic decisions.

* Use your sheer intellectual horsepower to figure out and communicate how to better delight our customers.

If interested, email jobs@harrys.com with why you're interested and relevant links (e.g. Github, projects, LinkedIn).

tl:dr; go here, if you can do good stuff we want you: http://jobvite.com/m?34QnZgw1 or email andrew@flipboard.com

Flipboard's a social magazine. Millions of people daily use Flipboard to read the world's media. We're best known for our tablet and mobile apps, on both iOS and Android, but as of a little over a week ago, Flipboard magazines are on the Web too:

https://flipboard.com/section/new-number-order-bynx9a https://flipboard.com/section/geometries-bzd2Wr

Alongside all of that, we work with most of the leading publishers out there and we're making serious investments in data. (That's what I work on; I'm the product lead on recommendations.) We're kind of stealthily enormous; when it comes down to it, we're aggregating most of the good content published on the web every day. You like scale? We got scale. Languages; we do Java, Python, C++ and Go for services, Javascript/node.js for Web, ObjC and Java for mobile. We're using AWS heavily, and our backend stack includes MySQL/HBase/Kafka/Storm/ElasticSearch/Hadoop.

We are looking for (deep breath...)

– Devops, mid-level and Head of Operations: http://jobvite.com/m?3SXoZgwX

– Backend/systems developers to work on our core services (we call it Service Engineering): http://jobvite.com/m?3tYoZgwz

– Android developers: http://jobvite.com/m?3PUnZgwQ

– iOS developers: http://jobvite.com/m?3fUnZgwg

– Web developers: http://jobvite.com/m?3hYoZgwn

– Engineers to work on our data collection/Hadoop/search infrastructure (come work with me!): http://jobvite.com/m?3xXoZgwC

– Black-box QA testers: http://jobvite.com/m?3wZoZgwD

– Product designers: http://jobvite.com/m?3zZoZgwG

And more, so if you don't see you here, email me – andrew@flipboard.com.

On the benefits side: competitive salary, equity, 401k with company contribution, really good medical/dental/vision/life insurance, subsidized commute benefits, we don't track time off, most people work from home around one day a week, we'll get you whatever equipment you want (though I'd be lying if that doesn't usually wind up being a Cinema Display and a retina Mac Book Pro, even if at least one of us runs Ubuntu on it...), and we're getting terrifyingly competitive at ping pong. Also, as a bitter singleton, it sometimes feels like half the company is having kids. We're very family friendly.

http://www.sessionbox.com/

Because instrumenting the frontend should be easy. (Let's just say that's the visible part of the iceberg). We've opened up the hood in a new way, enabling full x-ray visibility into the frontend (and a lot more that will surface in due time). Ok, we know. That's a little cryptic. We look forward to being able to say more, and in the meantime, if you're really curious, try reverse-engineering what we're doing from our jobs page. You'll see we have some tasty ingredients.

We've just finished seed funding, and are looking for our second and third engineers.

Software Engineer - Javascript Frameworks Expert

Are you tired of sprinkling blobs of Javascript instrumentation code throughout your applications? Have you explained the importance of the waterfall graph in DevTools a zillion times? Do you think that movie theatres should play compilations of Paul Irish videos? If so, this position might be for you.

Qualifications:

Demonstrable expertise with multiple programming languages

Expert understanding of web technologies (Javascript, HTML, CSS).

Expert understanding of at least one frontend Javascript framework (Backbone, Angular, Ember, Knockout, etc).

Substantial experience with Chrome DevTools.

BS/MS in Computer Science or closely related field.

Bonus points:

Experience as a team or project lead.

Experience with d3 or other Javascript data visualization libraries.

Experience creating applications with node.js.

Familiarity with WebKit or Blink internals.

Software Engineer - Core and Backend Lead

You will work on the architecture and implementation of our core service. This includes both the core Sessionbox technology to monitor and analyze our customers' production web applications, as well as the backend infrastructure that will keep our service available and scalable.

Qualifications:

Demonstrable expertise with multiple programming languages

5+ years creating and scaling web application backends (including node.js)

Deep understanding and implementation experience with HTTP proxies.

Expert knowledge of at least one NoSQL database (Mongo, Cassandra, etc).

BS/MS in Computer Science or closely related field.

Bonus points:

Experience as a team or project lead.

Experience with LXC based containers.

Familiarity with WebKit or Blink internals.

:: Ruby/Rails Engineer wanted ::

Hi! I'm the CTO at Bunk1, and there's a good chance I want to talk to you.

Our company is a small, industry known team of ex campers working to make managing summer camps more efficient. The next year is going to be an incredibly exciting and demanding time for us, and we are looking to add someone to the team who is driven, but also enjoys being part of a team (we live on HipChat).

Ideal candidate would have experience in Ruby, be comfortable dealing with large datasets, and simply always be improving themselves.

Our current stack includes Rails, Postgres, Memcached, S3, and Heroku (moving soon!).

If you have passion for good code, get excited when you can make something scale, and think you can make a difference in our company, please get in touch with me!

Email: anVzdGluc0BidW5rMS5jb20= (base64)