Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by whusterj » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

Aspire (http://aspire.is), Full-Stack Software Engineer (Python, Django, JavaScript, Postgres), Washington, DC, Full Time

Aspire is start-up helping companies provide awesome perks experiences to their employees through a simple online platform.

Aspire needs an experienced full-stack engineer to come work with us in our offices in downtown Washington, DC. We're not going to measure your experience in years, we're going to measure it in experience. The bottom line is: have you done it before?

We're obsessed with creating an enjoyable, memorable, and above all highly personalized workplace perks experience for the users of our software. Our engineering team is challenged with building a digital layer around a fundamentally human service. Where the tech and services meet, the interaction must be exceptional.

Our software has to be fast, reliable, and beautiful. It has to "just work" across the wide range of personal and professional devices in use today.

Requirements and Experience: - You have worked full-stack on a live production system and perhaps built one from scratch. - You have worked with a distributed and highly available system and perhaps designed and built it yourself or with a team. - You don't mind being involved in product design. In fact, you enjoy it. - You are comfortable in many programming languages and use the best one for the job at hand. - You're familiar with ORMs: their strengths for prototyping and their limits on expression and performance. - You may not be familiar with the tools we use, but you are smart and capable enough to pick them up quickly and start building.

You'll work hard at Aspire, but it's critical that you take care of yourself. Aspire helps by providing: - Competitive Salary - Employee Stock Options - Insurance: Health, dental, and vision - Minimum paid vacation policy: You must take off at least 20 days (4 weeks) of work every year. Yes, you read that right! - Unlimited sick days: No sneezing at work. Take care of yourself and your coworkers. - Team adventures and perks galore! Delivered through our own software. - A Better Workplace: Casual, fun, and supportive work environment with all the tools and amenities you need to succeed.

More detail at http://aspire.is/careers

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

Bloc (https://www.bloc.io) - San Francisco - Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Angular, Postgres), full time

We're a small team of intellectually curious developers and designers who are passionate about learning. We encourage our employees to develop new skill-sets, and to foster that you'll be able to apprentice under any of the mentors on our platform. We’ll also provide you with a generous benefits package, generous vacation policy, and we'll hook you up with the gear of your choice.

Founded in 2012, Bloc was the first online coding bootcamp. Today Bloc offers programs in web development, mobile development, and UX design. Bloc's apprenticeship approach employs project-based learning and continuous mentoring from an experienced professional to help students launch new careers. In November 2014, Bloc closed a $6M Series A investment led by Shasta Ventures, and currently enjoys support from acclaimed seed investors Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, and First Round Capital.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by hippich » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:02 PM UTC

jamesmontalvo3 wrote: post #110

Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies in Houston, TX is looking for Flight Controllers to support human spaceflight operations at NASA Johnson Space Center. See the official job posting here [1]. This posting is looking for people to support various International Space Station disciplines, however I personally am within the Extravehicular Activity group. I am not directly involved with hiring at all; I'm purely interested…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by jjarmoc » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

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MATASANO SECURITY - Chicago. New York City. Sunnyvale.

Application Security Consultant

Full-Time or Internship, work visa sponsorship available

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This thread will, no doubt, be dominated by posts with laundry lists of requirements. Many employers will introduce themselves by describing what they want from you. At Matasano, we're a little different. We like to start by telling you about us. This month, I want to try to do that by drawing analogy to Mission Impossible.

What made the original show so great is exactly what was lost in the 'Tom Cruise takes on the world' reboot. The original 1960's and 70's Mission Impossible was defined primarily by a team working together against all odds to achieve their objective. It acknowledged that what they were doing was improbable, and more so for a solo James Bond or Tom Cruise character. As a team though, each character an expert in their particular focus area, the incredible became credible -- the impossible, possible.

Working at Matasano is a bit like working for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). No, we're not taking out thinly veiled cold war era Soviet stand in villains, preventing the rise of the third reich, or being tasked with gathering evidence against criminals "outside the reach of conventional law enforcement." But in many cases, we're given tight timelines and tasked with difficult objectives. To the uninitiated, what we do is often seen as impossible, but _together_ we do it every day.

Imagine you (and your team) have a month to circumvent a real world cryptographic system designed and sold for Fortune 500 companies to protect their most sensitive intellectual property. Maybe you're given a week to investigate and undercover flaws in a brand new Ruby on Rails application. You might find yourself facing a never-before-seen client/server application, implementing a proprietary binary protocol, and having to figure it out and attack it. You could end up drawing on binary reverse engineer skills, or reviewing Java code. But whatever the 'mission', you won't be alone. You'll be part of a team of experts, each bringing their own skill set to the team.

We don't have very much call for demolitions experts, special effects makeup artists, or champion weightlifters. Like the IMF, we're looking for people with diverse backgrounds who each bring something unique to the team. There's little in computing that isn't useful for an Application Security Consultant. We need Reverse Engineers. Developers of all backgrounds, Cryptographers, Electrical Engineers, you name it. We're as likely to hire a Mathematics PHD as a college drop out. Many of our best employees have little formal information technology background. In short, we come from a variety of backgrounds, but share one common trait -- We're curious about nearly everything, and have a wide base of knowledge, but have achieved mastery over one (or more) disciplines. These are the sorts of people the IMF built their team from, and they're the sort of people who we're looking for at Matasano.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to visit www.matasano.com/careers to learn more and contact us. In the enclosed dossier, you'll find links to www.cryptopals.com and www.microcorruption.com which may be of interest. Further intelligence is available at the chargen.matasano.com blog, and you can always contact careers@matasano.com with any remaining questions. As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions.

This isn't Mission Difficult, it's Mission Impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.

This tape will self destruct in five seconds. Good luck.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by bennetthi » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

Button - NYC - http://usebutton.com

Come be Engineer #6 at Button! We’re looking for full-stack generalists and iOS and Android pros.

WHAT WE DO: We’re building a platform and loyalty network that connects mobile apps together. We’ve announced partnerships with Uber, Resy, and Tablelist, and we’re just getting started. (The nature of what we do puts us in touch with a lot of growing mobile startups.)

WHO WE’RE AFTER: We’re a merry band of hackers and entrepreneurs, and we’re looking for someone similarly minded. Our backend is a mix of NodeJS and Golang, and we have a rich iOS SDK (and need help building Android).

Ideally you’ll have 5+ years of experience working on hard technical problems in a related environment. But more important is an ability to work through hard problems, a drive to innovate, and an insistence on clean and well-tested code. Our lead engineers are veterans of Google and Venmo.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: As engineer #6, you’ll either specialize in our mobile SDK or our backend. Both are being built to integrate into hundreds of top-tier apps, with millions of users per day, so performance and correctness are absolutely critical. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, so as an early engineer you’ll have a lot of influence over design decisions and directions.

CONTACT: Interested? Apply at http://www.usebutton.com/join-us or drop us a line at recruiting@usebutton.com, and Chris or Mikey will get back to you! (Please mention HN, too!)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by samuelbrin » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

Robinhood (www.robinhood.com/jobs) - Palo Alto, full-time

Robinhood started with a simple idea: using technology, we can re-think the way financial services operate. We cut out the fat that makes other financial services costly — legacy technology, hundreds of storefront locations, and paper-based accounting. And as a result, we radically reduce costs. Our team members have a diverse set of academic and industry experiences from Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Pixar, ETrade, Bungie, Pandora, Tumblr, and Facebook.

Openings: Web Engineer, iOS Engineer, Android Engineer

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by mac14 » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

Coho Data (http://www.cohodata.com) - { Vancouver, BC, Canada | Cambridge, UK | Bangalore, India }

We’re building a high-performance scalable Enterprise Storage system. We’re a well-funded startup (a16z, ignition) with a strong Engineering culture and a growing team, a customer-proven product and sales ramping. (http://a16z.com/portfolio/)

We hire very strong systems software developers. A number of our staff built the Xen hypervisor and we publish academic research, most recently at USENIX OSDI’14 and FAST’14.

Primarily a Linux shop.

Hottest positions: - Release Manager (Vancouver, BC) - Senior Director of Engineering (Vancouver, BC)

Other roles: - Storage Systems Hacker (C, git, python, bash) - Senior Software Engineer with Networking skills (OpenFlow) - Test Automation Development (our test system is ... awesome) - Optimization and Profiling (C, valgrind) - DevOps (debian, python, buildbot, git, bash)

Unsurprisingly, we highly value caffeine and beer.

If you’re interested, there are more details on our website http://www.cohodata.com/jobs or linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coho-data and you can apply by email to: jobs@cohodata.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by chuhnk » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

Hailo - London - https://www.hailoapp.com/

Get a ride in two taps.

Using e-hail to get you from point A to B might sound simple but there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. From the iOS, android or web app all the way through to the server side apps.

We're heavily invested in the microservices philosophy with over 170 services in production predominantly written in Go. Our client facing service exists natively on iOS, android and the web. We believe in using data to drive decisions and actively use A/B testing to validate those decisions.

Read more about our philosophy on "webapps as microservices" https://sudo.hailoapp.com/web/2014/12/08/webapps-as-microser...

At Hailo we like to work hard and then go play ping pong :D

We've raised $100M from investors including Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, Wellington Partners and Atomico Ventures.

Check out our jobs page http://jobs.hailocab.com/

If you're passionate, ambitious and want to learn, we want to hear from you.

P.S We also love to open source stuff and speak publicly.

https://github.com/hailocab

https://speakerdeck.com/mattheath/a-journey-into-a-microserv...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by whichdan » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

Society of Grownups - https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers - Boston, MA (Washington Square, Brookline)

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a key member of our team by being an advocate for unit and integration testing as we build out brand new financial education software from the ground up.

We’re a small team of talented developers looking for someone with a history of shipping scalable production-ready code in a highly collaborative environment. Our entire team comes from different backgrounds with different levels of experience, and we’re looking for a friendly engineer who can focus on helping us become better testers and developers. In that capacity, you’ll also work closely with our QA Lead to write integration tests, while keeping a keen eye on the user experience of our platform.

As our testing infrastructure becomes more robust, you’ll shift into writing isomorphic Javascript applications in Node.js and Ember. We’re a flat team with a high level of autonomy and personal responsibility, so the code you write will almost always be the direct result of an idea that we came up with -- together. You’ll have a rare opportunity to take ownership of the software you develop, and rely on your instincts and intuition to deliver a world-class experience to our grownups.

What you’ll do:

- Ensure that we’re using the best tools for unit and integration testing

- Help each developer figure out a personal workflow for testing

- Author code using Javascript and Ruby, while occasionally pair programming

What we’re looking for:

- Significant experience with unit testing and integration testing

- Strong knowledge of Javascript, SQL, and atleast one other programming language

- Experience with, or a desire to, mentor other developers

We offer very competitive compensation, a fantastic benefits package, flexible hours + WFH, and a level of individual trust, respect, and autonomy rarely found in most engineering teams.

Interested? Send us any questions, or a brief cover letter + resume to careers@societyofgrownups.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Post by stegro32 » Sun, Mar 01, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

Your Golf Travel / spabreaks.com - London, UK - Senior Developer - Full time - No remote

We are a tech team of ~20 people (developers, designers, infrastructure) in a well-established travel company (~200 people, ~70m GBP turnover), working on customer-facing and internal web-based applications.

Things we do/use (in no particular order): pair programming, TDD, small cross-functional teams, Ruby, Rails, Python, Go, Javascript (sometimes with ReactJS), Puppet, Vagrant, Webpack, Varnish, HAProxy, Node.js, Git, RSpec, Jasmine.

More details here: https://jobs.github.com/positions/703f3fca-bdd4-11e4-913c-cd...

To talk to us: tech-jobs@yourgolftravel.com.