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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by capkutay »

WebAction (http://www.webaction.com) - Full time or intern in Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto). Seeking UI developers and Platform Engineers.

WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today. We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

UI or front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and should be experienced or at least interested in using JS libraries like d3.js. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus. Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.

For the Platform Engineer position, you should have or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested, email us at jobs@webaction.com. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by stochastician »

Prior Knowledge (SF) [H1-B, interns ok]

Full Time, Distributed Systems Developers and Machine Learning Experts -- and anyone with a passion for posteriors.

P(K) is a small team in downtown San Francisco pushing the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning to the masses. Our first product is Veritable, a predictive database. We like to think of it as a database for things you don't (yet) know.

We're passionate about discovering the hidden causes behind data, and are currently split pretty evenly between machine learning experts, scalable systems engineers, and people used to working with horribly messy, complex, and sparse data. We're backed by Peter Thiel's group, Founders Fund, who share our commitment to long-term technical innovation.

http://priorknowledge.com/join-us describes a bit more about what we're looking for, and you can always e-mail me (jonas@priorknowledge.com) for more info! Or swing by our offices at the intersection of 3rd and Market to meet the team.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by alleynkearney »

WDYC wrote: post #127
alleynkearney wrote: post #100

New York, NY (Union Square, Manhattan) http://www.jcrew.com/footer/careers.jsp Hi HN! J.Crew is expanding rapidly right now both domestically and internationally and we are looking for good devs -- and techies of all kinds actually! -- for our NYC headquarters. (We don't work with recruiters. Sorry, recruiters). My contact info is in my profile if you're interested in finding out more and are in the New York area or…

Are you recruiting for the team in India?

No. Sorry :(

Only for the New York headquarters at the moment.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by drags »

SF - Rails/JS - HALF OR FULL-TIME

I've mentioned before that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480

We're looking to hire a couple more engineers who are interested in being part of a team but would prefer to work 24-40 hours per week instead of the usual 50+. If it sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

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About us:

The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

About 225 colleges and universities use our applications to acquire low-cost inventory and price textbooks competitively. Then millions of students visit our white-labeled sites to transparently compare the bookstore's offers against online competitors, and around 80% of students choose to buy from their local bookstore.

We're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems on the technical side, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck, and we're always looking for ways to provide more control to our support team so they can provide top-notch customer service.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us. :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by natrius »

denzil_correa wrote: post #67
lnanek2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Site is in English, run by a US based startup fund/accelerator, why do you think other countries would post here?

While run by a US startup is fine but when you say "in English" you are not aware of the other world.

Wow, that's a willful misinterpretation of his comment. The original comment asked about "other countries" as well. The reply replied to the "other countries" part. Relax.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by smcguinness »

Frisco, TX: DevOps

20% Ops 80% Dev. .NET shop, but also have potential to work on SIP platform, C, C++. Come join a great engineering team and a fantastic team overall.

Perks: Flexible work hours (no full time remote, sorry). Full benefits, team lunches twice a week, development freedom.

http://www.call-em-all.com/About

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by RichardPrice »

San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too.

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

We believe that science is dysfunctional, and we are working on fixing it. Almost every innovation in medicine and technology in the world has its roots in a science paper. If we want to speed up the world, we need to speed up science. There are many inefficiencies in science:

* it's too slow (there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal and it being published)

* all the world's research ends up behind extraordinarily expensive paywalls, even though it was authored and peer-reviewed for free by the scientific community

* it hasn't moved out of PDF-land yet (scientists haven't been provided with the incentives to share things like data-sets, code, videos, and other kinds of rich media).

We are working on fixing this. We dream of a world where research is shared instantly, as soon as it's finished; where scientists share their full scientific output (data-sets, code, videos, and comments on all this media), and not just papers; and where a villager in India has as much access to the world's scientific output as a professor at Harvard.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accomplish this mission. We have made a good start: 1.8 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 3,500 join each day. But there is much more to do.

We're a 10 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. We are looking to hire a range of positions:

* full stack engineers

* growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels)

* iOS engineer

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://tcrn.ch/T42VWC (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://tcrn.ch/R6Pgrr (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. Remote work is fine. We will handle re-location, including visas, if you would like to re-locate, but re-location is not necessary.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by melling »

cduser wrote: post #46

Why don't people from India or other countries post here? Sorry for being off-topic but most of the companies here are from the USA.

I don't think anyone would mind if someone created another monthly job post for another region. Putting everything in one message would make it difficult to peruse.
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