Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

DevOps Engineer

UX Designer

All positions full time in Cambridge MA. Remote a possibility for the right candidate.

ActBlue powers the fundraising of the political and social left. If you’ve ever given online to a Democratic candidate or organization, chances are you’ve used our software. We are growing like crazy! We need a few more good software engineers who want to influence politics and online organizing. ( https://secure.actblue.com )

We use best in class tools and methods:

• Backend: Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis

• Frontend: Bootstrap, jQuery, Sass, D3, Highcharts

• Operations: Chef, Rackspace cloud and AWS

• Tools: Github, Tddium

While this is a list of what we currently use, we are open to hearing from great people who come from different stacks.

You'll be an essential contributor to a small team of professionals in our Davis Square office. You'll have significant responsibility right out of the gate and a voice in designing our architecture. We offer autonomy, responsibility, an amazing workplace (full of people geeking out about politics and tech all day) plus these benefits:

• Extremely competitive salary

• 401K matching

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision benefits for you and dependents!

• Unlimited paid time off

• Public transit pass (Charliecard or Commuter Rail)

• Professional Development (conferences, classes, etc...) 100% paid

• Choose your own computer setup

• Family friendly flexible schedule

• Healthy and not-so-healthy snacks

Some neat things about us:

• ActBlue is a political non-profit that is well capitalized. This gives us the freedom to explore new electoral technology without influence from big donors or investors.

• We are an established 9 year old organization. We have a startup / political campaign mentality without the pressure and long hours. Sustainability is valued.

• Our employees have lives outside of work. We have parents, dog owners, marathon runners, RC plane pilots, Artisan Asylum members and german linguists.

• We sponsor RailsBridge Boston, a workshop designed to encourage more women to become Ruby developers in Boston.

ActBlue is the software and operations engine that powers the fundraising for thousands of Democratic and progressive campaigns and committees. In the 2011-2012 election cycle we moved over $175 million for nearly 5,000 campaigns with an average contribution size of $48.90. Our fundraising software is used by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and countless Senate, House, State and Local campaigns in all 50 states.

To start the conversation email techjobs@actblue.com and copy me at nate@actblue.com

We Are Pop Up is a community-driven marketplace for short-term commercial property leasing. While we certainly didn't invent the concept of a "pop up shop", we're embracing it whole-heartedly as a solution to two social problems which have arisen in our time: 1) How can we lower the barrier-to-entry to enable a new generation of retail, food, and creative entrepreneurs to operate as easily in the offline world as businesses currently do online? 2) As commerce increasingly moves online, vacant property is left behind, which can have detrimental effects on both the nearby businesses and the greater community alike. How can we find new ways of filling that space? The missing piece which transforms these two real problems into mutual solutions is an excellent software platform that removes the time and overhead typically associated with commercial leasing. We Are Pop Up officially launched this platform near the end of 2012, and has already given numerous creative entrepreneurs around the UK opportunities to engage the offline world in ways they never had before.

We're looking for an experienced Web Application Developer to work directly along side our Lead Developer and Creative Director, building features and scaling the platform. Someone who's comfortable working with the whole stack, understands the principles of excellent software development, and wants to treat their code as their craft. We're primarily in a Django/Python environment, but any relevant experience is great, as long as you are willing to learn Python. The number of years you've been working professionally isn't too important (though it should be at least "a few"), but what you've done is. Being an expert in SQL will get you a lot of points. We follow Agile development practices, and you'll be shipping features frequently.

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Skills and Attributes We're Looking For (being 100% in all is not required, but candidates who are will receive preference)

* Experience building web applications from the bottom, up. Django/Python experience preferred, but Rails/Ruby, PHP, etc. is also great, so long as you're a quick and willing learner

* Solid knowledge of SQL and related best practices. We use Postgres, but are happy with MySQL or similar experience

* Ability to work in Javascript/HTML/CSS. We use YUI 3 and Bootstrap. You certainly don't need to be a designer, but you should be able to take on a feature and fully implement it, including all relevant front-end code

* General understanding of Solr/Lucene search

* Experience deploying basic server infrastructure and with the Unix command line (being an expert SysAdmin is not required)

* Familiarity with code profiling and optimization

* Interested in things like Agile development, TDD, and pair-programming

* Work equally well in close coordination with others and independently/self-directed. We're a small team, so we'll always be working closely, sometimes in pairs, but often you'll need to be able to take on things on your own

* Legally eligible to work in the UK (mandatory)

What We're Offering

* Competitive salary, based on experience

* Meaningful, early-employee equity

* Regularly attend some of the coolest pop-up events and parties in London

* Work on a developer-driven software team, where your contributions will have a hugely positive impact on the lives of others

More About Us

We're a group of Brits and Americans who came together in the spring of 2012 to take on an ambitious idea cooked up by 2 of our co-founders in a pub one evening (where all good ideas start). We're artists and environmentalists, consultants and entrepreneurs, engineers and educators. Collectively we've worked with Fortune 500s, government and the public sector, universities, creatives, small businesses, and (other) start-ups. We're alumni of Springboard Mobile in the fall of 2012 and we're looking to change the world.

Principals only, no recruiters

Please submit your CV, a paragraph summarizing your relevant experience, and links to your work on Github, Bitbucket, etc. to jobs[at]wearepopup.com, with the subject "Hacker News candidate for your Web Application Developer role"

We look forward to hearing from you!

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalising specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

Lead iOS Engineer - We're looking for a super technical iOS engineer who knows the ins, outs, and annoyances of the iOS platform.

We're a venture backed startup (Spark + OATV) that is making reminiscing online fun by taking your digital exhaust (ditial photos, tweets, checkins, etc) and showing you the most interesting things you've done on this day in history.

In an age where we're creating more digital data than ever before, we're trying to take the 90% of stuff that isn't real time and searching for the important signals and making it useful again.

Our stack is mostly Rails with PG (and decommissioning Mongo). As of late, we're adding more and more Go into our stack.

As the lead iOS programming, you'd be leading the iOS efforts on all fronts: making major decisions about how the codebase progresses (libraries, code conventions, etc), major part in hiring, and managing the iOS team. Since we're a small startup, you'd also have a huge amount of input into the product.

We're also looking for junior iOS folks as well!

Shoot me and email, I'd love to hear from you! benny@timehop.com (tech cofounder)

We are the marketplace for commercial open-source, connecting open-source developers with businesses and enterprises through commercial licensing, support, customization and integration services.

http://www.binpress.com

We are in the 500startups accelerator program batch #6 (ending August 1st), and have already raised half of our seed round. We're generating significant revenue and are trying to change the way software is being developed.

We are looking to fill out a few positions:

* Growth hacker - paid / organic acquisition person (PPC, SEO, SEM, Content marketing) with creative, out-of-the-box thinking for acquiring new customers and publishers.

* Developer evangelist / community manager - an outgoing developer who loves to attend meetups, hackathons and engage people on social media and offline. You will be doing all of that as well as active outreach to find our next top developers on the marketplace.

We're a small and extremely agile team. You'll be one of our first hires, and you can expect significant equity in addition to a competitive salary if you produce results.

We'll be in the 500startups offices in Mountain View until the end of August, and then move to an office in the bay area. If you join before the end of the program, you'll have access to all the program events and network.

Please apply via AngelList at https://angel.co/jobs?startup_id=2506