Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

* SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME

* SF - Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits

I mentioned a couple months ago that we have a couple 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=5235860

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+. We're also looking to hire someone full-time (40ish hours per week). If this sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

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About us:

The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps colleges and universities transform themselves so that they a) embrace the power of transparency and the internet, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make approximately the same profit margin from course material sales.

About 300 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 some of Ruby, Rails, Clojure, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We have a great team, embrace new technologies (we just switched to Puma, we're moving to the JVM so we can use Netflix's Hystrix project to reduce API-related downtime), but also care a lot about producing and maintaining a stable, solid product for our customers.

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. Additional pluses are a stats background, experience with Hadoop and knowledge of scheduling algorithms.

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

SMSgrupp is a free tool for group communication that works on all mobile phones, regardless of model or age. It is used by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people sending millions and millions of messages. Increasingly, those message are being sent from smartphones, and your job will be to make sure that our messaging app competes with the very best. We are now rebuilding from the very start and want you in from the beginning. You will be the one who leads this effort in close collaboration with our backend engineers, operations team, and designers.

The main quality we’d like to see in a candidate is simply the ability to ship solid code. And enjoy doing it. If you have iPhone apps in the app store, and a proven track record of delivering quality code on tight deadlines, that counts for more than any number of impressive degrees.

Since it's a lead developer we are looking for we will expect you to want to be working full time together with us in our office Stockholm.

We look for: Solid knowledge of tools and language (Objective-C, iPhone/iPad SDK, Cocoa etc or Java, Android SDK etc respectively) Strong understanding of software engineering principles and object-oriented concepts. Pride in writing simple and beautiful code. Product sensibility and understanding of interaction design. Solid understanding of database concepts and experience with SQLite. Understanding of computer security (authentication, basic cryptography, networking principles). Not scared of saying “I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll learn”. English speaking and writing skills (Swedish is a plus but not needed). A sense of humor and a light heart.

About us When the 2010 edition of the Stockholm "24 Hour Business Camp" started SMSgrupp was still just an idea. A simple but innovative idea: Why not use SMS, a channel that almost everyone has access to for many-to-many communication and thereby cover the need for people to communicate in a group? Now we are expanding our operations across three continents and growing quickly. Given that we five devs in the team you will be a critical part to our operation :).

Our new offices are situated near the water in central Stockholm, at Götgatan just beside Slussen.

If this piques your interest, drop us a mail and say hi at jobs at smsgrupp dot se. We would love to hear from you!

We are are early stage but funded startup, looking for our 5th hire!

Prefer a CS degree with prior frontend web development/JavaScript experience.

Salary based on experience, and you get equity. Come be part of a great team and have fun building and learning with us! Send me your resume at careers@whisperinvest.com

You will work closely with our engineering team to develop the next generation in online video. You'll have the ability to work on projects that immediately affect our clients and partners in the media and advertising industries.

We use Python/Django for web server side tasks and a host of other technologies to get the job done. Our custom video delivery system utilizes the latest in HTML5 video (and Flash where appropriate) for web and mobile devices. The successful candidate will have the ability to touch all areas of our client and server technology solutions.

Requirements:

- Enrolled in a CS program, or related discipline at a 4-year school

- Knowledge of the Python programming language preferred or similar server-side dynamic language

- Knowledge of Django web framework or similar frameworks.

- Basic knowledge of Unix/Linux command line and ssh.

- Ability to learn quickly and work independently

Stipend available for qualified applicants Send your resume to info@theochre.com

We're an early stage startup looking to define the intersection of real-world signage and the digital world and we're looking for a few experienced computer engineers to join our small team in Brooklyn.

Roles we're hiring for:

- Software engineers with strong analytical and match skills. Machine learning, "big data" and complex algorithms such as search or online ad-platform experience is a bonus.

- Full stack developer and operations (dev-ops) engineer. Experience with large platform systems and geo is a bonus but not a requirement.

- Electrical Engineer, this is a senior and very varied role. We're looking for someone with lots of experience with PCB schematics and layout, assembly and manufacturing. Experience with microcontroller circuits, serial and SPI interfaces, and everything up into system integration and firmware coding. Experience with FPGAs is a bonus.

We're mainly looking for senior applicants however I don't want to discourage younger engineers to apply.

About us

We're a small company in Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo), our mission is to bring smart wayfinding to the masses. Our smart mechanical/digital street sign, Points (http://breakfastny.com/points), is just the beginning of what is possible in this brand new market. Using all the power that comes with realtime data and online signals, in a real-world scenario opens up new doors to what physical spaces can offer.

We are big users of open source software. Our codebase is mainly python, c/c++ and javascript (node.js). However we do not discriminate if your main focus has been some other language. Our software stacks usually include linux, nginx, postgres, redis and misc AWS services.

We do a lot of prototyping in-house. We believe that engineers should have access to the right tools to get their job done. We have 3D printers, a large scale CNC for cutting metal and a slowly growing prototyping shop for electronics work.

By looking at our previous work you can get a better sense of who we are and what we like to tinker with. http://breakfastny.com/projects/

We'll offer salary based on your experience and the specific role that you fit in. We also offer health care, an unlimited vacation policy, weekly happy hour beers and a couple of office get-away days a year where we all go out and do something crazy to blow off some steam (zip-lining, go-carting and other juvenile-ish fun). We'll let you pick the laptop of your choice as well.

If you're interested in joining us in this very early and exciting time of our business, please talk to us so we can figure out how to get you on the team.

Get in touch with me on jobs+engineer@breakfastny.com