Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

Hi! We're "The Company Formerly Known As Inbox,"[0] and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for frontend engineers, designers, and systems and infrastructure/operations engineers to join us.

Companies are building their core businesses around our email API right now, and that means we have to be reliable, up all the time, and fast. We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. That means big technical challenges to solve as we scale out our fledgling distributed backend. If you have experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code, this job[1] might be for you. :)

Many people spend their entire days buried in mail clients which haven't significantly changed in years. That means an opportunity to tackle big UX challenges as we build out our client scaffolds and create a new framework for the next generation of mail apps. (Ever meet anyone who really loves their email experience? We want to change that.) Sound exciting to you? Apply here[2].

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership.

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team.

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that.

== A bit more about us ==

* We're built on tools like Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, Docker, and Debian. Go is likely to join this list soon. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/inboxapp

* We're 40% women on our team of 11 (10 engineers), including 1 of 2 cofounders. We want to make that number 50%.

* Our sunny Mission office is more lived-in than tidy. Think art studio, not corporate.

* We're more likely to end up at the climbing gym or on a bike ride together than out drinking at the latest startup event.

* We have an open vacation policy and value personal responsibility and ownership.

Apply via Lever at https://www.inboxapp.com/jobs. Include a cover letter letting us know what draws you to the job. We welcome and encourage applications from women and people of colour.

[0] A certain large company recently launched a product of the same name, so we're going to change ours soon. Roll with the punches, eh?

[1] https://jobs.lever.co/inbox/6c7e7186-953d-4083-8bde-37443a23...

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/inbox/54f73eb2-9094-40ab-b59e-f9df4868...

Django/AngularJS/Coffeescript/Elasticsearch/AWS/D3/NLTK/...!

See our engineering blog at http://engineroom.trackmaven.com

TrackMaven is dedicated to making the lives of marketers easier, more productive, and more effective. Your work will have a huge impact on a product helping shape the marketing efforts of major brands.

As a Software Maven, you will:

- Participate in the full development process (daily engineering stand-up, product planning, story estimation, code review)

- Learn and quickly integrate new technologies on the fly

- Collaborate with the rest of the product team to explore new features and concepts

- Assist the customer success team to ensure a good customer experience on our platform

- Promote best practices in software engineering

- Take ownership of your contributions and be able to manage your time efficiently

- Always be seeking out new ways to improve our product

- Work on new and interesting problems every day

To hit the ground running, you’ll need:

- A solid knowledge of Python and Django

- Significant experience with JavaScript (we use CoffeeScript)

- Experience working in teams with source control (GitHub)

- The ability to stay focused on the big picture while tackling complex problems

- A silly and fun personality

It would be great if you also have:

- A working knowledge of AngularJS (very strong plus!)

- Experience with hosting full web apps (we use AWS, Linode, etc.)

- Experience with Agile software development

- A background in basic data science concepts

- Experience scaling web applications

- Portfolio demonstrating relevant past projects

- Active in the open-source community

To apply: http://trackmaven.com/careers

-- the pitch --

Ayasdi uses a pioneering approach to automatically discover insights from complex data. Founded in 2008 after a decade of research at Stanford, DARPA, and NSF, Ayasdi uses Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to unify best-of-breed machine learning approaches into a common framework without the need to write algorithms, queries or models. We’re building a platform to solve some of the world’s most complex data problems, are well funded by top-tier VCs and have a passionate team with a great culture.

-- position info --

As a frontend engineer at Ayasdi you will develop data analysis and visualization apps on top of TDA. You will work to solve challenging UI/UX problems related to analyzing and visualizing massive datasets. Our stack is simple and sweet: Node, Backbone, D3 & Zepto. For more info, we hosted a d3.js meetup a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDvgMRNG1Yg

-- requirements --

• Familiarity with client/server apps and MVC design patterns

• Proficiency with HTML/CSS/Javascript, D3, and/or Backbone

• Familiarity with machine learning, statistics, or data visualization is a big plus

• BA/BS degree in CS or EE; MS/PhD a plus

-- contact --

I'm on the frontend engineering team, but we are also hiring compute and backend engineers.

Feel free to send me an email if you want to know more: danny@ayasdi.com

Or head over to our careers page: http://www.ayasdi.com/company/careers/