Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

iMatchative - San Francisco

We are looking for full stack Python and Java developers, Data Engineers & Data Scientists, Elastic Search Experts, Angular Experts and more.

Help us build a state of the art, two sided, cloud-based network that uses innovative algorithms, behavioral AND traditional financial statistics and analysis, to help investors and funds alike find stickier, more satisfying investments.

Find and apply for jobs here: http://imatchative.com/careers/

FYI, if you interview with these guys, be prepared to be left hanging. I did a coding interview with them and heard absolutely nothing back afterwards. Whether or not a company wants to hire you, it's common courtesy to at least respond with "we've decided to consider other candidates" or whatever. Saying nothing is poor form.

Alpha Theory is looking for a DBA with experience using both MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. (REMOTE available but prefer candidates near Charlotte, NC office if possible)

https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory, an award-winning leader in improving investment decision discipline and performance for some of the world's most respected investment managers, is looking for a Senior DBA with experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Alpha Theory provides SaaS which allows investment managers to optimize their position sizes and the composition of their portfolios. We're a small company and have worked hard to create an entrepreneurial work environment that challenges and enriches. If you're a skilled DBA with a focus on PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server who is proactive, take initiative, works well without supervision, and identifies problems and solutions and takes action before issues arise, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior DBA reporting to the CTO, your core responsibilities will include:

Keeping our existing production and development databases running optimally (and get them running optimally where they're not currently). Ensuring our database environment scales in line with the rapid growth in our client base. Monitoring production performance and taking quick action to remedy any problems, including after business hours. Taking part in DR planning and testing. Assisting developers in optimizing queries. Deploying schema, index, and procedure changes across our different environments.

Additionally, we have a number of significant projects starting:

A phased migration from SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition to PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of historical data marts, including investigation of tools, system design. Introduction of private database instances for each client. Required:

Experience in monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting and resolving database problems. Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Experience with backups, restores and recovery models, particularly across geographically disparate data centers. Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Replication and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server and PostgreSQL. Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics. Strong ANSI SQL, T-SQL and PL/pgSQL skills. Good communication and documentation skills.

Desired:

Experience with big data platforms, tools, and technologies. Experience designing analytic queries for large volumes of financial time series data. Experience with administration and deployment of schema changes to large numbers of database instances.

Apply here: https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory is looking for a DBA with experience using both MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. (REMOTE but prefer candidates near our office in Charlotte, NC)

https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory, an award-winning leader in improving investment decision discipline and performance for some of the world's most respected investment managers, is looking for a Senior DBA with experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Alpha Theory provides SaaS which allows investment managers to optimize their position sizes and the composition of their portfolios. We're a small company and have worked hard to create an entrepreneurial work environment that challenges and enriches. If you're a skilled DBA with a focus on PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server who is proactive, take initiative, works well without supervision, and identifies problems and solutions and takes action before issues arise, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior DBA reporting to the CTO, your core responsibilities will include:

Keeping our existing production and development databases running optimally (and get them running optimally where they're not currently). Ensuring our database environment scales in line with the rapid growth in our client base. Monitoring production performance and taking quick action to remedy any problems, including after business hours. Taking part in DR planning and testing. Assisting developers in optimizing queries. Deploying schema, index, and procedure changes across our different environments.

Additionally, we have a number of significant projects starting:

A phased migration from SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition to PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of historical data marts, including investigation of tools, system design. Introduction of private database instances for each client. Required:

Experience in monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting and resolving database problems. Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Experience with backups, restores and recovery models, particularly across geographically disparate data centers. Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Replication and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server and PostgreSQL. Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics. Strong ANSI SQL, T-SQL and PL/pgSQL skills. Good communication and documentation skills.

Desired:

Experience with big data platforms, tools, and technologies. Experience designing analytic queries for large volumes of financial time series data. Experience with administration and deployment of schema changes to large numbers of database instances.

Apply here: https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Java Backend Engineer, UX Engineer (two separate positions) - Omniata, Helsinki, Finland - visa, full time

Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata (http://www.omniata.com) integrates analytics, CRM, user engagement and A/B testing platforms into one solution. The company is well funded (http://www.creandum.com/why-creandum-invested-omniata/) & headquartered in SF. The bulk of R&D will be done in the Helsinki office which at the moment only has a small team, so this is a great opportunity to get in early and grow with the company.

As a Java backend engineer you’ll be part of the team responsible for code handling millions of events each day. You will also get the opportunity to work on a greenfield project and build the next generation of our backend infrastructure from the ground up. This work will involve analyzing the existing architecture, its load patterns and bottlenecks. Together with other team members, you will use this data to spec up and implement the new architecture.

We are also looking for a talented UX engineer to help us take our UI to the next level and change how our customers view their business critical data. Experience with Photoshop and wireframing/prototyping tools such as Balsamiq Mockups is assumed. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and some JavaScript is required as we expect you to implement the UIs you design.

If you're at all interested in this area and Helsinki as a place to live and work, drop a one line email with a link to your LinkedIn and GitHub profile (in the case of backend) or portfolio (in the case of UX) to careers-hl@omniata.com