Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

Stream | Amsterdam ONSITE | https://getstream.io/careers | Senior Python developer

Stream (https://getstream.io) is a data store for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. We’re a small team, so everyone has a huge impact. With just a handful of people, we’re already processing millions of API calls every month.

We are looking for a talented Python developer to join our development team in Amsterdam. You will be responsible of feature development for our API service, and you will work on our storage layer and our analytics platform. If building highly scalable performance software is your passion please drop a line!

Requirements:

  * 3+ years of experience with Python and Django    
  * Celery or other background task library    
  * Experience with database designing    
  * Experience with Redis/Memcached    
  * Dedication to test driven development      
  * Experience with AWS

Bonus points:

  * Cassandra    
  * RabbitMQ    
  * Elastic Search

Benefits:

  * Competitive salary package
  * Choose your own dev setup
  * We support and encourage open source

Reach out at tommaso@getstream.io if you're interested

Amplitude | Full Time | San Francisco | ONSITE

Front-End Engineer

We're looking for talented front end engineers to help build out our analytics offering, engineers who aren't afraid to tackle the challenges of building out features for an evolving product.

Our front end stack is constantly evolving to keep up with best-in-class technology. We're currently building our UI using React and Flux. As we grow, we believe it's important to continually evaluate and improve our stack and take advantage of new tooling and libraries. We're looking for experienced front end engineers that are not afraid to try out new technologies, and that aim to constantly raise the bar for technical excellence.

About Amplitude

Amplitude provides mobile analytics that help companies leverage data to create explosive user growth. Anyone in the company can use Amplitude Mobile Analytics to go all the way down to the raw data and pinpoint the most valuable behavioral patterns within hours. Built on the industry’s most scalable platform, Amplitude ensures that customers never have to worry again about increasing data volumes or surprise bills. Founded in 2012 and backed by Benchmark, Amplitude is the fastest-growing analytics company with thousands of customers who are creating outsized competitive advantages with user behavior data including Nokia, Rdio, Rhapsody, MapQuest, DoorDash, and Yik Yak.

http://amplitude.com/careers

https://jobs.lever.co/amplitude/fbbc9f57-011a-4494-8bbf-faef...

Fenix International - Full Stack Web Developers (San Francisco, CA; or Kampala, Uganda)

Looking for web developers (with a focus on the backend) who want to work for a solar power company that is providing pay-to-own solar products for people off-grid in East Africa. The job would be working on our Django-based web application that runs our financial platform that allows our customers to pay for power as they use it until they've paid off the entire device.

More information on Fenix: http://www.fenixintl.com/

Job posting: http://fenixintl.theresumator.com/apply/Rfr3xP/Software-Engi...

It's a lot of fun, has some awesome opportunities to travel to East Africa involved, and you're helping to provide electricity to those who really need it!

Formstack | Full Time | Remote

Formstack, the most flexible and powerful form building application,is looking for a DevOps Engineer and Software Developers to add to its already awesome Development team.

Formstack is a 9 year old company with its roots in Indianapolis. Our customers span 110 different countries, and our employees live and work across the U.S. and the globe. We have employees in: Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois, California, Kentucky, Poland, Georgia, Canada, the Netherlands, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, Colorado, & Maryland.

We provide a remote work environment that is flexible and provides great freedom for those who can perform. With that said, relocation is not required for those located outside Indianapolis.

DevOps - https://formstack.applicantpro.com/jobs/143526-25843.html or Software Developer - https://formstack.applicantpro.com/jobs/143754-25843.html for more information!

TXN - San Francisco, CA

== About us

- We’re a seed stage startup company based in San Francisco.

- We’re building a market research analytics tool for businesses based on consumer credit card transaction information (think “Nielsen for transactions”).

- We’re well funded by great investors and are looking for our first engineering hires.

- We use AWS for all of our development and production environments. Today, we use Scala, Node.js and MySQL but we’re always evaluating new tools that can help us build more awesome things.

- We are hackers at heart - crazy about using technology to create something valuable.

== Positions:

Full-stack software engineers Looking for our first engineering hires: people who want to build something great from scratch, take lots of ownership and do a ton of learning.

Examples of things you will do:

- Design and implement scripts that process millions of credit card transactions and remove duplicates, identify types of transactions, extract canonic business names.

- Figure out how to store this data to make it efficiently queryable by applications.

- Figure out how to build tools in our applications for users to gain non-trivial insights from these millions of transactions.

- Make our applications blazing fast.

- Build UX that looks like it’s from the future: beautiful, obvious and extremely smart.

Apply at: jobs@txn.com