Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#141

Post by frabrunelle » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:02 PM UTC

Troon, Scotland | REMOTE | Rust Engineer

Help us build and maintain the SAFE Network: http://maidsafe.net/rust_engineer.html

The SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) Network is made up of the unused hard drive space, processing power and data connection of its users. It offers a level of security and privacy not currently available on the existing Internet and turns the tables on companies, putting users in control of their data, rather than trusting it to organisations.

MaidSafe's aim is to provide privacy, security and freedom to everyone on the planet. This has been our unwavering ambition since we started on this journey in 2006, and it remains our driving force today.

We are an eclectic and multicultural group of passionate and focussed individuals determined to release great software that has a hugely positive impact on the world. If you would like to help, please send your CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are a great fit for any of our open positions to: careers@maidsafe.net and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by kanny96 » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:02 PM UTC

Cognii - Boston, MA | Remote OK

Cognii is transforming online education with AI technology. We are adding a few engineers to meet the growing demand:

1. NLP/AI Research Engineer

  - natural language processing

  - statistical machine learning

  - syntactic and semantic analysis

  - information extraction

2. Back-end Engineer

  - Design and implement the web platform for interactive learning

  - Data pipeline workflow optimization

  - Experience with Ruby and Rails/Sinatra

EdTech experience is a plus. Compensation includes significant amount of equity. Please send your resume and queries to jobs@cognii.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by Infosourcer » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:03 PM UTC

Picture yourself at Cloudera in 2016! Our Budapest office is growing exponentially and we are looking for super-smart tech people to help us grow.

Our mission: Founded by leading experts on big data from Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo, Cloudera's mission is to bring the power of Hadoop, MapReduce, and distributed storage to companies of all sizes in the enterprise, Internet and government sectors.

Over the past few years, Cloudera has experienced tremendous growth, making us the leading contributor to the Hadoop ecosystem and a leading provider of enterprise solutions for Big Data.

Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop™. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data.

Only Cloudera offers everything needed on a journey to an enterprise data hub, including software for business critical data challenges such as storage, access, management, analysis, security and search.Over the past few years, Cloudera has experienced tremendous growth, making us the leading contributor to the Hadoop ecosystem and a leading provider of enterprise solutions for Big Data.

Check out all our Budapest roles and apply here http://bit.ly/1Na6EvI or here http://bit.ly/2016EngCareers

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The Best Startup CEOs To Work For http://read.bi/1KR6zvN

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Cloudera Engineering Blog http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#144

Post by nomadicactivist » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:05 PM UTC

Avaaz Foundation | full-time | REMOTE

We're a global activism organization, dedicated to effecting positive change in the world. We tackle such issues as climate change, poverty, and corruption. For more information, check here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php#howwework

We are in the process of extracting a services-based architecture from a large legacy php codebase. We primarily use python for new systems. We operate at "big data" scale, with 40+ million members, and hundreds of millions of events per month.

We value professionalism, autonomy, and healthy work-life balance.

We are looking for:

- Senior Data Scientist https://avaaz22194.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0h1tp

- Senior Full-Stack Software Developers: https://avaaz22194.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0ywj

- Dev Ops Engineer https://avaaz22194.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hipk

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#145

Post by ac2u » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

aheilbut wrote: post #140

ac2u wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At least 1 commit / hour Such a vanity metric for productivity is a red flag, reminds me of the old school horror stories of managers so out of touch with software development that they recorded Lines of Code counts as a means of measuring performance. Curious as to the reasoning.

This is a company making a device for Pavlovian conditioning.. Remember, you'll get zapped if you don't make that commit on time!

Ha, would be funny if the internal setup were like that.

I wouldn't be too quick to assume bad faith on the companies part though. Sometimes agile companies have these vanity metrics as a proxy to keep their development environments and processes in check. (ie: are things set up well enough with a fast test suite so that developers are comfortable committing/pushing/deploying frequently with confidence?)

That's why I phrased it as a query as to the reasoning behind the metric as it could be easily read as the company using a poor performance metric.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#146

Post by cj » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:10 PM UTC

◎ Localize | Full-stack Javascript Engineer | San Francisco (SF) | Full-Time | Onsite

https://localizejs.com/jobs

Localize is building tools to help companies go global. As our 5th team member, you'll have full control of your role and large parts of our product.

Apply: Email our founder at brandon@localizejs.com or submit an application here: https://localizejs.com/jobs

You should be able to:

  —  Navigate our stack: Node, Backbone, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Handlebars, Less.

  —  Manipulate native browser APIs (DOM w/o jQuery)

  —  Understand MVC patterns and UI design

  —  Learn quickly, act autonomously, think analytically.

In addition to competitive equity & salary, you get...

  —  A shiny new laptop of your choice 

  —  Full insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision) 

  —  Free food + snacks! 

  —  Relocation assistance to SF

Au revoir! -- Localize Team :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#147

Post by sayhar » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:10 PM UTC

nomadicactivist wrote: post #144

Avaaz Foundation | full-time | REMOTE We're a global activism organization, dedicated to effecting positive change in the world. We tackle such issues as climate change, poverty, and corruption. For more information, check here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php#howwework We are in the process of extracting a services-based architecture from a large legacy php codebase. We primarily use python for new systems. We ope…

I can confirm that Avaaz are a great organization. They're very effective (but mostly unknown in the US), professional, and it'd be an honor to work with them.

Happy to answer any questions. (I'm not now or have ever been on staff, but am a "member", and consider myself friends with many on their team)

sayhar@gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#148

Post by markprovan » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:10 PM UTC

frabrunelle wrote: post #141

Troon, Scotland | REMOTE | Rust Engineer Help us build and maintain the SAFE Network: http://maidsafe.net/rust_engineer.html The SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) Network is made up of the unused hard drive space, processing power and data connection of its users. It offers a level of security and privacy not currently available on the existing Internet and turns the tables on companies, putting users in control of t…

Nice to see a local company(I can almost see your office from my house!) on here using a newer language!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by lexicography » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:11 PM UTC

Hey HN community! We're an analytics API that lets developers collect and study custom events at massive scale. We're hiring Platform Engineers and DevOps engineers to help build and support our analytics infrastructure.

keen.io - https://boards.greenhouse.io/keenio#.VobL9pMrLVr

First, here a few things we believe in: • Honesty & empathy, introspection, Distributed innovation, the importance of laughter & relationships, play to your strengths; patch your weaknesses with diverse collaborators. You can learn more about the humans behind Keen IO here -> keen.io/team.

A little bit more about the roles we're hiring for:

1. Platform Engineer

By centralizing a data pipeline for thousands of companies, we operate at a scale that none of them have to worry about. Looking to the horizon, we need to look at every piece of our infrastructure with a critical eye. We need to stay ahead of the curve. You will help us be thoughtful and deliberate about tackling the right bottlenecks at the right time. You’ll help make working on the platform easier and easier. You’ll have the opportunity to gain deep understanding of distributed systems and teach others! Most importantly, you’ll collaborate with some pretty amazing humans.

  Skills: Cassandra, Scala, Python, Java, Tornado, Go, Zookeeper, Storm, Kafka, Mesos

https://boards.greenhouse.io/keenio/jobs/98480#.VobNRpMrLVo OR email humans@keen.io

2. DevOps Engineer

By centralizing a data pipeline for thousands of companies, we operate at a scale that none of them have to worry about. That means we have to stay on top of the operational work implied by that scale, and we have to stay ahead of the curve as we continue to grow. To be successful we have to invest heavily in smart operational choices that reduce or eliminate manual interaction.

You’ll help make those choices, implement them, monitor what’s working well and what isn’t, and continually iterate. You’ll collaborate closely with architects and developers to ensure new features and new systems integrate seamlessly with deployment and operations. Most importantly, you’ll be an integral member of a team of pretty great humans who emphasize trust, respect, humility, and self-improvement.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/keenio/jobs/124948#.VobMSZMrLVo OR email humans@keen.io

Thanks for reading!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#150

Post by hesdeadjim » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:12 PM UTC

ac2u wrote: post #121

maneesh wrote: post #108

Pavlok | http://buy.pavlok.com | Boston, MA | Full Time | Onsite or Remote == We are == At Pavlok, we've invented a wearable device that helps users break bad habits --- using haptic feedback. Pavlok vibrates, beeps, and releases mild electric stimuli we call 'zaps' that help a user create a Pavlovian aversion to bad habits. It works manually (pressing a button) or automatically (a Chrome extension that zaps when I g…

> At least 1 commit / hour Such a vanity metric for productivity is a red flag, reminds me of the old school horror stories of managers so out of touch with software development that they recorded Lines of Code counts as a means of measuring performance. Curious as to the reasoning.

Also find this hilarious in context with the other line that says "Maintain high output while pairing with junior teammates."

I also greatly appreciate knowing when a role will involve pairing so I can steer clear of it. There are way more empowering ways to skill up junior programmers that don't involve wasting both engineers' time. Assign an achievable but not insignificant task, have a code review system set up, and have them frequently post reviews while they build their solution. The senior engineer can then do the whole mentor thing asynchronously and in response to actual issues the junior has, while the junior is then also allowed to make mistakes, struggle, and overcome issues him/herself.