Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

London, UK | Investec (https://www.investec.co.uk) | Binary bad-asses for new fintech business | Onsite | Contract or perm

Full-stack developers

Rip up the old rule book of banking, and join our magic circle of dreaming, building and testing with customers in how we can solve key problems for UK businesses . We are select team of warriors and valkyries from varied backgrounds and conquests. Our team is looking for devs with super sharp skills and healthy levels of coding-OCD. No financial services experience necessary at all, just the desire to drive instant impact, and ship amazing product.

You should have personal projects, be curious like a spy and prize the art of software. The team assembled have aeons of experience designing, running and scaling software systems. Our journey will be filled with learning, fun and hard work (skill at table tennis is a nice-to-have). You should have strong opinions born out of hard-won experience and war wounds.

Our stack is currently Typescript, React + Redux, C# 6 on .Net Core, best practice devops, Github flow

We sometimes have a competition to throw a plastic pig in a bin from some distance #jussayin

You will need to be able to work in the UK

email adam.wynne aht invtestec.co.uk

Tapdaq (https://tapdaq.com) | London / Prague | FULLTIME, VISA

Tapdaq enables mobile developers to grow, retain and monetise their app’s user base. Over 4,000 developers use our in-app advertising to set up efficient cross promotion campaigns between their own apps, and our ad mediation to maximise their revenue. Our vision is to become the default inventory management platform for mobile applications.

We have two openings:

- Java Engineer (London): https://tapdaq.com/jobs#java-engineer

- Web Developer (Prague): https://tapdaq.com/jobs#web-developer

If you have any questions, feel free to message me on nick@tapdaq.com

Second Measure (YC S15) | SF Bay Area - San Mateo, CA (downtown) | ONSITE | https://secondmeasure.com

Second Measure analyzes credit card data. We process billions of purchases to help investors (VCs and hedge funds) answer questions like:

  - Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in NYC? [1]
  - How does Blue Apron's retention compare to others'?
  - Where do ex-Chipotle customers go?
  - (Check out our research blog [2])

…through an analytics platform we build in-house.

We’re a 14-person team comprising mostly senior engineers and data scientists. 11 of us are technical, and 4 have PhDs.

We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

  - Data Scientist
  - Data Journalist
  - Heads of Marketing/CS/Editorial/Design
  - Product Designer
  - Research Analyst
  - Software Engineer (frontend/backend/data; mid-to-senior+)

I'm a founder (mike@). Submit directly [3] or email jobs@ and CC me.

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lyft-gets-boost-...

[2] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/

[3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/secondmeasure

FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE (UK-only)

https://www.freeagent.com

At FreeAgent we help freelancers and micro-businesses be more successful by putting them in control of their company finances.

We have built an award-winning online accounting product that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 58,000 paying customers and strong YoY growth. Our NPS is off the charts (72!) - customers love what we do!

We're a growing team of over 130 people, and recently became a public company listed on AIM ($FREE.L). The majority of our team are based in Edinburgh but we have staff distributed across the UK. If you want to help us make small businesses awesome at doing their finances, we're have great opportunities in our product and engineering team. Our stack is currently Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, React.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch.

Here's a condensed list of current vacancies in our engineering organisation:

* Senior Data scientist

* Full-stack software engineers

You can apply directly via the website – https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers – or feel free to get in touch with me directly: olly [at] freeagent [dot] com.

(We are looking for UK-based, full-time staff only right now but can relocate 🇬🇧)