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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by wrs »

Seattle, WA & San Francisco, CA; remote is possible.

Informed Biometry (a.k.a. pictureofhealth.com) -- semi-stealthy description: we make tools that help people take care of people. The company is self-funded but well-funded (the best way to be!), with two experienced founders looking for help.

We need great developers and great designers. We're building on the Rails stack right now, so we'd like experienced Rails folks, but general-purpose abilities are important.

Our work environment doesn't exist yet, so you get to help define it! If you care about fancy computers, unlimited books, good coffee, etc., sure, we got it. Also, the freedom to figure out the right way to do something and go get it done.

Contact me at walter@infbio.com, or http://www.pictureofhealth.com/jobs.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by rpilani »

Foster City, CA, Locals only.

Senior Software Engineer at Navigenics Inc. - We are looking for backend web engineers that are experienced in Hibernate, web frameworks (we use Wicket) and looking for a fun and exciting opportunity in the personal genomics space.

Our website: www.navigenics.com Email me at rpilani@navigenics.com

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by brandon »

San Francisco, CA - Elation EMR

Telecommuting considered for the right candidate http://elationemr.com/

We're a small (there's only four of us!), angel-funded startup building revolutionary electronic tools for physicians. Our investors include Ron Conway, who recently named us one of his 12 startups to watch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/ron-conways-crystal-ball-12...

We're doing some really awesome things with a number of technologies.. Our stack includes Python/Django, MySQL, jQuery, Java. We'd like to add at least two more people to the development team in short-order (more details here: http://elationemr.com/jobs.html).

Please be in touch. We'd love to tell you more about what we're up to!

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by barclay »

Readyforce, Menlo Park, CA

We're still kind of in stealth mode. Great company, fun team, interesting market, good leadership.

Looking for:

UI/Visual Designer http://jobs.eurekahire.com/rf/requisition/detail/150

Sr. Product Manager http://jobs.eurekahire.com/rf/requisition/detail/157

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by jplewicke »

Boston, MA

MDT Advisers – We’re a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We’ve got two main types of positions that we’re hiring for: a dedicated developer position, and a general analyst position that’s about 60% programming and 40% financial and statistical analysis -- http://www.mdtadvisers.com/careers/qea.jsp . The people, problems, and pay are good, and we aim for good work-life balance(e.g. no 60 hour weeks).

You can email me at jlewicke@mdtadvisers.com with any questions you have.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by abahgat »

Not a position, but rather a note. In addition to specifying whether working remotely is accepted or not, it would be very useful to know which positions are open to foreign candidates (especially for US based companies).

I know for sure that some of the companies that posted positions below are open to international candidates, and some are not. It would be great if we could distinguish positions according to that criterion as well.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by tzeskimo »

San Francisco, CA

Identified (www.identified.com) - Finding a job sucks! We think we can make it better, and we're looking for solid front-end and back-end engineers to help us prove it. You'll be working with a small but well funded team where every line of code you write matters. We use the standard tools of a modern web stack - rails, postgres, memcache, jQuery, etc, though we’re always open to (and encourage) new ideas.

Interested? Shoot me an email with your resume at keith@identified.com (or signup and apply via www.identified.com)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

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Post by alinajaf »

sghael wrote: post #35
pcowans wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More someone who can run testing in a way which fits well with agile development, rather than simply verifying functionality once development is largely complete. In our case this means working closely with developers, product owners etc. early in the development cycle to ensure that acceptance criteria are fully explored and agreed on, helping the engineering team build automated acceptance tests, which we use to dr…

Sorry if I came off snarky in my question. I def didn't mean it that way. Your explanation makes some sense, but (IMO) engineering teams should just strive to have developers own the testing process, especially if you except it to be "agile" automated testing of the unit/functional/continuous integration variety. Is testing not something that developers should (collectively) own? More finely granulated titles/roles =…

I used to believe this until I actually worked in a team with dedicated testing staff. While it is entirely the responsibility of the developer to test changes and functionality to the best of their ability, testing is arguably a skillset in itself.

Our QA will test any new changes from every possible angle (will that work on all international sites? For all products? What if a user gets half way through that process, opens a new tab and changes to a different point in the flow, makes some changes, then comes back to the first tab and continues? What happens then?)

That and thorough regression testing mean that no matter how subtle any introduced bugs might be, QA will make sure that at the very least it won't effect sales (or whatever core business process is absolutely mission critical).

While in theory developers could do all of this, having staff that set out deliberately to break developers code creates a really good dynamic in the workplace. We mark stories as code complete and expect testers to come back with at least one round of bugs. A lot of the time we'll spot them just as or just before we commit, but the testers are good at digging down and finding edge cases that developers often miss.

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