Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)

Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round)

Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly.

Our students answer over 2 million math exercise problems per day, all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises, http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/), and Sal's videos have been viewed over 117 million times. We're just getting started feeding this data we're collecting back into the product to help our users learn more (http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...). If you're interested in data, analytics, and education, this is a dream gig.

Plus, it's one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine. We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs

Mountain View, CA - fulltime or intern

Room 77 - https://www.room77.com

We're changing travel search by giving people full transparency in their search for a perfect hotel stay. Using the staggering amount of data we've collected and analyzed, we'll actually find and request the best hotel room for you.

Some projects you'll work on: - computer-generating views from any room in the world - building the first deep-text hotel search engine (eg. search "eiffel tower views" in Paris or "jetted bathtub" in New York) - super-fast search across all major providers (we show Expedia results faster than Expedia) - finding better ways to extract and expose data like hotel freebies and fees

...and many other things that contribute to a fast, easy travel planning experience.

If you're interested in information retrieval, machine learning, NLP, or computer visualization, you'll have a great time solving brand new problems and creating a genuinely improved and useful hotel search.

Check out our jobs page: https://www.room77.com/jobs.html?s=HN

Triggit, Inc.

San Francisco, CA Full-Time. Remote considered.

http://triggit.com/careers

Want to work with hundreds of terabytes of realtime data using advanced JVM Languages like Clojure and Scala, dig into that data with Hadoop, and invent cutting edge products to handle it all?

Triggit, a San Francisco ad:technology startup is hiring.

Ping us @ engjobs@triggit.com.

If you're obsessed with distributed systems for processing big data and are intimately familiar with Java and Hadoop, you're going to have a lot of fun. At Triggit, we pride ourselves on our merit-based, ownership culture. You get to run your projects, not be run.

What You'll Do All Day: • Design and Deploy Triggit’s data tools including A/B testing, forecasting, etc. • Collaborate with multiple teams to implement requests into the Hadoop Cluster • Build and Optimize dozens of reports and create data visualization and storage tools around them • Grow and Scale the Hadoop Analytics Platform

Additional Openings: - BackEnd Engineer (C/C++ on Linux) - Platform Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Sr. Dev Ops

Base pay for engineers starts in the six figures, you get to build your own battle station, and every engineer gets an office - with a door. Positions are full time and based in our SOMA, San Francisco, CA office.

New York, NY Full Time (remote or relocation)

Backend Engineer @ Dispatch.io

What we do ---- Dispatch connects your cloud services to give you one place to organize, share, and collaborate around your stuff. Our vision is for a more connected cloud.

Why you should work here ---- We are a small, fast-moving team who are passionate about building awesome things. You'd be one of the first few members of the team (we’re 5 people right now).

We have a big open office in the Flatiron district in NYC, in the center of the NYC tech scene. Our kitchen is well stocked, and our Campfire overfloweth with animated GIFs. As a team member you'll work on your schedule, have access to competitive health insurance plans, a chance to earn real equity, and, most importantly, the opportunity to contribute in a big way to building new ways to organize, collaborate and share in the cloud.

We're looking for a backend engineer. The Dispatch backend is a service oriented architecture, built entirely on AWS. Most of the current services are written in Java (and some Scala), but we’re language agnostic. Want to write that new service in Fortran? Go for it! Ok, maybe not. Let’s talk about it.

You'll work on architecting and building new stuff, and on improving existing services.

Like hacking on 3rd party APIs? Good, because we build on Dropbox, Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, with plans for many more. Interested in file transfer and sync? We’re making moving files in the cloud fast and reliable. Search? We’re building search across the stuff in your clouds. Realtime? You can head up our plans to move from asynchronous polling to a socketed system.

Things we're looking for ----

* Good architecture skills with a focus on details, experience with fault-tolerance, use of message queues, etc. * Experience with small or cross-functional teams (startup experience would be nice). * Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, e.g. data structures, time complexity, algorithms. * Comfort with statically-typed languages, knowledge of OOP. * Security-mindedness, with the ability to identify and defend against threats and vulnerabilities. * Experience with Amazon Web Services would be nice.

If you're interested in applying please email jobs@dispatch.io

San Francisco, CA (2 min wlk from Caltrain) FULLTIME REMOTE H1B

★ Full stack JavaScript Engineer (Backbone/Knockout/Express/Node) ★ at Gild.com

We're rethinking the way professionals find great companies to work for and apply for jobs. We believe that the current process is broken for both applicants and companies, and we're fixing it. We're venture-backed (Globespan, TMT Investments), and our customers are crazy about what we're building.

This position is our first technical hire dedicated to our new Node.js infrastructure, with a ton of room to influence its evolution. The best fit will be someone with hands-on experience working with a production Node.js app. This is an amazing opportunity for somebody who is passionate about JavaScript technologies.

We're looking for somebody that can translate a high-level product vision to production-ready code without needing a babysitter.

Technologies we like: Javascript/Coffeescript, Ruby, Perl, Express.js/Zappa, Socket.io, Sprockets, Rails, Compass, SASS What you don't know, we will teach you. What we don't know, you will teach us.

Cool things we've built: http://youtu.be/13GaYDoRwOg

Apply here http://goo.gl/SX4sW

(Please don't apply if you suffer from the "Not invented here" syndrome. We like lazy coders.)