Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

http://alltrails.com http://allsnow.com

FULLTIME Rails / iOS / Android Engineers / Designers San Francisco (preferred) / Los Angeles / NYC / Remote / H1B

AllTrails is hiring! We're building Yelp for the outdoors - the best way to discover and share hiking trails and outdoor activities around you. We're helping people rediscover the outdoors and having lots of fun in the process. Camping and snowboarding benefits, anyone?

We just launched our brand new site in partnership with National Geographic (http://alltrails.com/partners/national_geographic) and have the #1 outdoors app in the Apple and Android stores (try searching for 'Hiking'). We also have the #1 Snow sports app on iPhone.

Our company was AngelPad incubated, is funded by 500Startups and consists of a strong team from Google / Microsoft / Facebook with previous startup experience. We also have the author of an O'Reilly Android book, and a core committer to Homebrew on the team. We're looking for exceptional full stack Rails and mobile developers (Android and iOS) and designers.

If your idea of sunlight is more than just sitting in front of a really bright monitor all day, we'd love to hear from you! http://alltrails.com/jobs or jobs@alltrails.com

We are building an innovative micropayment system. After recently closing our series A round we are now increasing our team size. Our focus is living best practices like continuous integration, devops and great automation. We build our software in Python, using Django and Tornado. As a distributed company with employees all over the world we require you to speak English fluently and we would like you to have the legal right to work in the EU. That can be worked around, but it makes things easier.

We are looking for: Build Engineers: Automate our Jenkins CI platform, solve Python deployment and packaging, help with build optimization and create the best Selenium test suites and

Front-End Engineers: You have experience with HTML(5), CSS (purecss.io and/or Twitter Bootstrap), Django templating and JavaScript (YUI and/or jQuery) and strong opinions about user experience and great code.

Python developers: You know about Django, Tornado, Python packaging, Redis, Cassandra, SQL, Git, Git Flow and love to write and share code.

Operations Engineers: LaterPay deploys servers using Puppet. We run on CentOS, PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Redis. We love to build scalable, automated, beautiful systems. (Students welcome)

Please write to jobs@laterpay.net.

Kites is a POI data company focused on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. We aggregate data from individual merchants, scrapers, human sources, etc. and syndicate to many publishers.

We've been around for ~1.5 years and have 7 amazing people.

We're looking for a senior dev / architect. You want to deeply understand the customer and business model and drive the technology roadmap. You should be whip-smart technically and ideally have a solid theoretical CS background. Experience leading a technical team a big plus.

This position will especially appeal to hackers interested in gaining foreign experience. :) We'll help you relocate. Email in profile.

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Do you enjoy tackling new and unusual problems with software? Do you believe in open source? Do you like to keep up to date with advancements in technology? Do you want to spend 20% of your time at work contributing to an open source project of your choice? Are you interested in how companies all over the world create applications and run them in the cloud? If so, you should come work for the world’s leading open cloud provider within our Developer Support Team.

Ideal candidates will be passionate advocates of technology and open source. We're looking for people who don't just use these development tools and services, but people that write them. It is one thing to start a virtual machine on a host, it is another to have the curiosity to read the source code and figure out how it all works. Developer Support has two main functions: helping customers programmatically leverage our cloud services and contributing code, plugins, modules and extensions to projects and partners that are advancing the open revolution.

Role:

• Support customer developers coding against our APIs through phone, chat, forums, and email. • Contribute code to select open source projects. • Educate customers about product usage, options and capabilities by responding with clear documentation, reference architectures, or code samples. • Troubleshoot errors between the customer’s application and the Rackspace API. • Write code to help an ecosystem develop and thrive around OpenStack and Rackspace. • Engage actively blogs and forums with technical articles and answers. • Add insights to existing Knowledge Base. • Build tools for other Support functions to leverage. • Support customers by proactively sending them code samples and partnering with them to help them with their applications. • Test and verify bugs submitted on behalf of customers. • Suggest input on product, process, and service improvements as well as submit ideas for new products. • Conduct research on new technologies relating to open cloud features. • Provide feature explanation and coding best practices. • Record common or creative solutions for use by internal employees and customers to reduce repeat problems.

Must Haves:

• Experience with API documentation, wikis, forums and content management systems. • 4-5 years overall professional software development experience • 2+ years of scripting language development experience (Python, .Net, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc.) • 3+ years of experience working in a Linux/Unix or Microsoft development environment • Familiarity with object oriented development principles • Automation experience with Chef and/or Puppet • Ability (and enthusiasm) to mentor less experienced developers • High school diploma or equivalent

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, etc.) • Experience with good engineering practices (test driven development, continuous integration and pair programming, etc.) • Experience in distributed systems • Understanding of functional design principles • Experience in the Hosting Industry