Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services (SOA) that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Rails and MySQL, but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, Spark and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is either Javascript (HTML5) or Unity.

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com

Alpha Theory is looking for a DBA with experience using both MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. (REMOTE but prefer candidates near our office in Charlotte, NC)

https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory, an award-winning leader in improving investment decision discipline and performance for some of the world's most respected investment managers, is looking for a Senior DBA with experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Alpha Theory provides SaaS which allows investment managers to optimize their position sizes and the composition of their portfolios. We're a small company and have worked hard to create an entrepreneurial work environment that challenges and enriches. If you're a skilled DBA with a focus on PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server who is proactive, take initiative, works well without supervision, and identifies problems and solutions and takes action before issues arise, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior DBA reporting to the CTO, your core responsibilities will include:

Keeping our existing production and development databases running optimally (and get them running optimally where they're not currently). Ensuring our database environment scales in line with the rapid growth in our client base. Monitoring production performance and taking quick action to remedy any problems, including after business hours. Taking part in DR planning and testing. Assisting developers in optimizing queries. Deploying schema, index, and procedure changes across our different environments.

Additionally, we have a number of significant projects starting:

A phased migration from SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition to PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of historical data marts, including investigation of tools, system design. Introduction of private database instances for each client. Required:

Experience in monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting and resolving database problems. Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Experience with backups, restores and recovery models, particularly across geographically disparate data centers. Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Replication and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server and PostgreSQL. Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics. Strong ANSI SQL, T-SQL and PL/pgSQL skills. Good communication and documentation skills.

Desired:

Experience with big data platforms, tools, and technologies. Experience designing analytic queries for large volumes of financial time series data. Experience with administration and deployment of schema changes to large numbers of database instances.

Apply here: https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Amplitude Analytics - San Francisco, CA

We're hiring backend, frontend, devops, mobile, and test engineers who are looking to work at an exciting early stage startup (11 people) that has grown very quickly over the last 6 months and is about to go through a ton more growth over the next year. We're very generous with salary and equity because we have a high bar for hiring (https://amplitude.com/team).

Amplitude is in the mobile/web app analytics space, and we're bringing the next level of analytics to app developers out there. Instead of just showing people numbers about their app, we're helping them find real insights and take action based on those findings. Check out our blog (http://blog.amplitude.com/) to learn more about how we think about analytics.

We don't hire for specific skills since we believe any good engineer will pick them up, but some of the technologies we use include: Python, AngularJS, Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Amazon S3. We spend a lot of time thinking about distributed systems for data processing and querying as well as the user interaction/experience of dealing with a very complex and powerful analytics product. If any of this sounds interesting to you, check out our careers page (https://amplitude.com/careers).

Apply to: careers@amplitude.com

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - San Francisco - Full time - Frontend/Backend Developers

The EFF fights for an Internet free of surveillance and censorship, and we’re hiring. EFF's technology team implements EFF's activism campaigns, builds exciting new activism tools and creates new technologies to protect the Internet as a whole.

A small sample of projects we've worked on in the last year:

- Worked with over 100 volunteer developers to crowdsource and populate contact-congress, an open dataset describing the contact forms of members of congress.

- Created and open-sourced congress-forms: a delivery mechanism for sending emails to congress based on the open data we crowdsourced.

- Created a new (and soon-to-be open source) activism platform that’s currently live at act.eff.org.

- Launched numerous projects including Surveillance Self-Defense, DearFCC.org, The Day We Fight Back, Trolling Effects, Tor Challenge and others. - Launched a preview version of our OpenWireless open source router firmware.

We're currently hiring a frontend designer/developer and a backend developer with experience with Ruby on Rails and/or Node.js. Both positions are listed here: https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

If you think you might be a fit for either role, take a moment and get in touch: techjobs@eff.org

Factual - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai

Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience . If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

You can email me personally at alexr@factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qc99Vfw9&...