Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

We’re a London-based startup working on a microservices-based “CloudOS” using a mixture of OCaml, Linux containers, and Erlang/Elixir - with some DSLs, systems code, and distributed systems thrown in. We want developers to spend more time writing core business-logic and less time thinking about infrastructure.

We’re looking for our first technical hires, who will be working with us to design and implement the core platform that will make this a reality. We have a MVP in Python (https://github.com/StackHut/stackhut); it gives a feel for what we’re trying to build, although is only a start.

We’re implementing this in OCaml, and are looking for talented functional programmers (OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala, etc.) preferably with some knowledge of Linux/Unix systems programming. It’s a challenging role, working on hard problems, but the chance to build and manage a technical team and shape a company and product from the get-go.

We’re funded by top-tier infrastructure investors from the West Coast, and the founders are highly-technical and ex-YC / PhD. Salaries are competitive and include stock options.

Any questions please comment, reach out on email (jobs at stackhut dot com) or at https://stackhut.com/#/careers. Cheers!

Moxie Marlinspike and Open Whisper are the author of Signal, widely regarded as the most trustworthy secure messenger available to the public. "Use anything by Open Whisper Systems", says Edward Snowden. "My first choice for an encrypted conversation", says Bruce Schneier. "When I read code, lines of drool run down my face", says Matthew Green. Also, he likes Signal a lot.

If you really believe that we're entering a pitched battle between states and technology providers over encryption; that NSA and GCHQ are turning the world's best-funded best-staffed signals intelligence agencies into instruments of domestic surveillance; that giant corporations (and aspiring giant corporations) are doing everything they can to ensure that users think they're safe while their messages are scanned for ad targeting or censored and traced by despotic regimes; if these are real concerns for you, then this is one of the most important jobs on the Internet.

Until very recently, the iOS version of Signal was managed by Frederic Jacobs. Signal for iOS is a flagship Whisper offering. It should by rights be the most widely used tool for journalists, activists, and researchers to communicate confidently on an insecure Internet. Jacobs is amazing, but he's off to other adventures in Switzerland, and Whisper needs someone to take the reins on iOS Signal.

This is not the most highly-paid role on the Hiring Thread, but it's probably the one that stands to make the biggest dent in the universe. Why else would you consider joining Moxie and his crazy pirate crew of crypto developers?

* Because you're not a cryptographer but want to be engaged with serious cryptography, of the kind that will be in the academic cite record a decade from now, in a role where you'll make an enormous difference deciding how best to get strong crypto into the hands of everyday people.

* Because Moxie and his team are simply excellent people to work with, doing inspiring stuff that is actually inspiring, not cat-sharing.

* Because there are worse things to have on your resume than "product lead for the most important product by a tiny team that took on multi-billion dollar world government spy agencies and won".

* Because you relish the opportunity to be on an HN NSA thread with 'tptacek and be able, at any point, to say "shut up, Thomas, I work for Whisper".

I don't work for Whisper, Whisper will never pay me a dime. I just love what they do, know that they're trying very hard to find this particular person, and want to do whatever I can to help (and to ensure I'll be able to keep using Signal).

Full time role. Very strong iOS application skills needed. No cryptography experience needed at all (if you take this job, you're going to have crypto coming out of your ears either way). The right candidate does not need to be in San Francisco.

https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/

If you know iOS developers who are interested in the problem Whisper is working on, please let them know about this.

Thanks!

We're a leading Ad Network based in Toronto which specializes in Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). We offer our clients cost certainty on their online advertising campaigns.

We're in the process of building out of analytics and optimization infrastructure using algorithms and machine learning to auto-optimize conversion funnels and decrease customer acquisition costs. Your work will touch our entire network, where even a small performance improvement can have a large impact.

We're running Ubuntu, NodeJS, PHP, Nginx, Redis, Mysql, Redshift, Gearman, and many others.

We're a profitable 5 year old startup with 70 employees and growing quickly. Our new technology initiatives will be defining the future of Jumbleberry and online advertising.

We have a great office downtown Toronto and are seeking skilled individuals who are excited by R&D, analytics, and performance optimization.

Get in touch with me at ian@jumbleberry.com I'd love to discuss more about our future plans and how you can fit in.

Raptmedia | Boulder, CO Looking for senior level Ruby, Rails, React, Node type developer

Thanks

You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a personal level. Walmart's mobile apps are highly rated and the services we write to support them are the base of that success. We started from a small company acquisition with a single product. Today, we power a platform and a suite of products running on mobile devices and systems in retail stores.

We're still a small, flat team of engineers. We work with our own tools and make our own build-or-borrow decisions. Our culture is a healthy mix of sharing and pushing each other to be better at our craft. For example, we use pull requests & code reviews liberally. We make refactoring time. We deploy often, with a single line of code run from a REPL. Engineers on our team are challenged to work through our full software stack and be part of our product management. We believe that people are more engaged, fulfilled and happy when they feel responsible for actually shipping their work.

The environment at WalmartLabs balances moving fast and breaking shit, with the knowledge that we could break shit for 150+ million people every week. It's a tough balance but we've found the payoff to be worth the challenge and responsibility.

Some aspects of our work that are important to us: - high performance distributed systems - robust & well-factored codebases - simple & fast deployments - automating the hell out of operations - thorough system test coverage - managing our own development process and work backlog - pair programming when it makes sense (locally and remotely) - contributing back to the clojure & open source community What we do: - write all our production systems & tools in Clojure - create and orchestrate massive distributed systems - spin up web services for consuming & ingesting large volumes of data

For a glimpse behind the scenes, check out a talk we gave at Clojure/West last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9Xi6CNqq4.

Does this sound like something you're into? Shoot me an email at atait@walmartlabs.com