Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

OPOWER is an energy efficiency & smart grid company working with utilities and their customers to help them save energy. We are fully funded with a great business and strong growth and it is also a fun place to work. Our core product is written in java; we use ruby for internal tools and test automation and for some new product initiatives.

http://opowerjobs.com, you can apply for interesting positions there or feel free to email me seth.cousins @ opower.com and I'm happy to answer questions and help you get through the recruiting inbox faster.

Twilio (http://www.twilio.com/jobs) is hiring software engineers at all levels. Come help us build the world's first telecom company that respects its customers (gasp!). We work hard every day finding new ways to deliver a great product that makes people happy (e.g. http://twitter.com/NortonMD/status/46644882823057409).

Come stop by and say hi (1st and Folsom, 3rd floor) or email me directly. You won't regret it.

Apply: http://bit.ly/hve1AT

We're looking for a junior/mid level software engineer with an ability to work on front and back end code. We have a Rails/Javascript UI that uses a RESTful service built with Java (Spring, Hibernate, RESTlet) as its datastore.

Our team runs as closely to a startup as you can in the academic environment. We're responsible for building BioPortal: http://bioportal.bioontology.org. This isn't one of those research projects that produces a ton of theory but nothing usable. We're responsible for a full production environment that gets tens of millions of hits a month and have a full team of developers, including proper managers and even some QA (this is huge in academia). The project is well-funded by the NIH and we're halfway through year one of a five year grant.

You'll have a huge say in how things get implemented. We're not scared to incorporate new tech and definitely appreciate what people have to bring to the table. You'll be encouraged to get things done with minimal supervision, but everyone on the team is excited about talking through problems as needed.

Stanford Pros:

* Competitive compensation. Stanford likes to hire the best and we know we're competing with Google, Facebook, and everyone else. Salaries are competitive, obviously no access to options, bonuses, or profit-sharing :)

* Awesome benefits. This makes up for the lack of compensation to me. We get three weeks of vacation plus sick time plus PTO plus holidays. There's a two-week closure every December. Amazing health plans,. Free Caltrain and VTA. Alternative transit compensation. Healthy living incentives. Access to classes, gyms, libraries, and anything else the Stanford community has to offer.

* The work is incredibly meaningful and not profit-driven. Nothing wrong with profit, but if you're interested in just jumping into challenging work without worrying about money it can be a benefit.

* You work with people who are the best in the world at what they do.

* Travel opportunities for conferences on occasion.

Questions: palexander@stanford.edu

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Sonian provides a large-scale email archiving platform resold by several vendors you may have heard of. We run entirely on EC2, and Amazon was an investor in our Series B ($9M). We use Clojure for our backend, Rails for the frontend, and Chef to manage infrastructure (i work in the latter group). We are expanding, but the devs all know each other and we work in cross-functional teams whenever possible.

The development teams are mostly remote and use tmux/Skype to pair program. Our VP of E is looking for a Director of Development, however, and for this someone local is preferable. We're looking for someone with experience not just building reliable applications at scale but managing remote teams to do so. We have a longer formal posting ready, but it's not up yet so email me (decklin@red-bean.com) for more info.

Also, if you're a Chef expert or just an ops-and-dynamic-languages hacker who loves to learn new things, but not interested in management, please contact me too! Any location. I'd love to make the case for another devop on my team. A full posting for that is up at http://www.sonian.com/about/careers/development-operations-e....

Perks: get flown out to Boston twice a year (or if like me you're already here, Sushi Thursdays :-)), MacBook Pro or ThinkPad, good benefits.

For both positions, please contact jobs@sonian.net and let them know that I (Decklin Foster) referred you. Thanks!