Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

Concrete Data (www.concretedata.com) - Durham, NC - Local only please

We're a small company (3 partners, 2-3 employees) looking to hire an experienced .NET developer for systems integration and ground-up development projects. Our clients come from heavy industry -- civil engineering, construction, shipping, manufacturing, etc. -- where information technology stagnated a decade ago. This is our opportunity. We've built a business around providing modern, user-centric web and mobile applications to replace their aging and clunky desktop programs. Enterprise doesn't have to suck.

Being a small company, you'll be given a lot of autonomy and chances to learn. At a large firm, you may spend a decade contributing your small piece to a vast legacy sourcebase. We start 6 new projects a year. Iterate rapidly and improve your skills.

Inquiries can be sent to me -- adam@concretedata.com.

Canaan Partners (www.canaan.com) - Investment Analyst - Menlo Park CA

Canaan Partners is seeking an analyst who is energetic, passionate about technology, and intellectually curious to join its Menlo Park, CA Information Technology team.

The analyst role is a 2-3 year position that is traditionally followed by business/graduate school or an operational role. The analyst, working directly with Canaan’s senior IT investment professionals, will have the following responsibilities:

• Assessment, analysis, and due diligence of potential investments

• Evaluation of business plans

• Identification of new investment areas and development of investment theses

• Preparation of advisory meeting presentations

• Development and management of data sets and sources

• Sourcing of new deals

The candidate should possess:

• 1-3 years work experience at a startup or other tech company. A year or two of management consulting or investment banking prior is desirable, but not necessary

• Deep knowledge of and interest in Information Technology. Our team covers a broad landscape from mobile apps and social media to enterprise SaaS, datacenter infrastructure, and hardware (and everything in between). While the firm has a Health Care team, this role is specifically for the Information Technology team

• Active network in the Bay Area startup community. Strong preference will be given to candidates who are already in the Bay Area

• A personality that is data-driven, creative, and analytical. We have a lot of unstructured, proprietary data and want to think up new ways to use it

• An undergraduate degree in engineering, math, computer science, physical science, or related field from a top university. This is a pre-MBA position

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to work in small team environment

• Willingness to articulate opinions on investment decisions

Company Description: Canaan Partners is an early stage Venture Capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, New York, Connecticut, India, and Israel. Founded in 1987, the firm is currently investing its ninth fund, Canaan IX, a $600M vehicle raised in early 2012. With $3.5B under management, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the internet, mobile, enterprise, digital media, and health care industries. Current Canaan portfolio companies include Lending Club, Kabam, Zoosk, WibiData, The RealReal, Tremor Media (NYSE: TRMR), Skybox Imaging, Cardlytics, Prime Sense, Bharat Matrimony, and Soasta. Past successes include Virsto (acquired by VMWare), DoubleClick (acquired by Google), SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP), Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), Active Network (NYSE: ACTV), ID Analytics (acquired by LifeLock), Advanced BioHealing (acquired by Shire), and SandForce (acquired by LSI) among others. For more information, please visit www.canaan.com.

Please reach out to rwincek [at] canaan [dot] com

Farmers Insurance (farmers.com) Los Angeles, CA - Full-time Contract or Freelance

Farmers Insurance make up one of the country's largest insurers of vehicles, homes and small businesses and provide a wide range of other insurance and financial services products.

We are seeking local candidates for help build the next iteration of its website. We're specifically looking for full stack engineers who focus on front end javascript development. Ideal candidates will have the following skills (but please apply even if you only match the Javascript skills!):

* Javacript (object oriented)

* AngularJS (or similar Javscript MVC like Backbone, Ember or Knockout)

* Node.js

* Familar with implementing architecture and and frameworks based on the above

* Data modeling, business logic, UI, UX

* HTML5/CSS3, Cross browser/platform troubleshooting, Responsive Design

* Preprocessors (Sass, Compass, Coffeescript)

* API development

* Git source control or similar VCS (Active on Github)

* Jira/Confluence

* Understasnding of server side workflow

To apply, email your Github account and resume to mel.wong@farmersinsurance.com

Tutor Matching Service (http://www.tutormatchingservice.com) - INTERN (REMOTE OK) - Palo Alto, CA

We're passionate about making tutoring more accessible and easier for all parties involved by building THE central marketplace for tutoring. Check out our recent TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/andreessen-backed-tutor-mat...

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We are partnering with universities like Caltech, Purdue, and NYU to disrupt the $6B/year tutoring market. In our previous work as tutors, we realized just how awful of a process it is to try to advertise and market tutoring services on one's own. It is even worse for the students looking for tutors. There is simply nowhere for them to go. Search Twitter for "math tutor" and you'll see just how many kids go without tutors because the simply can't find or afford them. It's a classic problem of an inefficient market.

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The position is for a front-end engineer INTERN (REMOTE is OK). Our stack includes Python/Django, Javascript/jQuery, and Bootstrap. We have no prerequisite on experience, and only require that you are a smart, creative hacker who can write simple, elegant code. We're building front-end products and mobile apps for all platforms. There's lots to do!

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Join us. Email rishi@tutormatchingservice.com with questions, your resume, and any links (Github, Linkedin, etc).

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 recently 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 jake@factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Los Angeles/SF Bay Area Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews -----