Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve graduated with a CS and EE degree from University of Washington, and I (Eddie) graduated with a Math and Economics degree from UC Berkeley.
Hmm. Do you mind if I ask why you chose Winston Salem? I left there a year and change ago after waiting for my wife to finish college, and haven't looked back.
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#162Inkling is a publishing startup. We are a new medium, the future of books and publishing (currently with a focus in textbooks on iPad); our platform is so good that completely leaves ebooks in dust, and even most major publishing houses are invested in us.
We are pretty much hiring in ANY POSITION - from the JavaScript/Python/Scala/iOS to UI/UX design to marketing to product management. We are Sequoia-backed and just recently secured another round of $17 million funding.
The team is lean and flat. Located in the downtown SF, TV-celebrity chef in house, best gym in town, plus generous salary and options.
http://www.inkling.com/jobs/openings/
Contact me if you are interested (ivan@inkling.com)
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#163Knewton is looking for software engineers and data scientists with superior problem solving and coding skills.
Knewton is poised to revolutionize the practice of education with the worlds most powerful adaptive learning engine. We recently raised the biggest VC round ever for an education company and have now partnered with Pearson to power most of the world's largest publisher's digital products.
Knewton was recognized as a Technology Pioneer for 2011 from the World Economic Forum in Davos and was voted one of the top 25 best places to work by Crains New York Business.
Go to our jobs page and say hi. http://www.knewton.com/jobs/
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#164We are actively looking for a new market manager / office manager to do amazing work as part of our team.
You can boil legal mumbo-jumbo into a succinct bulleted list and manage 10+ projects with a variety of deadlines moving forward simultaneously. You can figure out how to get a company registered in any state, read a complex set of rules and figure out the cheapest and fastest way to comply, you can assuage grumpy bureaucrats and you are capable at smooth talking your way through red tape. You can also document and organize the results of these efforts.
You are a a hyper-organized, detail-oriented, driven person who is interested in wearing a lot of hats to help our startup grow to become huge. You are driven to accomplish a lot and learn a lot very quickly. You are resourceful, upbeat, and enjoy getting things done on a budget (translation: you must be frugal, scrappy, and happy). You have web and computing skills, including maybe a little HTML and a good command of Microsoft Office.
You will assist in preparation of legal documents, including: Plan, organize, and execute long, multi-step process of setting up each new market Find and summarize relevant rules and regulations in various states Compose, draft, transcribe, and revise documents and forms as required Correctly calculate fees, prepare checks, and submit to appropriate agency as required
When you aren’t moving us into new markets, you’ll have a host of everything-you-need-to-run-a-startup responsibilities: Get stuff here: Order, pick-up and assemble new desks, setup printers and computers Recruiting: draft job postings, reviewing and phone screen job applicants, schedule interviews and generally find phenomenal candidates for our open positions Keep state and local filings up-to-date Filing - state filings, employee paperwork Evaluating bug reports (no user left behind!): communicating with users to get to the bottom of the problem, documenting it so our developers can fix it and circling back with the user when it’s fixed Spreading cheer - be upbeat always and keep things lively. Maybe even help prepare for parties now and then Ensure that physical and electronic project files are properly generated and maintained, including Exec admin – arrange board meetings, do lightweight word/powerpoint/excel prep and whatever else the CEO needs to keep moving quickly
Background: You have some professional business experience on your resume, and have a college degree
You must be able to work autonomously to drive numerous projects simultaneously and you must be adept at project and information management. You must be comfortable digging deep--both online and on the phone--to determine the laws and rules applicable to our business and follow through on your plan to comply with all such laws and rules while accomplishing Estately’s objectives.
Although this is a junior position, you will play a key role at an angel-backed, quickly growing startup. You will report to the CEO of the firm. As good writing skills are important to this job, please include a short (~2 paragraph) plan of attack for helping a user who has written in telling us that the price is wrong on one of the properties on our site.
If you are looking for an exciting, demanding job that provides unique experience and gives you a chance to shine, this is a special opportunity.
Send me an email at jobs@estately.com.
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#165We're hiring front-end and back-end engineers, plus an SRE (think: ops guy who gets to write production code) and a designer.
Right now, we help companies track and analyze the way their content spreads over social media, and how that converts into pageviews and dollar sales. Our next phase -- the stuff the new hires will be working on -- is to move beyond merely reporting what's happening into making sense of it, and making actionable predictions based on it. That means event detection and machine learning on big, messy, real-world data sets.
Because this is all new dev, we are language and technology agnostic. If you think you can solve these problems, we'll let you pick the best tools for the job. We're looking for curiosity, enthusiasm, and a track record -- you know, "smart and gets things done" :-)
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#166Looking for a few good search specialists. Also looking for a data scientist type with an emphasis on hands on systems level work. We make good use of solr and hadoop. Great place to work with challenging and interesting work.
Submit through the senior software eng position. Actual position and title will be based on your experience.
http://www.trulia.com/about/careers/Engineering
Other positions open.
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#167We are hiring front-end and back-end engineers, a MySQL DBA, an Android engineer, an HTML5 mobile engineer, and a UI Designer.
From our jobs page: We're a bit different than your average startup. We're a small team that loves what we do. We only hire others who love what they do, too.
Even though we're very profitable, we don't hire just for the sake of it; we hire the best people, then trust them: it's the thinking behind our no-limit vacation policy and company credit card for everyone.
We love building things and we focus on being productive, not the amount of time you spend in the office. We hate meetings, so we only have one per week.
We put a lot of effort into making Weebly a fun place to work for people who like getting things done.
Our millions of users love us (check out our blog comments). We have a net promoter score over 80% (higher than Apple's).
Running 2% of all of the websites on the Internet presents some very interesting technical challenges. Making a complex task super simple and intuitive is also an ongoing challenge.
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#168GetThere / Sabre
We're looking for front-end engineers comfortable doing both client-side and server-side work. For us that means HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Java (or comparable).
GetThere is the leading business travel booking application. We operate at a large scale, so your code would be used by millions of people around the world.
Submit your resume through the link below, but drop us a line so we know to be on the lookout for it.
Although the link below is for a contract position, we have contract-to-hire and full-time positions as well.
http://sabre.hodesiq.com/jobdescription.aspx?JobID=2668712
b.j.allen@sabre.com
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm. Do you mind if I ask why you chose Winston Salem? I left there a year and change ago after waiting for my wife to finish college, and haven't looked back.
Similar situation to yours. One of our wives is finishing a residency program in Winston Salem. Where are you located now? I am actually moving out there in a few weeks to join the company. It would be great to get your insights on Winston Salem, and any contacts of people that are good devs in NC. Feel free to reach out on twitter @esalazarrivas
I have no Twitter account, but my e-mail is in my profile if you'd like to get in touch and discuss things further. I went to college there and lived there for a couple additional years, so I can give you my thoughts.
Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
#170Front-end Web DEveloper
We are looking to bring on a front-end developer. This person will be responsible for the core product’s interaction design and implementation.
Tools & Experience Ideal candidate would have some formal education in computer science, but ability and experience are paramount.
Some expected areas of expertise:
* Charting libraries/data-visualization systems
* CSS, Javascript, JQuery, HTML 5
* Ruby or Python a a plus.