Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

DirectMarkets is looking for an innovative, creative and intelligent User Experience Designer to join our Product team. A User Experience Designer at DirectMarkets is responsible for creating intuitive, goal directed user experience for DirectMarkets users. The UX Designer will collaborate with the Product Manager, Developers, Stakeholders and Users to create experiences which deliver business value and drive the growth of the business. The key deliverables will be designing wireframes and producing style guides to ensure consistency across the platform.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate has:

* Minimum or 3-5 years creating user experiences for web-based products. * Experience with enterprise products and/or trading systems is a plus. * Bachelor's Degree or higher in Human Computer Interaction or similar program. * Experience and passion for working in an Agile environment (specifically SCRUM). * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. * Highly collaborative and innovative. * Solid understanding of technology and how software systems are built. * Ability to learn new industries and businesses quickly. * Experience in visual design is a plus.

DirectMarkets' groundbreaking platform is the next evolutionary step in connecting the C-Suite of existing public companies directly with the capital markets. This is accomplished by electronically linking existing public companies with purchasers of securities. The DirectMarkets platform empowers issuers to efficiently sell primary shares directly into the secondary market, providing investors a new source of supply and liquidity, and the ability to accumulate stock positions in a cost-effective manner. Additionally, the DirectMarkets platform enables investors to initiate transactions directly with issuers, redefining the capital-raising paradigm. The result is greater transparency and substantially reduced time and costs associated with capital origination for existing public companies.

Apply by email chartel@directmkts.com

Website: http://www.directmkts.com

Full-time, Interns, Contract

- Backend Engineer C++ - Front-End Eng - JavaScript - Backend Engineer - Python - Holistic Designer (Interactive Design & Visual Design Skills), someone who wants to use design next generation of interactions and UX through gestures.

Passion for changing the world by enabling gestures as ubiquitous interaction layer for all devices w/ built-in webcam is a must!

Apply: jobs [at] Flutter.io

LucidChart is an HTML5 diagramming application that proves web apps don't need to be pale imitations of their full-featured desktop counterparts. Real-time collaboration and full versioning history aren't our only advantages; users tell us they like LucidChart because it's faster, easier, and smoother than Visio and Omnigraffle.

We need great engineers who want to work in a Silicon Valley startup, but would rather live 15 minutes from the ski resorts in Utah. We have one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet supporting LucidChart's client, and are using Scala, PHP, node.js, MongoDB, and MySQL to power our servers. Experience in one or more of these areas is helpful, but we're most interested in people with inhuman problem solving skills.

We currently have 9 full-time employees, including 6 engineers. That ratio reflects the focus of our organization -- we are a software company, and we live or die on the strength of our engineering team. We think we have the strongest engineering team in Utah, and want to add at least 3-5 people this year.

All hires are made by unanimous decision of the current team. If you join us, you can know that everyone here wants you here.

Send resumes, github profiles, or whatever else might be relevant to jobs at lucidchart dot com.

San Francisco, CA.

Front-End Developer UX Designer UI Designer

Academize is a venture-backed startup currently taking part in one of San Francisco's top accelerator programmes. We're a passionate team of edutech entrepreneurs looking for talented people who share our vision to come and join us.

If the above sounds interesting and you think you've got what it takes then please get in touch at jobs [at] academize [dot] com.

The Energy Transition Model (ETM) is looking for an experienced developer in one or more: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jQuery, backbone.js, CoffeeScript, etc). You follow the 20%/80% rule, prefer to re-use then to program and seemlessly switch from big picture to implementation details. We answers questions like: "If everybody switched to electric cars, how many solar plants have to be built?". It is used by governments, companies, teachers to evaluate strategies dealing with events like peak oil, diminishing gas reserves and new technologies.

Quintel develops the ETM and is a charming Dutch (grown up) startup, with a central office in the center of Amsterdam. Our engineering-driven team (91% engineers, PhDs etc) get the work done during office hours, so that we can enjoy our evenings, sometimes together with afterwork-beers. The atmosphere goes from professional consultancy to monkey house in no time.

Our codebase has something for everyone. 30% plain Ruby, 30% Javascript, 30% Rails and 10% other code. We have good code, bad code, tested code, untested code. We have DSLs (for our non-programmers), API, fast ec2 instances for calculations. Things we did before: Git as a database, custom query language to extract data from the model, massive processing within a rails request (think thousands of ruby objects calculating energy flows). Visualizations with Raphael.

You are an experienced developer, you think lean and solve problems creatively. You're proactive, fix first, complain later. You live in (ordered by preference): Netherlands, Europe, World. You'll work the first months onsite, thereafter you may go abroad and work remote (again). Current dev team has an international background: Italian, British, Dutch, Swiss, US.

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