Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not niche-y.

Our first title is a cooperative multiplayer 3D action-RPG. Think Diablo on Facebook. But free-to-play, and no big download. No obscure plugins, either -- we use Flash, but you wouldn't believe it. Adobe says they've never seen a higher-quality in Flash.

Seriously, check out our trailer: https://www.rumblegames.com/kingsroad

We're in closed beta. Let me know if you want to give it a test drive.

Rumble is backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures ($15mm series A). We have one of the strongest founding teams the gaming industry has ever seen. (No, really: https://www.rumblegames.com/about/our-team)

We're both a developer and publisher of games, and we need help on both sides. If you want to develop the next generation of top-quality games, or you want to build and scale infrastructure to 1mm+ concurrent players, this is for you.

Positions: https://www.rumblegames.com/careers

Engineers

* Platform -- Java/Groovy/Grails/AWS (esp. Senior/Architect)

* Web -- HTML+CSS+JS+(PHP/Python/Ruby)

* Game -- Flash+AS3/Java/C/C++/C#

* Data -- Hadoop/R+ML/Stats

Other

* Producers

* Product Managers

* Analysts

* Artists

* Designers

Drop me a line if you're interested: mike.babineau@rumblegames.com

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves.

It's widely held that science is too slow, and too closed. We are working on changing that, and re-inventing the way that scientists communicate. The stakes are high. If the inefficiencies in science can be removed, we may be able to accelerate science by a factor of 2, leading to a huge impact for humanity.

For more on the problem Academia.edu is solving, see the guest post on TechCrunch last Sunday on 'The Future of Science' by Academia.edu's founder, Richard Price http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/ Academia.edu has over 1.3 million registered users, and over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.

We recently raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We need talented engineers to come and help us with the mission. We have a strong engineering culture. We're an 11 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.

The kinds of things you would be working on include:

★ tools for scientists to share their work faster and more openly

★ algorithms to mine our data, and to find out what research is trending in real time

★ back-end infrastructure to scale the site on AWS

What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering

All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture.

There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring. H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu

(EU only)

Job description:

Do you think CVs are outdated and LinkedIn doesn't do a good job at presenting yourself professionally online? We do! At Tyba we have launched in March a website that let students and young professional easily create their page and show visually their curriculum, their personality and their portfolio with a creative but professional design. We want them to have a website they are proud of, they like to play with and that they can spread around , show to employers or that employers find when they google their name. We want to give recruiters the possibility to browse through high-quality profiles and have a better overview of who they will hire or request for an interview.

We work with a freemium model and give the users the possibility to upgrade for TheirName.com and for additional features such as themes against a monthly or yearly fee.

We are lucky do all that from a bright and comfortable office located in the thriving and sunny city of Madrid, in the beautiful neighborhood of Salamanca.

We are now seeking an oustanding developer to join our international team of gifted talents. Our developers are responsible for exploring Tyba's potential and growing its user base, helping them to get hired and companies to find talents. This is an amazing opportunity to be part of an exciting project, to grow with the company and have an impact on numerous people's lives.

Responsibilities

At Tyba, you will work on a fast evolving product within our small team and together with our developer Tristan, our designer Zuri, our Manager Eiso and occasionally with our back-end developer Parminder located in the US.

Our work atmosphere is that of a startup, casual. Everybody is aware and sometimes involved in the startup different aspects : the sales to the public and to universities, our high-level customer service, the decision making and the product development.

As one of the two developers, you will have the chance to have a major impact on the product. We have a long list of small to large features and improvements we would like to implement and that you will work on. New ideas will be also coming on the way from the whole team. We will constantly test the product, try to get as much feedback as possible and think about ways to make it better.

On the technical aspect we use the best tools we find out there to date to develop the product. We work mainly with PHP on the server side, JavaScript using the jQuery library on the client side and MySQL for the database. We might have to use Python or Ruby on the server side in the future. On the back end we run our nginx server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) and we store our files using their Content Delivery Network S3.

We work with several APIs, especially Google Analytics and Google Charts APIs to display the users' website analytics. Facebook API to allow the user to connect to Tyba with Facebook and to share or post content on Facebook. Namecheap and DNS Made Easy APIs to buy and propagate domains chosen by the users. In the future we will certainly use others. Since all of them have good libraries, there is usually a fast learning curve.

We use Github for version controlling to have a nice and clear workflow.

To give you an idea of what we are doing on a daily basis, here is a list of recent projects our developer has been working on:

- Creating a referral system that allow the user to select their Facebook friends who they want to post on their walls. We use a unique link for each user and award points for new visitors or users brought. - Building a search tool that allow users and potentially recruiters to browse through the users profile according to specific criteria. - Creating an expanding work module that let the user upload presentations, videos, documents or create an image gallery to illustrate their work experience.

Requirements

- Engineering or scientific studies. - Fluency in English. - Rigorous programming skills, the knowledge of a strict object-oriented languages such as C++ is a big asset. - Good knowledge of PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and MySQL. Having worked with Github and with Google or Facebook APIs is an asset. - Fast learner, you should be willing to pick up a new programming language if we need it. - Showing flexibility in the work development, you should not be scared to restart part of the project from scratch if we realize there are better ways to go do it. - Being exited about the product, it can be in a critical way of course but you should believe in the potential of our startup. - Dedicated to make the Product better and get users excited about it. - Hard-working, good communicator and having excellent abstraction and critical skills.

To apply please create a profile on http://tyba.com and send us your Tyba site with a cover letter. You can either upload your CV on your Tyba site or send it to us separately.

Web Developer:

Scanning is only half of the Matterport experience. What happens after scanning — viewing, annotating, and publishing scanned 3d content — is essential to giving users a seamless and pleasurable experience.

The Work:

Build out the Matterport website and server infrastructure, including both the database of scanned 3D content and the user interface for browsing it. You would be the first web developer we hire, so you will have a chance to set your choice of language, framework, and best practices for web development at Matterport.

Preferred Skills:

Well-versed in Ruby on Rails.

Past experience scaling a website from inception to large numbers of users while maintaining reliable performance.

Past experience doing user experience design for new categories of product.

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Software Engineer with Computer Vision & Algorithms focus:

A creative Engineer who can invent new algorithms, not just apply known techniques. There are still big, interesting problems to solve which are central to our product.

The work: You will be working on 3D alignment and mesh reconstruction algorithms, improving robustness and quality. The ideal candidate is comfortable with messy data and uncertain results.

Preferred skills

Past experience in computer vision or a related field such as machine learning.

Experience with high-performance code (optimization, parallelization, CUDA) is a plus.

Very comfortable coding in C++.

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A bit about us: Matterport (YC W12) creates a low-cost easy-to-use 3D scanner that lets you turn reality into 3D models.

We scanned Y Combinator shortly before demo day -- you can see the scanning process and the automatically generated 3D model on our demo video starting at 0:40 http://matterport.com/#video

We're proud to be creating something incredibly useful. This is going to become a vital tool for the millions of professionals who work with 3D spaces on a daily basis, including construction companies, film studios, building operators, real estate companies, industrial engineers, remodelers, architects, retail designers, insurance companies, and more. Our site is being deluged by requests for new uses for the system every day.

We're starting our beta testing program with several large companies, and we've already finished raising a very sizable seed round.

We are all experienced founders and were previously early employees at PayPal and Google. We like to work hard and get stuff done. We are intellectual and curious. We know how to communicate and get along. We have fun. We feature a brogrammer-free workplace. :-)

Most of all, we're driven to change the world in a deep and meaningful way.

We feel that it's worth giving larger than typical equity compensation for early employees -- we want you to do really well if the company does really well.

jobs@matterport.com - put a 1 in the subject for the vision position or a 2 for the web development position.