Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

San Francisco, CA. Full time.

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

It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. We believe that faster sharing of research will lead to an acceleration in research innovation: faster innovation in medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and other fields. Faster sharing in biology and medicine, for example, could lead to cancer being solved 12 months before it otherwise would have been, which would lead to millions of lives being saved.

Academia.edu has over 1.5 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 need talented engineers to help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that science is currently dysfunctional, and that there is a chance to make a big impact.

We just 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 have a strong engineering culture. We're a 10 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is 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:

★ building an API for Academia.edu, to allow developers to hook into our academic graph

★ building a great News Feed for all the research you want to follow

★ building a world class Analytics product giving scientists real-time metrics about the impact of their work

★ building infrastructure to make the site extremely fast and stable

What we're looking for are:

☀ Web development experience (building apps on your own is great)

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering and building great products

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.

Some guest posts on TechCrunch about the problem that we are trying to solve, and our company's mission, are below:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/

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

Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto)

WebAction (http://www.WebAction.com) - Full Time or Intern

WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today.

We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

Skills you should have or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested in joining, email us at jobs@webaction.com

This is gonna be different, be prepared for a helluva ride.

Spawt, Singapore - Building a Google for real life.

Role: Dev intern Notes: You must be prepared to move to Singapore during your time here. We will try our best to assist in the move.

We are building a recommendation engine for the best experiences around the world by aggregating sentiments such as tweets, updates, reviews, etc. Open Spawt app, you will be shown the best experiences near you, be it eat, shop, or play. We just released our MVP 2 weeks back to great reception with splashes on the local (Singapore) media.

We have aggregated feedback on our very minimal first release and am aggresively iterating whilst monetizing all at the same time. (Yes, we care about building a REAL business). We are exploring at moving our operations to the US.

Did I pique your interest? Talk to me at nubela@spawt.me

San Francisco, IOS Developer. Full Time. We’re inventing a new kind of photography for when photos just aren’t enough. Close your eyes and imagine your favourite memory - say christmas morning as a kid. You’re probably not thinking of a rectangle in a void (i.e. a picture), nor are you thinking of a moving rectangle in a void (i.e. a movie), you’re probably thinking of an entire world that you’re standing in the center of. We make an IOS app that allows you to save this entire moment into a seamless spherical photograph called a bubble that you can save and share with others.

We’re a small, four person team - including the intern who made Yelp’s Monocle, a designer from Cooper Union and a computer vision genius. We raised $2 million in a heavily oversubscribed round of funding from August Capital. We spoke at TED (sorry, no video!), have offices on union square in San Francisco and have an app that has an unparalleled ability to induce uncontrolled smiles of glee when people first see it.

We’re looking for someone to be our point person for IOS development. We actually all have IOS experience (and a really cool app in progress), but we’re looking for someone to grab the bull by the horns and focus on IOS full time (as the two engineers are focused on computer vision and ‘all the other boring engineering’ respectively). You’ll be a pretty big deal at our company. We’re pretty lucky in that our technology spans everywhere from advanced computer vision to WebGL and HTML5 to Python, PostgreSQL and Redis to low-level run-loop optimizations for UI responsiveness, multithreaded OpenGL, GCD, core data synchronization, etc. It's a lot of fun.

Send me an e-mail at ben@bubb.li

New York, NY (Midtown West)

http://minus.com | http://minus.com/pages/careers

Minus is hiring! We are on a mission to simplify sharing. We are seeking tech fanatics, passionate enthusiasts and self-driven individuals in our New York City midtown office. All full-time positions include competetive compensation and benefits.

Available Positions (Full-time):

★ DevOps — New York, NY

★ Software Engineer — New York, NY

★ Product Designer — New York, NY

★ iOS Engineer — New York, NY

★ Android Engineer — New York, NY

Please visit http://minus.com/pages/careers for more details and full requirements. Feel free to email info@minus.com with any questions as well.

Thank you.

Minus