Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

- Intern, working student (Werkstudent)

- Mandatory: Good experience in PHP, MySQL, Javascript

- Optional: Git, redis, memcached, nginx, ubuntu

- Bonus points: Objective-C

We're a fast growing, cashflow positive startup and desperately seeking for help in development. You will directly work with our experienced lead developer (me), really lot's to learn, not only technical but also business-wise.

Ideally, you can assist us for a fulltime internship OR part-time. It's perfectly possible that we hire you if everything fits :)

Please send short email with introduction and work experience to p dot rappold at linksderisar dot com.

About us:

    - We're not "yet-another-email sender": we are busy working on "what's next for email".
    - We love Linux, server clusters, big data, distributed everything, task queues and network protocols.
    - Our favorite GUI is ssh/bash, preferably served grey on black.
    - We use Python, Flask, Fabric, Chef, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Nginx and logic. 
    - We have a hot key for everything.
    - We don't serve ads to eyeballs and we're not in the cloud.
    - We are 50/50 on vi/emacs and everyone is anxious to get to know you better. :)
    - We don't know what our code/test ratio is.
    - We've built a lot of great tech and we need your help to open source it.
    - Some of us have never dragged or dropped anything.

    - You believe the actor-model concurrency is a better idea.
    - You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker.
    - Messaging and queueing systems are cooler than ad networks and retargeting.
    - You want to have an enormous impact on a product developers love.
    - You know what an architecture astronaut is and you're not one.
    - On a few occasions you've decided on a hashtable instead of an AVL tree and vice versa.
    - You have strong opinions about MongoDB, PostgreSQL, threads and build systems. 
    - You love UNIX and hate meetings as much as we do.
    - You often wish you were smarter, coding in Haskell or LISP full-time.
    - You want to learn from us and you have something to teach.
    - You're fine with duck typing but also mastered at least one lower level language: C, C++ or similar.
    - You've managed your own memory on multiple occasions (successfully).

    - You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker.
    - You can tell a beautiful API design when you see it.
    - You believe you could design a better REST API than some products you've used.
    - You can explain the difference between REST and HTTP in polite English.
    - There is something about programming languages. You've played with most and learned a few.
    - You want to learn from us and you have something to teach.
    - You enjoy writing and want to get better at it.
    - You've spoken publicly, it was scary at first. You loved the experience.
    - When you go to technology conferences you have a good time.
    - You're ashamed because you're spending too much time on Hacker News and Stack Overflow and Quora.

Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk

Who are we

Bar Pass Ltd, founded by two finance professionals with experience in providing technology within the hospitality industry, growing and advising young companies through from concept to profit.

What we are doing Developing a mobile application that provides customers in a bar the ability to browse the menu, order and pay for food and drinks through their mobile device.

Where we are as a company

We are fully funded up to release of V1 and have a number of people looking to back us after this point. We have had a several positive meetings with target chains of bars, that are keen on our solution and see it as a higher quality vision than our competition. We are well connected within our target market and have some very senior industry players keen to take active board positions.

Who you are

You will be working full time as CTO, working at our offices in London.

You will be responsible for defining and implementing our web and mobile strategy. You will eventually have the opportunity to form and lead a larger team.

During early stages you may be required to manage contractors to help build out some parts of our solution.

Core requirements:

> Comfortable being the sole internal developer working on a new product from the ground up > Experience with both back-end API development and front-end mobile application development > Back-end architecture and RESTful API design & development to support consumer iOS, Android and Web apps. > Work on integration with payment processors and social networks > Experience building solutions which are fast, reliable, flexible and scalable > Experience building for iOS in Objective-C > Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM and TDD practices > Continuous Integration, cloud based deployment and other DevOps/SysOps understanding

What we offer

Dependant on experience we will offer a salary between £20,000-£30,000 as well a minimum of 5% equity. The chance to get involved with a great business from the beginning and decide what we offer to our next employees.

Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk

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