Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

http://www.getharvest.com/careers

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We're hiring Ruby and Front-end devs to work with our small team doing big things. Harvest is bootstrapped, profitable, seven years old, and planning to be around for a long time.

About you:

You have written a lot of code. Teammates look at your commits for examples of idiomatic and readable code. You write clearly about technical subjects. No matter the language, grammar and style are important to you.

About us:

We will work together in small, nimble teams. Harvest has been distributed from day one and you will feel like part of the Harvest family no matter where you live. (Though if you're in NYC, you can work from our beautiful Flatiron office.) Everyone has a voice and the power to make decisions that impact our customers and our teammates.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalising specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

Grooveshark's Florida HQ is looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join us in rebuilding our PHP team and efforts. This leader will take charge of rebuilding our high quality, extensible, and scalable codebase. Can you handle leading one of the most talented dev teams in the southeast?

THE JOB:

Maintain existing PHP code and API. Create new features and improve upon existing ones. Improve on the speed, cleanliness, and security of existing code. Identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Identify and implement new technologies and strategies for scaling purposes. (This means freedom to adopt new technologies you take a liking to and can vouch for.) Assist with code reviews for both current and prospective employees. Work with cool technologies like: memcached, MongoDB, Gearman, Redis, custom chat server developed in-house, hadoop and plenty more (experience with this tech not mandatory, but interest is!)

THE PERSON:

Enjoy writing high quality, easy to read, self-documenting code. Passion for learning about new technologies. High attention to detail. High LOC/bug ratio. Able to follow coding standards. Well versed in best practices & security concerns for web development. More pragmatic than idealistic. Experience developing on the LAMP stack (able to set up a LAMP install with multiple vhosts on your own.) Extensive experience with SQL. Some experience with Javascript, HTML & CSS (though you won’t be required to write it.) Some experience with lower level languages such as C/C++. Experience with version control software. Sense of humor. Love for music.

BONUS POINTS:

Well read in Software Engineering practices. Experience with an SQL database and optimizing queries for high concurrency on large data sets. Experience with noSQL databases like MongoDB, Redis, memcached, Nginx, Gearman, - RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc. Experience working on large scale systems with high volume of traffic. Useful contributions to the open source community. Experience with browser compatibility weirdness. Experience with Smarty or other templating systems. Laser Tag enthusiast.

PERKS:

Make-your-own work schedule. In-house chef providing free meals everyday (including vegetarian.) Free laundry service. Tickets to shows, concerts, and events. The ride of your life!

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired FIVE full-time people and numerous interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just two months ago ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (we recently switched to Coffeescript and are loving it)

* iOS

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, big data, analytics

* DevOps and web infrastructure

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We are still hiring interns for the summer (junior year or older). We are also aggressively looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com

We're hiring a back-end engineer to be employee #2. You'll own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems, spending about half your time on infrastructure automation/maintenance and the other half building and improving back-end systems.

Our tech stack currently includes Python, Node.js, MySQL, Redis, Memcache, and Beanstalkd; plus Nagios for monitoring and Fabric for automation.

One key challenge we're having is ensuring uptime in the face of datacenter-level issues (we've had some) -- our customers rely on us to tell them when they're having problems, so we really need to be rock solid, at least on our API and data processing tiers. So far we're in 6 datacenters with DNS failover and a few other techniques, but there's much much more to do.

If this sounds interesting, email brian@rollbar.com and let's find a time to talk or meet up.