Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

TrailBehind is hiring iOS developers, contract-to-hire. Remote work OK, see our post on StackOverflow. We make awesome navigation apps, for people who live and work on the fringe: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/jobs/30000/listing

We have hired 3 contractors in the last couple of weeks, one Android and two iOS. We'll typically ask you to do a small paid project, and then go from there. Your hourly rate is whatever you set it at for the first project, and we'll engage further if we think it's a good value.

This is not your typical start-up - we are boot-strapped, profitable, and employ over half woman.

Factual is hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great engineer and have lots of machine learning/data extraction/NLP/etc. experience that is relevant to what we do).

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure, machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our Palo Alto office recently opened so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

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

Would you guys consider taking on interns for engineering positions in the future?

=Real-Time Engine Software Developer=

Want to work on challenging, core technology with a smart team for a well-funded company in San Francisco?

We're PubNub, the real-time engine in the cloud that developers use to build massively scalable real-time apps. We've got hundreds of customers, and process billions of real-time messages each month. We develop software close to the bare iron and measure performance in microseconds. We are an all-star technical team who have been part of successful acquisitions in middleware, enterprise, and consumer software companies. We are looking for an exceptional developer to help lead our "core" engine development and future technology strategy.

Our ideal person is someone who lives and breathes code, and understands the difference between C, Python, and Javascript. You are someone who isn't a primadonna about a specific framework or tech. Someone cool to work with who's comfortable helping grow a business and works well with others.

=Responsibilities=

As a member of the PubNub "Core" team, you'll:

* Build enhancements to our platform that help prepare us for trillions of monthly transactions * Design migration strategies that provide zero downtime for users * Help build the architecture that meets the needs of our product roadmap beyond our core current feature set * Enhance our load testing methodologies to generate "world-of-warcraft" sized load on our system * Explore various hardware & software strategies for milking the best performance out of various system configurations.

=Qualifications=

Great candidates will have:

5+ years of experience developing software on core technology frameworks in a high scale environment Expertise with C, Javascript, Python, Erlang, and other programming languages Real-time systems background, knowledge/experience with Node JS, Tornado, and other similar servers. B.S or M.S. in Computer Science

Learn More: www.pubnub.com/jobs