Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

Dallas, Texas (will consider REMOTE): Rails Developer

At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.

We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for people to shine. Our front-end stack is Ruby on Rails, Knockout.js, Slim, & Coffeescript. We're looking for a Ruby on Rails expert help join our amazing product team, empower the creation of innovative user experiences by working with our powerful core services.

We are a young, fast-moving startup where everyone has a voice and can make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).

On any given day you might...

    • Do a daily standup in person or online.
    • Evaluate new platforms, plugins, and other technologies.
    • Contribute to and maintain internal libraries and frameworks that document what we’ve learned and help us iteratively build better and faster.
    • Optimize, optimize, optimize. Because you love to.
    • Commit often, ship early, and dodge incoming RC Helicopters.
    • Provide input to our ongoing evaluation of the area's best tacos, hamburgers and BBQ

You...

    • Have a desire to solve hard problems
    • Know the joys and pains of building web applications heavily dependent on APIs 
    • Want to work at a place where off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
    • Want to build something great—even world-changing.
    • Have experience deploying a Rails application on a multitude of platforms.
    • Have excellent communication skills
    • Are comfortable doing full-stack web development
    • Have or would love to build web services of your own.
    • Regularly star new GitHub repos and keep an eye on RubyGems and npm.

Bonus points for...

    • Experience with Postgresql & MongoDB
    • Experience with Redis, Sideckick, Resque, etc.
    • Strong understanding of high availability best practices in the cloud 
    • Experience with oAuth
    • Experience with Twitter, Facebook and other common APIs

 You’ll work with our Product and UX team in our current, early stages through to first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

We offer...

    • A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
    • A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
    • Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
    • Generous vacation policy

Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continuing pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.

Interested? Drop me a line: jacob@purediscovery.com

Novoda / Central London & Berlin Senior Software developer. Full Time. www.novoda.com

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You will be interested in working within small teams of developers within either London or Berlin. We are all hackers. We love software development and encourage it getting done really well. Although we specialise in Android, we care about all technologies and the future of our industry. If you want a challenge and want to work in the best possible company for the future of Android development, lets chat.

We are looking for seasoned developers who likely have significant Android experience but who definitely care about software craftsmanship.

First 6 months at one of our offices. Open to negotiations on working situations after this time.

Novoda develop the world's most desirable Android software. Our clients are typically venture capital funded tech startups who with our help realise an amazing products for their very new services. We help them hit the ground running and innovate with their services to the best of the platform's ability. This means that Novoda see lots of project variations and we work with lots of amazing interesting technologies! Far from being just about phones, Novoda's believes Android's real future is Glasses, wearables, Factories, Vending machines, Satellites and a world of future interconnected devices.

We are very social :) We like to meetup and so we help run the London Android meetup at least once a month: http://www.meetup.com/android We also run London's Droidcon http://www.droidcon.co.uk

If you are interested please get in touch: http://novoda.com/contact

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WebAction Inc. in Palo Alto - Full Time- Senior Front End Developer

Jobs@WebAction.com

WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in May 2012 and it is currently in stealth mode. We are building a real-time big data management platform that collects, analyzes, and persists data from disparate sources and enables users to build a new generation of applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and generous equity for the right candidates. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today. Job Description: You should be a self-starting senior web UI developer with a desire to lead and mentor others. You excel in a fast-paced agile environment and will be able to collaborate with back-end engineers to design interfaces and architect interaction models, and with the product team to wire-frame and prototype ideas.

Desired Skills & Experience:

-Excellent JavaScript knowledge necessary – please be prepared to show us examples of your work

-Experience with HTML5/CSS3

-Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.)

-Experience with visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js)

-Know how to build drag and drop web diagramming UIs (such as mxGraph, gliffy, drawio)

-At least 4 years professional experience building sophisticated JavaScript applications At least 7 years experience in software development BS/BA in Computer Science or related field is a must

-Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

-Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment

-Must be able to multi-task

Pluses: -Experience in user interaction design and user experience

-Knowledge of back-end web frameworks

-iOS or Android experience

Candidates must currently reside in the USA.

If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.

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EyeNetra, an MIT Media lab spin off, is looking for a full time lead Android developer as well as INTERNs. Located in Sommerville, MA.

It's a lot of interesting work and we're working on a product that could help a lot of people! The goal is to bring affordable eye care to people all around the world who need glasses but don't have access right now because the current testing tools are expensive and require significant training.

If you're interested or have questions, please contact EyeNetra at jobs@eyenetra.com!

You can also find out more about EyeNetra here, http://eyenetra.com/mission.html.