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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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FreshBooks - Toronto, Canada - Software Developer (Full Stack) http://www.freshbooks.com/jobs/

FreshBooks is seeking skilled full stack developers who have experience with web application frameworks and JavaScript frameworks as well as client-side performance optimization. With us, you will help build brand new features and update existing ones in our consumer-facing cloud accounting application. We build a product that helps our users earn their living and we’re proud of that. If you’re committed to great work and great teamwork, and are constantly looking for ways to improve the systems you’re responsible for, we’re dying to meet you.

Right now, we’re hiring all the way from junior developers to the architect level. No matter your level of experience, if it’s a natural fit, we have a place for you to shine and grow.

We are versatile...

Most of our software is written in PHP, Python, and JavaScript. We also use tools and technologies like Ember.js, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, Puppet, and Jenkins CI. We believe in using the best tool for the job (while maintaining a slight bias toward the tools the team knows the best). While we value experience with the tools above, we know that smart developers are great learners, too.

We collaborate...

We work in an open environment; no cubicles or offices. We closely follow Agile Scrum and rely on collaboration for success. We also collaborate across the office; regular hackoffs are a part of our culture. Developers join forces with coworkers across the company to pitch and prototype projects that improve our product, our culture, or are just plain fun.

We ship...

Shipping is at the forefront of our engineering practice. We rely on continuous integration and use automated testing to ensure our product is always shippable.

We value our people...

We recognize and reward ingenious work. We all have real lives, and respect their balance. We all have a voice that is heard throughout the company. We always make time for fun, and have one of the most unique, employee-led cultures out there. Join the FreshBooks choir or a class in the gym, organize a gaming night, teach a dev lunch and learn, or use a paid volunteer day to share your skills with the community.

Salaries are competitive and compensation packages include stake in the company.

http://www.freshbooks.com/jobs/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because you're physically based in Italy, doesn't mean you're supposed to give people Italian low wages... You should consider globally - if your company operates on global scale and has income similar to US company, why not give US-level salaries?

Cost of living.

What makes you say so?

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resul...

Italy is one of those high-prices low-wages places which is not uncommon in southern Europe.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, Full time, INTERN/H1B) - http://climate.com/careers =========================== ====== What we do ========= =========================== Our mission is to build great software for farmers. We use a combination of weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, satillite imagery, and weather simulation to provide data and insights to those farmers. ==============================…

What is up with all the negative reviews on Glassdoor?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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post #152
post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because you're physically based in Italy, doesn't mean you're supposed to give people Italian low wages... You should consider globally - if your company operates on global scale and has income similar to US company, why not give US-level salaries?

Let's see: * It's not mine to decide - I work there, and don't decide who gets what. * The cost of living is lower than in other places, and the economy is pretty bad, so locally, at least, they pay pretty well and have less competition. * Jobs are not global: pay in Des Moines Iowa is probably different from that in San Francisco. A company in San Francisco cannot easily hire Europeans due to the US' terrible immigr…

Just to clarify, when I say US-level salary - I do NOT mean Bay Area/SF - which is an extreme, yes...

But since you mentioned - I doubt you'll find an experienced software engineer in Iowa working for 2K USD per month... AFAIK living costs in Iowa is much much lower than in any place in Italy.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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TeachBoost - Support Engineer, NYC.

TeachBoost is looking for a full-time software developer for our New York, NY office who can manage support development, usability testing, and bug fixes as well as contribute to a number of internal and production projects. We're a fast-growing team and we need someone who can work closely with our support team to handle usability issues in real time and interface between our support and development teams. PHP experience and familiarity with the Unix environment are big pluses!

Importantly, we're an education startup and we love working with schools, teachers, and principals. You should be willing to work in our industry and handle the unique set of problems that come up with education and institutional clients (as well as going up against large institutional competitors!). You should have experience working on a small team with tight deadlines, and you should be familiar with OO concepts as well as design patterns. You should learn new languages and technologies quickly, be innovative, enjoy challenges, and have a great work ethic.

Please contact jason AT teachboost.com if interested; include a few things you've built that you're proud of.

For more detailed info, check out our posting on SO: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/72399/support-engineer...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent)

At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first sensor network is for wireless signal [1] where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills. We also recently raised our $4million series A [4] from Qualcomm Ventures, O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures & Passion Capital so are growing fast.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/ Email us: join@opensignal.com

[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...

[2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...

[3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/

[4] OpenSignal Series A: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/opensignal-series-a/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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Karmic Labs - San Francisco, CA - Fulltime - https://karmiclabs.com/

We're building an API first corporate payment card platform for small businesses. Our mission is to empower all employees to be able to make purchases for work, build powerful tools for companies to manage employee spending, and make traditional expense reporting a thing of the past.

* We're taking an API first approach and building with modern tools like Python3, Flask, Postgres, Ansible, AWS, AngularJS, and git.

* We’re solving real world problems that millions of businesses face every day.

* We have a small and tight knit team of engineers including founding engineers from Pinterest and Xfire.

* We raised our first round a few months ago and provide meals, health/vision/dental insurance, and standard startup perks.

* We’ve just moved in to an awesome office in SOMA near 8th and Folsom.

We’re currently looking to expand our small engineering team hiring DevOps, Generalist, and Frontend engineers. To apply, send us an email: jobs at karmiclabs dot com; be sure to tell us a bit about yourself and include a link to your github account or something that you’ve worked on recently.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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Has anyone had success with this lately? I once posted a description of the company I work for, stating interested users should apply online. I also offered to answer any questions people had via email, which was a mistake. I probably got a dozen resumes from users unable to follow simple directions, mostly from kids in India that were going to finish school in 1-2 years. I also got spam from a few firms looking to f…

I got my current job from one of these threads! It can work.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

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New York, NY | Remote possible | Cafe

At Cafe, we're building tools for scalable storytelling: we're improving the quality of writing on the internet through technology. With great publishing tools (our CMS is awesome) and sophisticated analytics (we're building systems which crawl the social graph to discover the appropriate audience for every story), we're helping great writers to reach massive audiences.

We're hiring software engineers & data developers. If you'd like to make the web a better place while using cutting edge tools (Docker in production, isomorphic javascript, etc.), please get in touch!

More info here: http://www.cafe.com/careers

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