Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Gorgias | Engineering | Full-time | Worldwide (offices in SF and Paris) | Remote friendly

At Gorgias (https://gorgias.com) we build the e-commerce help desk that turns customer service into a profit center. Our engineering org is growing fast.

Multiple teams hiring at all positions, backend engineers, frontend engineers, data engineers and QA engineers.

Tech stack: Python, NodeJs, React, Kubernetes, GCP

We pay 10% above market rate and offer equity to everyone.

All opened positions: https://jobs.lever.co/gorgias

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I am Engineering Manager of the Self-serve team, more info about what we do:

The Self-serve team is building tools to help e-commerce websites deflect tickets before they are created. Concretely, we have 2 main projects right now:

- the Chat: a chat bubble our clients can integrate on their website to offer live support

- the Help Center: a "FAQ style" website our clients can create and link to their website

For each of them, we are building the foundations from scratch with modern technologies (React, WebSockets, NodeJS) and then enhance those with "Self-service features". Instead of just being able to talk to someone, our chat also offers to manage your order directly. Similarly, our FAQ is not just a collection of articles but we are making it into a fully fledged order management dashboard.

On a day to day basis it means:

- improving the chat (adding video support, support shopping from the chat or optimizing the impact it has on our clients's websites).

- building the help center from scratch, allow for our thousands of clients to generate a website on the fly with custom domain name, server-side rendering and great performance and scaling capacities.

- integrating with external services to improve our Self-service features: Shopify to offer live shopping from the Chat, AfterShip to offer a better tracking experience, Twilio to improve login security...

Our goal: reducing the number of tickets human agents have to work on for our customers. The team is new, with what we've built so far we successfully reduce that number by 15%, we aim to reach 60% in a year!

Sent an application in january, and got an E-Mail "We have received your job application [...] We will send you a response as soon as possible."

Never got any response. Should I assume applying again is futile?

Blackfynn | Philadelphia or REMOTE | Full-Time | https://blackfynn.com

Blackfynn is a new kind of therapeutics company: one using high-quality clinical data, data modeling and analytics —first and always— to drive every aspect of drug development. It is our mission to improve the lives of everyone living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases across the globe, and to use our technology to democratize access to studies and medicines regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status or geography.

Open roles: https://www.blackfynn.com/#careers

  - Data Engineer
  - Software Engineer
  - Data Analyst
  - AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer

keywords: Python, Scala, VueJS, Docker, DBT, Postgres, AWS

Automate Medical | Eng | Remote (Canada only) | Full-time

We write open source software to solve last mile delivery of computable health data. When novel life sciences research yields new predictive models, we help get them into existing clinical workflows.

We're looking for our first full-time engineering hire. Our current team is 3 founders and 2 contractors. If you're new to the health care industry, you will need to voraciously learn. Most of the code you write will be open source and publicly licensed. We succeed when others do, so experience with open source is a plus.

Check out our work here: https://github.com/automate-medical/sero and contact is the email in my profile.

Rubin Observatory/SLAC (Stanford) | Lead Engineer/"Scientific Computing Specialist"| Menlo Park, CA

https://ls.st/jw-

We are looking for a talented Scientific Computing Specialist to lead the team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the scientific computing infrastructure of the Rubin US data facility at SLAC (USDF). The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct a 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) starting in early 2024. The LSST will deliver a 500 petabyte set of images, to be processed at the Rubin data facilities to provide a database of trillions of measurements of billions of astronomical objects, which will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it.

My Notes:

* The USDF will service all Rubin scientists, including ALL U.S. astronomers and also service many other astronomers around the world in partnering countries. You would also be coordinating with partner data facilities in France, the UK, and more.

* This position is classified as "Information Systems Specialist" which is above Senior Software Developer at Stanford. This is a position that would lead other Senior Software Developers, Scientists, and Admins.

* Remote might be a possibility

* The entire stack is a mix of on-premise HPC/kubernetes/Object Stores, geospatial distributed database, GCP, an advanced "Science Platform" built off of Jupyterlab on k8s with a large footprint of user-facing REST APIs supporting it, a large C++/Python codebase, etc... An ideal candidate would be familiar with most of those things.