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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by nchuhoai »

bartonfink wrote: post #36
nchuhoai wrote: post #32

Berlin, Germany, (remote possible, while on location preferred) Webcred is hiring to expand their team to accelerate the collaborative consumption movement. Our focus at Webcred is really to make people trust each other more, because we believe that the world would be a better place if we use our resources more efficiently by sharing with each other. That is why we are building tools to allow p2p marketplaces build m…

Are you only looking for full-time people? I've been using neo4j for some non-production code at Mapquest and I'd love a chance to use it "for real", but I'm not in a position to switch full-time jobs.

We can talk about it. We are very flexible when it comes to people we want, it's really about the fit for us (+some openness to switch to full-time eventually)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by blader »

huhtenberg wrote: post #149
blader wrote: post #5

San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists. What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise. Just kidding. We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've…

The product pitch sounds great. I really hope you deliver on it :)

Thank you! We're trying our best and having a lot of fun. We will see. :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by jzoidberg »

San Diego and Sunnyvale CA

Front end positions: html5 (with Play framework)

Back end positions: Scala with Hadoop (we don't require Scala experience just enthusiasm)

GridX - we are a well funded startup developing a unique new system to operate the next generation smart electricity grid. Our software wrangle smart grid data at scale to solve real problems that make a difference to everyone's lives.

Join us at the ground floor in this exciting and challenging field.

Please contact johan at gridx dot com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by cmatthias »

Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square) (on-site, no remote)

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer at Cogo Labs (http://www.cogolabs.com/)

Cogo Labs is a company that creates companies, kind of like an incubator with a twist: all of our ideas/startups come from within the company. We don't offer investment in outside startups. Thus far we have had two major ($100MM+) acquisitions, and a handful of smaller ones, and we are anticipating more in the near future. Typically, once a startup we are incubating gets off the ground, we hire employees into that startup and assist them with whatever they need to make the company successful. Cogo Labs itself has around 40 full-time employees now in our office in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.

I'm looking for a software engineer or senior software engineer to join my team. You should have a degree in CS or a similar field, and experience developing for the web, as most of our startups are web properties. Specific experience in Ruby, Rails, and/or Python are a plus, but not absolutely necessary. I'm more concerned with finding smart people than finding people with specific skills.

I am currently developing new features for a web site that we run that gets >50k unique visitors per day, and you'd be assisting in this effort. I can be more specific if you're invited for an interview.

We are big on metrics and analysis -- there are grids of monitors (we call them "NOC walls") all over the office showing up-to-the-minute stats about all of our properties. I can code up a new feature, deploy it, and walk over to one of the NOC walls and literally watch my change affect traffic on the site, or revenue, or profit. It's a really fun place to work. Benefits and perks are great as well (see http://cogolabs.com/careers for more info).

If you're interested, shoot me an email (cmatthias at cogolabs.com) with your resume and a brief cover letter (be sure to mention you saw this post on HN). Bonus points for including a link to your github page or other code repository where I can see some code you've written.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by rsync »

rsync.net is hiring an implementation engineer.

We created 1TB and 10TB annual "packages" earlier this year, and one of the benefits that customers receive is a concierge level of implementation support.

Basically the customer declares what their environment looks like, and we design a solution that effectively (and efficiently) performs their offsite backup to us.

So for instance a customer might arrive with a collection of Windows VMs running on Xen, and this implementation engineer would dialog with the customer and decide whether to populate the account with physical (fedex) delivery, whether to backup the images from the underlying Xen system, or whether to do file level backup from inside the VMs.

This individual should have a very broad sysadmin-style technical background, ranging across UNIX, all variants of Windows, and Mac. In addition, some idea as to how vmware/xen/hyperv environments work, as well as things like exchange/SQL Server/etc. - that is what customers have to back up.

This individual should be a "lifer". If you're pursuing an exciting and lucrative career in the field of Information Technology, don't contact us. If you're not running your own mail server, jailbreaking your own devices, running your own servers and appliances (FreeNAS, OpenWRT, etc.) at home, you're not going to fit here.

OTOH, if you're a "fixer" who can "just make things work" and can juggle a collection of high priority clients, please contact us: info@rsync.net

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by patrickyeon »

GladHatter wrote: post #176
patrickyeon wrote: post #44

Because people often ask, these threads do work. I got in touch with http://romotive.com after seeing them post in one, and am currently packing up to move to Las Vegas and go work on robots (!) with a great team of kindred spirits, only a few weeks after I first sent them a letter. Good luck to searchers on both sides in finding your own perfect fit.

I'm somewhat curious as to how much ageism is prevalent in these opportunities. From what I've seen, a large percentage of the staff/lifestyle pics associated with these companies show an endless sea of smiling employees in their late 20s & early 30s. Is there room for devs beyond that age?

I am 25, so there's not much information for you to work with from me getting hired. At my previous startup, I was the youngest (straight out of uni); three other employees had children approaching my age. At Romotive, I look to be just about middle of the pack. A fair number of the people know each other from school, which contributes to a narrow spread.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by nickels »

blader wrote: post #5

San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists. What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise. Just kidding. We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've…

Awesome, can't wait.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by andyjsong »

blader wrote: post #5

San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists. What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise. Just kidding. We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've…

This might be a stupid question, but does the product generalist position require you to code? Or is it more on a product manager role?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

GladHatter wrote: post #176
patrickyeon wrote: post #44

Because people often ask, these threads do work. I got in touch with http://romotive.com after seeing them post in one, and am currently packing up to move to Las Vegas and go work on robots (!) with a great team of kindred spirits, only a few weeks after I first sent them a letter. Good luck to searchers on both sides in finding your own perfect fit.

I'm somewhat curious as to how much ageism is prevalent in these opportunities. From what I've seen, a large percentage of the staff/lifestyle pics associated with these companies show an endless sea of smiling employees in their late 20s & early 30s. Is there room for devs beyond that age?

How shall I put this - just as A people hire other A people, twenty-somethins hire other twenty-somethigs.

One of the things as a guy starting up in his 40s I know how much even a brilliant graduate must be taught and trained and mentored. Whereas a person with 15 or more years under thier belt just needs to be inspired

this is not to say there are not exceptions, but the younger the founder the younger the median age under him/her tends to be, based at least on personal experience.

I am pleased HN has opened up entrepreneurship to people otherwise would have taken the corporate path. Now let's see if we can push the only glass ceiling that lies behind us

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Post by cartera_dev »

Lexington, MA | Senior PHP Developer | Full time

Cartera Commerce is the leading provider of card-linked marketing solutions that increase revenue and customer loyalty for merchants, banks, card issuers and loyalty programs. We just recently raised another $12.2M in a round of investment.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years of experience building and deploying medium-large scale web based applications using Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc.

contact asadraei[at]cartera.com

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