Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

We are looking for Python developers for both web application as well as non-web application development.

If you mainly want to do Javascript with only a little bit of backend development, then we have a position for you as well.

We're a small (~5 devs) but pretty competent team, working on interesting problems. We got a complex system of about 7 or 8 applications (of which 2 are web apps), which share their data through postgres (totaling ~2TB data at the moment, growing every day by a few GB).

If you're looking for a nice place to work, without overtime or weekend work, nice colleagues and fun environment, write to jobs@adspert.de.

We make freemium games for iOS and Android in C++. Always looking for new client-side developers. Growing company with strong revenue from out stable of launched games.

I'm happy to talk about the company; feel free to contact me.

Other positions (back end engineers, DBA, game designer, content manager, UI, UA, QA) hiring too: http://jobvite.com/m?33q9sfwO

Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com)

When Obama and Romney talk about "retooling America," that's us. We're a 10-week intense training program for junior software developers.

We want to build the best learning environment, period.

Do you love to teach? Hone your craft? Share the joy of coding with others? DBC is the rare place where all of these efforts align. Spend a week diving deep with a new technology -- and then teach 50 students hungry to hear everything about it.

Since starting at DBC I've improved as a developer 10x, and the challenge of building the a learning environment is the hardest problem I've yet to face in my career.

Some of my favorite things about DBC:

1. Our students are our customers. They pay us, expect us to change their lives, and hold us accountable to that.

2. Our customers sit 50 feet from us. This is the tightest, fastest feedback loop I've ever seen.

3. Our internal software is awesome. We're building a real-time classroom and learning environment -- a huge technical and design challenge.

4. Our students tell us that this is the best learning environment they've ever been in

5. The staff at DBC would die for these students, but we know how to have fun. This is both the most intense and most light-hearted, fun workplace I've ever been a part of.

6. We're growing. So fast.

Want to come and play with us? Email jesse at devbootcamp.com and show me why you love coding and teaching. :)

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Many people think that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we are trying to re-shape and accelerate science:

- Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal, and the paper being published. We need to remove that time-lag and introduce instant distribution of scientific ideas.

- Multi-media. Right now, scientists only share papers in PDF form. We need to bring about a science where scientists are incentivized to share data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, and comments on all these media. Right now 50% or more of the world’s scientific output does not get shared, because the system of credibility metrics only rewards one kind of format, the paper. We need to change this.

- Open access. We need to bring about a world where a villager in India has the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor in Harvard. When you open up access to the world’s scientific literature to 2 billion people, magical things may happen.

- Better peer review. Right now the peer review process takes 12 months to complete, and only surfaces the opinions of two academics - academics who may be biased, uninformed about the subject area, or just in a bad mood when writing the review. 2 people is too small a sample size. We need a faster and more robust peer review system, one that surfaces the opinions of the entire scientific community, across a variety of dimensions, and in real-time.

It's an exciting time for science. Science is transitioning from a 17th century way of sharing ideas (sending papers around the world with 12 month time-lags in every iteration) to a much faster system of sharing ideas on the web. Science is a foundational part of global growth: almost every innovation in medicine and technology has its roots in a science paper.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accelerate science. We have made a good start: 1.8 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 4,000 join each day.

We're a 12 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. Technologies we use include Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.

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. We are looking to hire a range of positions:

* full stack engineers

* growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels)

* iOS engineer

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://tcrn.ch/T42VWC (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://tcrn.ch/R6Pgrr (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. Remote work is fine. We will handle re-location, including visas, if you would like to re-locate, but re-location is not necessary.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu