Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

This is an on-site, full-time position.

== Job Description ==

MPA is building a small, elite team of world-class software engineers to directly influence the quality and cost of healthcare, addressing the fundamental challenges facing the healthcare system in the United States.

Our developers write software to:

* support internal analyses of healthcare data

* define and improve overall technical processes

* compute appropriate costs for care and reconcile them to actual costs

* build a suite of packaged products and services that evaluate clinical outcomes of care

* analyze performance data to identify the most appropriate and effective patterns of care

MPA is seeking exceptional software engineers who are deeply committed to delivering high quality, timely results and who possess a proven ability to derive and apply practical and creative solutions to difficult technical and business problems.

Members of this unit will have significant input into and control over processes, protocols, and tools employed. The firm has historically stored, manipulated, and analyzed healthcare data using SAS. However, SAS knowledge and expertise is NOT a prerequisite for this team. MPA’s leadership will support technologies and tools best suited to the work being performed.

== Skills & Requirements ==

* Experience in analyzing information, software algorithm design, software design, software debugging, software development fundamentals, software documentation, and software testing

* Demonstrated experience translating business needs and requests into functioning software

* Ability to grasp broad concepts, an acute attention to detail, and the capacity to translate between the two

* Ability to meet deadlines, work within project timeframes, and to quickly adapt to changing business needs

* Strong verbal and written communication skills and organizational skills

* Excellent problem solving skills

* Comfort with and capacity to work in a self-directed, unstructured environment

Experience with the following is strongly desirable but not required:

* Healthcare related database experience (e.g. Billing, claims, and registry data)

* Background in statistics, using and creating mathematical models and working with other analytics

== About MPA ==

Founded in 1988, MPA is a small, innovative healthcare consulting firm addressing the critical issues that currently dominate the national healthcare debate. The firm provides technical expertise on quality monitoring, quality improvement, and payment reform. Since its inception, MPA has served organizations nationwide in every segment of the healthcare industry, providing groundbreaking solutions that have helped establish our clients as industry leaders.

To apply, please send an email to hr at consultmpa dot com.

Silk [1] is looking for a Front-end Developer and a DevOps Engineer.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with information that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end [2]. Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.

For more info & open positions: https://jobs.silk.co/

[1] https://www.silk.co/

[2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.

ListRunner (www.listrunnerapp.com) brings project management to doctors in hospitals. It's hard to believe but doctors are still using paper and pager to manage their team and critical patient information. They're not even allowed to use email..

We're getting amazing traction - and excitement from doctors - and we are looking to expand the team with a few key people:

1) Backend developer: We use Mongo and Node. Lots of very cool challenge in building a robust and flexible API. Experience with real-time synchronization, AWS, security, offline apps and Angular.js is definitely a plus.

2) Product/UX designer: Building an app for doctors is a big UX challenge. They're extremely busy people and are used to have access to lots of information all the time.

3) UI Designer: Doctors are tired of those ugly 1980 computer systems still in use in hospitals. They want to work with the same kind of polished and beautiful apps that they've started using at home. We're looking to push the current healthcare design status quo to a new level.

4) ios and Android developers: We're looking for great ios/android developers with an eye for design who can take a leading role in implementing beautiful and snappy native apps.

5) Machine Learning / Data geek: Right now, 75% of critical patient information is trashed at the end of the day. That information is not going back in the EMR and is totally wasted. There are so many opportunities in helping finding better diagnosis, helping doctors be more efficient, helping the departments/hospitals save time and money, etc.

6) Front-end developer: We're looking for a great front-end developer/designer who love writing clean html/css code with an attention to details (We care about those pixels). Experience with Angular.js with an eye for design is definitely a plus.

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We're a multi-disciplinary team (Two doctors on the team) solving a massive healthcare challenge. Doctors love ListRunner and they can't wait to start using it every day. If you're looking for an opportunity to use your technical and design skill to solve a real, practical and meaningful problem, please reach out to us (contact@listrunnerapp.com or to me directly at phzbox@gmail).

https://heapanalytics.com/jobs

=== What's Heap? ===

Heap is taking a new approach to web and iOS analytics: just capture everything. Whereas other analytics tools require you to define events upfront, Heap lets you run instant, retroactive analytics without writing code.

=== The Role ===

Your creativity and intelligence are much more important to us than your experience with our stack. We're eager to meet all types of engineers, regardless of where you live or what tools you use day-to-day.

We’d like to get to know you if:

* You enjoy teaching yourself whatever is necessary to build something.

* You plow through obstacles.

* You’ve written 10,000 lines of code that look really embarrassing in retrospect.

* You’ve written 10,000 lines of good code since then.

* You communicate ideas with clarity and precision.

* You make decisions with a preference for empiricism and measurement.

* You like fruit, sunshine, and bad jokes.

Our stack is Node + Redis + Postgres + Backbone + D3. Some things we're working on:

* Data capture. We’re integrating with more clients and frameworks, including Android, AngularJS, and Backbone.js, all with virtually no performance overhead or integration cost.

* Real-time infrastructure. We support an expressive set of queries that allow our users to slice and dice the data in arbitrary ways. The results need to come back with sub-second latencies and reflect up-to-the-minute data.

* Data visualization. Simple pre-generated graphs just don't cut it. There's an enormous number of ways to organize the data. Existing tools only scratch the surface.

Heap was in Y Combinator’s W13 batch. Soon after, we raised a $2M seed round from Ron Conway, Ram Shriram, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, and others.

We work in SF but are absolutely open to remote engineers. Email us at jobs@heapanalytics.com with reasons as to why you'd make a great fit.