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

#181
Amplify - http://www.amplify.com/tablet - New York, NY

Amplify is re-imagining the way teachers teach and students learn. We enable teachers to manage whole classrooms and, at the same time, empower them to offer more personalized instruction, so that students become more active, engaged learners.

We build our products with Angular, Node, and Java (Android). Contact me directly at nhurst@amplify.com if you'd like to hear more.

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

#182
Work Market. Headquarters: NYC (Penn Station area) and second office in Huntington LI.

Growing like crazy. Looking for: DevOps, Java engineers, Test engineers, new grads.

Current openings: https://www.workmarket.com/jobs/#job-table-header

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Work Market is the leading enterprise-class platform for the management of contract and freelance talent. Businesses of all sizes use the Work Market platform to manage the complete lifecycle of their freelance talent, including the selection and engaging of contracted resources, the deployment and ongoing management of labor at scale and all associated payment and reporting processes. Our solution allows businesses to increase labor productivity and enhance work quality while dramatically reducing costs. To learn more visit www.workmarket.com.

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

#183
Chicago, IL - risk.io

Ruby Engineer We are a venture-backed startup in Chicago, and we are looking for smart engineers to join our team. This is an early-stage opportunity with a healthy amount of equity and the chance to have a significant impact on technical process and company culture. We’re looking for well-rounded engineers who are comfortable working throughout our entire stack.

This position is an opportunity for an engineer to take ownership of significant technical areas in a small, growing company. In particular, this position offers the chance to tackle complex analytical problems across a large data set in a tech-centric company.

https://www.risk.io/jobs/ruby-engineer

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

#184
Way2 Technology - Florianopolis, Brazil - relocation offered

We have two products that, combined, help Brazil's energy market to keep working and growing.

We are looking for awesome programmers to expand our dev team.

Our company is agile for real. We have dev teams that are open, creative and ship quality code. Our software enables Energy Companies to save resources, increase revenue and be a better electricity provider. We push the World forward creating the software required for a smarter and greener grid.

You will be part of a team of expert developers working with cutting edge .NET Technologies.

Tech stack: ASP.NET MVC 5 Oracle AWS Azure MongoDB Dataflow Library Asynchronous programming --------------------------------------------

Required: Being a passionate developer Desire to work in an agile environment (Scrum, XP, etc…) --------------------------------------------

Salary and Benefits: 13 salaries a year (in December, you get 1/12 extra for every month you've worked the year) + bonus food and commutation allowance 30 days of paid vacation + 33% extra pay that month awesome health insurance plan (including dental) budget for training, conferences and self-improvement best italian espresso of the town Fast i7 notebook with 16GB RAM and 256G SSD Flexible working hours --------------------------------------------

for lots more information about the city, the job and the company: http://www.andrecarlucci.com/way2/we-are-looking-for-smart-d...

apply: http://tinyurl.com/way2rocks

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

#185
EnergyHub, Brooklyn, NY

We build a IoT platform for connected thermostats. Together, our partners have already sold over 100,000 EnergyHub-powered devices, and soon we will be managing 1 million devices.

Our easy-to-use web/mobile apps help people save money by, for example: figuring out the most efficient time to run your heat or AC; using geofencing to turn things down when you're not home; and providing customized tips to help guide your decisions. We also run critical parts of the Smart Grid by linking our thermostat customers to Demand Response programs in the US and Canada.

You will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of the software: web and mobile applications, the distributed back end system including the communication layer to connected thermostats, analytics that drive efficiency, and the tools that we use. We use modern tools, and we're open to trying out new technologies, languages, and ideas.

To apply, please send your resume and a brief note about why you're interested in EnergyHub to josh at energyhub.net.

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

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Top Hat - tophat.com - Toronto, Ontario Top Hat is hiring for a few roles on our Enginering team: mobile dev, team lead (iOS, Android), devops (rabbitmq, ec2, MySQL), full stack web developer (python, django, javascript, nodejs.) We also hire interns so please feel free to apply for that as well. We're a profitable (and valley VC funded by some of the best funds in the valley) education startup that is changing the f…

Enjoy daily street fighter showdowns?

Enjoy hacking on the important stuff?

Enjoy autonomy, being challenged every day, and collaborating with brilliant teammates?

If so... join Top Hat! It's great :)

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

#187
Locus Energy: http://locusenergy.com/

San Francisco, CA

About us: We’re dedicated to the proliferation of sustainable energy solutions. To that end, we build software to monitor, analyze and manage the performance of tens of thousands of solar power systems. We’re a mature startup with a close-knit team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Our organization provides some structure while still leaving plenty of opportunities to make your mark. We’re not perfect but constantly improving. We value folks who offer a new perspective and play nicely with others.

About you: You’re passionate about sustainable energy and want to play a part of pushing our society in that direction. Nothing would excite you more than wedding your engineering prowess with your dreams of clean, green energy. You write a failing test before fixing a bug. You are thoughtful, curious and ask questions when you don’t understand. You take ownership of your responsibilities and see them through to the entire development lifecycle from design to maintenance.

Perks:

- Conveniently located in downtown SF, a few minutes' walk from Montgomery St station

- Relaxed work atmosphere. Flexible working hours and work from home policies.

- Health insurance, 401k

- Fruit, snacks. Bagels and lunch each provided 1x a week.

To apply, please contact hr_tech@locusenergy.com

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Senior Front End Engineer

Responsibilities:

- Design and build dynamic end-user interfaces (including data visualization), using Javascript, CSS & HTML

- Be a key part of the software development process, designing scalable front end systems, and working together with an existing development team

- Provide input on emerging software technologies that the company could incorporate into the overall plan

Skills:

- Expertise in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and general web technologies

- Expert in client-side JavaScript frameworks, especially Angular, Backbone and/or Ember

- Experience with RESTful APIs

- Knowledge of current W3C standards

- Having a github or bitbucket account available for review is a plus

- Nice to have

-- Experience working with server-side technologies (e.g., Spring MVC, Django)

-- JavaScript unit testing experience

-- Knowledge of JavaScript engine internals and/or performance tuning

-- Experience with SASS or LESS

-- UI/UX design and experience

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Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

- Design and build infrastructure software to manage and process energy data and support front-end interfaces

- Be a key part of the software development process, designing scalable systems, designing/testing security measures, and working together with an existing development team

- Provide input on emerging software technologies that the company could incorporate into the overall plan

Skills:

- Solid development skills, particularly related to Java, Scala, Python and/or SQL

- Experience working on high-availability, large-scale data systems

- Proven deep expertise in a java or scala library (e.g., author, framework committer, etc.) a plus

- Having a github or bitbucket account available for review is a plus

- Experience with RESTful APIs

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Solar Data Engineer / Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

- Develop new solar analysis algorithms and visualizations using R

- Become a subject matter expert with respect to solar energy production

- Conduct independent and team investigation into analysis problems, and develop automated analytic solutions

Skills:

- Graduate-level engineering or statistics degree

- Experience writing code in an environment with source control and code reviews

- Excellent communication skills

- Nice to have expertise

-- Experience mining big data sets

-- Understanding of electric power concepts

-- Experience working with solar power

-- Smart-meter or smart-grid experience

-- Experience writing R code and SQL queries

To apply, please contact hr_tech@locusenergy.com

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

#188
Help Scout - Java engineer - [REMOTE or LOCAL] Headquarters: Boston | http://www.helpscout.net

Help Scout is a help desk that is completely transparent to customers yet highly useful for teams that utilize it. It works by parsing all incoming customer emails and provides a consolidated mailbox view allowing multiple users in the backend to interact with customers, assign to other team members and a whole host of other features such as statistical reports, automated workflows and integrated 3rd party services.

I work as one of the Java programmers at Help Scout alongside 7 other senior programmers. It's a great company to work for, everyone is really passionate about what we are offering to our customers and code quality. The majority of the engineering team work remotely and are based in the US (except myself in Barcelona). We communicate 90% of the time via Slack and the position really allows you to 'own' your area of expertise, no long meetings, fast development and above all you are trusted to make the right decisions.

If any of that interests you then you can apply here: http://help-scout.workable.com/jobs/24579 or read more about the company here: http://www.helpscout.net/about/

Feel free to reach out to me on this thread or via my work email owen@helpscout.com if you have any questions about the role!

Technologies we use: - Java 7 and 8 - Play framework - MySQL, MongoDB. Solr - RabbitMQ

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

#189
HALL Real-time chat & texting for business teams. https://hall.com/careers

San Francisco, CA (local) VISAs OK

Hiring locally for a Node.js Engineer.

https://hall.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0rx1

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Transforming the way companies communicate.

Why work at Hall?

Work on a product you'll be actively using every day We use node.js, rails, redis, mongoDB, capistrano, chef and EC2

We're a design & data-driven organization.

Recently raised a $5.5m series-A when the company was just 2 people led by the early investors in Mint.com, Google and Box - Felicis, PivotNorth, Founder Collective and AngelPad.

Located in SOMA, San Francisco near 4th and Bryant. Just a 5 minute walk from Caltrain.

Hall's CEO & founder Brett Hellman joined his first startup at 14, and also spent time building new products at Yahoo & Intuit.

Hall's CTO & co-founder Ron Adams, previous led the engineer team at Yahoo! Sports.

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PERKS: Be a part of a world-class team, love what you do and have a huge impact!

Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and 27" monitor

Generous equity grants

Weekly company-wide happy hours

Medical insurance with very low co-pay and deductible. HMO, PPO, and HSA options available

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

https://hall.com/careers

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

#190
BabyList - Downtown Oakland, CA (2 blocks from 12th Street BART)

BabyList (http://babyli.st) makes having your first baby less overwhelming, more creative and most importantly more delightful. We have a large and rapidly growing user base of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. The baby industry is massive and ripe for disruption. Our core product is an easy to use registry that let’s parents-to-be add anything they can find on the internet. Our users LOVE this product. We just launched a complementary product Little List (http://littlelistapp.com).

>> Senior Front-end developer:

We're looking for a senior developer to lead the development of our website. You know how to create great user experiences on the web using client-side code/frameworks and css. You will work with our designer and backend developer to add new features to BabyList and build brand new products from scratch. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and CoffeeScript/Javascript/jQuery. We're looking for someone who has a lot of coding experience and expert-level fluency in at least one programming language (you don't have to be great at Ruby right now).

We're offering meaningful equity, a competitive salary, benefits, and relocation expenses.

If you’d like to find out more, email me at natalie@babyli.st

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