Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

Full Stack Python/Django Developer // Tripnary // Chicago, IL (Locals ONLY)

jobs@tripnary.com

=== About Tripnary ===

Tripnary is a seed-funded, an early stage travel startup based in Chicago. We are focused on building a disruptive mobile app that helps travelers save and organize the places they want to see and be ready for their next vacation. Tripnary can be best described as Pinterest travel boards meets Kayak. We want to eliminate the clutter of spreadsheets, bookmarks, emails, etc. that are currently used to document travel plans and provide an easy way to collect all the places you find in one app so you can instantly compare airfares to all your favorite destinations simultaneously with one tap! We have a slick mobile app with a jaw-dropping design that blows away everyone who sees it. We work out of 1871, the coolest co-working space for the city’s digital startups.

=== About the role ===

Tripnary is seeking a highly motivated visionary with experience in building scalable servers to join the team. As a partner, you will

-- Collaborate with the founders to refine and execute on the Tripnary vision.

-- Spearhead end-to-end development and participate in planning, architecture, design and implementation of a beautiful and intuitive travel app.

-- Guide the product roadmap and help deliver features that provide maximum value to Tripnary’s users.

-- Be a team player with an open mind possessing confidence to make important product-related decisions.

=== What Tripnary offers ===

Tripnary promises a fun, energetic, and fast-paced startup environment and the opportunity to be an early member of a growing team of passionate and tight-knit group of young entrepreneurs with a vision. Because we are a startup, everyone on the team is fully involved on multiple levels. This allows you to gain a great deal of experience both within and beyond your specific area of expertise as everyone works cohesively to accomplish a greater goal. The founder brings over a decade of combined experience with software development and technology businesses delivering million-dollar software products. You will be coming into a very goal-oriented, technically grounded team. We promise exciting challenges, a broad range of experiences across a variety of projects and the chance to make a difference while working in a casual but fast-paced setting. Just remember to work hard and party harder (or in our case, travel farther — just make sure to bring back a fridge magnet from your adventures!).

=== What we are looking for ===

We are looking for people with:

-- Experience building web applications in Python/Django with either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB

-- Experience with RESTful web services (Google Maps, Foursquare, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.), JSON, XML, and SQL

-- Fluency with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX

-- Knowledge of at least one client-side app frameworks such as Backbone.js, AngularJS, or Ember.js, etc.

-- Keen eye for design with demonstrated background to show

-- Enjoy creating innovative implementations that push the platform to the limit

-- Passionate about delivering a delightful experience to users

-- Experience deploying and hosting applications on Amazon Web Services, Heroku, or other cloud environments

-- Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD)

-- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming including algorithms, data structures, and design patterns

-- Creative thinker with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills

-- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, fast learner with the ability to work in a team environment

-- Ability to wear many different hats

-- Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced startup environment We prefer people with:

-- Understanding of machine learning, Hadoop, and/or MapReduce

-- Passion and love for everything travel

-- Appreciation for design thinking

-- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science/engineering or related field

=== Compensation ===

We provide competitive packages with both a salary and generous equity. Compensation for this position will consist of a substantial company equity as we are looking for the right partner with an entrepreneurial mindset. This ensures that we all take ownership of Tripnary and have a vested personal interest in its success.

=== How to apply ===

If you are interested to be part of Tripnary please drop us an email with your resume at jobs@tripnary.com. Thanks a lot for your interest!

Note: This is NOT a remote position. All applicants MUST be able to work from our offices in Chicago.

Note 2: All applicants MUST be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Note 3: This posting is for principals ONLY. Please do NOT contact if you are a recruiter or a development agency.

https://www.futureadvisor.com - http://nyti.ms/X3N7r2

== Experienced infrastructure engineer, San Francisco ==

FutureAdvisor is an automated investment manager. We help our customers cut their investment fees, avoid excessive risks and save on taxes, so that they and their families will face better choices down the road.

We're seeking an infrastructure engineer. Your job will be to keep FutureAdvisor running smoothly. It might be deploying and maintaining server clusters on EC2, building tools to automate our deployment pipelines or designing and implementing a new piece of the request pipeline. Your job will be to make FutureAdvisor as fast and reliable as possible.

You might be a good fit if you have experience writing production code, but you'd rather be building out the running systems. You're security-conscious and detailed-oriented when it comes to provisioning servers and designing deployment processes. You have a strong desire to automate everything, but you know when introducing automation might be a bad idea. You're comfortable in Bash and Ruby.

As a FutureAdvisor infrastructure engineer you might work on improving our Chef cookbooks to make it easier for others to deploy services. You'll spend time identifying and eliminating likely reasons for FutureAdvisor to go down. You'll also work on building out more tools to manage and track our server cluster using AWS technologies like EC2, S3, OpsWorks, and VPC.

Skills you'll need: Experience working with AWS Experience provisioning and maintaining VPC instances on AWS Knowledge of service oriented infrastructure Knowledge of working with Linux and Bash scripts Experience with infrastructure management tools like Chef or Puppet Bonus Experience launching Ruby on Rails apps

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26316#.VHyoQ....

== interactive designer, San Francisco ==

You're seeking meaningful work solving problems in an organization that supports design.

FutureAdvisor distills the complexity of finance into a simple interface so that our customers can understand and grow their life savings. We're giving working- and middle-class households a powerful portfolio management tool that they never had access to, until now.

You've designed interactive apps for the web and mobile. We reach more than 150,000 users who depend on us to monitor their nest eggs. You're used to reasoning about the scope of various features' functionality, and how to implement them. You like imagining how touch targets, palette, patterns, information architecture and microcopy can make UX smooth.

You know that UX is more than just product. Every touch point, from marketing and sales to onboarding and support, are all part of the total experience we want to improve. We're looking for designers to work with our engineers and product managers to make sure that FutureAdvisor is delighting its customers from start to finish.

What we're looking for: Background in interactive design Portfolio of web and/or mobile apps Empathetic and practical individuals

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26309#.VHyou....

One of our offices: Shanghai, China

We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure.

We work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like http://devo.ps or http://octokan.com).

We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin and are looking at remote hiring in Spain and Seoul.

We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

We are looking for full-time or interns:

- Developers; front-end (HTML5 + Compass + AngularJS), backend (node.js, Python), ops (Python, Go).

- Designers; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML/CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content strategy, color theory, ...).

- Strategist; you can quickly immerse yourself in a new field of knowledge, have a knack for data and are quick at recognizing patterns. You are a jack-of-all-trades that can think a solution and get it shipped, either alone or with a team.

- Marketing; you have what it takes to grow a brand or product online and understand how to leverage online and offline tools to get there.

- Business Development; if you are in Washington DC, Berlin or Paris, understand enough of our space and would like to help us grow our services, shoot us an email.

Drop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to http://wiredcraft.com/careers.html

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full Time Looking for Full Stack Web Developers, Front End Developers, Back End Developers,

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ABOUT TINT

Tint's mission is to help organizations drive deeper relationships with their customers through social media. We are a group of 19 engineers and customer happiness heroes with a profitable, sustainable business and a great working environment.

When we started in January 2014, we made $101K. Last month, we made $390K.

Simply put, we have too many customers, and too few quick minds.

Join us on this incredible journey to become a market leader in the social media display and aggregation space. We have plenty of interesting engineering challenges to conquer and relationships to nurture with big brands with endless opportunity for personal growth along the way. Some of the tech we work with: MySQL, Redis, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Backbone.js

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DETAILS

• on the position: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

• on Tint company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on our incredible journey: http://www.tintup.com/blog/tint-year-in-review-2014/

• on our profit sharing: http://www.tintup.com/blog/restructuring-your-sales-commissi...

• on our startup role models: http://www.tintup.com/blog/startups-need-role-models-too/

• on a few of our customers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124773594@N04/sets/

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BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• Profit Sharing - We split 20% of all revenue made over payroll and fixed costs and distribute it among the team.

• Team Transparency - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• Personal Autonomy / Consensus Driven Culture - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions. From what features to build next to what furniture to buy for the office, we believe it's the fairest way of making decisions.

• Customer Driven Culture - We're very in-tune with our customers and they love us. For example, we decide what features to build based on surveys we send directly to customers. Check out this one ( http://bit.ly/1fc73kh ) that we sent out last year to decide what we would build this past quarter.

• Personal Development Stipend - A monthly stipend designed for self-improvement. Whether it's books, yoga classes, or a fitness tracker, we want our teammates to improve themselves.

• Catered Lunch Everyday - Yum!

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN