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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

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

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Toronto, Canada (King St. W.) - Django Developer - http://shopcastr.com Shopcastr is a social marketplace for independent retailers and local shoppers. We’re backed by Mantella Venture Partners and are seeing great early traction. We have a solid team so far and need someone to help make up the foundation of the company as we grow. We’re looking for a developer with some Python and Django chops who isn’t afraid to pick up new skills when needed (we use CoffeeScript and SASS, for example). We’re looking for someone self-taught, though we won’t hold it against you if you’ve also been to school. Email us at aron@shopcastr.com with whatever you think we need to see before following up with you.

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

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Dublin - Full time - Ruby On Rails Developer & Lead Developer

We're a young and dynamic startup and are looking for a talented developer capable of delivering large scale/high traffic webapps.

The developer will lead and play a critical role in the growth of the systems.

We're looking for:

+ 3/4+ Years Ruby/Ruby on Rails development + Strong OO / Design patterns / refactoring skills + Proficient in Javascript Prototype/jQuery + Ability to scale high traffic web applications + HTML/CSS design from scratch + Good database design skills, SQL/MySQL + Ajax / Memcached + Git/GitHub – source code version control + TDD/BDD with Rails/Rspec/Cucumber + Experience with queuing systems, NoSQL databases, advanced caching & key-value storage engines

Required skills:

+ Self starter & self motivated – keeps up with the latest trends & technologies + Experience in designing/maintaining Rails applications in production + Ability to be pragmatic and implement the right solution according to the business requirements / deliver within agreed timescales + Ability to lead a team and manage/mentor junior developers

Why is Homestays.com a great place to work for:

We’re a young, well funded, startup and we just started growing. It’s a great environment with a friendly and supportive team, and this is an opportunity to join the team very early, so you get to contribute to the success of the company and shape how the technology stack will grow.

It’s an environment in which developers can do their best without the burden of heavy processes or hierarchies. You’ll get to work closely with the investors and the business side of the company to put you in the position to deliver the best code and architecture possible.

The Ideal Candidate:

+ Is passionate about clean, concise code that is readable and easy to maintain. + Has designed and developed his own projects or products and understands what it takes to bring a product to life. + Has a great GitHub profile – proven track record + Has extensive experience with non relational databases (couchdb/mongodb), queuing systems, key-value storage engines (Redis/Riak) + Can program in different languages + Is entrepreneurial & excited to make things happen quickly + Has a strong work ethic. We’re a small team and you will be expected to work hard. + Is a nice person, easy to work with

How to apply:

Send an email to jobs@homestays.com

Include a resume, and links to any projects (personal or commercial) and link to your github account & personal blog if you have one.

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

#194
Tribeca, New York City - Frontend/PHP Developer for The Daily Voice

We're looking for someone that's passionate about HTML/CSS/JS to join our technology team and help us publish local news for our growing audience.

Important:

  HTML / CSS - semantic, crossbrowser and crossdevice markup
  JS - jQuery
  PHP - 5.3+
  SQL
  Git or other source control

Nice to have:

  Drupal (API and/or module development experience, for 6 or 7)
  SASS or LESS experience
  JS Lint
  Objective C
  Unit Testing
  Profiling code
  A/B or Multivariate Testing

Interested?

  Send your résumé and/or github links
  Recommend a book
  Tell us about a cool project

Get in touch: travis@dailyvoice.com

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

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Los Angeles, CA - Full time TrueCar is changing the way people buy and sell cars. We are well funded, earning revenue and growing. Most of our code is in Python, Java and Javascript. We have a great work environment and some great problems to solve. I love it here. We have several openings right now. If one sounds like it might be a fit, shoot me an email (address is in my profile) * Senior Manager of Search Engine M…

Is there an option to telecommute full or part time? I moved back to OC after living in Santa Monica and working at business.com for a year and a half. I don't want to move back or drive on the 405 every day.

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

#196
Boulder, CO - Full Time - http://markitondemand.com/

Markit On Demand

Markit On Demand is a design driven technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. We’re part of Markit, a global financial information company that’s headquartered in London. Here in Boulder, where the sun shines 300 days a year, we have a team of 400+ professionals dedicated to the presentation of financial content and data for our clients in the Financial Services, Media and Healthcare industries. On any given day, you might work with a colleague in New York, a retail brokerage in the US, a newspaper in Germany, a bank in Africa, or throw ideas around with an economist in our London office. And that’s before you meet up with co-workers for a foothills hike or a brewery happy hour tour.

We're looking for developers and engineers up and down the stack at all levels.

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

#197
Full-Stack Web Developer / Boulder, CO

Pellucid Analytics is looking for several full-stack web developers in Boulder to work with us on building our quantitative finance application. We're a JVM/Java/Scala shop, and you'll have the opportunity to work with the full TypeSafe Stack, focused mainly on The Play Framework, building both a standard browser based application as well as a mobile application for the iPad. We're an Agile/Lean shop, which means we're dedicated to lean principles throughout the company as a whole - there will be no struggle trying to sell these principles to management. Also if you've taken any of the advanced computer science courses through Stanford, like Machine Learning or Probabilistic Graphical Models, and you're interested in seeing how those are applied to the financial world, Pellucid Analytics is for you.

To give you a better idea of what you'll be working on, we're a quantitative financial analytics company called Pellucid Analytics. Our product is going to make it easy for a team of investment bankers to pull together a massive number of analytics and visualizations from our quantitative analysis, focused on either a specific company or industry, and arrange the data and visualizations into a presentation that fits the story they are trying to tell. Our clients engage with a different Fortune 500 company every day of the week where a different analytics presentation is needed. These presentations are put together by a small team and can be as large as 100 pages long, so the ease with which our analysis can be put together is our highest priority.

Experience Requirements * 5+ years of JVM Development * A Desire to learn Scala and other JVM languages * 5+ years of Linux use * 5+ years of web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) * Experience with many varieties of databases, i.e. relational, non-relational, column-oriented, graph-based * Experience with git (our ideal candidate makes frequent, small commits) * Experience working with Amazon Web Services * Experience working with wireframes and comps

Experience Pluses * Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field * Experience with Scala * Experience with the TypeSafe Stack * Experience with the Play Framework * Experience working with continuous deployment * Finance Experience

Please respond with a resume and links to previous work to jobs at pellucid dot com

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

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Chicago, IL - Braintree - FULL TIME Developers

Braintree helps businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage. We're unlike others in the industry; we think and do things differently.

Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, scaling, security), and our devs have 10% time to work on whatever they want. Developers use and love our product. Although we mostly work with Ruby, we also work with Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, .NET, Perl, and Objective-C

More about our people, practices, and software: http://www.braintreepayments.com/devblog

Apply at http://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-careers .

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

#199
Evanston, IL

Junior Python Test Engineer at Leapfrog Online

We're the leading independent digital direct marketing firm in the country, developing programs for Fortune 500 marketers to find and convert the right customers. We build complex app ecosystems with frameworks like Django and Rails sitting on top, with a mound of open source software supporting them.

We're looking for a junior-level Python Developer to join our Test Engineering team, writing functional, integration, and unit tests in Python for our Django-powered business platform. As part of the Operations team, we also do light system administration and help write monitoring tools.

Requirements: an intense attention to detail, a love of learning, a passion for problem-solving, and a good attitude and sense of responsibility. You should also have experience with Python (or be willing to transition from another dynamic language like Ruby or PHP); be comfortable working on a *nix command line; and have general knowledge about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Experience with mobile device testing is a plus.

We're committed to agile and open source; we use packages like mechanize, twill, Selenium (including Selenium Grid), and nose every day.

Interested? If so, we offer a competitive salary plus an incentive and benefits package, and a close-knit team who likes what they do and has fun doing it. If you think you're a good fit for this position, apply with your resume and salary history. kboers (at) leapfrogonline.com

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

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Toronto, Canada (King St. W.) - Django Developer - http://shopcastr.com Shopcastr is a social marketplace for independent retailers and local shoppers. We’re backed by Mantella Venture Partners and are seeing great early traction. We have a solid team so far and need someone to help make up the foundation of the company as we grow. We’re looking for a developer with some Python and Django chops who isn’t afraid to pi…

I'm curious why people are down-voting this. If people think that they are a bad place to work, etc, it's more useful to others to say so (even with a throw-away account), than to just down-vote the posting.
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