Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

TECHNICAL CO FOUNDER to Join Team: New York. NY

We are looking for a hacker co-founder determined to succeed. You will be competing with Amazon, eBay, and Google - combined. We are inventing the future of e-commerce like no one else and have unchartered, tough problems to solve with a product that is already live.

You will be working with a resourceful team. A relentless hustler with vast connections and who makes incredible things happen, often. A CS PhD who has built large amounts of cool tech, does things with programs that even Lisp does not - and yet still needs help from you in this particular venture.

You are well rounded and frighteningly capable generalist that can tackle anything from Web design and frontend development, to Python on the backend and iOS if need be. We do have a preference for someone fantastic with computer vision, information retrieval, and/or NLP/data-mining, but we wouldn't prefer that over a record of building and releasing cool stuff.

This is an incredible opportunity to be apart of a team that never stops learning, building and iterating to conquer our goals. If you think you are the right fit email laurenashley707@gmail.com with any information you believe best indicates your ability (links to projects, GitHub profile, code samples, resume) but more importantly what is the most impressive thing you have built?

Referly, a YC Summer 2012 company, is hiring a web developer. Details at http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/referly

This is a chance to get in early on a small, fast moving team that is building the next evolution of marketing and e-commerce.

If you're interested, send mail to me at kevin@refer.ly

Technical Co Founder to Join Team: New York. NY We are looking for a hacker co-founder determined to succeed. You will be competing with Amazon, eBay, and Google - combined. We are inventing the future of e-commerce like no one else and have unchartered, tough problems to solve with a product that is already live.

You will be working with a resourceful team. A relentless hustler with vast connections and who makes incredible things happen, often. A CS PhD who has built large amounts of cool tech, does things with programs that even Lisp does not - and yet still needs help from you in this particular venture.

You are well rounded and frighteningly capable generalist that can tackle anything from Web design and frontend development, to Python on the backend and iOS if need be. We do have a preference for someone fantastic with computer vision, information retrieval, and/or NLP/data-mining, but we wouldn't prefer that over a record of building and releasing cool stuff.

This is an incredible opportunity to be apart of a team that never stops learning, building and iterating to conquer our goals. If you think you are the right fit email laurenashley707@gmail.com with any information you believe best indicates your ability (links to projects, GitHub profile, code samples, resume) but more importantly what is the most impressive thing you have built?

Afar Media | Full Time | San Francisco

Afar Media is a collaborative travel guide as well as a printed travel magazine. I'm the lead engineer for a three-person team, and we're looking to add a front-end developer. We use Rails 3, Slim and all the attendant technologies (jQuery, CoffeeScript, drinking lots of coffee). Lately, we've been using Ember.js, which is awesome.

I'll paste below our official post, but let me say up front why I think this is a great job.

- We work reasonable hours and we're paid well for our time. (No nebulous promises of worthless equity for infinite hours at the desk.)

- We believe in travel so strongly that we pay you to do it. That is, each employee gets a yearly travel stipend and three weeks vacation to use it. The only caveat is it must be international travel and it must be to a city you've never visited before. (Note: this is an awesome caveat.)

- Live somewhere else in the US? Maybe we could work something out about working remotely transition into working in the office. (Maybe. Tell us what's up. I started working remotely from Chicago before moving to SF.)

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AFAR Media is a well-funded travel media start-up spanning print and web. We have big monitors, stand-up desks, and fancy new laptops. Your coworkers will be be developers, designers, project mangers, and (this is the cool part) magazine editors, meaning you'll work with a wider ranger of personalities than the standard developer scrum.

This job is ideal for someone who loves to travel for fun (the position does not require travel, but a fulfilling life does, and one of our great perks is a yearly travel stipend). No arbitrary requirements here, if you are an expert or a least have a hacking willingness to learn and have a good attitude, we want you. Our team is small, and all opinions are considered (and frankly, needed) from product design through delivery.

Check out our site: http://www.afar.com If you are interested, please send an email to jobs@afar.com, including relevant experience and work.

Google | Customer Solutions Engineer | Full time | Mountain View, CA

As a Customer Solutions Engineer, you will utilize both your technical aptitude and exemplary communication skills to drive business with Google's top-tier customers. You will work with our Sales, Sales Operations, Product Management, and Engineering teams to improve the online presence of our clients by providing technical solutions that include products such as the AdWords API and YouTube custom channels. You will develop value propositions, present business arguments, create proofs-of-concept, and evangelize Google technologies. You will interact frequently and closely with our customers on both technical and non-technical levels. The CSE role allows you to apply both your technical skills and business acumen in the fast-paced world of Google sales.

Requirements:

Minimum: BS degree in Computer Science or related major (In lieu of degree, 5 years of work experience in relevant field).

Minimum: Application development experience within the UNIX and/or Windows environments.

Minimum: 2 years coding experience in Java, Python, C++, or PHP

Minimum: 2 years technical background in Web technologies such as HTTP, HTML, XML, DNS, and TCP/IP.

Minimum: 2 years Technical sales or field sales experience, with strong business knowledge; sales engineering or professional consulting experience

Minimum: Excellent communication skills.

Preferred: MS degree in Computer Science or related major.

Preferred: 5+ years Technical sales or field sales experience, with strong business knowledge; sales engineering or professional consulting experience

*Preferred: Proven ability to adapt your message to the technical level of the audience and comfort presenting technical materials to large groups.

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/mountain-view/cli...