Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

San Francisco, CA - Designers Wanted at Locu (http://locu.com)

Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We have recently launched Locu " rel="nofollow">http://locu.com>, our first product, which helps restaurants better manage their online presence.

We're creating powerful design tools that let local merchants better connect with their consumers. We're looking for world-class visual designers and user experience designers who are excited to redefine what a menu looks and feels like across web and print, and create tools that put modern web technology in the hands of merchants.

Guidelines (requirements is such a strong word):

  Exceptional visual and/or interaction design talent - please include
  a link to portfolio.
  (Intern candidates may link to individual samples of their work
  instead of a portfolio.)
  
  Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, or the ability to learn
  quickly (Omnigraffle or Fireworks a plus)
  
  Expertise in HTML / CSS and Javascript/jQuery, or the ability to learn quickly
  
  Excellent written and verbal skills - not afraid to debate and
  discuss design decisions
  
  Experience with any of the following a plus: wire-framing,
  prototyping, analytics, user research, asset creation, product
  management, branding.

Special note for Generalist Designers and Desingineers

  We know you like to strike your own unique balance. So don't sweat the reqs and just 
  show us what you've got.
  We want you to be able to do what you love, the way you're best able to do it. :)
  

Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@locu.com. Please specify "Designer - HN", in the subject of your letter. Learn more about us at http://locu.com/about/jobs/

PS: Like most startups, we're always on the lookout for exceptional talent of all sorts. So if you feel you're a particularly strong fit for what we do or how we do it, check out our other descriptions at http://locu.com/jobs/.

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Founded a year ago by MIT graduates and researchers, Locu (http://www.locu.com/) has the backing and support of some of the best investors in the country. We are looking for more exceptional talent to join our team and help us achieve our vision. We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology giant with a fun and challenging work environment. We have a culture optimized for learning and continuous improvement. We are 19 people with very diverse backgrounds, and growing.

WebAction (http://www.WebAction.com) - Full time or intern. Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto).

Seeking Front-end Engineers and Platform Engineers. WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between big data and transaction data. We have our initial funding and we are now building out our core engineering team. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today. We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

Front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and should be experienced or at least interested in using visualization libraries like d3.js. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus (not required). Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.

For the Platform Engineer position, you should have experience or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested, email us at jobs@webaction.com. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.

Seattle, WA

Familiar

Familiar turns your many devices into social picture frames. More at http://familiar.com/ We're hiring software engineers who like building user facing products. We use a wide variety of technologies from CoffeeScript to Objective-C, so lots of opportunity to learn something new. If you're interested in hearing more about what we're up to, my e-mail is mike [at] familiar-inc.com

http://familiar.com/blog/2012/09/familiar-announces-20mm-mon... gives some background on our recent growth, product, and investors.

Philadelphia, PA, NY or DC - Sr. Technical Engineer at PipelineDeals

About PipelineDeals

Our team has been developing, delivering, and zealously supporting the PipelineDeals CRM solution for over six years.

We’re passionate about creating software that people want to use and share. We love what we do, and we want our customers to love us for helping them close more deals and rule the world.

We are looking to hire a Sr. Technical Engineer for our flagship product and future products. We’re interested in people who like to make a difference and will thrive in our culture, which revolves around our customers.

You will help create an overall user experience where every pixel counts, user feedback is instantaneous, performance is blazing fast, scaling is automated and downtime a very rare event.

What we are looking for:

- Software engineering chops - you value how code is written and enjoy teaching design patterns and coding techniques to others.

- Significant experience designing, developing and delivering web applications/services.

- Demonstrated success working with cloud-based infrastructure services.

- Ability to manage technical operations / devops.

- Experience utilizing agile methodologies.

- Strong application framework experience as well as extensive experience with a SQL backend.

- Fluent in Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and experience with Rails upgrade paths.

- Fluent in javascript based frameworks such as backbone.js and / or ember.js.

- Great communicator at all levels of the organization.

- Strategic thinker and detail oriented.

Responsibilities

* Design, develop and architect technical solutions to support product enhancements and new products.

* Own the development methodology and delivery of our product.

* Drive error free deployments.

* Perform rapid bug-fixing.

* Obsess about page load times and application snappiness and speed.

* Manage and maintain our infrastructure and technical operations.

* Manage and test regular backup and disaster recovery processes and procedures.

* Coordinate and perform regular security testing.

* Perform capacity planning and manage our infrastructure costs.

* Set technical direction and software architecture with input/planning from engineering team.

* Perform root cause analysis.

Location

* Ideally, you will be based in the Philadelphia or the surrounding areas.

* We will also consider candidates New York, or Washington D.C.

* Remote work situation also possible but not preferred.

Interested? Please contact nick@pipelinedealsco.com.

Munich, Germany - remote and relocation help possible

LaterPay GmbH

We are building a payment API to make it easy to charge for digital content, from news articles to stock photography to games. Currently we are working with some of the largest publishers in Germany, focusing on online magazine content, and shortly enabling micropayment based transactions.

We are a small team looking for problem solvers and generalists who can debug a puppet manifest one day, prevent obscure XSS attacks the next, and optimise some Django ORM calls in between.

We use python, and so proficiency in python and especially Django is a big plus as this is the majority of the day to day job. But we're open to anyone who gets stuff done, to use what is by now probably a cliche!

Email me at cc-jobs@laterpay.net with a resume or a bunch of cool stuff you can show us (GitHub profile for example)