Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Precision Nutrition - Toronto, ON / Anywhere (REMOTE) - http://precisionnutrition.com

AWESOME QA SPECIALIST NEEDED!

Obsessed with small details? Do misplaced pixels and obscure edge cases keep you up at night? We need a meticulous QA specialist to join our team and help us continue to build groundbreaking fitness and nutrition coaching software.

Our Ideal Candidate:

  Has real professional experience implementing and especially running an ongoing 
  Agile-friendly QA process. This can’t be your first rodeo.

  Lives within driving distance of Toronto or is at least willing to travel 
  to Toronto once a month for 2 days at a time (for in-person sprint meetings).

  Has experience developing automated QA testing processes from scratch. Knowledge 
  of automated testing frameworks and tools is a major asset. You should be 
  comfortable with both manual and automated testing.

  Enjoys working across teams, departments to get the best outcome, even when 
  the questions are outside of your comfort zone. No "that's not in my job 
  description" types.  Our entire team contributes to every element of the 
  product development process.

  Is capable of working independently. There will be no other dedicated QA people 
  at first, but you’ll get help from the team.

  Has integrity, talent and a palpable excitement about the future. Shadiness, 
  mediocrity and pessimism/cynicism/excessive "constructive criticism" are out.

  Is excited about the possibility of helping people with their health and 
  well-being, and long-term, piloting an entirely new form of education.
  

Interested? Apply with your resume here: https://app.hirefully.com/main/191/apply/?includeDescription...

At Precision Nutrition our mission is Life-changing, research-driven nutrition coaching for everyone. We’re interested in hearing from enthusiastic candidates who want to make a difference in other people’s lives – and who have the skills and dedication to do that.

Keep in mind, at Precision Nutrition we:

  * Pay in the top 10% in the world for each position.
  * Offer 4 weeks paid vacation, full benefits, and the ability to work remotely.
  * Set you up with whatever fancy gear you need to perform at your best.
  * Offer a full health benefits package.
  * Give you the flexibility to make your own schedule.
  

Not only that, but if you join us you can:

  * Work from anywhere. If you’re in Toronto, our hometown, great! 
    If not, no worries. Many people on our team work exclusively from home, 
    from all over the world.
  * Work in the fitness and nutrition industry. 
We love exercise, 
    we love nutrition, and we love sport. That’s why we started this company. 
    If you do too, you’ll appreciate how rare it is to do a job you really love. 
    For active, fit people, Precision Nutrition is that opportunity.
  * Work with fun, bright, and talented people. We’re a small company, and 
    we’re picky about who we work with, because to us, this isn’t just a job – 
    it’s our life. Over time, and with careful selection, we’ve put together 
    a group of extremely talented, flexible, and positive people who truly 
    love what they do, and who appreciate the strengths their teammates bring. 
    It's an incredibly creative environment.

Read more about how we work at: http://www.precisionnutrition.com/remote-how-to-work-the-pn-...

We're also looking for coaches and an HR Director. Check our other postings here: http://www.precisionnutrition.com/contact#employ

HIRING! Full time / NORTHERN VA/DC METRO Ruby on Rails Web Developer www.customink.com/careers We're expanding the technology team that delivers the core functionality for our leading design-online eCommerce Web site. Millions of CustomInk customers interact with our eCommerce technology, and our goal is to make each of those interactions a positive one.

Our engineering team works proactively to solve challenges associated with a growing, high-volume, consumer facing Web application. In this role, you will have ownership of critical functionality related to the CustomInk platform, and work collaboratively on continuous innovation to ensure we deliver an optimal Web experience for our customers. This is an ideal position for someone who enjoys the rhythm of agile, test-driven development cycles and the rewards that come with delivering technology that has instant impact on a growing business.

New York / London - Bloomberg

http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/ux

There are many jobs open at Bloomberg, but I'm particularly looking for intelligent software engineers and UX professionals to work under the CTO and Infrastructure team in R&D. We have roughly 4,000 R&D employees, so work is very diverse across the company. Teams are roughly 4-8 people at the lowest level and group up into larger organizations organized by product type (equities, fixed income, etc.). I happen to work on infrastructure for the Professional service (aka Terminal). Our team has very little interaction with anything finance related and most of our work is related to evolving the entire platform forward and making forward-looking changes. Back in 2005, we converted all of our higher-level "app" development to server-side JS (custom, Spidermonkey based) and now run probably the largest server-side JS stack in the world (~20MM LOC). We migrated a lot of our GUI toolkit to be scripted as well (LUA this time) to allow us to more easily evolve it. And now we're evolving it, embedding WebKit and pushing bugfixes and feature enhancements to do what we need (our fork is on GH). We're helping define and implement CSS3 Grid spec and help implement ES6 generators among other things. We built and run a third-party app store within the Terminal. Over the past decade we've rebuilt the C++ foundation of the company from the ground up, starting with our own STL implementation using the Lakos allocator model (Lakos and a few other C++ committee members work here). We have a huge wealth of awesome C++ libraries that we started open-sourcing and will continue to add more layers as time goes by.

All of what I mentioned above is stuff done by the infrastructure team, and we're a tiny percentage of the overall R&D population. Other teams get to do fun stuff as well. The mortgage team ported long-running ABS OAS calculations from Linux farms to GPU clusters and wrote a Python based cash flow engine from the ground up, potentially helping define the SEC's Python-files-must-be-included rules.

We run a worldwide network with somewhere around 35,000 circuits in 180+ countries. We ingest anywhere from 45-60 billion "ticks" daily aggregate from feeds in all of these countries. We normalize, scrub, and then re-distribute all this data to customers in all of those countries in an efficient manner. The Terminal provides analytic and visualization tools to work with market data, as well as the same tools to work with news and alerts. On the news side, we ingest over 80,000 news feeds (e.g. WSJ would be one "feed") from around the world and do the same kind of processing, applying ML for sentiment and topic classification, etc. We also design our own hardware in-house -- everything from keyboards and monitors, to custom ASICs for authentication/subscription tokens and PCIe hardware security modules for our certificate infrastructure. The web side (bloomberg.com, businessweek.com, BGOV, BLAW, Black, etc) uses mostly Rails stacks and everything you would expect to find in a web shop.

Oh, and we have a TV station, radio station, etc. They innovate too. Bloomberg TV is the first non-OTA channel to be distributed via Aereo, for instance :)

We could use a motto like "We do a lot of stuff."

Contact me if you want to discuss at andrew@ishiboo.com. If you want to chat in person, we are a sustaining sponsor of NYTM and are at all the meetups. I'll be sponsoring / attending RobotsConf in December, too.

Web Application Developer for Marvel Entertainment - NYC

http://marvel.com

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Marvel Entertainment is seeking a talented Web application developer.

At Marvel you will work with a top-notch development team building the engine which powers Marvel’s successful online businesses. You will work closely with a creative and canny product team on Web and mobile products used by millions of users a month. You will give technical input during product design and aid other developers in adopting new technologies and methodologies. You will help implement innovative, cool solutions which excite both long-time Marvel fans and new users alike.

Developers at Marvel tackle problems like:

+ Creating fast, responsive web sites and apps which entice long-time Marvel fans and new users alike

+ Building and maintaining a digital comics subscription product that advances industry-leading storytelling and marketing innovations + Creating a recommendations algorithm for comic readers that mines semantic and transaction data for user preferences + finding innovative ways to visualize and explore one of the richest IP and metadata sets you’ll ever work with (like this: http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/post/30536120271/marve...)

The successful candidate will have a specialty in server-side Web development but will be comfortable learning and diving into any part of the technology stack. They will enjoy working with both non-technical and technical resources in a highly collaborative environment. They will use their knowledge of Marvel’s and the Web’s technical capabilities to drive product development.

Responsibilities:

+ Development and implementation of desktop and mobile Web applications using PHP and MVC frameworks in a LAMP environment.

+ Work with traditional software lifecycle methodologies. Create design documents when and as required. Perform coding, debugging and testing.

+ Participate in design brainstorming sessions, technical design reviews, formal code reviews, bug triage, and functional walkthroughs.

Qualifications:

We are a LAMP shop, but look for team members who share the conviction that programming is our discipline and languages are details. Nobody here has ever written code in only one language. Having said that, we’re looking for:

+ 3+ years hands-on experience with server-side Web and MVC development

+ 3+ years hands-on experience with SOAP, REST and XML-RPC Web services

+ Demonstrated experience working on high-traffic properties

+ Strong sense of ownership and urgency

+ Ability to juggle multiple projects, set priorities and meet deadlines

+ Critical thinking skills and a high attention to detail

Working at Marvel:

Why do you want to work for Marvel?

+ Full package of benefits including health insurance, 401k, park admission, and all other benefits, provided by The Walt Disney Corporation.

+ The Marvel brand represents action and innovation around the world. You’d work where the best and most successful movies, comics, and TV shows are created.

+ We believe in supporting the professional and technical development of our people.

+ + In the past year, members of the team have been sent to Google I/O, WWDC, Edge Conference, and Lucene/Solr Revolution

+ + We have presented at local NYC coding meetups

+ + We are running a “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” book club, just because it’s interesting to learn new coding paradigms

+ + We have had visitors give talks on topics including: golang.org, Google Glass, OO theory, and the production process for print and digital comics

+ We respect and welcome people of all genders, cultures, faiths, and orientations. Diversity = strength.

Reach out to pdegnan@marvel.com or @pauldegnan if you're interested!