Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products available.

We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing digital platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.

NGP VAN has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for seven years in a row, and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. We are a successful and growing company with a passion for our employees’ career advancement. We are an open-minded, flexible workplace that values learning and contributions of many different kinds.

Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

We are open to interviewing across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.

We're a four-person company with a music-related site that's loved by tens of thousands of real people and visited millions of times a month. We've dominated our niche since 2005. When you see it, you'll think: ah, that's both cool and useful.

The site is built on PHP 5.6 / Kohana, MySQL, and jQuery. 99% of the code was written in-house and is clean, modular, built on a sane schema, and is easy to develop with minimal external dependencies. It's also really fast; we're near the top of the New Relic leaderboard for our category and in the 90th percentile of site speed according to Google. We take pride in what we built, and we're looking for someone who is proud of their work to continue what we've started.

We're seeking a developer who can spend approximately 20 hours a week working on discrete, meaningful projects on the site. We have more of these projects than we can count, so consider this a long term project where you'll have the chance to work on a wide variety of interesting stuff, based on your skills and interest.

Here are a few real example projects that are coming up: * Integrate some additional song providers alongside iTunes and Amazon using our song search job queue. * Create the concept of timestamping for our data, modifying a variety of model and view classes, as well as adding Bootstrap modal components and forms in our templates. * Add features to our REST API. * Create front-end features for admins and superusers using HTML and jQuery. * Make a real-time activity section on our front page based on activity data we keep in redis. * Add a redis caching layer on top of our models to reduce MySQL query volume. * Add artist @handles to our tweets. * Plus many more...

We manage projects using a private Github repository and task list. Our specifications are short and to the point. Your code will go live on the site as soon as it's ready -- no long release cycles.

Critically, you don't need design or sysadmin skill to work on this project. At all. We expect you to generate good HTML structure but if you never touch our CSS or fiddle with images, that's fine by us. Same goes for setting up servers, patching PHP, etc. We've got that all covered.

The ideal candidate will be able to show us what they've done using the technologies listed above. Experience with Laraval (likely future framework) and/or Kohana ideal, but not required. Honesty and strong communication skills are critical. Comfort with Github, pull requests, and the git toolchain generally is important -- we'll ask for your Github username when we consider your application. We'll give you all the support you need, but expect you to dive in and own large parts of our application.

Interested? Email amanda@tunefind.com

Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata (http://www.omniata.com) integrates analytics, CRM, user engagement and A/B testing platforms into one solution. The company is well funded (http://www.creandum.com/why-creandum-invested-omniata/) & headquartered in SF. The bulk of R&D will be done in the Helsinki office which at the moment only has a small team, so this is a great opportunity to get in early and grow with the company.

As a Java backend engineer you’ll be part of the team responsible for code handling millions of events each day. You will also get the opportunity to work on a greenfield project and build the next generation of our backend infrastructure from the ground up. This work will involve analyzing the existing architecture, its load patterns and bottlenecks. Together with other team members, you will use this data to spec up and implement the new architecture.

To apply, drop a one line email with a link to your LinkedIn and GitHub profile to careers-hl@omniata.com.

If you're not interested in doing Java, but are interested in Helsinki as a place to move to, I'd be happy to introduce you to other startups I know in the area. Here's a video to give you an idea as to what it's like around here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7PDE7Xbds

We're seeking a Rails developer with a keen interest in both technical challenges and business opportunity. We work at a scale where seemingly "small" improvements can have a big impact.

We do online display advertising, and run 50 to 100 million impressions each day. Our total transaction volume is between 5 and 10 billion per day.

As you might have guessed, we're not serving that volume through Rails itself. Our Rails app is used to administer hundreds of advertising campaigns across hundreds of publisher sites.

This role is a great way to learn advertising tech as well as other tools.

In addition to the conventional Rails work, you'd get hands on experience with Redis, Hbase, PostgreSQL, and Scala. Several on the team started in the Rails app and have moved into other areas of interest (low-latency RTB bidder written in C or sophisticated reporting and optimization). Not really possible to get bored around here unless you're a boring person.

Our team is sharp and works well together. We enjoy perks such as paid lunch, a 9/80 schedule (to get every other Friday off) and unlimited vacation; the culture of our team recognizes and respects the importance of your non-work life. Also, Ventura county is a pretty nice place to live/work. Unless you prefer to start with a HR-oriented chat, you can reach me (a lead engineer on the team) at david.larsen@connexity.com.