Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

East London, UK • ONSITE • Front-End Developer • POWSTER (http://www.powster.com)

We are looking for a cutting-edge Front-End Developer to join our creative studio, creating projects for all the major movie studios, and the major record labels and game companies.

===== our movie platform =====

Our movie platform gets 2.2 million visits a week and has 2 component parts, the all movie destination (http://movies.powster.com) and the individual movie pages i(Ant-Man / The Martian). You’ll be working on developing the platform further and taking it to the next level for the major movie studios.

===== our creative =====

You’ll also be creating work for bespoke innovative creative builds, these are idea generated from scratch for our clients and we’d love you to be part of the process. They range from interactive music videos which we shoot and produce in house, to projecting tweets on the houses of parliament. We like to think that anything is possible when pitching, if we haven’t done before we’ll pull together, work it out and make it happen. This comes from having a drive to make the unseen! When bolstered by the very diverse and strong team we can adapt to anything thrown at it, from technical interactive builds to large scale video productions.

===== your skills =====

You should have a keen interest in keeping up to date with modern coding practises, particularly with respect to mobile / responsive design. Our platform is a web-app, and a love for JavaScript is essential.

Full job spec: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RHoJD4v6InMPmFIm_L5DGl7y...

Send over your portfolio: jobs@powster.com

kCura, South Loop Chicago, ONSITE

Do you get a kick out of watching network traffic as part of a team tracking intruders? Would you like to join a team to help monitor internal and external traffic

If you are

• ​Familiar with open source monitoring software

• Comfortable with extended monitoring duty

• Familiar with IDS rules

• Interested in learning to do a forensic examination of compromised workstations

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Good knowledge of networking

• A good programmer

send an e-mail with a note describing your interest in the position to wlederer@kcura.com

Founded in 2001, kCura http://kcura.com are the developers of Relativity http://kcura.com/relativity, web-based software for managing and analyzing electronic data during litigation and investigations. Located in downtown Chicago, we focus on providing the best software we can, striving to always improve our products and the experience of our customer base, which includes the U.S. Department of Justice and more than 190 of the top 200 law firms in the United States. kCura has been ranked the 175th fastest-growing technology company in North America by Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/t..., as well as one of Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces http://www.topworkplaces.com/frontend.php/regional-list/comp.... Our team of driven, passionate, and talented individuals works collaboratively to provide a positive client experience and build a reputable name in a booming industry. We commit to hiring people who value collaboration, communication, and accountability as much as we do. To learn more about kCura, check out our video http://kcura.com/corporate/careers/kcura-culture on kCura's unique culture.

Principals only. No recruiters, thanks.

"Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but while some student's cant even right the write words."

Nice ... You only include one example of incorrect homophones but that's got to be the most egregious grammar error I see in business correspondence. My wife is a high-school English teacher - I'll ask her when she gets home.

London, UK - Pusher - https://pusher.com/ - Full time - On Site Only

The current Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.

Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who will thrive in a challenging environment, working on interesting problems. Our team is small but growing, and we value people who can contribute not only individually, but in the context of the team. Our engineering team is also heavily involved in operations, so you need to know how to deploy, monitor and maintain a large production system. We wrote our code in Ruby (Main legacy language) and Haskell.

Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Haskell, nodeJS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Go.

We are currently looking for: * Platform Engineers to continue improving and scaling our core real-time infrastructure. More info on this position at https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/52789. * Product Engineer (Full Stack) to work on our new customers facing features and improve our libraries https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/87044 * Technical Product Manager to help us improve and develop our main product. https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/106010

PlayGen ltd. Shoreditch London, UK

We are currently looking to hire a Junior Software Developer and a Mid-Senior Software Developer for our office in Shoreditch London.

PlayGen develop playful solutions to engage, influence, measure and inspire. Do you like startups but are not sure about the risks associated? Join the most awesome digital R&D studio working with games, gamification and simulations. Existing clients include global leaders in health, defense, education, finance and research institutions. Imagine being given the opportunity to work in a startup environment, but with the backing of a organisations like Unilever, Samsung, European Union, BBC, NHS, HSBC, McKinsey and many more.

Here is a little overview of what kind of person we're looking for:

Desired Skills and Expertise

Essential :

- 4 years+ of development experience (for mid-senior role)

- If it’s Frontend you might like Javascript / HTML5/ XSLT/ CSS – Backbone, Angular, WebGL, D3.Js

- If backend is your thing then you’ll have experience of Web or apps and know your way around one or more of these: Visual Studio, C#, Objective C or C++, PHP, Ruby, Python and some experience of SQL or NoSQL Databases

Of course you might like both :) but you would be well versed in OO and software architecture. - Naturally a desire to be a part of the next big thing and make some awesome interactivity stuff used by the world’s greatest is a super plus!

Highly desirable :

- True GEEK (i.e. you want to spend time with people who love making stuff)

- If focusing on backend then interest in machine learning, functional programming & peer to peer

- Web services, APIs and Extensible architectures - Cloud based application development including Hadoop, Cassandra and elasticity

In order to apply please visit the following:

- http://playgen.com/developer-job-london/ for the mid-senior role

- http://playgen.com/intern-developer-role/ for the junior role