Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

NY Based Funded Healthcare IT Startup seeking Software Engineer

As a senior software engineer you'll be working closely with our CTO and touch on every aspect of the technology related to the company. It’s a broad job description and we’re looking for someone who loves being part of a fast-paced, constantly evolving work environment where your opinions and decisions will seriously affect our technical direction. We’re looking for a technology generalist with interest in specializing as necessary - It's more important that you love learning and can adopt new languages/frameworks/APIs very quickly.

Aidin's mission is to bring transparency to the healthcare system and empower patients with data to make more informed decisions on where they receive care. We're backed by the best institutional investors in both consumer internet and healthcare IT. Aidin was born out of Blueprint Health, a highly competitive healthcare IT accelerator. We currently reside in Dogpatch Labs, a fantastic office housing the best startup community in New York. Our team is dynamic with backgrounds in education, energy conservation and medical imaging systems.

San Francisco, CA │ ePantry │ Founding Engineer

We launched in August and were seeded behind a vision of making it easier for busy people to make responsible choices. Highlights below:

* Customer Problem: We want to buy (and not run out of) sustainable products, but busy people take the path of least resistance on their household consumables

* Customer Value Proposition: 5 min registration = A) never run out of TP, B) never overpay, C) always get products good for people & the earth

* Customer Archetype: ~35 y/o female, kids, busy; “green,” but SUV; Whole Foods, but 365 (private label); iPhone, but not techy; Gilt often, but Gucci rarely

* What We Do: “Dollar Shave Club” for name-brand, “green” household consumables ($24+bn TAM), with an emphasis on flexibility and customer service

* Competition: Selling a niche product better than Amazon has a surprising track record. e.g. Alice, Dollar Shave Club, Manpacks, Quidsi, Zappos

* Our Challenge: Create the most convenient platform in the world for a set of household products with unique purchasing patterns (not a shopping cart site…)

* Full Time Team: Stu (Biz/PM): Advisor & raised >$2m @ 4 start-ups, >$100m invested in tech, employee #2 twice; Jordan (Mktg): Goodby, Doritos, TD Ameritrade

* Seeders : The entrepreneurs behind companies like Hotwire, CitySearch, Friendster, Cater2.me, Everfi, Vincraft, Augusta Columbia, and Toro IP

* Stage: Funded. Compulsively user testing prototypes. Conversations with suppliers on track. Alpha customers by November 15

* Founding Engineer: A fully empowered co-founder with strong opinions, understanding of lean & MVP tradeoffs, full stack ownership, and a long term vision

* What You Get: Competitive cash, generous equity, full benefits, flexible/fun environment, passionate team, leave the world better than you found it

I would love to grab a coffee/beer and brainstorm about the challenges and opportunities ahead.

One of your requirements is "Not an a-hole". seriously ? what does that even mean ?

Mountain View, CA - Principal Data Scientist, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Engineer in Test, and more!

We're Quixey, the Search Engine for Apps. We partner with some of the largest carriers, app stores, browsers, and manufacturers to power app search worldwide. Our Functional Search technology uses data from across the web (blogs, tweets, news and review sites and more) to learn exactly what each app does. Just type what you'd like to do into any "powered by Quixey" search bar and we can find an app to help.

We're all about solving tough problems, and revolutionizing the existing app discovery model is no small task. We just moved into a bigger office in Mountain View, CA and are actively hiring for positions across the board. Check out open listings here: http://bit.ly/SOngig

Also, here are couple descriptions of what we're looking for:

Principal Engineer, Search Sciences - In this awesome newly created role, you will work with various internal teams at Quixey to develop the next generation of technologies to power Quixey’s powerful Functional Search Platform. This will include solving real world challenges in search, organizing information, cluster content, text classification, and extracting signals from structured and unstructured data sources.

Software Engineer in Test - We're looking for an experienced engineer to help build the tools and processes that will uphold our quality standards. This includes testing a variety of software products, system architectures, OS platforms and browsers with maximal automation; building test frameworks that are woven into our development and release process including regression and unit tests; and designing and implementing QA strategies for a variety of tools.

DevOps Engineer - This position involves building tools to manage, deploy, monitor, and scale our AWS infrastructure with close integration to our build & bug-tracking system, working closely with our development team to plan our co-location strategy, and managing costs effectively for cloud services.

We're a fun, exciting startup that's expanding super fast. We’re well funded, backed by world-class investors and are on track to power a billion queries per month. We’re looking for passionate people who can make big things happen and have fun doing it. We're also hiring in Finance, Marketing, and Product Management, so take a look at all our open positions and see what might be a good fit! http://bit.ly/SOngig

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.)

---- Begin Official Description ---- 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.