Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

We are looking for a talented technical writer to help us improve our suite of documentation and training materials.

Skills & Duties

   * Ability to understand highly technical concepts and communicate them effectively to less technical users
   * Create and update all technical content including: 
      * User Guides
      * Tutorials
      * Blogs
      * Knowledge Base Articles
      * Instructional Videos
      * Training Course Material
      * Sales Proposals
   * Experience with UX and information design preferred 

Egis Software is an established software vendor of Enterprise Content Management solutions in the South African, Botswana, Mauritius and UK regions.

Email your resume and writing samples to resumes@egis-software.com

INFER, INC.

- Team: ~25 heads, 10 engineers from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Google/Google Research, Facebook, Y Combinator, Microsoft Research, Palantir, Jane Street, IBM Research, Yahoo! Research, ...

- Investors: Red Point, a16z, SHV, Social Capital, ...

- Customers: Box, Jive, Microsoft, Tableau, Zendesk, AdRoll, Nitro, and many more

- Product: machine learning applications for non-technical users to help their businesses more effectively win and retain customers

- Looking for: strong engineers and data scientists excited to join an early-stage startup to help grow & shape the company

EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build on and extend our sophisticated model training pipeline that uses data extracted from the web and other sources

- Build beautiful visualizations to communicate results and frontends to allow non-technical users to build complex models

- Develop and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to manage and process customers' large, confidential datasets

- Create and shape the processes used to guide the engineering team to work together effectively

QUALIFICATIONS

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related fields

- Depth in software engineering, algorithms, and general analytical problem-solving

- Familiarity with Python preferred

CONTACT

- https://www.infer.com

- hiring+hn@infer.com

We just announced our Series B funding this week by Accel, Balderton & Salesforce and we're using that to grow, so we are looking for all types to come on board! Software engineers, DevOps, Data Scientists, Web Developers, Technical Product Managers and a whole heap of non-tech jobs as well: http://qubitproducts.com/content/qubit-jobs

Qubit is all about having a central hub of data to improve your website - a good summary is here: https://medium.com/venture-capital-growth-hacking/point-solu.... We work with some of the biggest companies in the UK and are rapidly expanding into the US and EU.

We use the latest technologies to power this (Storm, HBase in various JVM flavours, AWS, Backbone & React.js). We ship several times a day. We help each other grow with dojos and pairing. We deal with cutting edge statistics. Our systems that handle process billions of data points per day. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.

If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at careers+HN@qubitproducts.com, telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after!

We're building a sophisticated advertising platform. Actually, we've already built a ton of it. In fact, it hums along running a few billion transactions per day. As our business expands, we a few roles to fill:

1) We need a Rails dev to own our campaign management interface. You'll help humans effectively manage hundreds of campaigns for well-known brands and retailers. We serve 50+ million ads every day and process 3.5 billion transactions, and you'll be right in the thick of it. You'll work directly with Postgres, Redis, HBase and Hadoop. You'll also likely play a key role in developing a new API for several key partners.

2) We need someone with fierce tenacity to run QA and technical ad operations. When an account manager sees that we recorded no clicks for a certain campaign in Firefox browsers, you'll get to hunt down the resolution. You'd bring a meticulous eye for detail to bear with browser and Javascript chops. Done well, you'll be a daily hero. (Devs are cheerful when called upon to fight fires, but prefer to write code.) Count on becoming well acquainted with Hive.

3) Finally, we're looking for a strong DevOps team member. You know networking and Linux very well. You'll help improve our Hadoop clusters. You'll tune monitoring and alerting thresholds. Most importantly, you'll eagerly seek to expand your usefulness as you work with the rest of the dev team. We're not driven by dogma, and you'll find yourself in good company if your sole priority is fixing the problem at hand.

I'm one of the lead devs, and you can reach me at dlarsen@connexity.com. I'm happy to speak informally about our situation, and can hook you up with the HR folk at the appropriate time.