Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

You: Want to make a positive impact in the world. You are interested in the intersection of data science and software engineering. You enjoy tinkering, working on and learning a wide variety of new things. Junior applicants encouraged, you'll have plenty of opportunity to learn on the job.

Us: A research center (https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/) that focuses on the question: “Why do some countries grow while others don’t?”, and studies issues of economic development and poverty in developing countries. We have people from a wide set of backgrounds, including economics, public policy, computer science, mathematics. My team is a is a small software team within the larger organization.

Yesterday we just re-launched our free tool that helps people explore detailed world trade data and the productive capabilities of countries: (http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/). We've also worked with many country governments, bringing in our policy and software expertise to assist them in their efforts (e.g. Colombia: http://www.datlascolombia.com/#/?locale=en-col but also Mexico, Peru). We also occasionally do more experimental projects, like the 3D globe (http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/).

Responsibilities:

- Learn and work alongside our backend/data engineer and our frontend engineer to build and improve backend APIs that query and deliver data quickly and efficiently for our data visualization tools

- Help deploy and manage server systems that host our data visualization tools

- Contribute to the build of data pipelines to clean, process and analyze large and varied datasets

- Help solve a wide variety of everyday technology issues, encountered by researchers (i.e. scraping data, extracting text from images, visualizing large datasets)

- Work with our product manager, developers, designer and users across the full software lifecycle: requirements, design, development, releasing and maintenance

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Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree and 1 year of demonstrated hands-on experience OR a high school diploma and 2 years of demonstrated hands-on experience. (Experience through previous employment positions, internships, or practicums, with the following (in order of preference):

- Web backend development (flask / Django / similar preferred)

- Data cleaning and analysis tools (pandas preferred)

- Experience with the linux command line

- Familiar with git and workflows for collaboration (GitFlow, Github Flow or similar)

- Experience working within an agile software development cycle

Here are the full details: https://gist.github.com/makmanalp/d95292bfd68842fbaad995ef53...

Contact: cidatlas [at] hks [dot] harvard [dot] edu , preferably with work samples that demonstrate best practices

Nubank is hiring backend and mobile engineers to help us with the development of new features, scale our services and help us fight bureaucracy within banking in Brazil.

What we do: Nubank is a credit card issuer and is now also providing savings accounts. We started operating 3 years ago and we now have more than 2.5 M customers and 13 M credit card requests. We're backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, QED, Kaszek, Tiger.

Why it's cool: we're a leading fintech company in Brazil and we've just released a new product that will be available for every single Brazilian. Due to that, we've hit a critical moment in our company which takes us to the challenge of not just maintaining our structure, but also helping develop new products and scale our platform. Our office is located in Pinheiros, one of the coolest neighborhoods in Sao Paulo. We also value diversity and have more than 22 nationalities working with us. We have more than 100 engineers and invest a lot on maintaining a startup culture.

Tech we use: Clojure, Scala, Kafka, Datomic, AWS, Python, Spark, React, Kotlin, Swift.

Salary, benefits and perks: visa sponsorship, relocation package, competitive compensation package, health/life insurance, daily meal allowance, stock options, forty hour week.

If this matches your interest, please apply on our careers page: https://nubank.workable.com/

You can learn more about us: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/10/24/technology/24reut..., https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/07/dst-leads-80m-round-in-bra..., https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nubank

We provide actionable insights to the mobile app ecosystem so that mobile apps (think Snapchat or Pokemon Go) can stay ahead of the competition. Mobile apps think of us as being their compass. We answer questions like "What country's mobile penetration rate is growing the fastest? What is the launch strategy used by the last 10 successful game launches? How much user acquisition is your competitor doing?" As an engineer, you'll work on the products our clients (think Zynga or SuperCell) use to move their business forward.

Read about our engineering team's culture, values, and how we describe our day-to-day: https://www.keyvalues.io/sensor-tower

contact me at savraj@ [our domain] and mention HN in the subject line!

Based in Princeton and NYC, we are a rapidly growing startup sending out thousands of products to happy customers each week. Everyone around you -- especially the non-techies in your life -- will at least try, if not consistently enjoy the frozen superfood eats that your work at Daily Harvest will deliver!

Our 29 flavor combinations of smoothies, overnight oats, chia parfaits, and sundaes are co-created by our team of chefs and nutritionists and come packed with organic fruits and vegetables, and no added sugar or preservatives. Each cup is perfectly portioned, so all you have to do is take it out of the freezer, add your liquid of choice and blend, heat or soak.

Daily Harvest seeks a full-stack software engineer, fluent in Python, to help build the future of frozen food delivery. As a member of our software engineering team, you’ll craft and ship the code that powers our entire business -- from user-facing UI, to code that interfaces with our shipping providers, to inventory and supply chain management at scale. You’ll be working with a small team of friendly, easy-going engineers and report directly to our CTO in Princeton, NJ.

Your qualifications - BS in computer science or equivalent - 3+ years of experience in software development roles - Experience with Python-powered web-apps (Flask, Jinja, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, Stripe) - MySQL, Google Cloud SQL, PeeWee ORM - Experience with Git, Travis CI, PyTest, and deployments to Google Cloud.

Shopify is a platform that allows entrepreneurs to easily setup an online store. We build solutions that empower merchants no matter what their size is. Our product help merchants who are just starting as well as established brands that need a solution that can scale with their traffic. We're always working on products that make it easier for entrepreneurs to reach their audience and help them make data driven decisions. Shopify is built in Ruby on Rails running on a stack composed of Docker, Golang, Mysql and Redis. Our data infrastructure uses Kafka, HDFS, Zookeeper and we use PySpark and Sklearn for our data modeling and machine learning tasks. If you're interested in building tools that empower Entrepreneurs come take a look at who we are and what we're doing

- blog: https://engineering.shopify.com/

- github: https://github.com/Shopify

- job postings: https://jobs.lever.co/shopify?lever-via=XBuWsYM_Q2