Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

Location: Silicon Valley (Mountain View)

Jobs:

1) Software Engineering - Full-Time or Internship 2) User Interface Designer

http://osmeta.com/about/ tells you a few things about the kind of people involved. It's not time yet for us to publicize details of what we do, but do look carefully at what our team members have done in the past.

For the software engineering position, we aren't looking for any specific domain expertise because what we're doing involves significant depth and breadth of knowledge and programming skills. It's highly likely that a great programmer with experience on any platform and in any compiled programming language will find our work interesting, challenging, and rewarding. Examples of "any" would be one or more of C, C++, and Objective-C on one or more of Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.

San Francisco, CA - Senior Front-End Engineer at Locu (http://www.locu.com/)

Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We have recently launched Locu (http://www.locu.com/), our first product, which helps restaurants better manage their online presence.

We have more exciting ideas for our data than we have resources to build them. Your job will be to help us change that.

We're looking to hire a Senior Front-End Engineer. Generalists and "desingineers" would also do well in this position, as we have plenty of work to do on those fronts as well - but significant front-end experience is crucial. You should feel comfortable making major front-end architecture decisions and being a company-wide advocate for building intuitive, responsive interfaces that surprise and delight.

Guidelines (requirements is such a strong word):

  4+ years of experience building rich, interactive websites

  Experience leading or managing an engineering team a plus - if you don't have it,
  we'll give you a chance to mentor and grow as an leader.

  Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills. 
  (For better or worse, we fully support IE8 - that's where small business owners are, 
  at least for a little while.) 

  Experience in proper UI engineering, particularly in Javascript. The deeper your JS
  experience, the better. 
  (Framework experience (Backbone, Handlebars, etc) and opinions about when 
  they should and shouldn't be used is a +.)

  Ability to go out of your comfort zone and write a server-side controller if no one 
  else is around is a + 
  (Experience with Python / Django in particular is a ++.)

  A good sense of design and/or an ability to work with designers 
  (We won't make you "design all the things", but being able to draw on past 
  experience designing dashboards and other user interfaces is a +.)
  

  We know you like to strike your own unique balance. So don't sweat the reqs and just 
  show us what you've got.
  We want you to be able to do what you love, the way you're best able to do it. :)
  

PS: Like most startups, we're always on the lookout for exceptional talent of all sorts. So if you feel you're a particularly strong fit for what we do or how we do it, check out our other descriptions at http://www.locu.com/about/jobs/.

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Founded a year ago by MIT graduates and researchers, Locu (http://www.locu.com/) has the backing and support of some of the best angel investors in the country. We are looking for more exceptional talent to join our team and help us achieve our vision. We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology giant with a fun and challenging work environment. We have a culture optimized for learning and continuous improvement. We are 17 people with very diverse backgrounds, and growing.

We are an early stage startup focused on optimizing the relationship between content creators and their fans. We have recently been accepted into the Fall 2012 class of MuckerLab - one of LA's hottest startup accelerators.

Being a 4 person team, you will have a large influence and meaningful impact on product development, as well as, the ability to conduct interesting research. Emphasis is on the team aspect, we have a good vibe going (no bro-gramming, no attitudes) and are looking to execute faster but still maintain that good feeling.

Working from the MuckerLab office, you will also be exposed to other startups, mentors and investors.

We are looking for lead and junior engineers with experience in any of the following:

- Building and optimizing sites in Ruby on Rails.

- Crunching big data with Java, Clojure, Hadoop, Storm, NoSQL, etc.

- Crunching big data with machine learning and data science.

Generalists welcome!

Ping me - Bennett Neale - bennett (at) blayze (dot) com