Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

Fahrenheit Marketing - Austin, TX - full-time developer

Fahrenheit is a marketing and full-service web development agency in Austin. We are looking to expand our dev team immediately. We are looking for an experienced LAMP developer who has experience with e-commerce development to join our team and start immediately on new projects.

Email jobs@fahrenheitmarketing.com with a resume and Website or GitHub profile link.

ZenPayroll - San Francisco, CA - full-time, full-stack developers - H1B OK

Things we like: Rails | Backbone | JQuery | MySQL | Coffeescript | TDD. If these technologies and processes excite you and you want to work on a product that has the potential to transform an industry, we've love a chance to share our vision with you.

About us: We're a team of second time entrepreneurs, tackling the massive payroll market. If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited (plus the chance to build a billion dollar company), we'd love to speak with you. We have big ambitions and the funding and resources to make long term bets. We've raised a large round from an all-star list of investors and are looking for like-minded engineers to join us.

There's a ton of work to be done, and you'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. You'll receive a highly competitive salary, a sizable equity stake, and we'll geek you out with whatever equipment you need to get your work done. Other perks include a housing stipend if you live near the office, 3 meals/day, company retreats, gym stipend, and more. Our office is one block from South Park in SoMa, San Francisco.

Above all, we're looking for individuals who are yearning to do the best work of their lives. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

If you're interested, send us a note at jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project pages.

If this makes the news I'll probably be fired :-)

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I can't talk specifically about any of our projects, but a few of them have had an article or two if you dig around. Sorry for the secrecy, but it's very exciting and there's a lot going on. If you're still interested in working on our team, I can tell you more project and technical details when you get in touch.

Yes! KA is looking for two types of design interns: product design interns, and visual design interns. We strongly recommend that product design interns be in (or have just completed) an HCI-like program[1] or have relevant real-world experience. Visual design interns can help with everything from making cool stuff around the office, to creating assets (like avatars) for the site, so digital art skills are a must.

The design team is much smaller than the dev team so we will likely only be taking one or two interns this year.

[1] http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/

SocialChorus - San Francisco, CA Full-time, full-stack Ruby On Rails Developers

SocialChorus is a social marketing and SaaS technology company. Until recently, word-of-mouth marketing did not have the scale, efficiency and ROI that global brands demanded. Our platform enables direct and enduring relationships between brands and thousands of their best advocates and fans. Equipped with a real-time performance dashboard, our clients take the guesswork out of their social marketing ROI. With over 25 Fortune 500 brands already using our software, our team is defining how brands leverage social influence to build sustained earned media. Backed by Kohlberg Ventures, SocialChorus has offices in New York City and San Francisco. http://socialchorus.com @SocialChorus

On to our development practices. We are on Rails 3.2.5 with deployment on Heroku and test driving EVERYTHING with Rspec, Jasmine, and Selenium. Every Monday we have an internal planning meeting that includes the dev team along with our project manager to go over upcoming features, stories that need discussion, and story estimation (Pivotal Tracker). Mornings start with stand-ups to go over the previous day's work, work for the current day, or any blockers anybody might have. Pair programming and green tests make the day fly by with the gratification of clean code without broken windows. Our analytics module runs in EC2, hitting nginx, aggregating all data into our sharded MongoDB database. Like to map/reduce over extremely large data sets? Sweet.

Great startup environment with a kegerator, ping pong table, Ruby Meetups every 3rd Thursday, Settlers of Catan, Bang!, Dominion, and poker tournaments! Food trucks every wednesday and friday too. Come join our team at: http://www.socialchorus.com/company/jobs or email jobs@socialchorus.com