Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

Combining web development, computer science, genetics, social media, and informatics, 23andMe is at the forefront of a new era in personal genetics. This is your chance to join a talented, ambitious team that is creating truly novel technologies and products that will change the way people see themselves and the world.

We're hiring for:

* Software Engineer * Software Engineer in Test * Engineering Manager * Enterprise Security Manager * Mobile Apps Engineer * Storage Systems Engineer

More information is available on our site:

https://www.23andme.com/about/jobs/

Or contact me, cary@23andme.com (personal email is in my profile).

At WebAction, we're working on a platform that shrinks the gap between you and diverse, physically disparate data at petabyte scale. WebAction is a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing an end-to-end platform that aims to enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley. We're also well funded (recently raised $11m Series B by a private equity firm with a $15 billion fund).

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots on University Avenue in Downtown Palo Alto.

For the Lead UI/UX Designer Position:

If you love data visualization and creating beautiful interfaces, this is the perfect place for you. WebAction is one of the few opportunities where you can create an interface to the world's most valuable, real-time data.

Responsibilities:

-Help define the user model and interfaces for new and existing WebAction products

-Communicate your design ideas clearly by rapidly iterating high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes.

-Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.

Requirements:

-Strong, clean visual design sense.

-Proven record of designing usable web and mobile interfaces.

Nice to haves:

-Significant experience working in the startup world

-BS in Human-Computer Interaction or related field or equivalent experience.

For the UI Developer Position:

Responsibilities

- Code user interface components for a real-time big data dashboard

- Optimize code for performance and usability

- Contribute innovative ideas for new dashboard features

- Collaborate with platform engineers to coordinate user interface with back-end functionality

Requirements:

- Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery

- Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment

- Portfolio of deployed projects

Nice to Haves

- Experience working with real-time, data-intensive user interfaces

- Experience with D3.js or other data visualization libraries

- Experience with Backbone.js or other front-end MV* frameworks

For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to work on a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. We ask that you have the following skills:

-Large-scale distributed systems

-Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper),

- Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers)

- Experience with HBase or Cassandra

-Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.

BrightRoll (http://www.brightroll.com) is looking for all kinds of engineers, especially server side hackers to work on composing internal services into public, REST APIs (we take the Fielding dissertation seriously). We value functional programming, distributed systems, fault tolerance and high availability, backed by all kinds of languages and persistence schemes. We are serious about scala, erlang/elixir, ruby, node, and store stuff in SQL, nosql, and sometimes in plain old files.

Our culture is one of uncompromising transparency and GSD (the good kind of GSD, where anything that blocks us from getting stuff done is prioritized). We value risk taking, learning from failure, provide superb compensation and benefits, as well as having a laid back office culture (I personally practice Hammock Driven Development fairly regularly).

Feel free to apply via the web site, and let us know hacker news sent you, or contact me directly (phamilton at brightroll dot com). Thanks!

See http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.acti...

We're a 21-person education startup in downtown San Francisco looking to add to our engineering team.

InstaEDU is a marketplace for online tutoring. As more education moves online and video and collaboration technologies reach a point where they can properly replace in-person learning, we see an enormous opportunity to reach a much wider category of students. We’ve been growing quickly and announced our series A last August (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/instaedu-series-a-battery-v...).

As we transition from beta to a global web application, we're excited to add new team members to our 10-person eng team. We're looking for engineers with strong python programming skills, proficiency with javascript, HTML, CSS, and experience working with Django, SQL/PostgreSQL, JQuery and/or Redis/NoSQL.

Along with full-stack engineers, we would be more than excited to speak to anyone with strong experience in mobile, dev ops, and data engineering.

http://instaedu.com/about/jobs/#SoftwareEngineers

Benefits of working at InstaEDU include: close-knit team all passionate about the product we're creating, weekly catered lunches and fully stocked kitchen, 401K, Medical, dental, and vision insurance, weekly Friday happy hour and monthly team events (Wine tasting trips, Giants games, Night tour of Alcatraz...)

Feel free to ping me at kate (at) instaedu (dot) com if you have any questions. To apply, send your resume, GitHub profile, blog, and/or any projects that you're proud of to jobs@instaedu.com. If you're awesome, we want to hear from you!