Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

InVenture is a world leader in providing direct loans and financial services in emerging markets. We are a global team with diverse backgrounds who are singularly focused on using technology, data and customer-centric approach to meet the financial needs of the 2+ billion people of the emerging global middle class.

Investors include Lowercase Capital and Google Ventures. We are Fast Company’s #1 most innovative company in money, #13 overall.

We are looking for people to join our data science team who have the following qualities. - Problem solver. You thrive on finding novel solutions to hard problems. These problems may have ranged from extracting a new dataset from an unexpected source, to building cohorts for customer retention analysis, or the NY Times saturday crossword. - Expert. You have domain expertise. Tell us about the genetic algorithm you implemented to find a solution to your NP-hard problem, or the hobby that keeps you busy on nights and weekends. - Curious. You aren’t content until you understand why the features you have built have the explanatory power they do, and why they aren’t just a spurious correlation. - Communicator. You’ll be the expert in your field. Can you explain it to us in laymen’s terms? - Education. Masters degree in a quantitative field, or relevant experience and/or an impressive Kaggle profile. - Language. We are language agnostic and have expertise in python, R, SQL, Spark, MATLAB, and Stata. We build visualizations using d3, ggplot, matplotlib, seaborn. Huge bonus points if you are fluent in Swahili ;).

Why should you join? - Take it from people who have build models and studied problems ranging from microfinance to global climate change: we are tackling an incredibly hard problem with huge social and financial impact. The impact of our models is both intimidating and inspiring. - We leverage a unique, diverse, and deep data set. You’ll be surprised by what connections we’ve found between our different data sources. Surprise us by what you will find. - You will own a model, or multiple models, whether building a country-level credit model from scratch, or integrating new data sources into our existing underwriting models. - Amazing company culture. Our employees come first as indicated by our “Employee Awesomeness” program. We do lunch and learns, provide a flexible work schedule, and have regular team outings and happy hours. Our smart, passionate team is the backbone of our culture, and is what differentiates us from others making it a special place to work. - And btw, our customers love us: inventure.com/love

Contact peter@inventure.com and please include the hacker news in the subject line.

Looking for all levels of engineers excited to join a fast growing startup. We use RoR on an AWS stack.

Cambridge, MA

A young, 30-ish-strong consultancy in central Leeds. Strong focus on Salesforce work, but we also have MS Dynamix, Data/BI and AWS practices, so you'll have some variety. Salesforce experience not required. We're also looking for data analysts.

If you're interested, shoot me an email at vilius.vaivada@alscient.com.

www.alscient.com

We do end-to-end secure communications and a secure mobile platform (Blackphone). The people who work here are highly interested in ensuring that privacy remains a possibility in the world.

We need great engineers who like working on Android (both at the application and the OS layer), iOS applications, back-end infrastructure (e.g. relational and distributed DBs, messaging layers, etc.), and in C, Erlang, Python, and Lua.

By working here you'll have the opportunity to work on hard problems with interesting people like PRZ. We've grown quickly but are still a startup. We hire great people to whom we can give autonomy to get the job done. As our main job is protecting our customers in hostile environments, we want people who are exceptionally good and exceptionally careful.

We're a distributed team, and we're perfectly happy to hire great people anywhere in the world.

Experience with cryptography, protocol implementation, telephony/VoIP, etc. is definitely interesting to us but not required for all positions. We mainly want people who are demonstrably great engineers in the UNIX mold. F/OSS work is a great sign to us. We are very interested in Android experience right now.

Please email frank, CC myself (my username), @silentcircle.com. If you could write a few paragraphs about yourself and what sort of work you like to do, that'd be appreciated. Links to GitHub and LinkedIn are also good.

I look forward to talking with you.

(Engineers only; no recruiters please.)