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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Flexport | San Francisco

Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of."

We've raised $28M from great investors including Founders Fund and Google Ventures. We've reached product-market fit, and we're on target to hit a $50M run-rate in our 2nd year.

Senior Front-End Engineer

Flexport is looking for talented front-end engineers to join our team here in San Francisco. This is a high impact opportunity for people interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficient industry of global trade.

What You’ll Do

* Create tools that make it easier for companies of all sizes to participate in global trade

* Help build intuitive, highly efficient and performant interfaces to automate the repetitive parts of logistics

Our Stack In the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Our Process

Flexport engineering is a close-knit team where everyone reviews each other’s Github pull requests. Code is released almost everyday or whenever business requires. Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github.

Benefits

* Competitive salary

* Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Package

* Considerable equity in a company growing at breakneck speeds

To apply please email jobs@flexport.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Square (https://squareup.com/) | (SF, NY, ATL, WAT) | Onsite | Full-time / Interns

Currently on the lookout for generalist engineers for 2016 internships and new grad related roles. Bonus points if you're interested in mobile development, we will be offering internal training.

Apply on our site (https://squareup.com/careers) , then email me.

email: bridgpal@squareup.com, mention HN in the subject.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Boston, MA • ONSITE • JavaScript Engineer • Project Decibel (projectdecibel.com)

Project Decibel is looking for experienced JS engineers to help build some really crazy, ambitious stuff that we're not quite ready to talk about publicly. We're hiring both Front-End and Node.js engineers (or if you're full-stack, that's even better).

Ideal candidates will understand things like higher-order functions, prototypal inheritance, asynchronous programming, etc.

Please send resumes and a link to your Github to kevin@projectdecibel.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

#224
GoodShop - ONSITE - SF

GoodShop raises money for charities you care about whenever you shop or search online. GoodShop has the most powerful coupons on earth!

DevOps Engineer: http://www.goodsearch.com/careers#job-opening-13

Senior Full Stack Engineer: http://www.goodsearch.com/careers#job-opening-9

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Vouch Financial (https://vouch.com) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Sr. Software Engineer - Rails (Backend)

We’re looking for passionate, creative engineers who are excited about solving new problems within financial services.

* Solid programming skills in your language of choice and a track record of getting stuff done

* Experience in a major server-side web development stack (RoR, .Net).

* Experience with Rails

* Up-to-date knowledge of modern HTML, CSS, and JS

* Any open source code or example projects that you’re proud of

* Experience with NoSQL data stores (Redis, Neo4j, etc)

* Experience connecting to 3rd party network-based APIs

* Financial Services Experience (Nice to have)

About Vouch:

At Vouch, we help customers build a network of trusted friends and family – people who would sponsor them in times of need – creating a way of looking at creditworthiness that spans beyond your FICO score. We are a two time top trending on AngelList with backing by First Round Capital, Greylock, IDG Ventures. Excellent engineers, financial wizards, product savants and policy experts remaking the way people borrow money and understand their trusted, financial network. You’ll be working with a team of former PayPal, Prosper, Bank of the West, Stanford, Google, and Yahoo alums.

Culture Deck:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ucb7oRTPYAPlJ4knef-v...

Find one of us on LinkedIn or email me prescott@vouch.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Scaled Inference | Palo Alto, CA | Full Time, Visa

Help us build the world's first mainstream solution to machine learning (statistical inference) powered by an autonomous distributed system that infers ever-improving statistical models from web-scale data. Our system follows fundamental statistical principles under strict computational constraints while rigorously evaluating and benchmarking itself on a large, diverse collection of real-world data sets and applications. Building this type of mainstream platform requires close coordination among several research and engineering disciplines, each with crucial responsibilities.

We are looking for frontend, systems engineers and scientists. Strong foundations in probability, linear algebra, and optimization are a requirement. Preference on MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent degrees. If you feel you have a strong background in the above areas and have an BS still feel free to apply!

Open positions can be found here: https://scaledinference.com/jobs.html

You can also email me if you have any questions or just want to chat ken[at]scaledinference.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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Kaplan Test Prep | New York | Onsite - Tech Lead Kaplan Test Prep is a market leader in test preparation, we serve college students and young professionals studying for the MCAT (medical school), GMAT (business school), LSAT (law school), GRE (Master's and PhD programs), and SAT exams. Our organization is entrepreneurial, growth-oriented, and energetic. Our team genuinely enjoys what they do and take pride in it. If you want a challenging, exciting, and creative engineering role -- while working with talented and passionate people -- consider applying for one of our roles.

I am looking to hire a Tech Lead for my engineering team. We are building a microservices based architecture to support our next generation courseware platform. Our core technologies include .NET, C#, nodejs, angularjs, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB. I'm looking for a strong technical partner to work with me and my other Tech Leads to continue growing a strong engineering and product culture while developing a world class software platform for our students. The role is onsite in our Manhattan office.

http://www.kaplan.com/careers-at-kaplan/our-culture/ or find me on twitter @kenwarner

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

#229
Twilio | Any City Worldwide | Remote/On-Site | Full Time

Twilio is looking for a software engineer to join our Developer Education team. Together, our goal will be to develop the software and content necessary to craft incredible learning experiences for our developer community. We need your help to build, test, and ship sophisticated new docs features we're working on for twilio.com, create high-quality documentation content, and manage key open source projects for our community.

Apply here - we'd love to hear from you!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/twilio/jobs/78722

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

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APC | http://al-amiri.com | Kuwait | Full Time | VISA

We are a small but ambitious startup in Kuwait City, and we are looking to add a talented full-stack web developer to our team. You will work across the stack and use the latest technologies to meet the needs of our growing number of clients.

Requirements:

  - BS in Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  - 2 years work experience, preferably with both front and back-end development.
  - Proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML.
  - Familiarity with at least one SQL database.
  - Understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns.
  - Experience developing secure web applications and web services.
  - Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
  - Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
  - Desire to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
  - Ability to communicate technical concepts to clients.
Experience with any of the following is a plus:

  - A modern PHP framework such as Symfony or Laravel.
  - Joomla, WordPress or a similar CMS.
  - Mobile development for iOS or Android.
To apply, send an email to info@al-amiri.com with your resume and links to any cool things you've worked on.
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