Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Lumosity is a world-leading brain training program with over 100 million users and almost 6 billion games played. Our mission is to help people improve and understand their mental abilities. Lumosity is bringing modern mindfulness practices to our large audience.

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer who has helped build and scale service backends before to work alongside of a small and very capable team developing and maintaining backend services for our games teams.

This is a mix devops/engineer role.

- Ruby on Rails experience - GRaphQL - Microservices - Kubernetes on AWS (w/ terraform/kapitan/samson/..)

https://jobs.lever.co/lumosity or please email me at ews@folksonomy.com for more info.

United States Digital Service | Senior Product Managers, Senior Designers, Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/

We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring, and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government experience or resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are: immigration, veterans, students, health care, and more. Come join us in shifting government tech in the right direction!

See one of our Reports to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:

https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/

In plain language: We are looking for empathetic and mission focused engineers, designers, product managers, government procurement specialists, bureaucracy hackers, and more with 3+ years of experience in the tech industry to work on sometimes ambiguous-- sometimes huge-- but always impactful work for the American people.

Apply here:

https://www.usds.gov/apply

Email address in profile.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/12/continuous-integratio.... and https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/05/athena-our-automated-.... are some examples of work that we've done in the past.

Stack: Python & Go

Reach out to me directly - utsav@dropbox

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I usually post this long thing about why we're a great company to work for and I realized that nothing compared to mission and purpose. You can read our accolades and I'll reference them below, but the truth is nothing matters more than why we exist:

We're fighting climate change by building better apps for farmers and the agricultural economy. Our farmers are able to produce better quality crops with fewer resources and less land. For example, we piloted a program with Anheiser-Busch and saved 2 BILLION gallons of water in the last year.

If I didn't believe this was one of the most important problems of our generation to help future generations, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on this. If you want a mission you can tell your grandchildren about in hopes of creating a better environment for farmers (and really the whole world), we're working on it right here, right now.

I'd love to hear from you and learn more about how you can work with us. Our stack is JavaScript (React & Apollo front end, some Node on back end) and Python (Flask for the back end).

For reference, we're a Unicorn company:

https://www.builtinboston.com/2017/09/26/agtech-startup-indi....

We work on the most under-hyped sector in startups today (agtech) 2 years in a row:

http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2018/#trends-and-takes

https://stateofstartups2019.firstround.com/

CNBC named us the Most Disruptive Company in the world, beating out Flexport, Airbnb, and other companies you've seen here on HN:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/meet-the-2019-cnbc-disruptor....

And our big climate goal is to use regenerative agriculture to sequester 1 TRILLION tons of carbon from the atmosphere:

https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative