Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

ZeroCater - San Francisco, CA - Software Engineers, Lead Software Engineer

Come help us feed the world! ZeroCater is a team of foodies working together to help companies feed their employees. We're looking to expand our small engineering team to tackle hard problems and build awesome things. Some challenges we're facing at the moment:

  - Automatically creating and sizing menus to fit a company's dietary restrictions (vegan, gluten-free, allergies, "I don't like onions").
  - Matching vendors to companies that are compatible in terms of budget, distance, and dietary restrictions, while ensuring variety from day to day.
  - Scheduling irregular meals without heavy account manager involvement.
  - Scaling our platform to keep up with our growing business.

Our stack is a pretty typical Python/Django stack running on AWS. Experience with these specific technologies is not required, as long as you can learn fast and ship product.

We're cash flow positive and backed by investors like:

  - Y Combinator
  - SV Angel
  - Justin Kan
  - Paul Buchheit
  - Keith Rabois
  - Yuri Milner (in addition to the start fund money)

We offer:

  - Competitive salary
  - Stock options
  - Daily lunch from the best local restaurants, caterers, food trucks, and popup kitchens
  - Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
  - Team-building activities like wine tastings and cooking classes
  - 5 hours of your very own Executive Assistant through EXEC (http://iamexec.com/) for personal use each month
  - Fine Alcohol Fridays and Reginald the Kegerator (Reggie to his friends.)

For more info on the jobs, the perks, and to apply via Jobscore (resume preferred but not required), check out http://www.zerocater.com/jobs/.

Bluewire Technologies - Bristol, UK http://www.bluewire-technologies.com/

We are a small (currently 6), established team building innovative software for health professionals in the UK. There are many interesting challenges around data modelling, UI / UX, scaling, mobile, security - it's an exciting space to be in! We're passionate about providing healthcare workers with world-class clinical software, and we're in it for the long-term. The working environment is relaxed, but we get things done. We'll give you great kit and support you working from home as and when you want to. Salary is competitive and depends on the candidate.

We're always interested to hear from any talented engineers, but specifically we have a need for:

A front-end / mobile engineer. You would suit this position if:

  - You've worked on at least one web project of significant complexity.
  - You know what jQuery, backbone and SASS are and when they are useful.
  - You know how to architect for performance and can reason about trade-offs.
  - You are already building mobile web applications or keen to learn.
  - You like to take responsibility for UI design and improving the user experience.
  - You've led a small development team before or have an interest in taking a step in that direction.

A lead devops / sysadmin:

You'd be responsible for deploying, monitoring and tuning our web-application on customer servers - currently 40 servers over 14 sites with an expectation that this will increase significantly in the next 18 months. At the moment this task is performed by a member of the development team and we are now reaching a scale where we need somebody in a dedicated role. You'd be responsible for scheduling and deploying builds to staging and production environments, "owning" the the release management processes and working with our developers to troubleshoot performance / reliability problems as they arise. You'd suit this position if:

  - You understand how to administer SQL Server and use the performance profiling tools.
  - You can troubleshoot IIS and understand how it interacts with ASP.NET. 
  - You know how to use Windows performance counters to diagnose problems.
  - You're a methodical problem solver and enjoy working with customers.
  - You appreciate the relationships between people and task automation.

If this sounds like you, shoot me an email: will@bluewire-technologies.com

Virtual Fan Network (VFN) We’re launching sqor.com soon!

Dig sports? We’re an early stage Sports startup with incredible athlete relationships; our goal is to totally change the way athletes engage with their fans. Located in downtown SF, well funded, very well connected.

We’re looking help in three areas.

Back end

We use a python stack on top of Pyramid, that said we’re open to pretty much any technology that can make our team more productive and our users more engaged.

Front-End

We use backbone, jquery, SASS ya know the good stuff.

Product Management

Want to help define how athletes engage with their fans in the digital world, awesome. We’re looking for an awesome product person to help craft the experiences of both the fan and the athlete.

Check out what Brett Farve thinks here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130422-905715.html

If you’re interested shoot me a note and your cv/resume/github profile:

matt@sqor.com

Thinkful (thinkful.com) - NYC, full-time.

We are a team of educators and students. Whether you’re building the product, designing a curriculum, or working directly with students, you’ll be asked to learn quickly and help others do the same. We hire for the curiosity, enthusiasm, and grit that characterize our students. We believe in both teaching and learning while at work, and we provide the freedom and support you need to learn any skill.

We offer everything you should expect from a well-funded startup: competitive salaries, health insurance, significant equity, and a few perks that reflect our culture: gym membership, Kindle, and monthly book credit. We share an office with other great startups in the Flatiron district of Manhattan.

Python/Django engineers

We’re building the tools to deliver curricula, expertise and live help so anyone can advance their career. As an engineer at Thinkful you’ll be working directly with both Darrell and Dan to architect, build and grow our technology and our team. You’re excited about learning new skills and applying them to help others learn. You must have a portfolio of interesting software engineering projects you can show us. The ideal candidate has a keen interest in education and learning, reflecting the aspirations of our students. Talent and curiosity matter more than raw skill: Experience is valued, but not as much as potential. This position is with us in New York City.

Contact Darrell (darrell at thinkful dot com) to apply. Send along your GitHub profile, or any work that makes you awesome.

UX/UI designer

We need to build a visual voice that reflects the values of Thinkful: Aspirational, curious, and open to experimentation. In this role, you’ll define the look and feel of the Thinkful brand and create the UX and UI of our educational product. You’re excited to design experiences that help our students learn faster and retain what they learn. You want to contribute ideas, and take others’ ideas to the state of finished products. If you don’t already know how to code your designs, you’re excited to learn (we’re happy to teach you). Your experience must demonstrate that you’re versatile, and your curiosity must convince us that you intend to become more so. This position is with us in New York City.

Contact Darrell (darrell at thinkful dot com) to apply. Send along any work that makes you awesome.

Surprises me how many of companies are spending a lot of effort in building an employer brand and attracting critical talent, yet the recruitment / applicant tracking system they are using is still email and "send us a resume".

By the way, we're always looking looking for Rails developers (onsite or remote) to be part of a team that builds better hiring software for SMEs. Check out our work and apply online here: http://workable.com/about