Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

Forgot to mention the perks... flexible schedule, paid-for lunches, unlimited vacation and great medical coverage. It's a great opportunity for folks driven toward consistent excellence with a hunger for improvement.

Desmos - San Francisco, CA

Desmos started by reinventing the graphing calculator https://www.desmos.com/calculator for the 21st century as one of the most advanced HTML5 apps on the web. In the process, we've developed what historians call a "business model," working with partners to push their content and assessment to new levels.

As our next act, we're raising the bar for what digital content https://teacher.desmos.com/ can look like, and creating classrooom experiences that are as delightful to use as they are instructionally effective.

But we've just scratched the surface of what we want to accomplish (ask us about our thoughts on project-based learning, or replacing multiple-choice tests, for example), and we need your help.

More about open positions at: https://www.desmos.com/careers

VERBA - San Francisco, CA

http://verbasoftware.com/

jobs@verbasoftware.com

* Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME or HALF-TIME with benefits [work on your side projects!]

Verba thinks that college should be more affordable, so we help bookstores get books faster, cheaper, and sell them competitively.

We guide every stage of a used book's life. We help students save money, and bookstores become and stay relevant, competitive, and transparent.

Numbers: 400 colleges and universities (and more beating down our door), tracking ~200k unique ISBNs, serving millions of students (rush season means 100 requests/s), raising the "win rate" for bookstores to 80%, and dropping prices across the board. 19 employees, 3 part-time. 2 dogs. 5 cats. 3 children.

Code: Ruby, Rails, JS, Clojure for Hadoop, MySQL on AWS w/ Chef. We love experiments and go with what works! We also love making a stable, solid product which is why we have a ton of tests, metrics and a one-click build pipeline.

What's in it for you: A great team and company culture, benefits (even for part time!), laptop, books, BART pass, pool table, somewhat healthy office snacks, great conversation during our yearly company work-cations (http://verbasoftware.com/vacay), and hard, challenging, fulfilling work.

Message us if: You want to help make education better. You've got strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture, and know enough JS to help out on front-end. We prefer slope over y-intercept.

How to get the job: Write a cover letter to jobs@verbasoftware.com that speaks to why this job might fit with you, and how you could help us out. The first step is a phone screen to solve a small programming problem. Then we'll schedule an on-site interview for a few hours, and have you walk through some of our code with us. Also we'll ask you some historical behavior questions, not logic puzzles. Then we'll make you an offer, and you'll accept and we have a new employee party!

The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, INTERN/H1B) - http://climate.com/careers The Climate Corporation's mission is to help all the world's people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change. We use a combination of weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, and weather simulation to provide data, insights, and decision making tools to farmers in the United States.

Climate's technical staff numbers around 80-100, and we're hiring full-time employees and interns across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of decision support tools for growers. Work is split across groups focusing on web applications for farmers and agents, risk and insurance policy management, internal platform and data services, and scientific modeling and research, with roles for:

1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications (Rails, Python, Javascript, and iOS) used by farmers to manage weather risk.

2. Quantitative researchers in statistics/ML, stochastic optimization, remote sensing, atmospheric physics, and agronomics. Our goal is to forecast statistical distributions of crop yield for any piece of arable land, synthesizing satellite images, digital elevation models, weather data, agricultural statistics, and geological surveys into multiscale models that underly our data services.

3. Experienced technical team leads, operations engineers, product managers, and designers to pull all this together into a compelling product.

The scale and interdisciplinary nature of the work drive a lot of cross-collaboration within the company, supported by a pressing need to build durable solutions to some very hard and important problems.

Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=o7B8Wfww&s=hackernews

I write clojure for our geospatial data team. I'm happy to answer any questions or chat about what we do: skhalsa@climate.com. If you have general questions about the hiring process, recruiting@climate.com is the place to ask.

Yahoo! (London, UK) - Build products that become a daily habit for millions of users and partners

Our engineers build web applications for some of the most trafficked sites in world, organizing the world’s information for millions of people every day. You will be joining a team of world-class engineers trying to solve some of the hardest problems on the web, building next-generation contextual, personal and socially relevant experiences. If you want an opportunity to make a big impact on a high volume production product, this is the place to be.

☆☆☆ About EMEA Search ☆☆☆

★ Use a variety of languages and technologies to make an impact

★ Develop software that powers experiences on smartphone, tablet, and desktop

★ Collaborate with and learn from designers, product managers, engineers, and executives

★ Create technically excellent software iteratively using Agile methods

★ Drive growth in audience, engagement, and revenue globally

☆☆☆ Positions ☆☆☆

We are looking to hire engineers across the spectrum from junior through to senior, and lead levels.

█ Backend Software Engineer (Junior/Senior/Lead)

◇ What you'll be doing:

· Ingest, categorize, enhance, rank structured data for Shopping, Local, and much more

· Design algorithms to deliver contextual, personal, and socially relevant experiences

· Use big data and machine learning techniques to enhance understanding and relevance

· Define APIs that enable new use cases and engage developers internally and externally

◇ Requirements:

· Degree in Computer Science or closely related field

· Expertise Java or C++

· Expertise in cloud, database, and big data technologies

· Expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, or related field

· Expertise in creating high-performance, high-quality, reusable software at scale

· Expertise in data-informed and test-driven software development practices

· Pursues work with energy, passion, drive, and intense customer focus

· A personal commitment to continuous learning and self-development

· Ability to work well on a team with a positive attitude

█ Front End Software Engineer (Junior/Senior/Lead)

◇ What you'll be doing:

· Develop modern, beautiful, personal, and relevant experiences across devices such as desktop, mobiles and tablets.

· Design new advertising products to enhance the user experience and drive revenue

· Implement real-time measurement frameworks to help evaluate new features

· Work side-by-side, in a cross-functional and fast-paced development environment with PMs, UI & UX Designers, QA Engineers, Editorial, Analyst and Localization teams

· Build large, complex web applications that can scale but still perform under the heaviest traffic load

· Take ownership of the products you work on, both independently and as part of a team

· Evangelise and adhere to emerging standards with technical excellence, coming up with new and creative ways to enhance our users experience

· Write both functional and OO lightening fast client-side code, complemented by a wide range of UI testing

◇ Requirements:

--- Extensive experience or knowledge, of some or all of the following ---

· JavaScript (ECMA-262, ECMAScript 5, ES6 Harmony)

· CSS

· HTML / HTML5

· PHP

· NodeJS

· DOM Levels 1 ~ 3

--- Experience with some or all of the following web technologies ---

· Dart, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Polymer, React etc

· Testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Chai etc

· Multi-device, cross-browser development techniques, such as caching and optimized rendering performance

· Passion for setting and leading front end development standards

· Development of medium-to-large scale, complex engineering applications

· Attention to providing high quality user experience

· Responsive implementation knowledge on mobile and/or tablet platforms

· Knowledge of WebKit, Blink, Gecko etc

· Differences in JavaScript engines such as V8, JavaScriptCore, DartVM etc

· Best practices in DOM manipulation, Garbage Collection, Animation etc

· Degree in Computer Science or closely related field.

☆☆☆ How to apply? ☆☆☆

★ If you're interested or want to learn more? Email me with a copy of your CV at dshariff@yahoo-inc.com