Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

Brightidea Career Opportunities:

Brightidea is an innovation platform used by Enterprise organizations across the world. (Our mission is to "transform the way the world innovates"). Customers include: General Electric, Nike, and Adobe; we help our clients disrupt their own business before their competitors do.

We are hiring for both technical and non-technical roles:

Head of Engineering - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/839088/?gh_jid=839088 San Francisco | Full-time (Onsite)

QA Manager - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/1078784/?gh_jid=1078784 San Francisco | Full-time (Onsite)

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/1138101/?gh_jid=1138101 San Francisco or New York | Full-time (Onsite)

Site Reliability Engineer - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/859486/?gh_jid=859486

Account Executive - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/1126374/?gh_jid=1126374 San Francisco | Full-time (Onsite)

Contract Sourcer - http://www.brightidea.com/jobs/1143249/?gh_jid=1143249 San Francisco | Full-time (Onsite)

Please email me if you’re interested in learning more!

acurry@brightidea.com

Modular Science | Software Generalist | Onsite | Petaluma, CA

Modular Science (YC S17) is building autonomous farms of the future. We use teams of robots to automate the entire growing cycle: soil preparation, planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting. Our goal is to make it easier to do sustainable outdoor farming at a large scale.

We’re looking for a software generalist to join our founding team, working on computer vision, mapping, localization, navigation, and machine learning. This project spans everything from microcontrollers to cloud-hosted data sets of millions of images. Our daily work involves Python, OpenCV, precision GPS, AWS, multi-spectral imaging, and muddy fields.

Compensation will include meaningful equity. If you're interested in helping us improve farming, please send a short note and a resume to jobs@modularscience.com.

Portland Trail Blazers | Portland, OR | Full-time | ONSITE | Junior Application Developer

Our basketball analytics team is looking to hire a junior application developer. We are interested in candidates striving to be a full-stack generalist that can build, maintain, and deploy applications that support our front office and coaching staff. Previous experience in the professional sports industry is not required, but a passion for basketball is a must.

Qualifications:

    * Web development experience in a modern scripting language (Python, PHP, JS, etc.)
    * Experience working with relational databases (SQL)
    * Experience using version control (Git)
    * Ability to work in macOS and Linux-based environments
    * Experience developing iOS/React Native applications, preferred
    * Experience designing APIs and visualizations, preferred
    * Familiarity with advanced basketball statistics, preferred
    * Ability to work collaboratively and autonomously
    * High standards of confidentiality
    * Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organization skills
    * Ability to work flexible and longer days, including nights and weekends

Reach out to us via email: appdev at trailblazers dot com and send us your resume along with any links to public repos and projects. Basketball-related or not, we'd love to see what you've been working on!

Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com

Pex is an audio-visual search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale (https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/ & https://www.citusdata.com/customers/pex)

We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Java), machine learning and signal processing engineers. We offer 30 days of paid vacation, fully covered health benefits (gold/platinum plan), commuter benefits, cover costs of visiting conferences, and more.

Our interview process is pretty straight forward: 1) phone interview - ~30 minutes 2) coding assignment - ~1 hour [you do it at home, on your own time] 3) on site - ~3 hours [no whiteboard coding, just friendly discussion with some of our engineers and the leadership] 4) offer

If you want to learn more, reach out directly to me at r@pex.com

Faithlife | Senior Full Stack Software Developer-Social Network | Bellingham, WA or Chandler, AZ | Full-time | Onsite

Faithlife is a tech company committed to the Church. We build the world’s premier Bible study software, along with an entire line of resources for Christian living: Faithlife.com (an online community that connects Christians from all around the world), Proclaim (a cloud-based church presentation tool), Faithlife TV (video streaming service), the Faithlife Study Bible (the world’s most advanced study Bible), and more. Faithlife is looking for an experienced full-stack engineer with the knowledge and skills to help build Faithlife Groups. Faithlife Groups is an online community that helps people find and create fellowship wherever they are. You will be someone who can work well in a diverse environment of different languages and technologies. You should have expertise in responsive web and single page applications, but you will also have opportunities in the services, data, and architecture overall. You should also be able to provide positive technical leadership. Apply at https://faithlife.com/jobs/SeniorFaithlifeFullStackSoftwareD... or email devjobs@faithlife.com Check out all the developer positions we have open here, under Software Development: https://faithlife.com/careers Please note that Faithlife cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.