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Full time developer (Ruby on Rails)
Pintrips - www.pintrips.com
Pintrips is a web app that solves the pain points consumers are experiencing when looking for airfares. We are ready to launch our first Beta version, and we are looking for a full-time developer to join the team. Requirements: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript
Please email resume to Stephen: Stephen@pintrips.com
Full-Time Front-end Designers, Rails, and INTERN s
Building an eCommerce multi-platform version of Square. Simplifying eCommerce & payments and enabling anyone to sell physical and digital items on any platform (think FB, Twitter, Craigslist, etc)
We are looking for truly talented Ruby developers with a passion for clean code and great products. Our current tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Resque and a variety of standalone ruby components and applications. You can check out the job description and apply here: http://jobsco.re/OC7MJe
Our team (https://github.com/wildfireapp is very dedicated to open source, uses Github for all of our code, and is encouraged to fork and commit on their personal github accounts. Within our team, we have guys who have done important work in the Ruby community. Our CTO, James Tucker (raggi on github) is the maintainer of Rack, one of the maintainers of EventMachine and has contributed to Rubygems and other projects. Oscar Del Ben (oscardelben on github) is the guy behind the Rails One Click installer for Mac OSX and has done amazing work on Rails documentation. Olly Smith (oesmith on github), in the London office, is the author of the Morris.js graphing library and is a committer on konacha.
Wildfire is a 2x winner of the Facebook Fund and a TechCrunch Crunchies Award nominee, was named one of the 250 best private companies in the world by 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250!
Come work for a growing start-up in downtown San Francisco. If you like big data and RTB then check out this job description: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?bj=oQXoWfwR&s=hacker_news
FindTheBest.com
We are looking for developers and a MySQL wizard. Our platform is built on a LAMP stack and hosted on AWS. We also utilize mongoDB, sphinx, and redis.
If you have what it takes, you may be rewarded with a chance to compete in our new coding challenge!
About FindTheBest: Led by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor as CEO, we are a passionate, fast-paced team dedicated to building the world's best comparison engine. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins and are experiencing rapid growth with 10M visits a month (10x greater than 1 year ago).
Official jobs page: http://www.findthebest.com/jobs
San Francisco
Job Description
The lead engineer will work closely with company founders and the team to establish product roadmaps and set quarterly goals as well as bi-weekly release schedules. The person will lead and grow our existing strong group of all-around developers working on a full-JavaScript stack (Node.js, MongoDB). She/he will have the chance to grow and manage a larger engineering team as Storify scales.
We are looking for a hands-on technical engineer who will lead engineering from the front. We seek a full-stack coder with strong understanding of back-end infrastructure who has experience architecting complex systems. The ideal candidate has prior startup experience and loves building things from the ground up. She/he can recruit engineers, and is also be experienced at mentoring and guiding development teams. The lead engineer will be on the ground floor to build the engineering team and culture.
Experience with search, relevance, ranking algorithms, social graph and news feed data structures are a big plus.
Skill Requirements
- Experience at a fast-paced startup - History of managing and growing great teams - BS in computer science or similar degree, MS preferred (equivalent work experience also taken into account) - Ability to architect complex web applications and APIs - Ability to do profiling to measure and optimize performance - Strong JavaScript knowledge (Node.js) - Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Solr
About Storify
We have the ambitious goal of building the new information network for the social web. For the first time in human history we have access to hundreds of millions of people sharing what’s happening on this planet in real time on social media. Storify users curate social networks to surface the voices that matter and tell the story. Be part of our story at Storify.
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Leap Motion is reinventing the way people interact with computers. We are building a technology that uses a breakthrough mathematical approach to 3D, touch-free motion control software that’s unlike anything that currently exists on the market or in academia. The Leap device senses your individual hand and finger movements independently, and is 200 times more sensitive than existing gesture control technologies on the market today. In case you haven't seen it yet, watch our product demo video: http://www.leapmotion.com/
OUR CULTURE
We have a collaborative environment where we discuss challenges and ideas openly. Everything from quick design questions, philosophic discussions, to fun ideas for our technology – nothing is off limits. At Leap Motion, you have the utmost creative freedom to work on your passions, and be able to make a significant impact early on. We want our team to think unconventionally, be creative, and find elegant solutions to problems that are yet unsolved. We are an engineering-driven organization; everyone here makes product decisions.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals with diverse backgrounds to fill our engineering, design, and operational roles. Join the core team that will help develop the foundation for innovators to build the future. We are seeking passionate problem-solvers to help us tackle seemingly impossible challenges in the areas of applied math/physics, algorithms, graphics, UI/UX design, machine learning, driver development, circuit/hardware design, photonics, and more.
DESIRED SKILLS & BACKGROUND
• Advanced degree or significant experience in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a related field
• Strong programming skills in C++ preferred; experience with Python, Java, or Matlab also a plus
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Strong background in image processing, computer vision, graphics, or machine learning
• Strong understanding of low-level client-side optimization or GPU programming a plus
BENEFITS & PERKS
• Competitive compensation, great benefits, and generous equity
• Your very own Leap device, and insight into how it works
• Collaborate with friendly, talented people with diverse backgrounds
• Any computer setup and work station you want
• Lunch catered daily, snacks and drinks stocked according to requests
• Spacious office in SoMa, near Caltrain and BART stations
• Flexible work hours - we care about life-work balance
• Health plan including medical, dental, and vision
HOW TO APPLY
Please email us at jobs@leapmotion.com and mention "Hacker News" in the body of your email. We'd love to see what projects you've worked on, and hear what interests you and what problems you'd like to tackle at Leap Motion. Tell us what makes you unique and why you’ll make a vital member of our team.
We're looking for a Ruby on Rails engineer to help work on the interface for our real time bidding platform. We need someone to give it some love. Benefits: competitive pay, catered lunch, beautiful office, great team.
Apply at: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oKMnWfwz&s=hacker_news
Senior Software Engineer
Come join PaperG (http://www.paperg.com), just named one of Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America, as we reinvent modern advertising. Once described by the New York Times as "an ad engine to put Mad Men out of business," (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/business/23novel.html) our product can build a customized ad for any business in under a minute. It's so cutting edge that people often call it magic.
Our mission is to make online advertising easy for small businesses, since many are unable to get online due to the prohibitive cost of building ads. PaperG solves this issue with PlaceLocal, using novel technology to retrieve relevant images, ratings, positive reviews and other information about any local business from all over the Internet, packaging it into a beautiful display ad in under a minute.
==Responsibilities==
* Write high quality code for a product seen by millions
* Architect and build highly scalable platforms/services
==Requirements==
* Big Data or Machine Learning experience a plus
* Fluent in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, PHP, C#
* Passion for learning and evaluating new technologies
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
==Benefits==
We know that happy employees are essential to building a great company, so we're proud to offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits like:
- daily free lunch
- full Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- unlimited vacation days
- free Amazon.com credit for professional education
- stock options.
You will be working out of our technology office in Bellevue, WA.
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Interested or have questions? Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@paperg.com
We also have other positions in both Seattle and SF: http://www.paperg.com/careers.php
Company: The #1 App discovery platform in just 14 months, with clients such as Zynga, Disney, Groupon, Expedia, etc. This small company of 8 people has achieved profitability and is growing at a rapid pace. They reward users for demoing and sharing new apps. The company is led by a former LAMP architect turned iOS developer, who built this tool for his own use and has not looked back. The company has aggressive growth plans and is on-target to IPO in the next 18-24 months.
Requirements: - 2+ year with LAMP stack technology - Hands-on experience coding in PHP, able to hit the ground running - Strong MySQL experience, as well as knowledge about Redis, Memcached, and MongoDB - A focus on back-end scaling and performance tuning experience
Nice to have: - Experience building back-end for mobile apps - Experience working on small and dynamic teams