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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by wdaher »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #216
wdaher wrote: post #213

Cambridge, MA (or REMOTE). Full-time. Do you like low-level systems programming? Does the idea of hacking on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time appeal to you? Does "Dazed and confused, but trying to continue" mean anything to you? Have you ever told a joke whose punch line was a git command? If you've answered yes to any of the above, I think we'll be fast friends -- and we want to…

+1, We have over 1,000 boxes here on KSplice and it's been great.

:) that's what we like to hear

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

wdaher wrote: post #240
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm updating my resume and sending it to you post-haste. I'm a little bit in love. Though if you were acquired by Oracle, are you still in start-up mode?

It's tempting to say "Oh yes, definitely," but that wouldn't be completely honest. The real answer is, of course, much more nuanced than that. It's not the totally unfettered we-do-what-we-want-when-we-want-to Wild West that was Ksplice-the-startup, but it is still a small, tight-knit team with a lot of autonomy, and I think the small-team aspect is a huge component of what makes a startup so fun. Of course, the tran…

I'd have to see it, I guess. I've worked at a post-buyout "started-up" company before, and it... taught me a lesson about assuming that being bought was good for a work environment.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by dgunn »

If "INTERN", "REMOTE", or "H1B" candidates are not welcome to apply to your position, you should not use those words in your post. That defeats the purpose of using those key words if those candidates are welcome.

For example, if I am looking for H1B opportunities, ctl+f finds basically every listing because those who aren't willing to accept H1B say, "no H1B". If you don't accept these candidates, the convention assumes that by default. Don't explicitly say it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by urlwolf »

Fluidshopping - Berlin - Fulltime - CTO

We are a Berlin-based startup working on next-generation testing and user experience. At Fluidshopping, we want to make split testing easy for web shop owners.

This includes test that change the business rules, not the GUI. For example, you may want to test if sending a $10 voucher to those who buy >$50 will have an effect on chance of repeated buy. Or you want to test the effect of free shipping when they bought >$100. As far as we know, these tests are not easy without tinkering with the current shopping cart software setup. We want to make this as easy as testing the GUI and UX elements (design, copy).

We use lean startup methods, and can systematically test hypotheses on any market. Our approach is the ‘startup of startups’, that is, iterate fast and discard what doesn’t work, even if the new product looks like a completely new application (and startup!). We have runway for a year. We are two people, and have been funded for only two months. We have offices in Berlin, but we often work from home.

We are looking for a technical cofounder (CTO) to disrupt the ecommerce analytics market with us and to receive a forthcoming EXIST schoolarship (2000-2500€/person/month) for one year. We are two people, one of us is technical, with a PhD in machine learning.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will be to work on new key features, help us scale, contribute to the product and optimize performance. You’ll be the CTO in an agile development environment. The job offers lots of challenges because we build a real-time collaborative tool in a large market that is ripe for disruption.

As the CTO, you set the technology. Our current MVP is Django. We need to interface with shopping carts, and when the API is not enough, that means some PHP may be unavoidable. What we like: - node.js - Mongo or similar NoSQL db - jQuery - JavaScript - python/django - Backbone.js - Familiarity with HTML5 (websockets)

Perks: - Work from home as much as you want - … but have a nice office, with terrace and BBQ - Stock options in two-digit range - Dog - In the center of the Berlin startup ecosystem (we organize events such as demodinner)

For more see http://fluidshopping.com/blog/about-fluidshopping/

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by schelle »

San Francisco, CA - http://www.indiegogo.com: Rails, DevOps and Scalability engineers - Full Time and Internship

Indiegogo is hiring all sorts of engineers (and more) to scale out our global crowdfunding platform. With the signing of the JOBS Act, things are only heating up more and it's a great time to join (for more info: http://www.indiegogo.com/contact/press). We're closing additional funding in order to keep paces with the customer and technical demands of the new frontier of crowdfunding. In doing so, we're expanding the team and our data-driven approach to empowering anyone, anywhere, to raise money for anything - spanning creative, cause and entrepreneurial projects.

Apply by sending an email to: hn-jobs@indiegogo.com (full list of openings: http://www.indiegogo.com/about/careers)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by jarek »

jblz wrote: post #232
jarek wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any particular reason you have positions with "engineer" in title that have nothing to do with even the most watered-down meaning of engineering? I'm looking at Happiness Engineer in particular. I realize tech support isn't the most glamorous of titles, but it's at least somewhat descriptive. Similarly, Account Engineer is a client-facing sales position with no technical component.

Many Happiness Engineers write significant amounts code as well as respond to customer requests. Also, much of what we do (as a company) is data-driven. Since we apply scientific methodology to our support and CRM systems & processes, I think it works. That being said, our job titles aren't exactly hard and fast representations of what we do day-to-day. Check out the subtitles here for examples: http://automattic.com…

Understood on the happiness engineering role.

Don't get me wrong, I think you can give yourselves any title you want, but when listing job postings you're just creating barriers by using non-descriptive, non-standard titles. Your potential applicants have to check the job description for "Account Engineer" to see if this is something they would be interested in (for most it won't be), if someone was actually looking for a client/account director role they might not notice this one because of the "engineer" part, and if someone was looking for a blended support/coding role they might miss "Happiness Engineer" while scrolling down the page.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by zinxq »

Refresh.io - Palo Alto - Full Time Developers

You're a crack-shot software engineer. Not necessarily because of where you went to school, but because simply put - you love this stuff. You know at least one mobile/web-related computer language cold. Whether it's Objective-C, Ruby, Java Javascript, or others - we're not too concerned about which one because no matter which one (or ones) we end up using, you'll not only be able to pick it up fast, you'll be excited about doing so.

You understand the latest technology. From NoSQL to Backbone to Node. You aren't technically religious and gain as much satisfaction in picking the right tool for the job as you do implementing it.

You've built stuff. Web sites. Mobile apps. Whatever. You can show us. You can't wait to show us. You're not only excited of the what users can do with it, you're proud about how it's implemented and to a technical audience, you can't wait to talk about it.

As part of the first engineering team, you're excited by the prospect of working with smart people. Because you're smart and you know it - and you know that working with other smart people simply makes you better (all the while making them better too). As a bonus, being part of this initial team gives you the opportunity to strongly affect future engineering hires - insuring the caliber of the team.

You live within commuting distance to Palo Alto, CA or are willing to relocate (paid).

http://www.refresh.io/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by jnelson5 »

Mountain View CA, Full-Time, Web Application Engineer

Luminate.com is seeking an engineer with a strong background in web application development and implementation. As a member of the web applications group you will get to work on our core front end product as well as help design and implement our next generation products. We are changing the way people interact with images online and here is your chance to help push that vision to the next level. Come work at one of the hottest silicon valley startups along side veteran engineers and architects from Netscape, TellMe, LiveOps, and Digg and backed by top tier VC's and Google.

Required experience and knowledge:

* Experience in professional software web apps development (start-up environment preferred)

* Open source contributor is a big plus.

* Expert knowledge with HTML, Python (or Ruby), Javascript, JQuery, CSS

* Strong sense of design and end user experience

* Highly creative individual

* Proven experience in development of cross browser compatible web applications

* Excellent communication skills

* Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative and iterative programming environment

Contact: john@luminate.com -or- http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=ogXMVfwE&s=HackerNews

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by Dwatson783 »

Havas Digital - Boston - Full Time - BI Developer & ETL/API Developer (no remote, relo welcome to discuss)

Havas Digital is a global marketing agency focused on utilizing data to help drive marketing initiatives for our clients. To help drive the greatest results for our clients we use Artemis- a Havas developed analytics platform that drives decisions using big data. If you're interested in learning about digital marketing, analytics and enjoy playing with data from ad servers, twitter, facebook, site analytics, offline campaigns, CRMs and more then we're what you're looking for.

The two roles we are hiring for are based in Boston as part of our solutions team. These candidates will work as part of a small team to build new capabilities for clients, increase the sources of data we use to build insights and lead new ideas to expand the platform development.

What we're looking for: - A person that lives to tell a story through data. That understands design and presentation and is willing to go past the traditional to bring better insights. They should also have an understanding of the data and it's structure, how it should be molded and prepared to optimize it's use. An interest in online marketing is helpful, experience with big data is preferred and the desire to learn more technically and in the business is welcomed with open arms. If you've worked with Tableau, Microstrategy, Excelcius and the other handful of BI tools out there- we want to hear from you.

-A person who loves working with data, is interested in pushing the cutting edges of data and what we can do with it and has an interest in social media and online marketing. You should have experience with pulling data from APIs such as those from Facebook, Twitter, GA. You've worked with manipulating those data sets, automating the processes to feed systems with what you've built and tied it out nicely by inserting QA and controls to monitor your work. You have no fear of diving in and figuring things out and can learn the tools you need to in order to service the platform the best you can.

For more on Havas Digital and Artemis: http://www.havasdigital.com/artemis/

Interested? Email me at Doug.Watson[at]HavasDigital.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

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Post by evansolomon »

jarek wrote: post #246
jblz wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many Happiness Engineers write significant amounts code as well as respond to customer requests. Also, much of what we do (as a company) is data-driven. Since we apply scientific methodology to our support and CRM systems & processes, I think it works. That being said, our job titles aren't exactly hard and fast representations of what we do day-to-day. Check out the subtitles here for examples: http://automattic.com…

Understood on the happiness engineering role. Don't get me wrong, I think you can give yourselves any title you want, but when listing job postings you're just creating barriers by using non-descriptive, non-standard titles. Your potential applicants have to check the job description for "Account Engineer" to see if this is something they would be interested in (for most it won't be), if someone was actually looking…

Lots of things might happen based on any non-standard terminology, but in general it's not something we worry about. It's meant to be a little fun, a little different, and attract people that are a little fun and a little different.

If someone wants an account director job at Automattic and never makes their way the Account Engineer link, that's okay. If someone is a bit intrigued by our non-standard titles and looks a bit closer at them because they stand out, that's cool, too.

Anything that isn't normal might confuse people. The goal of our jobs page isn't to confuse the fewest people possible.

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