Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Senior Software Engineer - C++ | Ripple Labs | Remote within the US (select states) | careers@ripple.com

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Named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review, Ripple Labs is an 80 person startup backed by prominent investors, such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. The original developers of the Ripple protocol, we now support its growth by contributing code to the open-source software, as well as recruiting and developing tools for financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple.

Ripple is an Internet protocol that interconnects the world’s financial systems to enable the real-time, secure transfer of funds in any currency. As settlement infrastructure, Ripple transforms and enhances today’s financial systems. Ripple unlocks assets and provides access to payment systems for everyone, empowering the world to move value like information moves today.

The open source rippled peer-to-peer payment server is the high performance solution that puts the power of payments in the hands of individuals. We’re in need of talented developers to help scale the technology. It’s written in C++, multi-threaded, and uses much of the modern idioms of C++. Prospective candidates should be ready to solve complex problems and able to produce polished code the entire world will see and subject to security audits.

Our new C++ developer will play an integral role working with the current team to maintain, watch over, and develop new features for the Ripple Protocol. At it’s heart, Ripple a high performance peer-to-peer decentralized payment server and we’re after passionate individuals to nurture the core of our technology, bringing Ripple to the next level.

This is remote based position. You must be based in or willing to be based in California, Nevada, Texas, Oregon, Washington, New York or Florida.

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What you look like:

A long work history developing with C++ (10+ years is ideal)

Experience writing APIs and accompanying documentation.

Anyone who can claim to be a master of template metaprogramming

History of developing high-traffic, high-volume distributed applications

A hacker mentality is strongly preferred, no degree necessary, only skills and experience

Bonus Skills:

Expert at understanding and writing C++ templates

Knowledge of boost::asio socket programming

Experience with synchronization in multithreaded applications

Worked on other open source C++ projects on GitHub (proud of your code and want to share it)

Has worked with C++ programmers in a team setting

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What we offer:

Competitive salary and equity Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies Work with some of the best - early Bitcoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators The opportunity to change the way we transact

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Please email careers@ripple.com for more details.

Socialight, Software Engineers, SF or NYC

Socialight is looking for engineers with graph experience to help create powerful enterprise marketing tools.

We're funded, in the current 500 Startups batch, and preparing for a huge future ahead.

Email me, lindsay@socialight.io!

https://www.futureadvisor.com - http://nyti.ms/X3N7r2

== Experienced infrastructure engineer, San Francisco ==

FutureAdvisor is an automated investment manager. We help our customers cut their investment fees, avoid excessive risks and save on taxes, so that they and their families will face better choices down the road.

We're seeking an infrastructure engineer. Your job will be to keep FutureAdvisor running smoothly. It might be deploying and maintaining server clusters on EC2, building tools to automate our deployment pipelines or designing and implementing a new piece of the request pipeline. Your job will be to make FutureAdvisor as fast and reliable as possible.

You might be a good fit if you have experience writing production code, but you'd rather be building out the running systems. You're security-conscious and detailed-oriented when it comes to provisioning servers and designing deployment processes. You have a strong desire to automate everything, but you know when introducing automation might be a bad idea. You're comfortable in Bash and Ruby.

As a FutureAdvisor infrastructure engineer you might work on improving our Chef cookbooks to make it easier for others to deploy services. You'll spend time identifying and eliminating likely reasons for FutureAdvisor to go down. You'll also work on building out more tools to manage and track our server cluster using AWS technologies like EC2, S3, OpsWorks, and VPC.

Skills you'll need:

    Experience working with AWS
    Experience provisioning and maintaining VPC instances on AWS
    Knowledge of service oriented infrastructure
    Knowledge of working with Linux and Bash scripts
    Experience with infrastructure management tools like Chef or Puppet
    Bonus Experience launching Ruby on Rails apps

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26313#.VHynl...

== iOS developer, San Francisco - INTERN possible ==

Engineers probably have more leverage now than at any other time in history. For very little effort, you can make great tools that empower large numbers of people.

At FutureAdvisor, you can deploy your abilities to help working- and middle-class families by giving them access to unbiased financial advice to build wealth. Until recently, only wealthy families could afford the neutral advice that made their investments grow safely. With software, we're bringing those services to the rest of society.

As an iOS Engineer at FutureAdvisor, you'll be working with our growing team of rigorous engineers, data nerds and finance geeks to deliver a beautiful and unique experience on mobile that changes the way people manage their investments.

Collectively, our team has spent decades building mission-critical systems such as Microsoft's Azure, and we are bringing that same diligence to managing the life savings of our more than 100,000 customers.

What we're looking for:

    Experience developing awesome native iOS apps
    2+ years of professional software development experience
    Experience with web development technologies such as Ruby on Rails and CoffeeScript
    Smart & driven to work in a fast-growing startup
    Team player: this is especially important in a small company, where you may be working with everyone from marketing to client services
    Passionate about user experience & design

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26316#.VHyoQ...

== interactive designer, San Francisco ==

You're seeking meaningful work solving problems in an organization that supports design. FutureAdvisor distills the complexity of finance into a simple interface so that our customers can understand and grow their life savings. We're giving working- and middle-class households a powerful portfolio management tool that they never had access to, until now.

You've designed interactive apps for the web and mobile. We reach more than 150,000 users who depend on us to monitor their nest eggs. You're used to reasoning about the scope of various features' functionality, and how to implement them. You like imagining how touch targets, palette, patterns, information architecture and microcopy can make UX smooth.

You know that UX is more than just product. Every touch point, from marketing and sales to onboarding and support, are all part of the total experience we want to improve. We're looking for designers to work with our engineers and product managers to make sure that FutureAdvisor is delighting its customers from start to finish. What we're looking for:

    Background in interactive design
    Portfolio of web and/or mobile apps
    Empathetic and practical individuals

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26309#.VHyou...

Mapsense Position: Backend Engineer

Keywords: INTERN, VISA, FULLTIME. Minimum education: Bachelor's degree in CS/EECS. Minimum experience: 2 years. Useful to know: Java, Maven, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, Lucene, Git.

Tone A (professional):

The backend team at Mapsense is a small but highly motivated group building scalable tools for geodata analysis. We're looking for an independent, experienced backend engineer to join our team and and contribute while learning the infrastructure. An ideal candidate would be comfortable with designing and implementing web APIs; building and testing autoscaled services; and being productive, professional, and personable on a daily basis.

Tone B (nerdy):

There's a word to describe the freezing of a machine that executes billions of electronic instructions per second, then examining its memory's contents bit, by, bit: debugging. If hitting breakpoints sends chills down your spine, you're probably cut out for backend engineering at Mapsense. Hack away at the backend of a complex but intuitive geodata analysis API, implemented as a distributed, autoscaled nexus of modern open source technologies. And in case joining a team of intelligent, highly motivated code ninjas isn't enough, we have one more guarantee: consider boredom a thing of the past.

Tone C (cute):

The one thing that sets Mapsense apart from all the other geodata startups is the sheer popularity of our cute office dog, Amos. To be honest, our backend engineering team is a little jealous of all that attention. They've already developed a versatile but highly intuitive API for geodata ingestion and analysis, all while placing massive emphasis on documentation, testing, and teamwork. But to really shine, they need some help! Will you be the next independent, experienced engineer to join the backend ranks and help surpass Amos' renown once and for all?

Tone D (challenging):

Tired of companies living off of boring CRUD APIs with a single, static database? So are we. The backend engineering team at Mapsense is building a distributed, scalable backend architecture to support the ingestion and analysis of massive amounts of geodata, but writing well-designed, documented, and fully tested code isn't easy. That's why we're only hiring highly motivated, independent engineers to join a tiny backend team always willing to commit to quality. It won't be easy, but nothing worth doing ever is.

Tone E (meaningful):

Help Mapsense revolutionize the process of geodata analysis by joining our backend engineering team in developing an incredibly versatile tool with use cases in a variety of industries, from climate to marketing to military. You'll have the opportunity to jump into a robust, scalable system built on the latest open source backend technologies, and work with a motivated group of engineers. Expect to grow from interesting engineering problems every day while transforming the world one data set at a time.