NeoSmart Technologies ( http://noesmart.net ) REMOTE Looking for someone to do fulltime email/phone outreach/evangelism with blogs, forums, tutorial websites, etc. We want people to try out our PC recovery software, blog about it, host giveaways, etc. If you're love talking with people, reaching out to prominent members of the community, and building up a web reputation for a kickass product that solves some really i…
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#252Bunchball is the leader in gamification (aka "Motivating People through Data") and works with companies including the NFL, Coca-Cola, Urban Outfitters, Cisco, Salesforce.com, Adobe, USA Network, Showtime, Marriott, Clorox, and 300 more to drive business results by motivating customers, partners, and employees to excel.
- Want to design and code amazing interfaces that our customers love? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6z1RwNgSM
- Want to work on a web service that has to handle the NFL's traffic on game day?
- Want to work with our customers to design programs that solve their business problems while making experiences more engaging for users? This is the next generation of interaction design.
- Want a giant database of user activity data to slice, dice, and derive insights from?
- Want to come in and OWN a product for 2 years - working with engineering, sales, marketing, etc., so that you get all the experience that you need to go off and start your own company?
Then check out our open positions: http://www.bunchball.com/careers/openings and apply for something.
Feel free to reach out to me directly: rajat [a][t] bunchball.com
btw - we also just wrote a book, which will be out in a few weeks: http://loyalty30.com
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#253CB Insights is tracking the health of private companies using public data. We are backed by the Nat'l Science Foundation and profitable with major customers.
We're looking for: - Full stack developer - Machine learning engineer - Tech industry analyst - Data journalist
More here on these positions - http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs
Relevant links: The Business Social Graph - http://www.cbinsights.com/business-social-network Mosaic Score - http://www.cbinsights.com/mosaic Customer Love - http://www.cbinsights.com/customer-love
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#254Famo.us Fulltime in SoMa, San Francisco, CA. No remote. We're building the equivalent of Cocoa/CocoaTouch/Android SDK for web applications, while also exploring and enabling new concepts in interface design (e.g. stuff like Clear todo app, Yahoo iOS Weather app). Everything we build is HTML5 and Javascript based. If you are a software developer with a passion for building operating systems, high performance graphics,…
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
brian (if this is indeed the same brian d foy, I don't know since he always uses 'd' with his name, per his style guide: http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html ), I'm rather surprised to see you writing this. First, it should be clear that for obvious reasons, I can't identify the company in question. My wife and I are starting a company trying to help people live their dream of living in other countries and that's…
hmmm, not impressed by your 'help'. i contacted you a couple of months ago and only received the initial default response to push over my resume and info and never got a reply once i sent it over. pretty poor way to communicate and start a business.
As you can imagine, we get a lot of email for these positions, but to the best of my knowledge, we've never missed one before (but obviously, if we did miss a candidate, we wouldn't know, would we?). Now that I've located your initial April 3rd email, we'll get in touch, but obviously if you're not still interested, we understand.
Again, my sincerest apologies.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#256Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#257Red Hot Labs (RHL) is looking for full-stack engineers at all levels that want to work on cutting edge mobile games and services for other mobile developers.
=Responsibilities=
- Write both server and client-side mobile code for iOS and Android apps.
(We can teach you this!)
- Actively learn and work with new technologies. There’s a very good chance
you’ll pick up experience with a new language / technology stack here!
- Collaborate closely with myself and the rest of our team to develop
products and services with a high quality user-experience.
- Architect and own big parts of our infrastructure.
=Your skills= - REQUIRED: CS degree or significant experience in a low-level language (C, C++).
- We're trying to hire smart folks that have a solid CS foundation.
- REQUIRED: Prior experience working with Javascript required.
- REQUIRED: Ability to pick up new languages and frameworks quickly.
- PREFERRED: Prior experience developing either business intelligence or games.
- PREFERRED: Prior mobile experience in either iOS or Android.
=Why Red Hot Labs=We’re a small 6-person FUNDED startup founded by the guys who made FarmVille and CityVille. We’re building mobile games and supporting services that we think are missing from the mobile ecosystem. This is not our first startup; our last one was acquired by Zynga and led to them being able to IPO using our core-tech and games.
Our company culture is one built on learning and the belief that everyone is a student and everyone is a teacher. We want to work with folks that inspire us to learn more and do our best work. We invest in our employees and want to help you grow in both your core skill-set and other areas you may be interested in. We can afford to do this while we’re small.
We focus on shipping quickly and constantly (our first game was built in 6 weeks with no pre-existing client-side code), so this is a great place to experience shipping multiple products. Our product development process is a full-team collaborative one based on a healthy balance of metrics and design intuition. We care A LOT about good design and are always striving for putting out products we’re proud of both technically and visually.
Our tech-stack is built on accelerating the ability to ship. We’ve developed a unique client/server architecture that we use for all of our apps that allows us to write new backend connected mobile apps without having to write modify any server code. This backend combined with our unique embedded-JS frontend allows us to deploy fully featured cross-platform apps very quickly. Our first-game was featured on Google Play and was built in about 6 weeks.
=Perks=
- WORKCATIONS! We’re a small company so we do unscalable things such as
rent a house for the whole team and spend a week working from a Ski-house Tahoe
or in a beach-house in Hawaii.
- Early-stage startup equity grants
- Health/Dental/Vision insurance
=Our stack= - An advanced client-side architecture written in C++ and
using embedded-JS bound to Objective-C/Java for our iOS and Android apps.
- Redis, Couchbase, Rails for our backend API.
- Mostly AWS with a little bit of Heroku for our hosting.
- AngularJS, jQuery, Underscore for our dashboard and web apps.
- 3rd party services: Twilio, Mailgun, Mixpanel, Crittercism, Testflight
=Relevant press= - About our culture:
http://gamesauce.org/news/2013/05/31/red-hot-labs-sons-of-zynga-forge-bridge-to-the-beyond/
- About our strategy:
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/28/zynga-veterans-red-hot-labs-says-can-cut-game-development-time/
- About our funding:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/28/red-hot-labs/
=Applying=Send an email to jobs+HN@redhotlabs.com with a little bit about yourself and what you’re looking for in a new role and we can chat a bit more about what we’re up to in detail. We look forward to speaking with you!
-Amitt (Founder/CEO)
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#258Details are here, http://has.themorpheus.com/
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, Senior Dutch Perl programmers have left the company as they couldn't take this exploitation any more. The aim of the company management is to get developers from other countries who are unaware/ignorant of this dog treatment. They are trying very hard to stop their bad reputation from spreading but as you mentioned the developer community is closely knit and it doesn't take long for the word to spread. What i…
brian (if this is indeed the same brian d foy, I don't know since he always uses 'd' with his name, per his style guide: http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html ), I'm rather surprised to see you writing this. First, it should be clear that for obvious reasons, I can't identify the company in question. My wife and I are starting a company trying to help people live their dream of living in other countries and that's…
Good Dutch companies give out indefinite contract to the expats at the beginning of their employment itself but not Booking.com.
Booking.com gives out a 1 year contract to start with and after every 2 years kicks out its developers and gets new ones. So the frequent hiring you see is one of the side-effects of this cheap policy. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the big names Curtis "Ovid" Poe mentioned jumps on this mailing list to say - "not me", but the truth is this is their cheap game.
So after two years the delta of ones career capital can be summed up as:
1. experience in copy pasting code and cargo culting which would translate to nothing when you try out for another job.
2. no monetary benefit. Booking has the most underpaid developers in the industry. Those bonuses they promise never come. Given how expensive Amsterdam is, one wouldn't have saved up a penny after two years and if you have a family you might end up in debt.
In short one is ruining his/her best two years without any increase in career capital or monetary standing.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you need a National Insurance Number to work, you need to have permission to work in the UK to be paid.
Is it generally hard to issue permission in UK, or this means that some particular company is not capable of doing it?