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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#251

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 16 people (5 engineers) across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia) We'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 1.1 million users and our annual run rate is over $2m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business. We're looking to expand our engineering team with…

I really love bufferapp, are you hiring for non-tech roles. Literally any!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#252

Rap Genius (YC S11) - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com – Help us build the Wall of History jobs@rapgenius.com IF YOU PASS OUR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW AND RECEIVE A JOB OFFER FROM US, WE'LL GIVE YOU $1,000 CASH (even if you don't take the job!) http://news.rapgenius.com/2368105 We're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and y…

work permit need or willing to help with H1B?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

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Likely - Shoreditch, London, UK. Full Time & Contract.

Clojure + Hadoop + Cascalog + Clojurescript + Redshift + Lambda Architecture http://likely.co/ Founded in 2011, Likely is at the forefront of social media data collection and analysis having helped companies such as Coca-Cola and the British Government develop highly engaging, relevant presences online.

We analyse billions of social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand how people cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”, we have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with a brand’s content and understand what content will resonate most with them.

We're looking for: Software Developers. We have a sophisticated Clojure data engine at the core of our business that has been built according to Lambda Architecture principles on top of AWS. This excellent foundation drives our data business, our client work and powers our products. We are looking for developers to join our talented team to help us reap the rewards of this architecture with further data-driven products as we scale our business.

A front-end focused Developer. We are looking to enhance our front end capability with an experienced front end developer. This is fantastic opportunity to develop responsive, highly visual applications which present our company's primary asset - our insights - to our customers. You will be working on our new products and will have the opportunity to develop and shape our front end capabilities from the ground up.

Both roles will be working closely with the CTO but will be given the responsibility and flexibility to design and build systems as part of a small, highly focused development team. In return we offer:

• A competitive basic salary

• 10% of time dedicated to hack-day projects

• An excellent working environment with ample opportunity for progression

• Open to flexible working

• 30 days holidays per year

• A company commitment to quality technology and external training

Please email henry@likely.co (yes, just .co!) or contact us through our website.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

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Geckoboard - London, UK. Fulltime.

We’re a growing (~15 person) startup based in Shoreditch (London, UK) with a small (~5 person) engineering team. Geckoboard makes it easy for businesses to see their key metrics on elegant, real-time dashboards. Our customers include large and small tech companies, government and non-profit organisations.

We've set up our culture to be as employee friendly as possible. Being a relatively small team everyone has the opportunity to steer the direction of our technology and processes. We're solving a number of interesting problems to do with sc aling, data storage and visualization.

Ruby Engineers

Check out the job spec here: http://www.geckoboard.com/jobs#op-25466-ruby-engineer

Javascript Engineers

Check out the job spec here: http://www.geckoboard.com/jobs#op-26828-javascript-engineer

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#255

I have an early-stage startup and I have a huge workload right now and I could use some help with the Rails/database side of things so I can focus on everything else. This is not a useless instagram-like app that adds no value- this is a great chance for you to get in very early one something that is going to change the way things are done... You: preferably a senior Rails developer with web/scaling experience. +for…

BTW, you don't have any contact info here or (publicly visible) in your profile, do you probably won't get very much of a response.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#256
Distilled, London - Front End Developer

http://www.distilled.net/jobs/creative-front-end-developer/

Distilled is looking for a front-end developer to work on all sorts of fun projects. You’ll be a recent graduate or someone with a few year’s experience. We’re more interested in hiring the right person than the number of years under your belt.

You’d be joining a fun, sociable office with a great culture and work-life balance. Perks include weekly beer o’clock, bi-monthly parties, a Mario Kart room, table football, and a personal happiness & productivity budget (which you can choose to spend however you want - anything from training courses to noise-cancelling headphones and iPads).

£30,000 to £35,000 - with opportunity for rapid salary growth (we're also willing to consider any reasonable salary request). Applying takes 3 minutes - just send your CV and some examples of your work.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

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post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I understand what you're saying correctly, I don't believe you can invokee a constructor defined in one window within another window ever. Javascript code is sandboxed to its current window/session in all browsers. You can't have multiple windows interacting with each other without some form of server-side code being involved. For what you're talking about (a web framework that has real time communication capabili…

var win = window.open(some_url_on_the_same_domain); or var parent = window.parent; Now, you can access global variables on either parent or win.

oh cool. In my head when I see that I just think spammy popup :) I can't recall seeing it used for a legitimate purpose. But yeah that would accomplish what you're describing.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#258
http://www.togethera.com - Remote (London preferred)

We’re building the easiest way for families to stay connected through private sharing of thoughts, photos and videos. We're just getting started, but already have users who tell us that Togethera: "is enriching our lives" and "bringing our family closer together even though we're scattered across the world", “I’d be very disappointed if Togethera wasn’t there tomorrow”. Some of those users are 90-year old grandparents and some young children - both using connected devices to share with those closest to them for the first time.

We have big plans and are backed by impressive angel investors in London and the U.S. - most are successful entrepreneurs themselves.

Our product is driven by a RESTful API built in Python and Django. The web front-end runs on AngularJS and we’re currently working on our mobile apps running on Phonegap for Android and full native for iOS.

We’re hiring for two roles: 1) a versatile developer who’s comfortable with our stack and an expert in front-end development, and 2) an iOS engineer who is obsessed with building the absolute best user experience that iOS can provide.

PERKS & CULTURE

We've worked with excellent contractors for our MVP, and we're now looking for people who are ready to commit to a startup and (if possible) join us in London. You'll have real influence on the product, strategy, team and culture with the freedom and responsibility to turn plans and ideas into reality.

We believe that you need to work when and how you’re most productive to deliver results, so we have flexible work hours and don’t count your days off (and insist you take at least 22 of them per year).

You'll help define our company culture and decide what perks would interest you - conference/travel budget, ideal workstation setup, free lunch...?

We want our team to share in the success of the company, so you can choose a combination of cash and equity to suit your financial situation.

If you're not in London, but are happy to move here from somewhere else in the UK/Europe, then we'll help you with expenses, finding accommodation and settling in.

To apply please send us an email at jobs@togethera.com with a bit about yourself and products you’ve built.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#259
Charlotte, NC – Software Engineer. Full-time and Internships - PassportParking.com

We’re building mobile payment solutions for parking. No more coins! We’re a small team growing fast and ready to bring on a few more developers to push things faster.

We've found the best way to form a relationship is through our programming challenge. Just show us your skills. (dont care to much for resumes!) http://passportparking.info/PassportProgrammingTest/

Feel free to reach out if you have questions! Cheers, Brad brad@passportparking.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

#260
Refresh - Mountain View, CA - Fulltime - http://www.refresh.io email: jobs@refresh.io

Must be local or willing to relocate (paid)

A tagline of what we do is: Refresh helps connect people at a deeper level by providing realtime insights about them just as you're about to meet them. The best description however is found by simply installing the app (Iphone only at the moment - we're in the app store, Android soon - see job description below!) and trying it yourself.

We're super proud of the team we've built and we plan to keep the caliber high. We have exactly one requirement for hiring an engineer - it's someone we'd like to work with. That's a simple statement, but if you dig deeper, there's a lot to it. It says that we think they're smart. And that we could learn from them. And that they could learn from us. And that we get along, and they fit our culture. And they're passionate about our product like we are. And of course - that they also want to work with us.

Our interviews are fun - at least we think so. They're largely modeled after Google interviews (there's a lot of Google interviewing experience in our team). Questions are either real problems we've had to solve (probably recently) or some abstractification of a bigger problem to see how you attack problems in general (with the "getting the right answer" not being the interesting part of the interview).

Specifically - We're looking for:

Backend Developers: You're a crackshot in your backend language of choice. As I said, we're building a system that does an incredible amount of work all while the user is waiting for it to complete - so needless to say, we're looking for people who care about performance. A lot.

Our backend is a highly concurrent system written in Java using MongoDB. You might know Java or you might not, but either way you're willing to learn. If you don't know it - you can impress us in your language of choice. You understand algorithms matter. You also understand sloppy database access could make that ugly n^2 algorithm look absolutely blazing fast.

You love to code. You love to show off your results now and then to other engineers (as they're probably the only folks around who might get the intricacies of what you're excited about)

We're looking for both Senior and Junior backend engineers. If you're a Senior Engineer - you've worked in server-side code for a few years. You've scaled to thousands or millions of users. You can talk to other Senior engineers with very few words because you both know the special cases, assumptions, and pitfalls cold.

If you're a Junior engineer, you love to code and you're good at it. But most importantly - Be smart. Be passionate. Be excited. (New grads please apply!)

Android and IOS engineers:

You have apps in the store you can show us. You care about the user experience. You have a few years under your belt in either Objective-C or Android-Java.

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