Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by gapcm » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 1:56 AM UTC

Vena Solutions - Toronto, Canada (Full-time)

We're a well funded company in full entrepreneurial growth mode looking to hire the best. We have two postings up on Careers 2.0 for Java and C# engineers:

C# Software Engineer: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/24625/software-enginee...

Java Software Engineer: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/24488/software-enginee...

Here is our story :)

In the Enterprise world Excel is everything. They love it, use it every day and whisper sweet nothings to it at night. The problem is that over time when dealing with a large number of users and lots of Excel files, Excel becomes unmanageable, inefficient and eventually 'Excel Hell' takes over.

What invariably ends up happening is a big old-guard player comes in and convinces the company to get rid of Excel, getting them to use an Excel 'look and feel'. The problem is that it's not Excel - rather it's a crappy web grid that gives the company 10% of what Excel can do. This story has played out over and over again – the customer buys the solution, ends up hating it and eventually moves back to using Excel.

At Vena we're coming at it from an entirely different angle: stay in Excel! We provide all the benefits of a big player solution while keeping the user in the one place they know and love: Excel.

We're a well funded company in full entrepreneurial growth mode looking to hire the best. If you want to work on something that great companies like McDonalds and Wells Fargo actually use then look no further than Vena Solutions.

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

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Post by sjg007 » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 2:48 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #108

Netflix Los Gatos, CA I'm still looking for SREs who want to help me run the biggest subscription internet video service on the planet with better reliability than the cable providers. If you're interested mail talent@netflix.com and tell them you saw my post on Hacker News. Here's the official job link: http://jobs.netflix.com/jobsListing.html?id=NFX00315

wait? jedberg went to netflix? cool!

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

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Post by crcastle » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 3:26 AM UTC

Seattle - JavaScript Engineer at Simply Measured (full-time)

http://simplymeasured.com/about/careers/

We’re looking for a hungry and brilliant senior engineer with deep expertise in Javascript to join the Simply Measured engineering team. You’ll work with the technical leadership to solve hard problems and build the foundations of the product offerings our customers love. We love data, we love analytics, and we love making our customer’s lives easier.

What you’ll need to be hired for the job:

- Mastery of Javascript

- Experience with SVG and/or Canvas

- Experience in data visualization

What you’ll need to grow into being great at your job:

- Mastery of Ruby

- Deep understanding of functional programming techniques(map, reduce, select, etc)

- Experience with Excel and preferably Ecma-376

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

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Post by bitovi » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 4:43 AM UTC

Bitovi | San Jose or Mountain View, CA | Frontend Developer

Bitovi, the JavaScript consulting company best known for the JavaScriptMVC and CanJS frameworks, is looking for a super-star web developer to join our consulting team to help develop kick ass web apps.

You'll have the opportunity to contribute to open source projects (http://bitovi.com/open-source/), speak at and attend conferences, manage, develop, and maintain client projects (http://bitovi.com/consulting/).

For more info, check out http://bitovi.com/people/bitovi-is-hiring.html. You can email me directly at brian at bitovi dot com.

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

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Post by abreckle » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 5:04 AM UTC

Visual.ly, San Francisco, CA

The Position: Web Developer Intern

Us: We're a small team of people who are dedicated and have a passion for data visualizations and infographics. We're nimble. That means we're following a user-centered approach; we value people's feedback and iterate quickly. You: You contribute to the code on each level of the stack working closely with designers and fellow developers. You show an eagerness to learn and a thirst for knowledge. You are comfortable context switching from project to project. Help us build the next generation visualization software as a state-of-the art web application. Interested parties can apply by emailing us through our website, http://visual.ly/about/jobs

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

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Post by samstave » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 6:03 AM UTC

tarmigan wrote: post #216

HorizonXP wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh God... I always said that the only companies I'd give up my startup ambitions for was SpaceX and Tesla. I just returned to Toronto from San Jose and I saw your plant from the 880. Absolutely amazing looking. Can you tell us more about what the stationary storage team works on? From the name, it sounds to be the systems that the user uses when they store the vehicle at the end of their trip?

If this makes the news I'll probably be fired :-) Stationary Storage is basically energy storage (in non-moving context) and is commonly tied to the electrical grid. There are various technologies used for stationary storage like compressed air, flywheels, pumped hydro, and batteries. I'll let you guess which one we work with. I can't talk specifically about any of our projects, but a few of them have had an article…

Tarmigan, I have a friend who really MUST work at Tesla. He was a staff eng at Sun, National Semi, Cobalt, etc.

He is a master in solar power generation monitoring (designs custom embedded BACNET boxes, develops standards based protocols for energy monitoring, fosters the creation of industry working groups around said protocols/ideas, etc) among other things wrote the first book on SAMBA... blah blah blah.

This guy will solve (if he hasnt already) this for you:

>* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets

>* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources

YOU NEED TO HIRE THIS GUY.

How can I connect you both?

Please reply to my email addy in my profile.

As a finders fee, I humbly ask to escort Elon Musk's ashes to Mars.

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

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Post by samstave » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 6:08 AM UTC

numlocked wrote: post #172

San Francisco - Kaggle is hiring engineers! At Kaggle you'll be building the platform at the center of the data science universe. You'll develop the infrastructure that enables Kaggle’s wordwide network of data scientists to compete and tackle the world’s most difficult predictive modeling problems. The tools you will develop go the heart of Kaggle's mission and technology offerings. Apply here: http://kaggle.theresu…

I only hear Kegel in my head when I read your name.. :(

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

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Post by witten » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 6:10 AM UTC

EnergySavvy - Seattle, WA

Our software helps people make their houses more energy efficient, addressing a major source of energy waste in this country that impacts our energy independence and contribution to global climate change. Focusing on high-quality code and excellent user experience, we enable our utility customers to run and optimize their energy efficiency upgrade initiatives.

Working at EnergySavvy means being part of a team that believes in both the mission of reducing energy waste and the importance of building great software.

EnergySavvy's growing rapidly, but we're incredibly selective. We're looking for smart people who are passionate about building high-quality software and delighting users.

We're a small team, which means that we're rarely bored at work, we get to work on a variety of projects and there are tremendous growth opportunities. It also means we prize drive and integrity.

We're hiring backend Python devs, front-end devs, PMs, etc. Here's our jobs page: http://www.energysavvy.com/jobs/

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

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Post by nnash » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 7:54 AM UTC

jasonrr wrote: post #218

nnash wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any opportunities for design internships?

Yes! KA is looking for two types of design interns: product design interns, and visual design interns. We strongly recommend that product design interns be in (or have just completed) an HCI-like program[1] or have relevant real-world experience. Visual design interns can help with everything from making cool stuff around the office, to creating assets (like avatars) for the site, so digital art skills are a must. Th…

I'm currently enrolled in a masters HCI-like program, do you have a way I can get in touch with you? My email is in my profile if you would like to reply that way.

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

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Post by sklivvz1971 » Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 8:00 AM UTC

Trayport is hiring a permie and a contractor senior webby csharpers to work on the world's best and leading energy trading software. We are a full stack company (from the front end to post trade). The positions are for working on our real time risk mitigation application.

Contact: marco dot cecconi at gmail