Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

www.machinezone.com

We are focused on creating the most engaging free-to-play mobile social games in the world. After launching in 2008 with Y Combinator, Machine Zone has seen explosive annual growth with its highly successful free-to-play games, including iMob, Original Gangstaz, Global War, iMob 2, Race or Die 2, and new releases on the horizon. To date, the company has well over 40 million downloads of their iPhone games. We operate profitably and have raised two rounds of funding from Anthos Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Menlo Ventures.

Winner of the Crunchies Award (Techcrunch), we are a unique, highly talented and ambitious team of free-to-play game experts and rock-star engineers, all focused on building highly engaging mobile experiences for its gamers. We continue to expand our teams and look for top talent around the world to build not only the most exciting technical and social projects in mobile gaming, but to help create the best gaming company.

We are currently looking for any and all sharp, driven engineers but are particularly interested in people with backgrounds in:

-DevOps/Systems Engineering

-MySQL Database Administration or Business Intelligence

-C++ Game Development

-SDK Architecture

We pay competitively and have excellent perks (including catered dinners, free massages and house cleaning services, snacks, etc.)

If you are interested please shoot a quick email with your resume and any relevant links to akoike@machinezone.com

Coming soon here: http://tcx.io

Bring your passion and your talents. LA-based media start-up seeks senior front-end developer.

We're a hybrid of a start-up environment with the solid backing of an established firm (ie we're fully funded). Our team is made up of enthusiastic people looking to build a platform for the future of multimedia storytellers.

We're an ambitious, yet friendly and team-oriented group of people that are motivated by great design, tackling fun new problems and providing a top-flight user experience to the public.

Your skills: • All the usual HTML5, CSS3, JS, JQuery, PHP… standard but ambitious LAMP-stack stuff. • High preference for someone skilled in angularjs or willing to learn it and master it • High preference also for someone with knowledge of Symfony • You love building beautiful products that people can't stop using • You write hand-coded, cross-browser compatible, standards-based code • You are 100% comfortable building scalable, responsive, optimized websites from start to finish

Contact us at devs@tcx.io

Clustrix has developed a scalable relational database from the ground up, leveraging massively parallel processing and distributed computing to help solve one of the harder problems in modern IT -- how to scale a database. Our solution requires no sharding, no specialized application code, and applies the latest and greatest in computer science to building a database currently being deployed in a variety of world-class applications.

We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer with significant experience with systems-level development in C and solid systems experience in one or more of: File systems, Linux kernel development, Compilers, writing a web server, developing a game engine, working on a database, developing a caching engine, a media server, proxy server, or similar.

It's a fun and smart environment with an amazing product. We're growing and there are a lot of interesting problems to work on.

http://www.clustrix.com/company/careers-copy-0?gnk=job&gni=8...

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Many people believe that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we are trying to re-shape and accelerate science:

- Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal, and the paper being published. We need to remove that time-lag and introduce instant distribution of scientific ideas.

- Better peer review. Right now the peer review process takes 12 months to complete, and only surfaces the opinions of two academics - academics who may be biased, uninformed about the subject area, or just in a bad mood when writing the review. 2 people is too small a sample size. We need a faster and more robust peer review system, one that surfaces the opinions of the entire scientific community, across a variety of dimensions, and in real-time.

- Multi-media. Right now, scientists only share papers in PDF form. We need to bring about a science where scientists are incentivized to share data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, and comments on all these media. Right now 50% or more of the world’s scientific output does not get shared, because the system of credibility metrics only rewards one kind of format, the paper. We need to change this.

- Open access. We need to bring about a world where a villager in India has the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor in Harvard. When you open up access to the world’s scientific literature to the 2.5 billion people who are online right now, magical things can happen. It's an exciting time for science. Science is transitioning from a 17th century way of sharing ideas, based on the journal system, to a faster system of sharing ideas on the web. Science is a foundational part of global growth: almost every innovation in medicine and technology has its roots in a science paper.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accelerate science. We have made a good start: 2.9 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 13,000 join each day. We're a 12 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. Technologies we use include Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, and Mongodb. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others. Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. We are looking to hire a range of positions: * full stack engineers * growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels) There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/ (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/ (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. We will handle re-location, including visas, though unfortunately we are not currently hiring remote employees.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu