Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Funded eCommerce startup backed by great VCs, building the nucleus of a growing dev team in New York.

For UI Engineering Lead, we are looking for an experienced engineer to own user interface development and help scale the team as we grow. The senior engineer will also be a core founding member of our tech team and will work on product and our APIs.

Merchantry is a growing, fast-paced SaaS company with customers across the globe. In May, we raised our B round, and are funded by top NYC and Silicon Valley VCs (Greycroft, Kite and e.ventures). We were rated by Crain’s as one of the best places to work in New York in 2012.

Our Tech Team

* We are committed to doing things the right way, using the best technology available, and we want talented engineers who can bring these ideas to the browser. * We started out as a Java shop, and are now adding other languages such as Groovy / Grails and others. * On the front end, we are moving to Single Page Apps in addition to some java frameworks. You will help make some of these choices. * We are agile and continuously integrated. We want to be continuously deployed when we grow up, and also service-oriented. * We use Puppet for our DevOps, TeamCity for Continuous Integration, Zabbix for monitoring, Solr for search, and many other technologies.

Our Product

We connect product and fulfillment data between online retailers and their vendors. The product has several APIs for integration, and two user interfaces, one for vendors, another for retailers. Our professional services team is responsible for integrating product with high-volume clients. To give you a sense of scale, we are currently hosted on 20 servers in a premium data center and we are just getting started.

Please email resume to: jobs@merchantry.com. If you have some publicly accessible work (github, portfolio, photos of drawings you did as a child), please include links…..

More info here: http://goo.gl/uVZP9U

Crowdmark is an education technology company in Toronto building tools that help students learn and teachers teach. We're located in the MaRS building, convenient to the TTC.

We seek talented developers with expertise in Ruby on Rails or Javascript frameworks like Ember.js. If you're interested in transforming the global education system please send me an email at martin@crowdmark.com.

As an apprentice, you'll spend half your time working on internal projects for 8th Light. The rest of your time will be spent learning.

You’ll work with a dedicated mentor who'll provide daily lessons and reading assignments to help guide you along.

Apprentices in software development will learn about:

Test Driven Development. Design Patterns and Principles. Programming Languages and Frameworks. Collaborating with stakeholders. Pair programming effectively. Putting theory into practice.

Apprentices in user experience will learn about:

Front-end development. Current practices in web design. Principles of layout and typography. Collaborating with stakeholders. Pair programming effectively. Putting theory into practice.

Apply here: http://8thlight.com/apprenticeship

I personally went through the software development apprenticeship as I wanted to learn how to TDD after working for 4-6 years in the industry and wanting a change. I am posting this because if you are a good candidate for the resident program it is a paid position.

Akvo creates and runs open source Internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development aid work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.

* Java developer - Amsterdam, EU.

We are hiring a Java developer to join the team for one of our core software products, Akvo FLOW. FLOW is an open source platform to collect, manage, analyse and display geographically-referenced monitoring and evaluation data.

We have some fun and hard problems to solve - how can we maintain and extend a complex tool with a lot of moving parts (a mobile app, a web platform, map displays) while keeping it simple and enjoyable for people to use? Double down when they need to be able to use it in areas of the world with low or scarce web and mobile connectivity.

You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office You need experience with developing web applications with Java, and experience with JS frameworks like Ember is a plus. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.

For this position, please contact ivan@akvo.org You must have a work permit already to work in Amsterdam.

* Python / Django developer - Amsterdam, Stockholm; EU.

We are looking for an experienced web developer to work on our project visualisation and reporting system Akvo RSR. More than 1000 organisations use the around the world, everything from UN agencies, governments to small local NGOs.

You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office or our Stockholm hub. You need experience with developing web applications with Python, and preferably Django. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.

For this position, please contact adrian@akvo.org You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

* UI designer / developer - Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam; EU.

If you are a UI designer / developer with startup experience wanting to contribute to make the world better, please read on!

We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, pro-active and energetic UI developer / designer. Reporting to the lead designer, your primary responsibility will be to create and ensure a consistent and beautiful UI throughout our software platform, which includes web applications, desktop applications and mobile / tablet applications.

You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products.

We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki, Stockholm or Amsterdam. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org