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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#272Ensighten - Cupertino (will relo) - (full-time and intern, designers, developers, leaders)
We help some of the biggest brands in the world (MS, Sony, AMEX, Purina, etc) manage the flows of data for their various digital footholds (web, mobile, etc). We've braved the early startup landscape and are looking to scale into a world class organization on the scale of most of our clients. We do JavaScript everywhere, and deal with massively scalable and highly available infrastructure composed of multiple commercial clouds (EC2, Azure, RackSpace, Terremark, etc). We're looking for brilliant and energetic people.
employment@ensighten.com http://ensighten.com/company/careers
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#273Austin, TX / NYC, NY / London, UK
Bazaarvoice is hiring for a bunch of positions - big data software engineers, front-end engineers, DevOps, etc. Ping me for more info.
Here's the DevOps spec:
Who We Want: Bazaarvoice serves traffic on some of the biggest websites on the internet. Every day our content is served to tens of millions of people making tens of thousands of requests per second, resulting in tens of thousands of gigabytes of traffic. Our request logs alone add up to almost 1TB daily. If the thought of doubling these numbers excites you, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities: * Develop internal tools and processes to maintain stability and performance of our infrastructure * Work with Development teams to build applications in an Operationally sustainable way * Design cross-datacenter, world-wide systems with a high availability mindset * Research, analyze and propose new technology solutions for Bazaarvoice's infrastructure * Make things go faster
Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role: * Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or MIS; or equivalent experience * 5+ years experience with LAMP development/administration * Hands-on scripting with shell & Python/Ruby/Perl * Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking & DNS * Excellent project management, communication, prioritization and analytical skills * Strong customer service mindset
Technologies: * Linux * Tomcat * Solr/Lucene * MySQL * Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC)
Bonus experience: * Puppet/Chef * Hadoop/BI/Big Data * Cassandra * OpenStack/Eucalyptus * Open source contributions
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#274Turku (Finland), Espoo (Finland), Manila (Philippines), remote work in also a genuine option.
Gecko Landmarks' brings location based services to everyone in emerging markets, because not everyone can (>60% of global population) read maps.
We are hiring a Software Developer (and Beyond) for mobile (Android, J2ME) and server-side (Python, Google App Engine) work.
More information: http://geckolandmarks.com/jobs.html
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#275Boston, MA- Jana's hiring: Full-Stack Web Developers, Web Development Interns, Head of Engineering
Jana.com is disrupting the advertising and research industry in the developing world. With our mobile platform we enable big players, like the World Bank, The Economist, or Microsoft, to get crucial customer feedback in days instead of months and have consumers test innovative products with the push of a button. We're engaging 2.1 billion people in emerging markets, earning revenue in 50 countries and have raised almost $10M from premier VC investors.
Our team bursts with talent from MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Google but we're pretty relaxed, except during weekly Settlers of Catan battles in the office, ice-cream runs on Wednesdays or beer runs every Friday.
In short, we're having fun disrupting century old industries through cutting edge mobile technology.
Right now we're looking for full-stack web-developers. So, if you think you could have the same kind of fun come talk to us!
You can view all our open positions and apply at: http://jana.com/about-us/careers/
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#276Unfold - Oslo, Norway - Full time.
We are currently looking for an ambitious and talented front-end developer with significant hands-on experience to join our team in Oslo, Norway.
You have extensive HTML, CSS and JavaScript knowledge. You’re eager to explore new technologies and techniques as our field is rapidly changing. While we are very focused around front-end development, server-side experience is also valued.
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#277Full-time front-end developer, San Francisco, CA or Provo, UT. Remote ok.
About Us:
Raised a $1.7 million seed-round from A-list investors (for details, http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/scan-gets-1-7m-from-google-... )
Scan, Inc. http://scan.me
Our mission is to connect the digital and physical world via QR codes, NFC, etc.
Right now we're working on fixing the broken user-experience with QR codes, and finding and executing on the use-cases where using a QR code is a net-win for the user.
For more, see http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/scan-gets-1-7m-from-google-...
About You:
* Lots of experience running a high-traffic site, handling everything on the front end (design, JavaScript & CSS, some scripting language such as PHP to talk to the back end)
* Loves getting hands dirty and jumping in to get lots of stuff done
* Methodical in doing things right the first time (unit testing, thinking of edge cases, etc)
* Loves to geek out learning UX, understands psychology and how to create blissful user experiences
5. Passionate about focusing on the user and what they want/need
Pluses
1. iOS and Android design experience 2. Thinks QR codes are broken, and has lots of ideas about how to fix them to bring users delight.
Email adam@scan.me to start a conversation. Point me to your work and tell me a little about yourself.
Thanks! Adam
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#278Function(x) Inc. / Viggle - New York City / San Francisco
Full-time - Software / Platform Engineers
Function(x) is a start-up "mode," technology driven media company that recently launched the award-wining iOS app (coming soon to the Android market) dubbed Viggle - the first of its kind loyalty and rewards program for watching television (bit.ly/GHC4t2).
You can check into your favorite TV shows with Viggle and get great, real, tangible rewards such as movie tickets, music, gift cards and much, much more. All just for watching the TV shows you love.
The main conduit through which people interact with Viggle is through the mobile platform, so your work will directly reach the millions of users across the country (and beyond) that we plan on reaching.
As a member of our product engineering team, you’ll build real products for the real world. You’ll be responsible for developing server-side infrastructure that powers our mobile and web based product offerings.
Responsibilities will include everything from product specification to system design to implementation to operational deployment. Function(x) systems operate at large scale under highly variable load, so experience with or interest in designing systems for high-availability and scalability is a must.
We’re building a great infrastructure to support Viggle – we’re not afraid to choose the best technology for the job, from Java to Node.js to RubyOnRails to Riak to PHP and Python We use open source and want our engineers to contribute back to the projects we use. Our development processes are agile and transparent.
Interested? See more:
San Francisco - http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oiwdWfwH&s=hackernews
New York - http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=of1PVfwK&s=hackernews
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#279Redular - Orange County, CA
We have recently secured funding for our next ambitious project and are building a team of 3 engineers to help us bring the project to life!
Requirements: - Formal Computer Science training - Have code you wrote running on a live web server, and working properly. - Proficient in OOP (PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, etc) - Basic understanding of MVC Frameworks - Love tackling hard problems.
Bonuses: - Previous Start-Up experience - Data Visualization experience - Machine Learning experience
Compensation and Perks: - $6k + Equity - Monthly beach day! (during the summer)
Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
#280Captricity - Berkeley, CA - Full-time (relocation assistance avail.)
Captricity is seeking a Chief of Technical Staff.
Captricity allows anyone to turn paper-based data into structured electronic data. Our vision is to bridge the physical and electronic worlds of data. The genesis of the company comes from research on how technology can improve the efficiency of low-resource organizations around the world.
We’re an early stage startup comprised of industry veterans and UC Berkeley Phd grads, combining cutting-edge research with proven skills in product design. We’re backed by some of Silicon Valley’s best investors and firms, tackling a huge problem with tremendous social and economic potential impact.
We’re looking for a proven technical leader who can lead a team of engineers to success; someone who can sling code with the best of them but wants broader scope and wants to make an impact — a really big impact.
We combine machine learning, computer vision and crowdsourcing to provide a seamless bridge between the offline and online worlds. You’ll help lead us in building and scaling out our technology, product, and business.
You: ambitious, technical leader, adept at managing both the technology and the people behind it. You’ll work with the company leadership on a regular basis; actually, you are part of the company leadership .
You’ll play a big part in creating and executing the company’s engineering and product roadmaps. Just as important, you’ll help define the engineering culture of the company and help us change the world. How often do you get to do that?
More details: http://captricity.com/jobs/#CTS