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

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Developer, Quality Assurance - Akvo Foundation - Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, or REMOTE at UTC -5 to UTC +2

http://www.akvo.org/web/jobs#sqadev

To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to caetie@akvo.org.

Akvo seeks a developer to join our tech team that starts by contributing to software quality assurance (QA, SQA) across two of our core products - Akvo RSR and Akvo FLOW. You should be comfortable writing and running tests on features and bug fixes, helping our team implement testing process and frameworks, as well as engaging in conversations about our overall approach to QA and feature development. At the end of the day, we are looking for someone who is passionate about getting a quality product out that can have positive global impact.

Core skills required: writing scripts for verification and validation testing, enthusiasm for learning on the job and taking initiative to grow your role on the team over time.

Desired experience: Python, Java, open source projects, working in a widely distributed team, testing frameworks such as Lettuce, Selenium.

Our tech team is spread across several hubs, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, and Washington DC. You could work from one of these locations, or remotely from a home office. You must live in a time zone between UTC -5 to UTC +2 (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe) and speak fluent English. You must also already have residence or a visa to live and work in the location in which you will be.

Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.

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

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Akvo Foundation (www.akvo.org) - Experienced DevOps engineer to help open source software foundation scale and grow. Location: Amsterdam, London, Stockholm or REMOTE

Akvo seeks an experienced software development operations engineer to join our team and help us grow as we maintain and improve our core software products, Akvo RSR, Akvo FLOW and Akvo Openaid. You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving our cloud and SaaS infrastructure (eg servers, VMs and databases). We will also look to you to explore and recommend new technologies to help our team maintain and grow our infrastructure to respond to increasing demand for our products.

Core skills required: managing VMs, provisioning frameworks (eg Puppet, Chef, Salt), Linux.

You must live in a time zone between UTC -5 to UTC +2 (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe) and speak fluent English. You must also already have residence or a visa to live and work in the location where you will be.

Desired experience: maintaining cloud infrastructure, Java/Python, open source projects, integration projects, managing migrations, working remotely in a distributed team.

Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.

To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to caetie@akvo.org.

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

#273

London, England. CTO Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk Who are we Bar Pass Ltd, founded by two finance professionals with experience in providing technology within the hospitality industry, growing and advising young companies through from concept to profit. What we are doing Developing a mobile application that provides customers in a bar the ability to browse the menu, order and pay for food and drinks through their mobile…

Curious here - is that £20,000-£30,000 an annual salary.. for a CTO ? With only 5% equity in a startup with no existing assets? The only candidates you get are going to be people trying to scam you...

I was interested until I saw that salary. Try £60,000 - £90,000 and you might find some decent CTOs.

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

#274
beRecruited.com - Fulltime, on-site (San Francisco)

We're the nation's largest online college athletics recruiting platform, and we're hiring. Our team has smart, fun full-stack engineers (including 3 YC founders), and we're growing quickly.

Ruby on Rails or iOS developer? Get in touch with me:

http://blog.berecruited.com/careers or email me directly joe@berecruited.com (mention you saw this post on HN)

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

#275
London, UK

Wigwamm - An auction for rental property, every Monday night.

We're building in Meteor, so if you love JavaScript and want to build a product people love, visit http://blog.wigwamm.com or tweet me @WigwammHQ

In addition to technical talent, we'd be keen to talk to any biz dev people, especially if you have property experience.

Probably should say we're funded and work out of some beautiful spaces.

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

#276
HappyFunCorp (http://happyfuncorp.com) - Anywhere

We're trying to find 5-10 good developers, and we're also interested in designers and project managers.

We do web and app development for a panoply of clients ranging from Fortune 500 to brand-new startups: right now the distribution is roughly 50-50. Most frequently Android/iOS apps with a Rails-on-Heroku back end, but there's a fair amount of other variety too (PHP/Drupal, HTML5, etc etc etc.)

We're loosely based in NYC, with another cluster of people in the Bay Area and a third in Delhi, but remote engineers are very welcome - most of us (including me) work remotely 90+% of the time. We prefer people with a reasonable amount of experience under their belt, but there are always exceptions. And we pay well.

If you're interested, email me: jon@happyfuncorp.com

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

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post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I contacted KA months and months ago volunteering to help with the analytics, but never heard back.

Did you apply for a job as an intern or full-timer? We're mostly looking for longer-term non-volunteer commitments when dealing with things like our data/analytics, but our open source repos are very volunteer-friendly: https://github.com/khan/khan-exercises

For data analytics, would you employ from overseas like the UK?

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

#278
Bloc (http://www.bloc.io)

* We're looking for generalist developers (we're a Rails shop, but if you're willing to learn we're willing to teach)

* We're a small team of 6 (three technical cofounders)

* We pay market salaries and offer early-employee equity.

* We have traction, revenue, and funding

* Located in SOMA, San Francisco

* Health, Vision, Dental + 401K

At Bloc, we're building a vertically integrated education platform. If you're interested in bringing an Apple-esque obsession to building products in the education space, you should give me a ping! roshan [at] bloc.io

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

#279

Nuuton. Remote. Looking for a Python programmer. Experience in search is a plus. I don't want a rock star, just a mature and responsible person who can get the work done. No crazy hours or crunch time. Nuuton does not have a ping pong table.

Your blog is down.

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

#280
Boston, MA (Full time or single-project contract starting immediately)

EditShare http://www.editshare.com/

We are a small but rapidly growing company selling integrated hardware and software solutions for a professional digital video editing workflow. We have always been privately owned, never taken funding from anyone outside the company; you will be working directly with the CEO and co-owner, who built the company from a single machine at a trade show.

We are looking for a full-stack JavaScript developer, with experience in Node.js, Backbone.js, Socket.IO, and HTML5 video (or some suitable subset, or equivalent experience with similar frameworks). We are creating a web-based interface for a video asset management system, which will allow searching and playing video and adding metadata.

We are ready to hire immediately; we had the previous developer on this project leave unexpectedly, and have an urgent deadline approaching, so we are ready to give a job offer on Monday if you're good. Code samples are strongly recommended when applying.

http://ephemera.continuation.org/FullStackWebDeveloper.pdf

In addition, we are always looking for good engineers for our other products. We maintain our own Linux distribution (we are in the process of moving from an RPM based distro to an Ubuntu derivative) which forms the basis for our platform, and write management software in Python using Twisted, work on a variety of open source packages in C, and have application software written in C++. We strongly support open source software, funding and working closely with several projects, as well as having released Lightworks (http://lwks.com/), a professional non-linear video editor, for free (as in beer at the moment, though we plan to release the source code once we've finished the Linux and Mac ports and removed the proprietary codecs that we've licensed from third parties). So if you have experience in digital video, distributed systems, storage, backup, Linux packaging, Python, C, or C++, we would also love to hear from you.

Email resume and code samples (cover letter optional, but at least mention which position you are interested in) to: work(at)editshare.com

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