Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by jtheory » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 2:55 AM UTC

Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only. Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Working hours: within a few hours of GMT (current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangalore).

See my other posts for more depth on work-life balance (& hiring working parents = many of us), building something that improves life/health, our culture (collaboration and good communication, not competition).

Superb communication skills required -- we all need to be highly articulate, clear, and at ease talking through complicated concepts with each other (skills talking with strangers: useful, but not an everyday requirement). Sometimes remote work tools are (nearly) flawless, but with some bad luck you might be explaining something complicated over a choppy connection with a 4-second delay and a marching band in the background.

If you're interested in PKB's growth, funding, profitability, contracts, etc., ask -- our CEO is also active on HN. Or Google us. I'm in the CTO role.

Current positions we're filling (continuously):

- Mobile developer: existing apps with Steroids(better Cordova, basically), OAuth2, JSON, REST. Later this year: helping choose tech for our next-gen apps.

- Mid-level to senior full-stack devs: Java expertise required. Of interest / stuff we're using: migrating bit by bit from J2E (JBoss/Hibernate, Tomcat/Spring/Struts) to simple microservices (DropWizard/SpringBoot) -- experience on either side of this migration is useful. TeamCity, Artifactory, Docker, Vagrant (dev environment), Selenium-based integration testing. CentOS, PostgreSQL (should be comfortable with native SQL), Hadoop DFS (just adding in now...). Crypto at various levels ("using it carefully", not "inventing it"). REST and SOAP/HL7 APIs. This isn't a checklist; we like partial overlaps in particular if you've worked with tools/ideas we're not yet using (but maybe should).

- Product manager: technical background (not just mgmt), startup mindset (look ahead, self-prioritize, adapt fast). Gather the best ideas from customers & us, and help us guide projects through to completion. Bonus points: good grasp of healthcare and mobile apps.

Bonus points (all positions) for significant experience in the medical world (as an intelligent patient counts!), as well as some history building things from scratch.

More details (and to submit an application): https://www.patientsknowbest.com/careers.html

Note that at present my record for active communication with people applying isn't great. :| We've recently switched to Workable and I'm sharing out this work so it's not purely reliant on bits of time I can claw out of an over-full schedule! If you've already applied, no need to re-submit; we haven't lost anything.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by psanyal78 » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 2:56 AM UTC

mstanleys wrote: post #259

SEC | NY $115,000 - $205,000 We're building the SEC's next generation analytic platforms to keep our markets safe, effective, and trusted. Come build awesome tools to analyze big data. We do quantitative analysis, machine learning, plus good old fashioned product development. At the end of the day we are creating modern, elegant applications that help our government be more awesome. Join a small team of talented deve…

Hi Team,

I am interested in this opportunity but I don't see any option to send my cv. Here is where you can reach me -

psanyal78@gmail.com

Take care, ~Partha.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by wkirby » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 3:21 AM UTC

p4wnc6 wrote: post #230

wkirby wrote: post #219

Seattle, WA - REMOTE: Apsis Labs is looking to add our 4th engineer. We are a small design & development shop located in Seattle, WA, but work as a distributed team. We have a stable client base, offer retirement and health benefits, competitive salary, and a 20-hour work week. Read more about our job philosophy here: http://apsis.io/apsis/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably/ . Questions, contact: jobs at apsis.io

Your working philosophy is great! However, it's very difficult to determine from your web page what types of engineers you're looking for. Can you elaborate on the particular skill set you need, and a little on the primary technologies that a candidate should have in order to be relevant?

Our approach to engineering is pretty utilitarian: we don't specialize in any specific technologies (though we do build a lot of Rails applications), instead we believe a good engineer will be capable of working on any stack. We look for candidates with solid fundamentals, and exceptional communication: because we're a small company, everyone here takes on a lot of roles, and strong relationships with our clients is absolutely essential to our success.

If you're curious, capable, and intent on improving, we'd love to talk to you about what you might have to offer.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by the_gigi » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 3:38 AM UTC

Aclima - http://www.aclima.io - San Francisco, CA

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Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks that help people live aware. Aclima’s sensor networks generate billions of data points to reveal actionable insights about buildings, cities, and communities. In collaboration with partners like Google and the EPA, Aclima applies these insights to improve human and planetary health. Aclima’s mission is to use this new body of knowledge to create a more resilient, healthy and thriving world. For more information, visit www.aclima.io.

We are looking for passionate engineers to help build, scale, and improve our platform. We have no required list of skills or years of experience. Instead, we’re looking for engineers who are smart and get things done. Our engineering culture values rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and as much automation as is sensible. We work in a relaxed, purpose-driven atmosphere with flexible hours and competitive perks.

Open Positions:

* Full-time Performance-Oriented Backend Engineer

- Great coding skills

- Solid understanding of distributed systems

- Experience optimizing complex systems involving relational and non-relational databases

Our stack includes: Python, Git, Google Cloud Platform, MariaDB, Cassandra, Nginx, NSQ, Redis, Ansible

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If you’re up for the challenge, apply directly: http://boards.greenhouse.io/aclima

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by mike_h » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 3:39 AM UTC

Titan Urban ┋ Bay Area, CA ┋ Fulltime ┋ONSITE

Launching with the biggest possible customer, and more are waiting.

Work with a star team of ground-transportation industry veterans to build a new on-demand ride platform. Not ride sharing: premium vehicles, premium drivers, available only to corporate clients. We need:

  - Mobile
  - Web
  - Backend
  - QA

We have two iOS apps, an Android app, and lots of interesting work to do on the web and backend. So far it’s been a sprint, and so we’re looking for some disciplined and thoughtful developers to lay the groundwork for a mature system that will take us through the upcoming growth.

We’re small, so we can offer meaningful equity along with salary. Relocation possible.

This is an unusual opportunity to join a small startup with significant traction, and work closely alongside team members making a ground transportation operation come to life. Our product team includes founders of legendary and successful startups, and we maintain a tough but nurturing culture. We're looking for people who want to do the best work of their lives and be rewarded for it, because that's what we're doing right now.

There have been some crazy twists and adventures so far, with more to come. For more info, please email my username minus the _h at titanurban.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by svec » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 3:46 AM UTC

iRobot | Boston, MA and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE

Happy 2016!

iRobot, maker of the Roomba vacuuming robot, builds all sorts of robots to help people (and carry cats), and we're hiring all sorts of software engineers - cloud, robotics, Android, iOS, embedded, and more. Please check out all our jobs at:

https://careers-irobot.icims.com/jobs/search?pr=0

And please email me with any questions, I'm always happy to talk to other HN'ers: csvec and then the at sign followed by irobot dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by svec » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 3:51 AM UTC

speek wrote: post #18

Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA -- ONSITE ****************** === What we do === ****************** We're building skynet (except we're focusing 100% on logistics, less so on the murder part) -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and pretty much everything else that moves in the supply chain (all the way down to the container/pallet level) so we can make predictions about what's goi…

Props for your MSP430 shoutout. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by vtuulos » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:14 AM UTC

AdRoll - San Francisco

If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team.

To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here:

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/09/22/data-pipelines-d...

and more about our approach to data science, see here

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data-science/2015/08/25/factoriz...

http://tuulos.github.io/pydata-2014/

I'm happy to tell you more by email (ville@adroll.com) or over coffee in SF.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by NolMan » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:24 AM UTC

Opendoor - www.opendoor.com - San Francisco, CA - https://www.opendoor.com/jobs

At Opendoor we're changing the way homes are bought and sold.

Moving is one of life’s most stressful events, with months of uncertainty. We are empowering people with a simpler, more thoughtful approach to selling their house and buying their dream home. We are live in our first market and are experiencing phenomenal growth. We have an amazing team of talented and passionate engineers and data scientists.

We are looking for general engineers, front-end engineers, and data scientists to help us change the real estate industry. We've been featured on the breakout list http://www.breakoutlist.com/

Technologies we work with: Angular, Rails, PostGIS, Python, AWS, Webpack, Phoenix (Elixir), GoLang, Docker.

Help us reinvent life’s largest and most important transaction.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by p4wnc6 » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:34 AM UTC

wkirby wrote: post #283

p4wnc6 wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your working philosophy is great! However, it's very difficult to determine from your web page what types of engineers you're looking for. Can you elaborate on the particular skill set you need, and a little on the primary technologies that a candidate should have in order to be relevant?

Our approach to engineering is pretty utilitarian: we don't specialize in any specific technologies (though we do build a lot of Rails applications), instead we believe a good engineer will be capable of working on any stack. We look for candidates with solid fundamentals, and exceptional communication: because we're a small company, everyone here takes on a lot of roles, and strong relationships with our clients is…

Thank you for the reply! I appreciate the philosophy of hiring generally good people and letting them learn new stacks as needed. However, there's also something to be said for specialization. For example, I work in scientific computing and have never touched Rails. Even though I might be able to learn what you do, I think we'd both probably agree I'm not the right person for it -- so even just those few extra bits of info about Rails make it so much more efficient for both of us.