Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind. What problems? Help kids afford college by making it easier for them to find and receive scholarships.

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The Company: A small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education The Department: A 3-member product engineering team within an 11-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. Our company values are kindness and respect, engagement, and obsession with our clients' experience, and we all strive to exhibit those daily.

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jcody@academicworks.com

More: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Everwise | New York, NY | Onsite | Software Engineer, Architect | Onsite

We're a Sequoia-backed SaaS company, has developed a completely new model for talent development. Our mission is to help the world’s professionals reach their full potential by connecting them to the people and resources they need to thrive at each stage of their career.

About Engineering @ Everwise We're a small engineering team based in NYC. Day-to-day we leverage Agile, Ruby on Rails, AWS, React, Redis and Postgres. We're very adaptable and looking for someone who welcomes the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.

Responsibilities - Build and enhance the front-end of Everwise's web applications. - Turn mockups into working products. - Rapidly prototype new features and quickly iterate on what works and what doesn't. - Analyze site/page speed and help provide performance solutions.

Your Qualifications - Experience with client-side JavaScript and MVC frameworks (Backbone/Angular/Ember is a plus). - Experience with mobile optimization, HTML5 and CSS3. - Experience with object oriented server-side programming, Ruby on Rails a strong plus. - Understanding of unit and functional testing best practices (Rspec, Jasmine, Protractor, and Selenium are bonuses).

Benefits We offer a very competitive base salary and bonus potential. We also provide a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401K, paid time off (PTO), employee stock option plan and transit benefits.

We would consider relocating the right candidate to NYC. Feel free to apply at https://www.geteverwise.com/careers or shoot me an email (shenglong@).

Scribd | San Francisco, CA | Senior Backend Engineer | VISA | ONSITE

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads!

My team is looking for smart engineers to work on recommendations, search, and payments (no experience in these areas required). We are a small team which means you can have a ton of impact and bring in your own ideas. We work on an ambitious project to organize all the books in the world and use it to take book discovery to the next level.

Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture, is profitable, and well funded. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance.

Stack: Ruby on Rails (we are one of the largest Rails sites), Go, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Spark (Scala). But we care way more about your personality and hacking skills than what languages you've used so far.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YC companies, probably more than from any other startup our size. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

If you have questions you can reach me at adrian at scribd.com (I'm the tech lead and happy to answer any question related to this role). Please apply directly via https://boards.greenhouse.io/scribd/jobs/76768. NB, we are also hiring for a lot of other positions: https://www.scribd.com/about/jobs.

Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering | Software Engineer - Optical Coherence Tomography | Graz, Austria | Onsite | Full Time

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Lead a small software development team working on development of an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) tool

* Write image processing and mathematical algorithms to evaluate raw data obtained from an OCT probe

* Define and enhance software scope, architecture and test suite

* Manage software release process, working with the business to ensure customer requirements and timelines are adhered to

* Work with the business to accurately define software user and functional requirements

* Manage software development resource allocation, including prioritisation of new features and issue resolution

* Document development processes and style guidelines

* Work with the business to propose enhancements to existing software development infrastructure

Knowledge, experience and requirements include: C/C++, CUDA, image processing and mathematical algorithms, embedded software development, including communication protocols, software version control repositories, specifically Git, and testing best practices.

Salary depending on qualifications and suitability

Contact:

Sandra Resl

sandra.resl@rcpe.at

Quote Reference number SK18

The backend engineer position sounds interesting. How does someone get relevant experience to be able to be qualified for that?