Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

United States Digital Service (USDS) | Senior Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and more! | Washington, DC (ONSITE required, but most of us are 100% REMOTE during COVID-19) | https://www.usds.gov/

The United States Digital Service is a team of cross-agency federal technologists who work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people, including: streamlining immigration, helping veterans get benefits, modernizing health care, reforming hiring, improving school safety, fixing procurement, and more.

Check out our most recent impact report for examples of what you could be working on: https://www.usds.gov/resources/USDS-Impact-Report-2020.pdf

We're looking for the most empathetic, mission-driven, and tenacious technologists who are committed to untangling, rewiring, and redesigning critical government services. We hire folks from all walks of life who have demonstrable experience tackling complicated problems in the public, private, or non-profit sectors.

We're hiring for:

  * Software Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, DevOps)
  * Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Security Engineers
  * Product Managers
  * Data Scientists
  * Designers (Generalists, Strategists, User Researchers, Interaction Designers, Content Strategists, Design Operations, and everything in between)
  * Procurement Specialists
  * Bureaucracy Hackers
  * and more!
  

With regard to remote work during the pandemic, health and safety are our top priority for all employees. Everyone is currently working remotely, and we don’t have any specific timeline to return onsite yet. During this time, all new hires will start fully remote, though the expectation is they will come onsite to the DC metro area when we are able to resume normal operations. We also understand everyone’s circumstances may vary, and we will work closely with each person to make sure their transition works best for them

Come join us in shifting government tech in the right direction -- no prior government experience required!

Read more about getting hired here: https://www.usds.gov/faq

Apply here: https://www.usds.gov/apply

Microsoft | Sr. Data & Applied Scientist | Bellevue, WA | Full-time

At the Web Data team we're looking for a passionate Applied Scientist to help us on our mission of employing deep learning to understand all the data on the web; the largest store of information in human history. With this understanding we power end-user experiences across a variety of areas, including: • Relevance of search results on Bing.com • Question answering • Recommender systems

As a team, we play a central role in document understanding and aggregation of data across documents leveraging the web graph. Work in our team is unique in that you'll be able to work with trillions of documents, which pushes the boundaries of our infrastructure and computational resources. Moreover, it provides interesting challenges that haven't been encountered before, thereby combining research and product applications.

Examples of our team's work include: • Revolutionize the field of information retrieval through bridging the gap between end to end dense retrieval and the traditional cascade approach of sparse retrieval with BERT reranking. [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00808.pdf] • Develop the best technology to bring deep learning solutions to unprecedented scale, for example we built the world's fastest tokenizer. [https://github.com/microsoft/BlingFire] • Establish new benchmarks for natural language understanding tasks such as key phrase extraction. [https://github.com/microsoft/OpenKP]

We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist with demonstrable skills in information retrieval, deep learning, natural language processing and/or large-scale distributed computing.

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/990004/

Weav (YC W20) | Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote

At Weav, we’re building a universal API for integrating with businesses’ commerce platforms (e.g. Stripe, Square, Amazon).

Weav makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to share commerce data with fintech companies and financial institutions. This enables these businesses to access new services and financial products that help them grow and succeed.

The company is currently fully remote and our development team is spread across the USA, Canada and Tel Aviv. We use Golang, Python, Docker, MySQL and AWS. We prefer candidates with 2+ years of industry experience.

We are looking for backend engineers who are interested in building a developer-centric product and are curious/excited about supporting the next generation of fintech. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of your work from development to testing to deployment.

We’re growing fast, join us!

Job description: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/33566 Website: https://www.weav.co

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails. Feel free to email me with questions stefan@weav.co

Grist Labs | Software Engineer | New York, NY or REMOTE (US) | Full Time | https://www.getgrist.com/jobs-engineer

We are building Grist, the evolution of spreadsheets, an easy-to-use platform for individuals and small businesses to organize their data better.

Grist (https://www.getgrist.com) gives non-technical people the power of a relational database, versatile data layouts, real-time sharing, access control rules, and much more. Our more technical users appreciate Python formulas and API support. On top of all that, Grist is open-source (https://www.getgrist.com/blog).

* Software Engineer: 4+ years of software engineering experience.

* Tech: TypeScript, Node.JS, SQL, Python.

* Fun puzzle: https://bank-puzzle.getgrist.com/ is encouraged as part of the application process. Or apply by emailing your resume to jobs@getgrist.com.

Arcesium | Distributed Systems Engineer | Product Manager | Software Engineer | Technical Relationship Manager | Enterprise Engineer | Product Support Consultant | New York, NY | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa

Arcesium is a technology and tech-enabled services company. We deliver front, middle, and back office solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional asset managers, hedge funds, asset allocators, and banks. Through a combination of advanced automation, innovative data management tools, and anomaly-resolution workflows, Arcesium’s clients can achieve a single source of truth, scalable to millions of data points, for use throughout their entire organization.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world's leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world's largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. Since then, we have grown to support more than $380 billion in assets with a staff of over 1,000 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

Arcesium is hiring for the following roles:

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-Product Manager [https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jo...]

-Software Engineer [https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jo...]

-Technical Relationship Manager [https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jo...]

-Enterprise Engineer [https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jo...]

-Product Support Consultant [https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jo...]

To learn more about these positions and apply, please visit https://arcesium.com/careers.html

In accordance with our standard procedure for processing applications for employment, candidate resumes and associated information may be sent to Arcesium affiliates in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, and possibly other locations where Arcesium or its affiliates maintain offices. Please note, applicants will be considered for employment opportunities only in those countries in which they have expressed interest. Arcesium will use reasonable care to maintain the confidentiality of applicant information and will not disclose it to any unaffiliated third party unless expressly requested or authorized by the applicant, or in a judicial, legislative, or administrative investigation or proceeding or to a government or other regulatory agency.

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.