Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

http://www.smartleaf.com is a profitable, privately held 30-person financial SAAS company. We are looking for a person to fill a position that is trendily referred to as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps, but we think of as a senior systems administrator. You can write your own title within reason. This is a senior position with no management responsibilities.

You should be clever, competent, and kind. Serious experience requirements: Linux systems administration, two or more languages (many of our tools are written in Perl; the application is in C++ (back end) and Ruby on Rails (front end)), network engineering and security. You should know your way around Puppet or another systems automation tool. You must have the ability and desire to track down complex problems and solve them, learning as you go. Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential.

Nice-to-haves include Oracle or PostgreSQL DBA, large data management, VOIP and JunOS.

Full-time, on-site position with occasional telecommuting and shared on-call responsibility. Compensation includes salary, equity, 3-4 weeks of vacation, NYSE holidays, all insurance premiums, food, excellent coffee, and a collegial working environment.

An ex-employee described us as the most interesting group of people he had found outside of MIT. It probably helps if you're an SF fan.

Cover letters and resumes to future@smartleaf.com; we prefer plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please describe an interesting problem you have solved.

We are an ambitious, Munich-based, start-up looking to build the next generation search engine. We’re looking for equally ambitious talent to join our team as we research, develop, and apply state-of-the-art search and data technology.

Our office culture is centered around curiosity, playing with new ideas, and pushing boundaries. It is a place to experiment—so we’re most interested in candidates who are passionate about learning.

Candidates must also be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with challenging and, at times, demanding team. We are a team who are driven to push technology to the next level.

The technologies we’re working with include, but aren’t limited to: . Map-Reduce . Social signals . Distributed systems . Machine-learning/Boosted decision trees . Text mining . NLP . Feature Extraction . Distributed Learning . Big data . Indexing, Fast-Tiers . Web-Crawling, Deep-Web

Candidates must have a background in mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or something similar. He/she must have good coding fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages quickly. An interest in attacking challenges around state-of-the-art technology is a must.

Preferable: knowledge of Python/C/C++ . Preferable: knowledge of either Machine Learning, NLP, Distributed Systems, Crawling, Indexing, or Data Science.

First step in the recruitment process is an online coding challenge. Submit your CV/resume to jobs@cliqz.com and we will send you the challenge.

Playlist is a cloud-based, streaming internet radio service, a la Pandora, with plans to expand into on-demand music streaming. We currently have over 60M registered users with over 80M playlists. On a listener hour basis, Playlist generates 3X more advertising revenue than Pandora.

We are looking for full-stack Node.js developers who are interested in joining a small, remotely-distributed development team. Our stack consists of Node, MongoDB, and Angular, with a MySQL legacy database.

We are looking for someone with:

* 3-5 years minimum experience in web development utilizing modern languages.

* Understanding and experience using relational and non-relational data stores, including MySQL and MongoDB.

* Knowledge of current web standards: HTML5 and responsive design.

* Experience with front-end frameworks

* Familiarity with distributed source control tools

If you are interested, feel free to get in touch with me directly at jacob@playlist.com. I'd love to chat.

A couple of friends are looking for a developer to join them in London or remotely, they're building a product that connects families through private sharing and messaging.

I'm helping them out/advising them, their current stack includes a Python/Django backend/API and an Angular.js responsive frontend. They've already got an MVP built and have families using it, and they want someone to help them expand it. It's early-stage, so you'll be building the actual user-facing product and directly seeing how users like it.

Send them an email if you're interested! I definitely recommend them, they are really nice guys too.