Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Cambridge, MA, USA

http://www.smartleaf.com is a profitable, privately held 30-person financial SAAS company. We are looking for four software engineers for various positions in the company: one in QA, one in financial engineering, and two for application work. None of these positions require you to manage other people. All of them are up at http://www.smartleaf.com/about/careers for your perusal.

You should be clever, competent, and kind.

Experience requirements: fluency in two or more languages (the application is in C++ (back end) and Ruby on Rails (front end)). You don't need to know C++ or Ruby, but you'll need to learn them. Some people use R for the sorts of thing one uses R for; lots of our internal tools are written in Perl. 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 experience with databases (Oracle or PostgreSQL, especially) or data feed engineering or being particularly good at math.

Full-time, on-site positions with occasional telecommuting. 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. As this is HN, I shall shamelessly namedrop: our CTO is Mark Nitzberg, who was at ViaWeb with PG.

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

kind of similar experience with me too during my intern search. My telephonic round went pretty well and the interviewer was very impressed by my problem solving approach. Later when I went on-site there were two interviewers and both focused on whether I remember the Ruby syntax or not. BTW I have 3+ year of full-stack developer experience at that time (Mar'13)

Twenty Recruitment - New York, NY

We are a recruitment firm, focused solely in NYC's startup, digital & tech space. We strategically support businesses at various stages of development, from inception through late series funding, to pre & post-IPO.

As many organizations in this space are competing for the best engineering talent, we help to accurately represent both company and opportunity to the potential candidate. We are flexible to our client's needs, taking on as much of the process as requested, including pre-screening and meeting each candidate before presentation.

Some of our current opportunities include:

-Senior Python Developer (Python Expert) - Post Series A Funded Startup with a Unique Networking Platform

-Front-End Engineer (Heavy JavaScript) - Post Series A Funded Startup with a Unique Networking Platform

-Test Engineer (Focus on Automation) - Post Series A Funded Startup

-Tech Lead/Senior Engineer (Java & PHP) - Disruptive Ecommerce Business, Post Series B Funded

-Tech Lead (Front-End, Node.JS) - Social Media & Brand Consulting Agency

-iOS Engineer - Fast growing, now Global E-Commerce Company

-Product Manager - Fast growing, now Global E-Commerce Company

-Lead Platform Engineer (Ruby) - Crowdfunding space

-Lead Front-End Engineer (Ruby) - Crowdfunding space

Please get in touch to understand how we can be a resource to you, as well as to learn further details on these opportunities. We offer a seamless recruitment experience, unlike any other in the startup space. We will provide full company and role description, verbally. In addition, we have met all of our clients, so truly understand the environment and culture.

email: jonathan.peters@twentyrecruitment.com

Parse.ly - Remote Work in or near Eastern Timezone (EST) -- http://parse.ly

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We're a fully distributed team (see http://bit.ly/distributed-teams for a post by me, the CTO) -- which is to say, a merit-based, technology-forward, super-bright team of Pythonistas who happen to collaborate using the same methods of major open web projects like Wikipedia, Wordpress, Ubuntu, and Mozilla.

We just closed a $5M series A round. As a result, we're looking to expand our engineering team. We are looking for full-stack engineers and senior engineers, especially focused on our backend analytics technology.

Experience with high write performance DBs (e.g. Redis, Cassandra), large-scale log analysis (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Hive), and big distributed cloud systems (e.g. >20 node cloud deployments) will mean you'll hit the ground running here.

You'd be joining the company at a great time. Our engineering team is still small enough that we feel like an elite task force, but unlike two years ago, we are making millions in revenue and have a ridiculous amount of data to draw insight out of on behalf of our customers.

You should be an expert in a mainstream programming language, preferably Python or JavaScript. You should be willing to learn, or already know, technologies like Tornado, MongoDB, Redis, Solr, Postgres, Cassandra, Pig, Storm, and Amazon Web Services. You should be extremely handy at a UNIX command line, possessing all the skills of a sysadmin.

Also, if you happen to be an experienced software engineer who wants to end up in a role with a mixture of product management, customer interaction, and individual contributions to the code, we have just the position for you. Let us know -- we're looking for you. But we're also looking for DevOps candidates to help us manage our systems and great backend engineers to help us build a powerful and robust analytics system for our customers and the high-performance APIs they depend upon.

If you join us, you'll be part of a well-funded and high-revenue SaaS analytics company that is rewriting the rules of online media. Our software aggregates data on over 5 billion pageviews per month of traffic, and we work with major media companies as customers, such as The Atlantic, Arstechnica, Mashable, The New Republic, MIT Technology Review, and many more.

Get in touch with us directly at hello@parsely.com if you are interested -- mention HN and ask for Andrew.

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