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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#281
Trulia, located in downtown San Francisco, is looking for multiple Senior Software Engineers (On-Site Contract)

Come check out our shiny new building near 2nd and Mission.

We're that rare company that holds the culture of its startup roots, while blending in the sanity of a regular work schedule with an emphasis on work/life/family balance.

- Competitive base salary + employee stock - Full medical, dental, & vision benefits - 401K Program with employer match - Monthly subsidy that can be used towards gym memberships - Flexible Spending Accounts - Commuter Costs allowance - Generous paid time off package - Monthly company paid happy hours and an amazing culture!

For more information https://boards.greenhouse.io/trulia/jobs/29292#.VKstb2TF_1A

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#283
iMatchative, located in the San Francisco, is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Test

We're iMatchative and we've built a state of the art, two sided, cloud-based network that helps investors and funds alike find stickier, more satisfying investments with innovative algorithms, behavioral and traditional statistics and analysis. We've called our product ALTX and it's connecting the right investor to the right fund.

We're hiring a Sr. Software Developer in Test. We're on a mission to transform how platform quality is conducted and we're looking for team members who understand big data environments and quality assurance. We're implementing a state-of-the art engine for modern data platform QA and you'll lead us in this endeavor. You'll be the guardian of our platform's outstanding customer experience and you'll define a strategy for testing, new features and site functionality.

What's in it for you? Aside from generous compensation and equity, health, wellness, and 401K plans, we're offering:

* Mac or PC? You choose when you get here, along with a huge monitor. * Hungry? We've got a fully stocked pantry with snacks and drinks. * Speaking at a conference or holding a workshop? We'll pay for your expenses. * Love listening to Spotify, Pandora, or Rdio? We'll get you a subscription. * Personal development? We'll set you up with a PluralSight subscription or GA classes.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/838/applications/new

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#285
Seen.co - New York City Looking for: Full-Stack / Architects / Data Hackers Come join a growing team tackling a big challenge - summarizing mobile stories by ranking their real-time media and alerting users to what’s noteworthy by building automatic summaries. We're doing it with smart, decent people, and funding from great investors in one of the best cities in the world!

Our team is made up of experts in search, ranking and mobile products. Altogether we are applying 2 patents, 8 papers and 3 Google Research Awards to integrate machine learning with breaking news and social curation.

We're building a core of passionate devs and the next few hires will have an important hand in the direction of the product. The existing team has experience at Yahoo, Endeca and Frog Design and we value folks who are curious, hard working, humble and love a good challenge.

Full list of jobs and descriptions here: https://angel.co/seen/jobs or just email us directly jobs@seen.co

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#286
Polycom, Inc - https://www.polycom.com/ - HQ in San Jose, CA Polycom is a leader in communications and collaboration; you may know us by our conference phones.

• Austin, TX - Staff UI Software Engineer (Full Time, Visa) - JavaScript, Sencha, ExtJS/Touch and REST API. 3+ yrs exp.

• Austin, TX - Software Release Engineer (Full Time, Visa) - Linux/Unix, Subversion, Perl, Python, Apache, CGI. 0-5 yrs exp.

• Westminster, CO - Software Engineer (Full Time, Visa) - Java/Linux environment with Subversion. 0-5 yrs exp.

• Westminster, CO - SCM Engineer (Full Time, Visa) - Subversion, Jenkins, Linux, Windows, and shell scripting. 3+ yrs exp.

More info on these openings: http://careers.polycom.com/search.php; to apply, email your resume to laura.gomez@polycom.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#287
Course Hero, located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City, CA), is looking for a Operations Engineer

Course Hero is creating a platform where students and experts can share and access great academic content they need to succeed at any time, from anywhere. Today, millions of students take advantage of our educational resources including study guides, flashcards and tutors.

Course Hero is looking for an Operations Engineer to help us scale our infrastructure to handle growing site traffic as we help even more students. This is our first Ops Engineer hire, and you'll join our CTO and a small team of engineers to solve these challenges hands-on. As we grow, you'll have the opportunity to architect our new production environments and build out an Operations team.

As compensation, we're offering a competitive salary, stock, full benefits, 401k, regularly planned team events and outings, Free Friday lunches, endless snacks & drinks, plus on-site amenities including a day spa, full-service cafe, and free membership to a 7500 sq ft fitness center.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/837

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#288
Software Engineer for Hedge Fund (Boston, MA)

Mitra Capital LLC is a Boston-based long-short hedge fund seeking a versatile and talented programmer to join our small, entrepreneurial team. As a member of the Mitra Capital team, you will work with intellectually curious and driven colleagues who utilize our proprietary and proven methodology to analyze the public remarks of company management teams to find opportunities where our analysis reveals that management’s expectations regarding upcoming quarterly results are sharply at odds with market consensus. The firm’s analysis framework has its roots in the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the Software Engineer role, you will be challenged to create innovative technology solutions at the intersection of language analysis, data-driven insights and logic-based workflow. The Software Engineer’s core responsibilities will involve building tools that drive the systems underlying the firm’s research process, including advancing the firm’s text mining and machine learning platform. The position reports to our experienced Chief Data Scientist and offers a high rate of learning on a diverse range of projects and the opportunity to quickly have direct impact upon the organization.

The ideal candidate is a clever and versatile coder with a hacker mentality who is eager to tackle complex problems. The Software Engineer must be comfortable working in an agile development environment with high expectations for rapid delivery of prototypes, changing requirements, and direct feedback from the internal business customer.

* Candidates should be able to learn fast and learn on the fly in order to work with a variety of languages and projects, and be capable of taking responsibility for delivering code that accomplishes defined objectives.

* Hands-on experience coding in Python or other advanced programming languages is required for this role, as is experience working with large datasets using SQL. Experience with Java, R, PHP, Perl and/or Unix is an advantage.

* We are looking for candidates with 0 - 4 years’ experience and a quantitative background with degree(s) in majors such as Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Mathematics, Economics or similar.

---- To Apply ----

Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to send a resume and cover letter to recruitment@mitracapital.com. Please include, in CV/resume or separately, detailed descriptions of past relevant projects. Mitra Capital can only consider candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. Mitra Capital is an equal opportunity employer.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#289
Devops Engineer - RetailMeNot, London, UK

The RetailMeNot, Inc. London office is looking for a talented devops engineer to join our growing engineering team working on one of the UK’s largest shopping websites.

Come help us build a state of the art infrastructure in a rapid deployment fail-fast environment. Using DevOps practices and infrastructure as code you will use your skills to build a modern infrastructure that others depend on. You will design and build rugged systems to improve availability and performance and ensure that new code rolls out the door with minimal effort and maximum impact.

This role is primarily based in our London office, but you will have the opportunity to work with our teams around the world, particularly in Austin TX where our global engineering team is based.

==== Responsibilities ====

- Design and build the infrastructure to support features used by millions of people

- Manage our various systems, databases and services ensuring they are secure, resilient and performant

- Responsible for monitoring and supporting our infrastructure from dev right through to production

- Research new technologies and incorporate them into new systems

- Take initiative in leading projects and collaborating with others

==== Qualities that set you apart ====

- You believe you can automate anything and everything with code

- You enjoy working in teams and helping the people around you succeed

- You have high standards in everything you do with a high attention to detail

- You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment

- You thrive on being on the front lines of an outage; you dive in, take ownership, and make a plan to fix the root cause

==== Requirements ====

- Professional experience managing high availability LAMP stack deployments

- Excellent AWS knowledge (e.g. Cloudformation, EC2, Route53 etc)

- Experience of config management systems (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt)

- Experience of networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components

- Excellent verbal and written communication

- BASH scripting

==== Desirable ====

- BS or MS in Computer Science or relevant experience commensurate to a bachelor’s

- Working experience with Docker

- Any monitoring experience (e.g. Nagios/Icinga, Sensu, Zabbix)

- Version control systems knowledge (Git & Mercurial)

- Experience with PHP, particularly with frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony

- Contributions to open source software projects

If you think you're the candidate for this position and you're interested, send us your CV to jobs@vouchercodes.co.uk.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

#290
Clue :: Berlin, Germany

We're a VC-backed, 14-person team working in the field of reproductive health. Check out our app on iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clue-period-tracker/id657189...) or Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clue.andro...).

Hiring full-time people (including VISA help) for the following positions:

::: Android engineer :::

Clue for Android is built with minSdkVersion 15, RxJava with Retrolambda, Android Studio with Gradle for builds, and RecyclerView. We also have a prototype of the app running on Android Wear.

Details & apply: https://clue.workable.com/jobs/26729

::: Data scientist :::

You love getting insights from data and you're excited by the idea of applying that power to advancing the field of reproductive health. You should be handy with tools like R and D3.

Details & apply: http://clue.workable.com/jobs/27344

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Interested in Clue but don't see an open position that suits you?

If you've got technology, business, or science skills relevant to digital female health then drop us a line. We always like talking to interesting people: http://clue.workable.com/jobs/29801

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