Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

Dimagi

Role: Engineer/Adventurer/Do-Gooder

At Dimagi, your work can take you literally anywhere. We're looking for talented, adventurous coders to dive in to one of our core mobile health platforms already affecting hundreds of the world's poor and underserved. Our team of top-notch coders has on-site experience in over 20 countries covering East Africa, Central Asia, South America, and the Indian subcontinent, and travel is an important part of every developer's experience. Dimagi's prioritization of global impact and employee growth and satisfaction over the bottom line makes Dimagi a continuously fresh, exciting, and genuine place to work, and keeps us all honest about what we're in it for.

http://www.dimagi.com/careers

In that case ("tend to... but") you might want to fix the language in your CL ads, which explicitly contradict what you're saying here as to the strict requirement of bachelor's degrees (which had also better be from an elite school, apparently):

"Successful candidates will have, at a minimum, a bachelor's degree in computer science from a top university..."

We create tools and services that help optimize the day-to-day of music professionals: labels, artists, etc. We use the latest technologies in order to rapidly iterate and build the best possible product for our users. We are a small company of around 20 creative people and our lean structure allows us to move fast, cut the crap, and ship.

We are not afraid to try new things: our labs team has written audio decoders in JavaScript for MP3, ALAC, FLAC, and AAC, along with a pitch detector. We know the difference between production code and research code. We love open-source and it loves us back.

The ideal candidate has:

* Expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and related technologies.

* Familiarity with modern tools, such as Git, SCSS, and other.

* Experience with agile methodologies, TDD, sprints and poker planning, daily stand-ups.

* An opinion. We want you to argue about the right way to do things. If something isn’t up to our level of quality, we expect an intervention.

* Excitement about music and desire to work in this area.

Our stack includes:

* Ruby on Rails 3

* Nginx + Passenger

* PostgreSQL

* Full text search

* Message queues

* JQuery

* Backbone.js

* Git

We’re offering you a full-time, permanent position in New York City to create the second product of our music platform (ask us for details).

If you think you’re fit for the job, ping us at jobs@official.fm and let’s talk!

What we do: Addepar is recreating the infrastructure that powers global wealth management. Addepar's technology increases efficiency, transparency, and sophistication within the global investment industry, thwarting fraud and furthering meritocracy in one of the most important areas of the global economy.

Engineers form the core of our culture and team. At Addepar, we value software design, reliability, and user experience. We're looking to create a product and brand that inspires people and aligns incentives in the most important industry in the world. Help us invent the tools to run global finance.

What our engineers do:

- Optimize for performance, functionality, and stability. - Revisit and improve existing features, rethinking previous assumptions. Nothing is ever done. - Troubleshoot customer deployment issues requiring rapid identification and fixes. - Build massive datasets of the world's public and private financial graph, designing and developing tools and architectures to simplify the process. - Identify current software and design weaknesses, and help to develop solutions. - Apply theoretical expertise in computer science to real world problems.

Requirements:

- Technologist, by education or trade, with a fundamental understanding of Computer Science. - Experienced in concurrent programming, and developing low-latency/high-throughput software. - Personal projects or open source contributions you want to show off. - [Bonus] Deep proficiency in Java and/or Javascript.

We dress comfortably at the office, eat together, and play team sports together. We've been known to throw impromptu midnight parking lot BBQs (we built a bonfire once, but it didn't end well) and host movie nights in back of our building. Every Thursday evening, we break away from work to play a game of Innovation, Settlers of Catan, Dominion, or one of the many other games in the engineering pit. We don’t believe in excessive meetings, process or excessive contemplation; everyone is empowered and expected to make decisions.

Learn more: careers.addepar.com

Email: R2 (at) addepar dot com.

Interns and H1-Bs welcome.