Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

Krakow, Poland - Base - http://getbase.com/careers/ - Full Time

We're revolutionizing business software and making companies 10x more productive.

Ruby, Python, iOS, Android, .NET, Devops, Security, DBA

reddit - Salt Lake City front end and back end developers http://redditgifts.com/blog/view/redditgifts-hiring-three-pe...

KnowItOwl - New York, NY - full-time (http://www.knowitowl.com)

We're looking for a full-stack engineer/CTO to love the hell out of this problem. You'll be the 4th member, and technical lead, of an incredibly talented team with a track record in insurance, startups, consumer marketing and design/UX. We have had a successful alpha phase and are already revenue positive. http://knowitowl.theresumator.com/apply/

Do you want to solve: A problem with scale. Insurance is a $2 trillion industry. That’s 36 times larger than Google and Facebook combined. Insurers pay their aging sales force a mint to sell insurance the old-fashioned way (with paper, face-to-face). We’re going to change this.

A problem that’s socially important. Nobody’s helping people figure out insurance – and that’s bad. Under-insured medical problems contribute to over half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures. We’re going to deliver social impact.

A problem in desperate need of a new approach. The consumer problem in insurance is deceptively simple: insurance is hard to sell because people don’t want to think about bad things like death and illness. Insurers just throw money at the problem: advertising, hefty commissions, pushy sales agents. We’re introducing a new approach.

We’re looking to build our team with people who understand the importance of what we’re doing and want to apply their talent and energy to solving a Big Problem. We’re searching for Davids ready to take on Goliath. Come join Virgil and the KnowItOwl team to bring the $2 trillion insurance industry into the 21st century.

EAT Club -- Palo Alto, CA -- San Francisco -- Bay Area

We're hiring: Full-Stack Engineers, Front-end devs, iOS & Android devs, DevOps, TechOps, UI/UX Designers.

EAT Club currently delivers lunch to thousands of hungry employees at startups and other tech companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, and we're ready to grow!

We're different than any food delivery or catering service you know. We work with employers, and give their employees a custom menu daily, via the web and mobile, from several great restaurants in the area. Each employee has control of what they order, and when. Employes get their customized lunch with their name on it delivered fresh and ready to eat.

There is a lot of technology, order forecasting, and service ops, to make all of this happen. This is where you come in.

You'll get the chance to work on:

  Delivering personalized dish recommendations
  Food discovery engine
  Demand forecasting
  Real-time delivery tracking

What we're looking for:

  B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
  HTML/CSS/Javascript including a framework such as BackboneJS
  Familiarity with Python/Django or enthusiasm to learn
  SQL/Memcached/Redis
  Knowledge of building reliable scalable systems
  Comfortable using a shell/linux environment
  Love of food

Bonuses:

  iOS and/or Android app development experience
  AWS knowledge (EC2/S3/RDS)
  Good UI/UX/design sense
  Competitive compensation + meals + endless stream of food samples

To apply, please send your resume/github/dribbble/linkedin to engjobs@myeatclub.com

Full-time, no remote

http://www.myeatclub.com

Fulltime, Palo Alto - funded Series A

http://www.refresh.io paul at refresh.io

Title: "Rather Impressive Java Developer"

Our current dev team is pretty awesome and we're looking to add to it. Currently we have a few PhD's, few ex-googler's, some tech book authors, couple of ex-linkedin, ex-microsofties, and stanfords, and a bunch of startup vets like Trulia and dealer.com. Heck we even have the guy who wrote the Java testing framework TestNG ( http://www.testng.org ) and the guy who wrote Mailinator ( http://mailinator.blogspot.com ). And we're only up to 7 people. But we want an 8th and maybe a 9th.

Job Description: Someone we want to work with. Someone who will make us smarter and better and, in return, someone we can make smarter and better too. Someone who will help us make our company and its products great.

Our technology includes: Java. Thousands of threads (Mailinator guy keeps adding more, TestNG guy keeps removing them). Tons of data, tremendous data analysis, fuzzy logic, machine learning, natural language processing. We use Mongo and we're having no problems with it - because we're careful. We treat every superfluous database access and every unnecessary network call like its a small insult to our users. And gosh darn it, we love our users.

Simply, we are building a product that fetches and analyzes massive amounts of data to improve our user's lives (see the website for a more specific description, or better yet, email me)

Job Requirements: You know Java (or at least you're willing to learn it) - but hands-down you know some computer language cold. You know it well enough to hate parts of it but yet probably understand why they're there. You get why algorithms are important and know when to implement them and sometimes, when its better to just do it the easy way. You understand that startups experiment a lot - and consequently discover amazing things occasionally, but throw away code far more often.

The static credentials on your resume are great but honestly, its the dynamic stuff we're more interested in.

You've done stuff. You're proud of the stuff you've done. You can show us - heck, you can't wait to show us. It might be an iphone app, or an open source project, or a thread-safe cache-invalidation scheme, or a javascript game, or maybe you launched a startup. Either which way - you built something - start to finish. You can deliver.

The interview:

We love solving problems and every interview question we ask is based on something we've actually had to code. So we sometimes get rather excited to find a smart person willing to solve a problem a new way with us on a whiteboard. You should think this way too - you don't rate interviews as being easy or hard - you rate them as being boring or fun. And we definitely shoot for fun. Right answers aren't the point - finding a good attack vector on the problem is.

Our CTO's take on getting your resume Silicon Valley ready: http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-get-your-resume-...