Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Akvo develops open-source software which we run as a service, which is used mainly in international development across Central America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. We build data collection, mashup, management, visualisation and publishing tools. We work with thousands of NGOs, many UN organisations and countries. Our tools get used in everything from disaster response to environmental preservation.

We are hiring:

- UX designer - Helsinki (primary), Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, Bangalore (REMOTE possible for the right candidate)

- Senior technical services consultant - Amsterdam

- Senior devops engineer - Location: Amsterdam, London, Stockholm or Bangalore

Full descriptions here: http://akvo.org/about-us/working-at-akvo/

UX designer

We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, proactive and energetic UX designer. Working closely to the lead designer and product managers, your primary responsibility will be to grow concepts through design exploration, ideation and user validation. Your core skills are in product design and interaction design.

Senior technical services consultant and coordinator

As a technical services consultant and coordinator you work together with our partner teams and technical consultants to help implement and integrate Akvo’s tools with our partner organisations’ systems.

Senior devops engineer

Akvo seeks a senior DevOps engineer with leadership experience to initially lead our small Infrastructure team and later expand this to include live support team members. The role will have a mixture of hands-on work to maintain and expand our growing technology infrastructure as well as leadership and management of our infrastructure needs over the coming years.

We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Millions of people in all walks of life use our free platform to learn (check out testimonials at https://www.khanacademy.org/stories). Most of you reading this are probably familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge library of interactive exercises.

A few things we're currently working on building right now:

– Mobile apps to help students learn on the go and increase access to those who might not have access to a computer [1]

– Improved knowledge models so we can better predict what you know and what will help you [2]

– Infrastructure to make the site more reliable and faster for our millions of visitors every month [3]

We're especially looking for dev ops engineers, but we have a handful of other positions open. Unfortunately, we've filled up our slots for this coming summer internship, but we'd happily talk to intern candidates for future terms.

Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers

[1]: http://www.kasrak.com/writing/khan-internship/

[2]: http://data.khanacademy.org/2015/03/helping-students-learn-a...

[3]: http://www.alangpierce.com/blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-aca...

Dataquest is an early stage online education company making "codecademy for data science". Since we launched a few months ago, we've taught tens of thousands of students around the world everything from basic python to data visualization to machine learning. We're expanding, and looking for a full-stack developer and a data scientist to help people learn, apply, and prove their data science skills.

Our tech stack is Python and Javascript (Django + Angular), with docker used for code sandboxing and deployment/testing. A software engineer would focus on building and improving the learning platform, whereas a data scientist would focus on content, community, and analytics.

The salary range is 75k-90k, with significant equity (2-5%). This is a great chance to have a huge impact on the development of an early stage startup. We have an office in downtown Boston, and great investors.

Email vik@dataquest.io if you're interested.

Housing.com is a startup and a data science company to ease real estate buying in India. It recently raised $90 M to disrupt the real estate space.

Visit their Careers page for more.

As a core part of the development team you will be applying deep computer science and software engineering knowledge to solving a new breed of data management problems. You will be responsible for enhancing the existing product with state of the art features to address scalability challenges for our customers.

Core tools: Linux, C/C++, Emacs/vi, gdb, Python.

Responsibilities:

  * Design, implement, and maintain database internals and distributed systems code.
  * Implement state of the art algorithms to solve real customer challenges.
  * Write code that is robust even under the most hostile workloads.

  * Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen and Leiserson is your trusty friend.
  * Strong understanding of C/C++.
  * Strong knowledge of at least one additional language (Python, Java, Lisp, etc.)
  * Experience shipping high quality systems software.
  * Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus.