Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 134 posts

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#31

Post by britman »

Based in Guildford, Surrey, UK (no remote at the moment) sharpcloud is looking for a talented Silverlight developer with a passion for creating great software for users, in a fast-moving, dynamic environment. You should have extensive experience in Silverlight, XAML, C# and the .Net framework and a deep understanding of web architecture. Note: if you don't have the Silverlight experience but are an experience asp.net dev looking to get into Silverlight we'd still like to hear from you.

Get in touch at http://www.sharpcloud.com/about/ or my email is in my profile.

About sharpcloud:

sharpcloud was founded on a revolutionary idea: to provide a visually appealing user experience to communities involved in the process of managing knowledge and networks around strategy and innovation. sharpcloud is a Microsoft Bizspark One and Windows Azure Front Runner partner .

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#33

Post by pquerna »

Cloudkick, San Francisco CA. Currently all FT positions are intended to be on-location.

A YC Company from W09, we are hacking up server monitoring and management space. (Both cloud and non-cloud).

Our tech is mostly Python based, with a spattering of Java, C, C++, Lua, and Node.js. We love fast product cycles, shipping features early, so we can get the customer feedback loop going as quickly as possible.

Positions:

* Frontend Web Developer: We started out with inline JQuery, but all new features are built around using the Google Closure library. We are moving towards a much more complete client side user experience, and busy building out widgets for many components. Love hacking on the Frotnend, come check us out!

* Customer Engineer: A combination of customer advocate and a generalist that can hack on any part of the Cloudkick system. We want someone who can both talk to customers, and then go fix their top issues the same day. 90% Python hacking, in both a Django and Twisted environments, but can include C/C++/Lua/Node.js if desired.

* Deployment Developer: Cloudkick is known for Monitoring, but we are doing something different with Deployment. This position will probably be about 80% hacking in Node.js code, and 20% in Python. Experience in distributed systems / p2p / large scale server management are all major major pluses.

* Inside Sales Rep: We are B2B startup, offering a SaaS product to the world, and we need help making and converting customers. Simple enough right :)

* Ops / Developer Internship (Paid!): Experience in Django or other open source projects are big pluses, but the biggest thing we look for is a drive to learn new things, more than anything.

More on the Careers page thing, along with how to contact/apply: https://cloudkick.com/careers

Thanks,

Paul

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#34

Post by pbees »

London, UK (no remote working for this one, sorry)

INENSU - new social games company with a focus on music. Founders have over 10 years experience in games. We're building a talented and ambitious team. Current team is drawn from FTSE, PlayStation, MoshiMonsters, etc.

We also have a project funded by a major TV broadcaster, this is a fashion community and are looking for 2 people to join us - asap!

* Front-End Developer: html / javascript + Flash [bonus]

* Game / User Experience Designer.

http://inensu.posterous.com/pages/jobs-20

http://www.inensu.com/

info@inensu.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#35

Post by mediaman »

I'm hiring just south of Seattle, WA, at a 113-person green industry manufacturing company, for a technical coordination and system administration position. Must live or be willing to move to the area.

The position would be responsible for creating business workflow software, enterprise system automation, server management, creating customer-facing software to create a competitive advantage based on ease-of-service, and coordination of both internal and external technical projects.

We focus on creating a good and fun place to work. Although the company is not a traditional tech firm, the owners have the technical knowledge to appreciate good technical work from people smarter than ourselves (and we love HN!). Our goal is to have smart, humorous, and industrious folks that make time fly and leave you happy at the end of the day.

My contact information is in my profile for more info.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#36

Post by plinkplonk »

ctcherry wrote: post #30

I'm a little surprised at the number of "no remote" in this thread. I've done some great work remotely, and with the right tools I think a team can "gel" and really work well together. Any comments?

"I'm a little surprised at the number of "no remote" in this thread. I've done some great work remotely, and with the right tools I think a team can "gel" and really work well together. Any comments?"

In my experience, remote work is offered to specific individuals who are already known to the people making the offer - through a shared work history, impressive open source contributions, a recommendation by a trusted person, unique knowledge/skillsets etc. You don't generally see ads for these.

People who put out generic ads looking for fairly generic skill sets etc, have plenty of choice locally and/or don't know anyone, remote or otherwise, who could fill that position. They are, in a sense just throwing an ad out there (or a post on HN), hoping to find someone who'll come into the office and work locally. Why go through the hassle of wading through the thousands of resumes you'll get from all over the world (and you will!), 99.99% of which are crap ?

I get approached for remote work all the time. Partly this is because I have a somewhat uncommon skill set and partly because I know/have worked with a lot of ultra sharp people and they remember me when they need someone. Most of the time I have to turn them down because I am already on a project and so not free - which is a common situation. As with "normal" jobs, the people you want often have great jobs/projects already and have no intention of "moving".

Fwiw, I know half a dozen or so people here in Bangalore who are working remotely for companies in the USA. In every case remote work was offered to them (no one ever sent in a CV) because they were known to be very good at what they do and had no intention of moving to San Fransisco (or wherever).

Remote work can be a win-win but a distributed team has a very different feel than a collocated one and not many people want the hassle - and it is a hassle if you aren't willing to change your working style.

Things seem to be changing though. A really strong dev can get (great) remote work with some effort these days. The very best, say Lars Bak, have never had any problems working from wherever they choose to. As with many things, demand and supply determines everything.

Fwiw, my advice to folks seeking remote work is Be very good, and be known to be very good (iow focus on what you know and who you know) and you will never lack for work, remote or otherwise.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#38

Post by bluelu »

pdelgallego wrote: post #22

I would love to see more EU openings (Specially in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries). Spotify is hiring, they have several openings. http://www.spotify.com/int/about/jobs/techjobs/

We (Trendiction) are hiring in Esch-Sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).

Please see http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs

We do distributed crawling, content analysis/extraction, and reporting through a multitude of sources (message boards, blogs, news, ...).

Please contact me (Thibaut Britz) t.britz@trendiction.com if you are interested.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

#40

Post by benhatten »

Everfi - Washington, DC. (heart of georgetown)

Education Start Up - just raised a large series A from NEA.

We're looking for all sorts of people - from product managers to front designers to back end engineers, we're hiring across the board. Also open to internships.

If interested, drop me a note at ben at everfi dot com.

Post reply on HN