Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

Mind Candy - London, UK

http://www.mindcandy.com

Based in Shoreditch, Mind Candy is a major player in London's rapidly expanding Silicon Roundabout community. Our hero brand is Moshi Monsters, one of the world’s fastest-growing online games for kids (60 million sign-ups and counting), and we have several other projects in the pipeline.

Some technical roles we're currently hiring for:

  * IT Support Engineer
  * Mobile Developer
  * Payments Product Manager
  * QA Automation Engineer
  * Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager
  * Senior Mobile Developer
  * Software Engineers
  * Systems Administrator
  * UX/Interaction Designer

Our office in the Tea Building in Shoreditch is really great, and we have a lot of company social events which are always a blast. See http://mindcandy.com/recruitment for more details.

Cheers, Bryan

Brighton, UK - http://dabapps.com

DabApps is looking for a junior to mid-level software developer with minimum one year of experience. May suit graduate with internship or sandwich year experience.

DabApps is a growing company based in the centre of Brighton. We concentrate on web and mobile application development, and are passionate about producing high-quality work that we and our clients can be proud of. Our values are based on standards compliance and best practice and we are constantly working to improve and streamline our development process. We use open source technology wherever we can, and contribute back to the open source community as much as possible.

Below is a list of core technologies and skills we are looking for. We are not expecting any candidate to have experience or knowledge in all of these areas. What we are looking for is the ability and desire to learn in a self-motivated way to fill in the gaps in your knowledge as required.

Python, Django, Objective-C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Relational databases, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB or other NoSQL databases, Solr, ElasticSearch or other search solutions, "Big Data", distributed systems, data analysis/indexing, Linux server administration, Mac or Linux desktop experience, User experience analysis and design, prototyping

See http://dabapps.com/careers/current-vacancies/2012-04-softwar... for full details.

Stitch Fix is in San Francisco at 3rd and Market. Full-time candidates only, local preferred strongly over remote, relocation possible for the right candidate.

Stitch Fix is a totally new way to shop -- check out our video (http://bit.ly/GSelpp) for a quick introduction to our service. Here's how we do it: Our clients provide us with details about their size and personal style. Once a month they are offered a Fix: for a $20 styling fee we hand select 5 items using a combination of our proprietary styling algorithm professional stylists and send it to their home. If a customer chooses to buy one or more pieces, the $20 styling fee is a credit toward their purchase. Lots of additional detail is available in our faq (http://bit.ly/JaVIM6). Our clients love the service and the business is exploding. We have thousands of paying clients, business doubled from November to April, will double again by September, and we will grow faster in 2013. We just raised our Series A from top-tier VC firm to invest in scaling engineering, operations, and merchandising -- which is where you might come in.

We are building the team that is going to take us to 10x by the end of next year. We are looking for folks that get super excited about jumping in the deep end, building outstanding products, and delighting clients. In Engineering we're big fans of Continuous Deployment, Specializing Generalists, and people that know the difference between hacking together technology and consistently delivering world-class products. We like people that take their work seriously but aren't serious at work. We believe the best products are delivered when engineers are empowered to solve problems, involved in how the business works and have a clear connection to their customer. The engineering team is currently a data and analytics engineer, a front end engineer/designer, and a generalist engineer. We are in the process of moving from a Linode/Django/jQuery architecture to AWS/Rails/(ember|backbone|similar) and beyond that we have lots of new products to build and will need to incorporate a bunch of new technology to get there. We are looking for 2 more great generalist engineers, ideally with Rails experience but it's not a requirement.

If you're interested please send an email to jobs@stitchfix.com.

Proximiant - Mountain View, CA [Relocation, H1B welcome]

http://www.proximiant.com

NFC Digital Receipts service that allows shoppers to get a picture perfect receipt beamed directly to their phone without sharing their email. We use AWS, Django, C#, C++, Android, and iPhone.

We're seeking bright engineers. During an interview, you will do coding -- actual coding sitting at a machine and writing and testing your code.

Come help us build a great company! Email jobs@proximiant.com

Prior Knowledge is hiring in downtown San Francisco! We're a small team in downtown San Francisco pushing the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning to the masses. Our first product is Veritable, a predictive database. We like to think of it as a database for things you don't know.

We're passionate about discovering the hidden causes behind data, and are currently split pretty evenly between machine learning experts, scalable systems engineers, and people used to working with horribly messy, complex, and sparse data.

http://priorknowledge.com/join-us/ describes a bit more about what we're looking for, and you can always e-mail me (jonas@priorknowledge.com) for more info! Or come to our Friday office hours and meet the team.