Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

We're bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Over the past 10 years we've gone from Sal's family project to a global institution reaching 100+ million students annually. And the testimonials we receive every day remind us that our impact isn't just about big numbers — access to free education meaningfully changes the lives of people in all sorts of situations. (In a recent survey, 64% of first generation students at selective colleges said that “Khan Academy has had a meaningful impact on their education”.)

We face intense challenges in providing access to students across the world (think: everything from videos to interactive content, in and out of classrooms, in all the most important languages, on all the most important devices). We use our data to personalize students' learning and continually improve our content. We're trying to build a strong, diverse team — and we need more help.

We've made some great hires off HN and would love to make more. Especially if you're a designer or experienced engineer. Best way to apply is at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers. Mention HN.

Full Stack Developer

Did you spend four or more years working hard towards your education to be unfulfilled by your work? Do you feel like you are having no impact in your current job? Do you know that you can bring a fresh perspective to challenges but aren’t given the chance? At AppFormix, our team is creating new products and features and all of our work is directly seen or used by our growing customer base. Our engineers work together as a team, collaborating and discussing new ideas daily. We share our ideas openly without worry for who gets the “glory” because when the team wins, we all win.

Honestly, AppFormix is not for everyone. If collaboration isn’t your cup of tea and working in a very agile environment bothers you, then we probably are not the best match. But, if you are relentlessly focused on the quality of your code, see the value in peer code reviews, and have an interest in cloud computing, then we might be a match and you should apply.

As a member of this team, you are creating products that will be used by all of our customers. On a daily basis you will be doing code reviews, working with your team to overcome challenges, and creating a UI that is second to none.

The most successful engineers in this role have:

- A Computer Science degree and/or 2 years of related work experience

- High proficiency in Javascript, AngularJS, and NodeJS

- Experience with HTML5, CSS3

- Superb communication skills

- A thirst to continue learning

- A desire and interest to learn and work in the Docker ecosystem

Reach out to us: jobs AT appformix.com

We're on a mission to build a new payment network as an alternative to credit cards.

Why? Credit cards impose a hidden tax on everything. The profit margin of your average neighborhood store is under 2%. A typical grocery store’s operating margin is around 1.7%. On the other hand, the typical cost of processing all payments is about 2%. As Priceonomics puts it, "Credit card fees are 2% or more of nearly pure profit."

There has been many innovations built on top of the existing credit card network, but none of those fundamentally changes the equation. Kash is changing the equation.

With the former CEO of Visa leading our board, and all the momentum we're seeing, we're confident that a new network can be built. Come chat with us to learn more if you think this is a worthy cause.

We currently use: GCE/AWS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Angular.js, React, Objective-C for iOS, Android

We're looking for engineers with a demonstrated ability to learn and past experience building both scalable and maintainable software.

For more details and to apply, please visit http://withkash.com/careers. Please mention that you saw us on HN.

We're also hiring all the other engineers, and product managers as well--DM me and I'll be happy to pass you off ot a recruiter.

A bit about what it's like working here:

Stack: Mongo, Java backend, ES6/7 + React + Alt (flux implementation) frontend. Gulp/Webpack.

Teams: Small, generally 5-10 people. Lots of product ownership.

Company: 500+ people in three offices (Ireland, Portland, NYC). All Engineering out of NYC office.

Kitchen: Contains nutella

Monitor: 34" ultra wide screen

View: Unparalleled in West Village

Commute: 28 minutes (from my apartment)

Why I'm here: Squarespace is a high-tech design company. There's no tolerating bad design--and by virtue of being here, I am becoming a more perceptive, more nuanced, generally better product engineer. I'm surrounded by great people and the company takes great care of you. Perhaps most importantly, the product is great: every day I hear stories of how Squarespace has empowered people to build livelihoods online, and that's pretty damn cool.

Please reach out to me if you'd like to talk!