Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python, C++ (replacing still present Erlang[ß]) and Javascript for React & React-Native, relying heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. The tech stack sports Kafka, Postgres and Kubernetes. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent all across the board: frontend and mobile, infrastructure, trading engine, security - and of course generalists, those yet to find their calling.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers .

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ß: to pre-empt questions on why C++ or why not Erlang - our exchange team have promised to put together a proper write-up on the tradeoffs, design constraints, performance needs, etc. In fullness of time, that is, when the most painful (and probably interesting) migrations are behind them.

IPUMS (https://www.ipums.org/) is a leader in the field of quantitative social science research and the largest disseminator of census and demographic data to the world’s academic research community. Or, to put it another way - we’re on a mission to gather, process, link and publish billions of records spanning hundreds of years and more than 100 countries so that demographers, historians, economists, environmental scientists, journalists, policymakers, and others around the globe can use the data to do amazing research and make the world a better place.

The position functions as a member of the data dissemination team and will have responsibility for design, implementation and support of software systems, including enhancing and adding new features to the IPUMS web applications and APIs as well as building standalone software systems. This position will report to the lead developer of the team. This position involves daily interaction with the rest of ISRDI IT, the ISRDI research staff, and other user communities.

Required Qualifications

  * Bachelor’s degree. Two years of work experience in application/web/systems development with a related bachelor’s degree or four years of work experience in application/web/systems development with a non-related bachelor’s degree.
  * API design and implementation
  * Databases (relational or NoSQL)

  * Containerization technologies such as Docker
  * Service (or microservice) based architectures
  * Developing applications in a Linux environment
  * Working with and transforming large amounts of data
  * The Ruby on Rails Framework
  * Application server technologies such as NGINX and Passenger
  * Message queues such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
  * Elasticsearch
  * Data Analytics and B.I. experience

I am not a sports person at all, unless competitive single malt drinking or Chicago parallel parking have been recognized as sports. Before working with Hudl, I would not have predicted what a big deal security is for sports analytics.

That is because I wasn't paying attention, because, obviously, it is a big deal. It's a well-funded overtly competitive industry. Of course it's security-sensitive! Our experience working with Hudl leads me to liken the security challenges of doing what Hudl does with those of trading finance companies; everyone's looking for an edge and there's all sorts of crazy incentives.

Hudl has a super interesting collection of applications in multiple development environments, and even a significant chunk of hardware (the Hudl Focus Camera, which instruments a gym to give all the teams that practice or play there access to video playback). They're also just super great, friendly people to work with.

We run security engineering teams for startups, and so for the last year we've been working to lock down their applications, monitor their cloud environments, get corpsec wired in, all that kind of stuff. In addition to getting to work with us, I can also say with confidence that the Hudl team knows what they're looking for in a security engineer and has a clear idea of what application security is about. We're involved in their hiring process and so, to the extent that you believe we're clueful about hiring security people (I think we are), I can say that about them as well.

We're an Initialized Capital-backed, YC startup (S18) making it easy for companies to collect and instantly verify photo IDs online. We use ML and computer vision techniques to effectively extract and validate the IDs in our system without any human intervention. This is a game changer for companies that require age verification, fraud deterrence or KYC. We are growing quickly and have new customers coming on board weekly.

Our founding team led the Trust & Safety team at Airbnb for several years. We implemented the initial versions of the Airbnb's Verified ID product and saw many of the problems with the existing solutions.

We have a modern stack and a ton of interesting problems to solve. We're a SaaS, API-first company building a best-in-class solution for identity verification.

My email address is eric [at] [company-name] .com

(https://angel.co/company/berbix/jobs)

At Imperfect Foods we are all about groceries on a mission. Since 2015, our services have saved over 40M lbs of food, 1.2B gallons of water, and 110M lbs CO2, donating 3M lbs of food along the way. Our software engineering team builds the ecommerce platform and internal tooling that makes this all possible. We have exciting growth ahead of us as we evolve from only produce to a full-service grocery, as well as expand our footprint to serve an even greater portion of the country. We are swimming in interesting problems around customer-facing features, scale, and logistics. If all of this excites you, come join us!

We're hiring for a few product and engineering roles:

- Product Manager: https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/df5b73c1-5019-4e83-a8de...

- Software Engineer - Backend (NodeJS): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/7b83428c-1220-46d9-8ea7...

- Software Engineer - Frontend (React): https://jobs.lever.co/imperfectfoods/2437c4c3-2a15-4486-830a...