Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

How so? Seems like a pretty good way to filter out who is using automation to submit applications spuriously like recruiting headshops, and you know that your application immediately gets to the top of the person's inbox who is directly responsible for the hiring decision. To me, that feels more respectful of the candidate.

Spore.Bio : - Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Data Labelling Manager

*Senior Full-Stack Engineer* | fulltime | remote friendly (fr) | Paris, France

Are you ready to revolutionize microbiology monitoring in factories? Spore.Bio is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, develop, and maintain our embedded software and web applications. You will work closely with other team members to develop high-quality products in a fast-paced environment. You will also be involved in technical decision-making and the continuous improvement of our development processes. We are still small and lean, we value pragmatism and curiosity, and we are looking for someone who embodies these qualities to join our team.

stack: Python (django), React, Tailwind, Postgres, SQLite

https://sporebiotechnologies.notion.site/Join-Spore-Bio-3b2d...

*Data Labelling Manager* | fulltime | remote friendly (fr) | Paris, France

Are you passionate about data quality and ready to make an impact in the tech-biology interface? Spore Bio is seeking an Annotations Manager to take charge of our data annotation pipeline. This essential role bridges the work of the biology, optics, and machine learning teams, enabling you to be at the heart of our cutting-edge data operations. Join the team and help us revolutionize microbiology monitoring in factories?

https://sporebiotechnologies.notion.site/Data-Labelling-Mana...

It's disrespectful to candidates time to play misdirection games like this. If the form wasn't put up to mislead people, it would be different. There's a reason most places don't do stuff like this. The problem isn't the extra 30 seconds requires to open gmail, the problem is the kind of immature culture it signals.

Bubblehouse | Fully REMOTE | Full-Time | $250k | Principal Engineer

Bubblehouse (bubblehouse.com) is a fast-growing custom and private loyalty platform for Shopify and beyond. Headquartered in NYC, the entire team is fully remote and spread across US and Europe.

We’re expanding our lean team of extremely experienced developers. Companies are switching from other platforms thanks to the customizations and flexibility that we offer, enabled by our pace and technical excellence, which we intend to keep for years to come.

Tech-wise, we’re running on Golang, and using custom data storage on top of local key-value stores, colocating the storage and compute on dedicated hardware servers, and reading data directly from mmap’ed pages of the database. Ever came across HN saying that one can run Twitter on a single machine these days? We’re doing that in production.

Zero lines of React, almost zero third-party dependencies (carefully vetted), every line of JavaScript manually written with respect and understanding of the web platform. We render HTML server-side like it’s 2005, and use Tailwind as a design language powering our custom theming engine.

We’re no enterprise company internally, but we power loyalty programs for large enterprises (as well as small enthusiast shops — this entire industry is woefully underserved).

We’re looking for:

1. Top to bottom understanding of the software stack, from the modern-ish web platform to CPU caches.

2. Thinking and problem solving outside the box. (We don’t _always_ go for unconventional solutions, but we do it often enough to require a person who can do justice considering the entire problem space at every step.)

3. Demonstrated ability and hunger to learn new things quickly. (Every month we’re doing things we have never done before.)

4. Broad experience across multiple programming paradigms, platforms and software stacks. (Not looking for someone who’s just a narrow expert.)

5. Demonstrated care for the software craftsmanship (which can take many forms, including side-, open-source or primary work projects, teaching, or simply playing with the latest tech).

6. Great spoken English (we value our communication beyond simple ability to convey crucial information).

7. Ability to communicate around 9am to noon time in New York time zone.

In return, we give you an environment where we solve very challenging problems with practical advanced technology in a lean and literally fast-paced environment (with features delivered in days) while successfully taking on entrenched market leaders and helping people across small and large businesses be more successful while pursuing their dreams.

Send your plain text cover letter to andrey+hiring@bubblehouse.com (our CTO will read & respond personally). Help us see how you stand out. Summarize your experience. Perhaps link to 1–5 impressive things you’ve built and proud of, link to where we can see some of your code (or attach some), include your portfolio/CV, describe the platforms and stacks you’re an expert in. How did you start programming? What are you most passionate about in technology? What are the most interesting or weird things you’ve done? What are your strongest held professional opinions? Please make your email easy to read, we’ll appreciate that.

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