Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

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Skype is hiring. OK, it's MS, but we are still very independent, take lots of risks, and are building mission critical high performance distributed systems. We are running services at approx 500k tps distributed world wide to support the brilliant concept that is Skype. The tech stack is nosqlish (azure table store), C# services (F# permitted, we ported stuff from C++ and Erlang to move to Azure). The location is Palo Alto, CA, US.

We need someone who loves to own production systems from conception to support. If you can get things done, contact me at f00biebletch at gmail dot com.

Newtown Square, PA (Philadelphia suburbs)

konciergeMD (http://konciergemd.com/) is an early stage startup in the Philly suburbs. We're building a product that changes how caregivers and providers collaborate to deliver healthcare. We're a small, polyglot team with diverse backgrounds. Our stack is Java/Scala on the back end and HTML5/CSS3/Javascript on the front end. We care deeply about aesthetics. We care deeply about coffee. We are seeking developers who are equally comfortable with front and back end development and who understand web-scale, high-availability, high-traffic application architectures.

We're looking to bring on a top-notch software engineer, a pragmatist focused on shipping. We are open to contract or full-time work candidates. You will play a role in shaping this product -- this is core to our culture, so bring your opinions. We're generalists, but the path we're blazing will heavily rely on Javascript, jQuery, Backbone.js, HTML5, CSS3, Java, Scala, Play Framework, and Amazon Web Services. We're web first but mobile is quickly approaching on the horizon. Bonus points if you have experience working with medical informatics. Gold stars if you have experience working with big data, machine learning, or semantic web.

If you're interested, ping ron@konciergemd.com.

New York, NY - Fitocracy (http://fitocracy.com)

Web Developer

We are looking for exceptional software developers to help us take Fitocracy to the next level. Our team is solving really tough problems all set behind an awesome user experience that needs to scale to millions of users. You must kick ass at Python, Django, and Javascript as well as be biased toward shipping code and product. Since we are a small team, you will work not only on product development but pretty much any other challenge we can throw your way.

We are offering a competitive salary and equity ownership. This is for a full time position in New York. And yes, we will help you relocate to the best city on Earth :)

What You'll Be Doing

- Work closely with the rest of the Fitocracy team and deliver new features using Python, Django, and Javascript - Help manage the servers and services we use: AWS, Linux, MySQL, nginx, uwsgi, redis, git, and Celery - Communicate constantly with both the team and the Fitocracy community - Track user feedback and continuously iterate on it - Test, release, and maintain your code - Make sure the user experience is consistently awesome

About Us

Fitocracy is a social network that empowers everyone to reach their next level of fitness. Over half a million people use our web and mobile apps to track their progress, compete against their friends, and get real world results. We are building a world where fitness is possible for everyone. Enough of the useless crap that's polluting the market these days. We're setting out to change everything.

We are an 8 person team based out of NYC that recently raised money from a variety of VCs and angels, including 500 Startups and Eniac Ventures. The founders, having gone through significant fitness transformations in their own personal lives, originally started Fitocracy in late 2010 as a way to marry their love of fitness with their years growing up playing classic role playing games like Final Fantasy and Everquest.

Contact

Email me at brian@fitocracy.com

Shreveport, Louisiana - Full Time - Rails/iOS Agency

Twin Engine Labs - workwithus@twinenginelabs.com

We're an award winning, cutting edge design and engineering shop. We bootstrapped our company from two people (designer and engineer) to 11, and along the way learned a lot of lessons. A few of them are:

1. Building tools that make our jobs easier in the future is smart and gives our agency an edge. You will be expected to constantly try to improve our process, and your voice will be heard.

2. Following that point, if you think something should change? Do it. Let me know about it (CEO), get buy in from the other engineers, and don't wreck our timelines. But stop talking and start doing!

3. Salespeople will never estimate your project officially. Ultimately, I will bring in a project, lay it in front of you, and ask the team to do a planning poker session. Your velocity is set at a scant 10 points, and the timeline is bid against that initial velocity. Under promise, over deliver.

4. If you estimate poorly, you are expected to fix it. If the project just went off the rails due to things out of your control, then your feet won't be held to the fire, but if it's genuinely your fault, fix it. It's completely in your control.

5. Try the impossible. We built The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, an impossible feat for it's day. We've built complex interfaces for Cisco, Symantec, and now are working with O'Reilly. Don't be afraid to use 2D Game frameworks if you have to. People don't contract Twin Engine Labs to do the status quo.

6. Be a full stack engineer. Know iOS but not Rails? Talk to us. Know Rails but not iOS? Talk to us. You will be placed in projects of your capacity, but very quickly ramped up to both platforms. We expect you to know everything from server deployments to iOS deployments, to Postgres optimization to Core Data optimization, from caching in Restful APIs to caching NSURL connections. Being a full stack engineer allows you to move faster than every other shop out there.

7. Finally, work directly with the customer. You, as the engineer, will always be expected to speak with the customer faster than I can. I will always give you air cover when you need it (and I typically can see that coming from a mile away). As well, you'll hear their requirements from their mouths (no games of telephone here), and get to ask them questions, with the safety net that I always stand behind our employees.

Perks? Multiple projects in a year, constantly learning the cutting edge techniques, and some seriously huge names under your belt.

Our environment is flat. No Pointy Haired Bosses allowed or bean counters here. Paint yourself purple, turn yourself upside down, and spin around three times while you code. As long as you deliver, I don't care how you do it.

Employees come into work at what is a reasonable hour to them. Our employees set their own start times, with flexible work at home situations when required. Most of them come into work because... well... we like each other :)

Intrigued? Talk to us. We've helped multiple entrepreneurs sink funding, watched multiple apps receive awards, and are known in our region and nationally.