Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Senior Java Database Scalability Engineer - Weta Digital, Wellington, NZ

Imagine 50,000 Orcs beating at the door of your database app! That's the challenge you'll get at Weta Digital.

We're looking for a top developer to scale our Render Queue and Asset Tracking applications to the next level. Requirement:

1. Demonstrated ability to scale database applications using Java frameworks!

Details found below:

http://www.wetafx.co.nz/jobs#Senior%20Java%20Developer

Highlights: Java, Spring, Postgres, MySQL, Linux Performance tweaking

Additional bonus items:

* Experience with Apache Thrift or Protocol Buffers for communication.

* Knowledge of porting from MySQL.

* Python, shell scripting, C++, git

* Familiarity with throttling erratic or demanding clients, both scripted and in-the flesh. ;)

* Must be willing to move to beautiful New Zealand for about a year. Yes, there's a reloc package and team to help you get settled.

If you've been living in the Bay Area or other big city such as LA, NY, or London, you'll be happy to hear that for the price of a studio apartment there you'll be able to rent a three bedroom house with yard here, possibly with ocean or bay views.

More perks:

* Monday continental breakfast, everyday organic fruits & veggies, espresso, dinner when on overtime, and "Beer o'clock" happy-hour on Friday.

* Beautiful scenery in every direction for weekend trips.

* Good to great schools and healthcare.

* Credit on future films you can probably guess the names of.

And fair warning, as nowhere is perfect:

* Winters are cold and windy in Wellington, but it keeps things interesting.

* All employees are contractors and paid by the hour, 50 hrs is typical but up to you.

* Lots of legacy software and procedures after 20 years in business-- we'll need your help to update them.

* Occasionally noisy but fun office environment (think Nerf bullets).

Please apply at the link above. If you'd like to reply here, I'll confirm that your resume makes it through HR.

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Yiftee - Menlo Park, CA

We're hiring AngularJS Developers! Learn more here:- http://yiftee.com/YifteeJobDescFrontEndEngineer.pdf

We're a series A backed startup, disrupting the $110b gift card market. We are looking for a front end developer to join our engineering team.

This is a full time position located at the Yiftee headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, walking distance from the Caltrain station. Compensation includes stock and salary.

AppNeta - Boston, MA and Providence, RI

It's getting harder and harder for developers to deliver a consistent experience to their users. That's why we're working on making the internet faster for everyone. This isn't a job for just anyone — we're looking for people who are passionate about performance of all kinds. If you're passionate about technology, performance, and transforming how people write applications on the web, get in touch with us.

We're hiring, fueled by growth, for a number of positions:

* Python/JavaScript hackers to work on our D3-based visualization frontend

* Technical Product Manager (if you're a web dev who's looking to get into product, this is the role for you)

* UX/Design leader

More information: http://dev.appneta.com/jobs/

Or just shoot us a resume: devjobs@appneta.com

Austin TX, AcademicWorks, Senior Ruby Engineer / Systems Architect

We are looking for someone to help us scale, automate, and maintain our SaaS application that is used by some of the largest and most prestigious universities and foundations. We operate a heavily sharded environment and process millions of scholarship applications for our customers. If you love working on interesting problems while knowing that your work is actually helping students pay for school, we'd love to talk to you.

We are a close-knit, pragmatic group. We have fun solving hard problems by tackling them as a team, relying on open communication, and a consistent willingness to pitch in. As a member of our team, you will be given ownership over key projects and entrusted to lead them through to completion. The contributions you make will have a real impact, and will be recognized by both our customers and other team members.

Examples of the work you might do are: * Writing and assisting with the design of new core features for both existing and new products; * Optimizing application and system components for performance and reliability; * Creating tools to automate the scaling of certain components of our AWS-backed infrastructure; and * Instrumenting our application and systems to capture performance and business metrics.

Our technology stack includes: * AWS EC2, Route53, S3, and ElastiCache * Ruby/Rails * Cassandra * Elasticsearch * Postgres * Chef * Redis

If these types of problems and technologies interest you, please contact us at careers@academicworks.com . Experience in one or more of the technologies mentioned is preferred. Passion (and a basic understanding of Linux) is required.

Union Metrics - http://unionmetrics.com - San Francisco, CA and Austin, TX

We are a fast-growing, profitable startup building powerful social media analytics software. Every day our systems process more than 130 million social events and deliver analytics for thousands of paying customers.

We have two open engineering positions:

=== Data Engineer (Austin, TX) ===

We need an engineer who wants nothing more than to wrangle massive amounts of data. Do you love to build on top of open source technologies like Hadoop and Cassandra using hundreds of servers? Do you enjoy working in a polyglot environment with plenty of variety? If you’re passionate about building the infrastructure to process, analyze, and store hundreds of millions of events every day, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

    * Implement stream processing pipelines to handle hundreds millions of messages and events daily with Java and Ruby
    * Use open source tools and data stores to analyze and store billions of data points
    * Build workflows to make data accessible to end users

=== Full Stack Ruby (& Rails) Engineer (Austin, TX) ===

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby (and Rails) engineer who’s passionate about the craft of building software. If you’re interested in working with a small team of engineers to build software that not only scales but delivers an amazing user experience, then we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

    * Implement core user-facing functionality in a Ruby on Rails application within a large service oriented architecture
    * Design and build backend services and APIs
    * Integrate with massive analytics systems and data stores

You can find more info about these positions at https://unionmetrics.com/company/careers and you can find out more about us at https://unionmetrics.com/company/about/ or email us at jobs@unionmetrics.com.

I'm a member of the engineering team and I'd be happy to answer any questions about us or the positions: mando@unionmetrics.com