Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

FULL-TIME Sr. Ruby Developer (NY or SF)

Brainscape is a web & mobile education platform that doubles your learning speed. We bring together the world’s best educators to break knowledge into its most digestible building blocks, then deliver it through a web & mobile study experience that is scientifically optimized for maximum memory retention.

To date, Brainscape has changed the way over 7 million people study subjects ranging from foreign languages, to history, to medical school. Learners are so addicted to our adaptive study experience that they have spent over $1m on our still-limited range of subjects. And we’re just getting started. Brainscape has big plans to become the world’s default study platform in the years to come.

We’re looking for a great rails engineer to join our team, either in our NYC or SF office.

5+ years of overall development experience 2+ years of Ruby on Rails

Email jobs@brainscape.com to apply.

San Francisco, CA [Remote Ok]: Front End Engineer, Full Stack (RoR) Engineer - MyTime.com is hiring for full time roles

About MyTime. MyTime is reinventing local ecommerce. We’ve built an online destination where consumers can book appointments and purchase local services such as haircuts, house cleanings, massages, and more from nearby local businesses. MyTime has integrated into the leading calendar applications on the market, giving us real-time visibility into each merchant’s schedule. When customers book appointments on MyTime, we even write back to the merchant’s calendar. This allows us to be a true one-stop destination to purchase services from millions of businesses across the country.

The Job. Software Engineers at MyTime are developers who thrive on building products and features from scratch. We are generalists who build features end-to-end, from coding up the back end in Ruby on Rails to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that surprise and delight our users. We build large new features and push daily small product enhancements in a continuous deployment environment.

Bring It.

For front end specialists * Strong technical skills focusing on HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use JQuery & some Backbone and at some places Angular) * Experience with Ruby on Rails or Python * Experience with bootstrap a plus

For full stack engineers * Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or Python * Some experience with MySQL, Memcache, and extra credit for ElasticSearch experience * Some experience with AWS products (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB) preferred but not required * Some experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Act now, and you’ll also get: * Competitive salary. Significant equity. Opportunity to make a tremendous impact. * Full Benefits Package, Catered Meals, Awesome SOMA location. * The chance to actually make a difference in a growing startup that is solving a big problem.

If you're interested, we'd love to talk! Please send a resume or LinkedIn profile and/or a link to your Github to jobs@mytime.com.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre: Postdoctoral fellowships in computational biology and machine learning - http://pmgenomics.ca/hoffmanlab/join/

Toronto, ON

The Hoffman Lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, seeks new members for our team. We develop machine learning techniques to better understand chromatin biology. These models and algorithms transform high-dimensional functional genomics data into interpretable patterns and lead to new biological insight. A key focus of the lab is to train a new generation of computational biologists.

We seek postdoctoral fellows for several projects in computational genomics and machine learning. Selected projects include:

1. Integrating epigenomic and sequence data to better understand human gene regulation.

2. Creating models of transcription factor binding that allow us to predict the effects of perturbations.

3. Developing deep learning techniques to find novel behavior in multiple functional genomics datasets.

Required qualifications: Doctorate in computational biology, computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, or physics, obtained within the last five years. Submitted first-author or joint first-author papers in genomics or machine learning research. Experience in scientific programming in a Unix environment.

Not required, but preferred qualifications: Experience with epigenomics and graphical models. Published first-author papers in peer-reviewed journals or refereed conference proceedings. Experience programming in Python, R, C, and C++.

Benefits: Effective 27 December 2014: Includes extended medical insurance, dental insurance, maternity benefits (15 weeks), parental benefits (additional 35 weeks), Canada Pension Plan contributions, and employment insurance.

We will consider candidates who need a VISA to work in Canada.

To apply: We will accept applications until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a PDF of your best paper, and the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three references to the address at http://pmgenomics.ca/hoffmanlab/join/#postdoc

Hey Im interested in applying, but you dont list any contact information. I also couldnt find a careers page on saleswise.com. I saw your hello@ email on there, but I assume that isnt the best place to send a resume. What's the best way to contact you?

Open edX - http://openedx.org, http://edx.org - Cambridge MA

Open edX is the open-source platform that powers edX, the online education site founded by Harvard and MIT. We're hiring three positions for the open-source team here. All are full-time, in Cambridge.

The first is a manager for the entire team. The job description is here: Open Source Technical Community Manager: https://www.edx.org/job/open-source-technical-community-mana...

The second is an evangelist, a mostly soft-skills position, no need for coding: Open Source Community Evangelist: https://www.edx.org/job/community-evangelist

The third is a straight-up software engineer that we can use for projects that significantly benefit the Open edX world: Open Source Software Engineer: https://www.edx.org/job/software-engineer

The primary goal of all of these positions is to enable and encourage the broader open-source community using the Open edX platform. We're giving away education around the world, and you can help!

BTW: we're also hiring for plenty of other positions: http://www.edx.org/jobs

If you have any questions, get in touch: ned@edx.org