Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

My name is Keith Rutsky and I am a recruiter at Wireless Generation in New York. We are a 420 person educational software company that develops technologies to help educators in America. Currently over 200,000 teachers in 49 out of 50 states use our products like our mCLASS student assessment software.

We are looking to hire full-time software developers (we are language agnostic) to help us build out our product lines. Join us to help teachers have the tools they need to make sure their young students learn math and reading! If you can do anything, why not do something good?

If interested, email me at krutsky@wgen.net or you can apply at https://www.cytiva.com/wgen/details.asp?wgen1585. :)

Server Side Quality Assurance Engineer

You are an experienced Software QA Engineer who is energetic, motivated, smart, and interested in working with a team comprised of same. You leverage your technical and analytical background to successfully perform your trade, and you get that detail-orientation isn’t a soft requirement but an absolute necessity for outstanding work.

If working in an enterprise level position on a complex and highly-extensible platform sounds like something exciting, you meet the requirements listed below, and you’ve read about (and identified with our company culture) then we’re ready to talk!

Responsibilities

    Review preliminary spec designs
    Design test cases using functional requirements
    Run test scripts and validate functionality
    Perform regression/verification testing
    Find and file defects; verify fixed deficiencies
    Debug server side/problem solve
    Test for scale
    Maintain enterprise deployments
    Work with developers to insure a successful, high quality release

    B.S. in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience
    Finance or Mathematics background is a plus
    Firm grasp of Back End QA methodologies with a focus on scale performance
    Experience with Linux/Unix
    Strong Shell scripting, Python or Perl
    Oracle, Postgres and/or other database know-how
    Working knowledge of SQL
    Systems administration experience highly preferred
    Ability to work in a fast moving environment with quick turnaround objectives
    Excellent teamwork, independent decision making, and written/verbal communication skills
    Analytical thinking, problem solving, trouble shooting and attention to detail a must

We're a boutique file hosting site, just under a month old with hundreds of thousands of hits and terabytes of data. Please note we are NOT a syncing platform like Dropbox or Box.net - that is not what we do. We are a means to get a file from point A to point B. We try to make the process simple and beautiful.

Looking for anyone who has experience within this domain as we really want to ramp up over the summer with more 'pro' and even enterprise solutions.

If you can help please hit us up at hey@castle.so

Thanks!

I'm not looking for a job, but I will get in touch when I'm next in my hometown (5-16 December). Would love to meet you!