Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Portland, OR: Treehouse - Java Teacher - http://teamtreehouse.com

https://teamtreehouse.com/jobs/at-treehouse-0e946294-cb80-45...

Overview

Treehouse is an educational technology company. Our mission is to bring affordable technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world. As a teacher at Treehouse, you’ll join our amazing teaching team to create world class learning material for Treehouse students. Due to the nature of high quality video production, you will need to work from our production office in Portland, Oregon.

Responsibilities

- Work with other teachers to design the Treehouse curriculum at a high level by identifying topics that are critical to job-readiness.

- Write structured educational content and work with the video team through production and release. This includes writing scripts, creating engaging example projects, building assessment material using Treehouse Quizzes and Code Challenges, and recording all course materials both on-set and as a screencast.

- Iterate quickly on courses to keep them up-to-date with the latest tools and technologies.

- Research new languages, tools, frameworks, open source projects, and other material to stay on the cutting-edge of technology.

- Support Treehouse courses after their release by responding to student questions and making critical updates to courses as necessary.

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Java for desktop and web application development

- Deep knowledge of related web technologies for Java web development (HTML/CSS/JS)

- Knowledge of native Android development is a plus

- Passionate about sharing knowledge and teaching others

- Outstanding writing abilities

- Excellent presentation skills and on-camera confidence

Benefits

- Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 4-day, 32-hour work week (we don't work on Friday)

- 18 days (or 4.5 weeks) paid time off

- 401(k) contribution matching, 100% up to 6% of your salary

- $5,000 office setup budget

- $1,500 annual education budget (conferences, books, classes, etc.)

- Free iPhone or Android phone and monthly contract compensation

- Free lunch every day

Lyft - https://www.lyft.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA

With the tap of a button, passengers in need of a ride are instantly connected to nearby drivers. We currently operate in cities all across the country, and with your help, we’ll take Lyft worldwide! If growth excites you, this is the place to be! We're looking for:

  - Software Engineers
  - Android Engineers
  - iOS Engineers
  - DevOps Engineers
  - Data Architects
  - Schema Designers
  - Data Analysts
  - Product Managers
  - Product Designers

Stack: AWS, MongoDB, PHP, Python, Go, AngularJS Interested? kiana a/t lyft d/o/t com. Open to coffee/tea or whatever to discuss. Incredible team, top medical & dental, open vacation policy, catered lunches, snacks, dogs, equipment, Lyft credits, etc. -----

NationBuilder, Senior Ruby Engineers, Los Angeles- CA NationBuilder is an online Community Organizing System built by a world-class team dedicated to empowering a new generation of leaders and creators with the tools they need to create a new world.

We’re currently hiring great software developers to join our core and web systems teams in Los Angeles. We will relocate folks, so if you’ve ever wanted to live in LA, this is probably the best opportunity you’ll get. (And if you never considered living in LA we’ll convince you that it’s the greatest city to live in.)

Our driving force as a company is to empower organizers to make the world a better place, and we do this by creating a powerful product with a great customer experience.

As a team we are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will push code within minutes of a customer reporting a problem, and our entire process is set up for rapid iteration and agile development.

On our core and web systems teams, you will build, extend, refactor, and scale the core parts of our product. From systems that form a content management system for websites, to a comprehensive control panel for relationship and contact management, to scalable integrations with domain management and email systems -- you will be responsible for keeping NationBuilder running well, becoming better and faster, and achieving our mission. Your skills will need to be balanced between the front-end and the back-end, as you will cross layers from the database to JavaScript in order to develop new features. Your troubleshooting skills will allow you to drill down from a bug report to a solution regardless of complexity. You will work with the product management team to develop delightful, usable, fast, and maintainable features that solve real customer needs.

You:

are always interested in learning new things.

get excited when you have the chance to pair.

practice test-driven development and judicious refactoring.

enjoy being responsive to customer feedback.

are a pragmatic problem solver, knowing how to find the middle ground between “perfect, but takes forever to code” and “fixes it now, but nobody will ever be able to understand what I did”

work well in small teams with a clear mission.

detail oriented and precise in code, communication, and documentation.

have the insight to know what’s important and the dedication to get it done.

Skills required:

While existing experience with the technologies we use is welcome, an open and disciplined approach to your work is more important to us than whether you already know Ruby, Rails or anything else in our stack. We value the willingness to learn our technologies and environment over domain-specific skills.

We use Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, HTML/CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript (JQuery, Handlebars.js, Underscore.js, etc).

Please send email to mona@nationbuilder.com with:

Contact details, resume, that sort of thing

Sites you’ve worked on recently

GitHub account (or other online code) if you have it

Palantir Technologies - Information Security Engineers Wanted! Locations - Palo Alto (CA), McLean (VA) and NY

Palantir's Information Security team is growing and we are on the hunt for the following expertise: IR Lead (with a strong forensics foundation). Location - Palo Alto, CA only Forward Deployed Security Engineers (InfoSec experts who would love to work on client facing projects) - Location(s) - Palo Alto, NY or DC InfoSec Engineers (who love to build solutions and have strong scripting and/or programming backgrounds, but a sincere passion for security related projects). Locations - Palo Alto, CA preferred. NY and DC are possibilities.

If interested in learning more, I would love to have you introduce yourself to me. Please email me at lbohland@palantir.com To apply online or to review our openings in more detail, please visit - www.palantir.com/careers

Expensify-San Francisco, CA-Fulltime, Programmer Extraordinaire

Hey there! Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Expensify and we do "expense reports that don't suck!" (Google "expensify" to read more.) We're getting crushed under an ever-growing pile of super awesome work, and I need one bright soul to help us dig our way out. I can guarantee you fun, an amazing opportunity to learn, and the siren's call of distant riches. But only if you are all of the following:

- An incredibly hard worker, even when it's not so fun. There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks. After all — we do the sucky work so our customers won't need to. I need you to buck up and grind through server logs, user emails, source code, and bug reports, without complaint or supervision, and come back asking for more.

- A cool person to be with. Not a crazy party animal, just someone we can trust, rely upon, hang out with, bounce ideas off of, and generally interact with in a positive way, both personally and professionally. In fact, this is one of the most stringent requirements we have: would you be fun to hang out with day and night on some remote, exotic beach? This isn't a rhetorical question, either: every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun. We've done Thailand, Mexico, India, Turkey, Croatia and the Philippines. Where do you want to go next?

- Super talented, in a general way. We're going to throw a ton of work at you of every possible sort, and you need that magic skill of being able to figure it out even if you have no idea where to start. On any given day you might bounce between super low-level coding, super high-level technical support, marketing-driven data-mining, updating our user documentation, inventing/designing/building some new feature, etc. This is not a code monkey job — you're going to be a full participant in the process, and you need to bring your own unique blend of skills to the table.

- Specifically talented in a programming way. You can instantly visualize solutions to problems big and small. Your code is always clean, well commented, has good nomenclature and indentation. You can switch on a dime between C++, PHP, Bash, Cron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Dwoo, SQL — not because you know them all, but because you're the sort of person who can just pick it up and figure it out. If you're this sort of person, you'll know what I mean. If not, then this position isn't for you.

And there are a bunch more, but odds are if you got this far, nothing I can do would stop you from applying. That's a problem because while I know you are awesome, it's actually really hard and time consuming to find you in the midst of the literally hundreds of other applications I get from everyone else. So this is where I'm going to ask my first favor: can you make it really easy and obvious how great you are, so I don't accidentally overlook you?

There are probably many ways to do that. But the easiest way to do that is to check out we.are.expensify.com and send in an application(which you can find at http://we.are.expensify.com/apply). We are excited to hear from you! -----