Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Instructure | Senior Software Engineer | Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle | VISA https://instructure.com

Build open-source software to help people learn! We make tools for schools and businesses that delight our users and make their lives easier, while helping them learn faster.

You can check out http://code.instructure.com to see our primary product, Canvas, and some of our open source tooling and libraries.

We're hiring for the following positions:

    - Senior software engineers
    - Android engineers
    - Senior iOS engineer
    - QA engineers

Our primary stack is Rails & React, but we also work with JVM/Go/Node, and we're not afraid to try new (or old) things. We have an engineering-driven culture with quarterly hack weeks, internal tech conferences, millions of users who love us (search twitter or instagram for #instructurecon ;) and use our products daily, and challenging engineering problems that come with being one of AWS's biggest users. Oh, and the benefits are amazing too!

I'm an engineer at Instructure, and genuinely love the culture and people here. I would highly recommend it!

Join us by applying at https://jobs.lever.co/instructure?lever-via=NiHimSaI8r

Feel free to reach out to me at neil(at)instructure(dot)com with any questions. Keep in mind I am not a recruiter. I can answer questions about culture or work, but you should submit your application through the URL above.

Plain Concepts | Barcelona, Spain | ONSITE

We are looking for a software crafts(wo)man to join our Barcelona team.

Take a look at the offer: https://plainconcepts.workable.com/jobs/335899 and the web https://www.plainconcepts.com/

Also, I can answer any question you may have :)

Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Lead iOS Engineer, Lead Data Scientist

Raise.me is expanding access to college by reinventing how scholarships are awarded (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/got-an-a-in-alg...). We're a Series A funded startup backed by top investors such as First Round Capital. We're looking for engineers and offer a meaningful equity stake along with great benefits and competitive pay.

Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Node microservices, Go microservices, React.js/Redux frontend

Here are the listings: https://www.raise.me/jobs

Apply to jobs[AT]raise.me or you can email me directly at ryan[AT]raise.me.

Whale | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time | iOS Engineer |$80,000-$125,000 + Equity 0.25%-1.5%

Whale is looking for a senior iOS engineer to join our small team of five. Currently, we are focused on building a video Q&A platform on iOS. Whale is co-founded by Justin Kan (Twitch, Y Combinator, Socialcam, Exec) along with an experienced team that includes Ranidu Lankage (Sri Lankan pop artist,Google exec) and Leo Chen (2X Startup founder funded by 500 startups and former Amazon executive).

Why you should join: - You’ll join an experienced team in the early stages - You’ll learn a lot about startups - You’ll have a lot of fun working here (see our vlog: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJA271-R8nLu9PMU1mzJUQ/vid...)

Responsibilities: - Build new features to support our growing & fast moving iOS app - Work with product designer to iterate on an idea quickly, from prototype to the App Store - Implement custom UI using the latest iOS APIs - Solve many of the challenging performance issues that come with mobile video - Investigate crashes and fix bugs

Who we’re looking for: - At least 3 years of experience building consumer apps that real people use - Proven experience working with video & audio on iOS - A Swift expert

Email hi@askwhale.com with your GitHub profile & sample projects we can build locally and play with.

More info here

https://angel.co/whale-3/jobs/187411-ios-engineer

Android Engineer – poynt.com - Poynt –Palo Alto, CA (ONSITE)

We’re seeking a full-time Android Engineer that knows how to make their way around the AOSP stack.

You'll be responsible for building, launching and maintaining Poynt OS (our secure version of Android + payments firmware that’s gone through PCI-PTS certification ) that will help small business from all around the world process payments in new ways: EMV, NFC, old-school magstripe, other future payment methods. We also build tools for pushing out software updates and capabilities to Poynt devices.

We’re a team of Xooglers, Ex-Amazonians, and Ex-PayPals. We have commitments from all across the world (U.S., Brazil, etc.) to replace brick-looking Verifone and Ingenico payment terminals with our Poynt devices.

Poynt has $28M in funding from Oak Investment Partners, Matrix Partners, and Google Ventures.

If you're interested in joining us as an early software engineer, learning about the payments industry, changing the landscape of payments, learning about what it takes to build payments hardware that’s always connected and have deep Android expertise

-- send your info to careers at poynt.com