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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry this has happened, that's not good at all. I know that a lot of effort goes into getting in touch with us (or anyone else). There was a time when I was personally handling all the hiring, and I struggled to get back to everyone on top of everything else I was doing. We have a much better hiring process now and we've committed to responding to every email. Sorry again that you had a bad experience here.

I haven't even got a generic no

22nd Sep

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Zymeworks Inc. - http://www.zymeworks.com - Vancouver, Canada

Position: Front-end software developer.

Zymeworks Inc. is a Canadian computational biotechnology company developing and utilizing predictive computational technology for the design of next-generation antibody-based therapeutics in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Zymeworks is experiencing technical success, business success, and exciting growth.

Zymeworks is looking for an exceptionally talented software developer to complement our current team. We are looking for motivated individuals who are eager to showcase their talent, demonstrating the passion and drive to grow within this progressive and developing Company.

Currently we have an opening for a Front-End Software Developer to take part in designing, building and expanding our suite of scientific data analysis and modelling tools.

Roles & Responsibilities • Creating front-end web applications and their supporting back-end APIs for analyzing and visualizing in-silico and biological data. • Writing tools to enable our scientists to develop, analyze and interpret in-silico and biological data at a high level. • Integrating and maintaining the developed software as part of the entire computational platform. • Developing data exploration tools and innovative visualizations to transform information into knowledge. • Formulating initial specifications based on requirements and feedback from our scientists, implementing the specifications, and ensuring reliability of the final product. • Coordinating with the scientific staff and the software development team to propose new directions and solutions for data interpretation, visualization and integration with other in-house tools.

Our Platform Candidates should have demonstrable experience in, or an interest working with the following technologies: • JavaScript (AngularJS, D3, WebGL) • Python (NumPy, Pandas) • Go • SQL

Qualifications & Experience • A Bachelor’s degree in Computing Science, Engineering, or equivalent. • Proven experience developing and maintaining JavaScript based web applications, their supporting backend APIs and other associated infrastructure. • Experience developing software on Linux or Mac OS X. • Fluency in English, spoken and written. • Applicants with proven and demonstrable experience developing large-scale data analysis, exploration and visualization tools will be given preference.

Zymeworks is a dynamic and progressive company. Our people are passionate, engaged and extremely motivated to succeed. Our environment is relaxed and collaborative yet focused and pragmatic. To learn more about Zymeworks Inc. and our current openings, please visit our website at www.zymeworks.com. Compensation is on par with industry standards and commensurate with experience and includes an extended benefits plan and participation in the employee stock-option plan. If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your curriculum vitae and cover letter including available start date in PDF format to careers.1278@zymeworks.com with "1278: Front End – Software Developer" in the subject line. Due to the high volume of applicants, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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SpaceX - Los Angeles, CA http://www.spacex.com/careers We seek to accelerate the course of human history by developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization. We build rockets and spacecraft from the ground up, utilizing much of our own electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engine systems. The Falcon launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft are among the most ambitious engineering systems in…

If you'd like to apply to SpaceX go through another recruiter. I applied through Ryan a while back. He was unprofessional and kept getting mixed up with the schedule. In the end I did 6+ hours of phone interviews and a 4 hour coding test. I sent in my results and was completely ignored. No feedback, no response to my inquiries. Honestly one of the most insulting things that's ever happed to me.

Go on Linkedin, SpaceX has several other recruiters available.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Jabez Technologies (www.robotmaster.com) - Montreal, (QC) Canada.

We’re a young company developing CAD/CAM software for robots and we’re looking for one or two Junior Software Engineer. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of C# and .NET Framework. Even if he knows that Web Apps is the future, he has strong feeling about what a modern desktop application should be. He is interested in making simple UX and pixel-perfect UI. He is inspired by web design and web technologies in general. He has some experience in embedded database especially with NoSQL. He also has good maths and 3D programming background.

If you’re interested, email me at julien@robotmaster.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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TouchOfModern (https://www.touchofmodern.com) - San Francisco, CA

Senior Developer

WHO WE ARE

We are a start-up located in San Francisco that curates modern designed products for 5-day sales for our members. Our goal is to help people discover unique and beautifully designed products while getting them at a great price. The site is growing extremely rapidly, adding thousands of users daily and dozens of design/manufacturing partners each week. The company is early-stage and VC-funded, looking to bring on sharp, hardworking talent with competitive salary. You'll have a chance to work directly with the founders and be part of the core team.

EXPERIENCE YOU SHOULD HAVE

+ this is not your first gig

+ you have experience with building end-to-end products

+ you are an expert in rails, jQuery, objective-c and MySQL

+ are experienced in scaling rails (1M+ visitors/month) and building on the android platform

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

+ working across all channels including web, iPhone, iPad and android

+ driving operational efficiencies including fraud detection, logistics automation, advertising integration, improving metrics measurements, bug fixes, etc.

+ creating new features as the company grows including scaling the code base, a/b testing, writing integration tests, setting up search servers, personalization, etc.

+ communicating directly with the CTO daily

If you fit the bill, please apply with:

+ resume highlighting what you've been up to the past couple of years

+ cover letter explaining why you're interested in e-commerce

Use Subject Line "ToMo Senior Developer"

Send your application to Steven at engineering-jobs@touchofmodern.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Seeking Full-time Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer will directly impact the customers and deepen the value of our business. This position is responsible for working on the core components of Placester, which powers everything from our hosted services to real-time, high traffic ad services. We utilize massive sets of MLS data within real estate to deliver large, highly scaled multi-tenant web hosting. Our platform runs on a varied technology stack and we work within different engineering techniques, such as statistical analysis and machine learning. Since we are engineering focused, your ideas and opinions will help shape our company and our products, every single day.

Here’s a bit more about the role -

About You as a Senior Engineer: -You are a polyglot: Mastery of Java, Python, and/or Ruby on Rails -2+ years of large-scale NoSQL experience (MongoDB, HBase, or Cassandra a big plus as well as experience with Hadoop) -Experience with traditional SQL databases and APIs -You know your way around an Unix command line, and have experience with managing Nginx -You know that sustainable systems win in the end, and sometimes a new feature means refactoring old code to help -Experience building web applications on the client-side, server-side, and/or full-stack -You can work with other developers on a large code base -You aren’t a stranger to Jira or Asana

About You: -Thrive on collegial, collaborative, and focused team and be able to hold your own in a healthy debate -Strong communicator, can effectively explain issues and solutions -Proactive, self-motivated and comfortable leading teams -Comfortable writing code that scales to millions of users -Generally happy person (we’re happy too) -Passionate about great, easy to use software (we love what we do and you should too)

Benefits: -Competitive salary -Generous and early-stage equity -Full medical, dental, and vision -A highly motivated, brilliant, and fun team

How to Apply Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Senior Software Engineer" in the subject line.

https://placester.com/careers/#senior-software-engineer-rail...

Our Mission: Make the web work for real estate. Bridging the gap between real estate professionals and their clients.

Real estate is the largest industry in the world. It’s also one of the most important—after all, everyone needs a place to live. Millions of consumers are looking for their next home online, and they expect the same kind of browsing and buying experience they get on sites like Amazon and Facebook.

Unfortunately, real estate agents are struggling to provide that experience. That’s where Placester comes in. We’re creating an industry where it's quick and simple for real estate professionals to get their information on the web.

Don’t let that simple description fool you. We’re addressing the hardest problem in the largest industry in the world. As you might have guessed, not everything is written on the home page yet.

Our Culture: Team. Join the team that makes a difference in a big, complex industry. Our culture is all about teamwork. That being said, we're composed of folks who are their own brand of brilliant, focused, fun, intense, and friendly. If you've ever worked on a high performing team you've experienced this mix before.

You’ll be expected to get things done and be responsible for making it happen, without any bureaucratical mess. You’ll be expected to identify problems and solve them on your own. But more importantly, you may need to rally a friend or team to overcome them. Both are key tools on your belt.

You’ll be expected to have an opinion because it will matter when shaping the outcome of your company. Opinions are about courage: to speak your mind and to change it.

Everyone laughs a lot over lunch. Topics range from the standard technical, tactical and whos-doing-what in the start up world; but they also weave through topics like the proper structure for the US debt, that great restaurant down the street or how to Sous-vide the perfect piece of meat. Brilliance isn’t one-dimensional.

There’s a local coffee shop that often serves as the perfect distance for discussing a hard problem. We deal with a lot of hard problems and really like great coffee. It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem itself… which is a good reason to take a walk and discuss it over a cup.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Chango - https://www.chango.com/about/careers - Toronto, ON

We are hiring for quite a few engineering and non-engineering positions, but I would like to highlight the roles available on Chango's Large Scale Data team where we have two open positions for intermediate/senior software engineers.

At Chango, we process 20 billion or so unique data points per day, and are trying to minimize the latency between times when we collect the data and make it available for the real-time distributed systems that need to use it.

We use traditional SQL databases (Postgresql), columnar data warehouses (Vertica), networked/local key/value stores (AeroSpike, KyotoCabinet, LMDB, memcache), as well as a many node petabyte scale map/reduce cluster (Disco/DDFS).

You will be programming in Python, Cython and C with forays into Go and Erlang. You are comfortable with your code running on 100s of nodes in multiple data centres. You have solid knowledge of Linux internals and tools, networking, disk, cache and memory subsystems as well as techniques to measure and optimize all of the above.

You have thorough familiarity with relational technology/theory, ACID, transaction processing, networked and local key/values stores, data warehousing and columnar databases. You should have experience with map/reduce and distributed file systems (Hadoop/HDFS, Disco/DDFS).

You have a firm understanding of the various and sometimes exotic data structures and algorithms used for processing large data sets. You will use bloom filters, hyperloglog, skip lists, b+ trees, prefix tries, hashing in all it's multitudinous forms, MVCC, two-phase commit, data compression/encoding, etc.

You are familiar with and are eager to build distributed systems. You are familiar with shared-nothing architectures, replication, fault tolerance, queueing, messaging models, CAP theorem, and distributed locking.

Competitive salary, equity and benefits.

contact: tim AT chango.com or on the site

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Taqtile - http://taqtile.com - São Paulo, Brazil

Taqtile, a Seattle based software company, which provides engaging consumer experiences for smartphone and tablet platforms. We are eternal learners who constantly challenge ourselves to improve our skills in design, development and understand how people behave. Using technology as a way (and not the final product) to deliver services, and world class experiences that are relevant to people.

We are currently hiring for the following positions

Mobile Developer: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/41192/mobile-developer...

Mobile Art Director: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/7462593?trk=feed-cmpy-fol...

If you are interested feel free to send us an email at careers@taqtile.com or apply at any of the links above

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Patientco - Atlanta, GA (midtown) - FT Software Engineer

Apply here: http://www.patientco.com/careers/

(put "hn" in the notes field for priority review)

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Patientco simplifies the challenge of understanding healthcare expenses for patients so they pay their healthcare providers faster. Already 1M+ patients securely receive, pay and track their healthcare expenses via Patientco.

Founded in 2009 by a team of Georgia Tech graduates and led by an Atlanta based serial entrepreneur, Patientco has experienced huge growth over the last few years and is financially backed by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries.

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Job Description:

As a Software Developer, you’ll build products that make very complex healthcare issues seem simple. Working closely with the other members of the development team, you’ll design, develop, and deploy innovative scalable web-based software solutions at a rapid pace. We’re looking for a software developer that is extremely innovative, seeks continuous improvement, works efficiently, and thrives when working independently. We utilize agile methodologies to define weekly sprints that see code being deployed multiple times per week.

The following are some of the technologies we currently utilize, however we’re always evolving so we’ll find the best tools for the job:

* PHP

* MySQL

* MongoDB

* jQuery

* Twitter Bootstrap

* Puppet

* PHPUnit

* Selenium + PHPUnit for automated testing

* Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, Bamboo)

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Benefits:

* No Vacation Tracking – When you need a break, take a break. Autonomy and innovation are hard work, we understand that.

* Casual dress all-day, everyday – You don’t code better in a tie.

* Start-up Environment – You’re idea will be heard, no matter how crazy you think it is.

* Health and Dental, Vision, Short-term and long-term disability

* Free Parking (Tech Trolley also passes our front door)

* Midtown Atlanta (Atlanta Technology Square – Across the street from Georgia Tech) – Bars, Restaurants, and Sports.

* 401K

* Telecommute days – Work remotely when you need to!

* Free food and unlimited snacks!

* Fun events: whitewater rafting, Segway tours, go-karting, sporting events, and weekly trivia!

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Apply here: http://www.patientco.com/careers/

(put "hn" in the notes field for priority review)

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