Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by hnjobrtc » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

### Apple Inc: Cupertino, CA - Big Data Analytics Engineer - (Sorry no remote!!) Relocation offered.

We're building a real-time Big Data analytics system from the ground up for scale and speed and want a hands-on data wrangler who can ship great code too! Here are some of the interesing technolgies involved.

  * Hbase
  * Storm
  * Impala/Phoenix
  * Java/Jruby
  * R/Apache Crunch
  * REST

Please contact us at hnjobsrtc@gmail.com providing a resume, explaining why you are interested, and why you think you'd be a good fit.

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

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Post by justinwi » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

Firebase, Soma Water, Syncplicity and PagerDuty - Silicon Valley

More at: http://hiring.customerdevlabs.com/work-in-silicon-valley

Startup friends banding together to find great developers (and lure them to the valley).

We're looking for:

- Senior devs (3 - 7 years writing production code)

- With strong CS fundamentals

- And shipping experience with Rails, Scala, Java, JavaScript and/or iOS

Happy to bring you here for an interview and, of course, relocate you if/when the time is right.

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

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Post by hnjobrtc » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

### Apple Inc: Cupertino, CA - Analytics Dev-Ops Engineer - (Sorry no remote!!) Relocation offered.

We're building a real-time Big Data analytics system from the ground up for scale and speed and need a rock-soild Montgomery Scott to have our backs. Here are some of the interesing technolgies involved.

  * Zookeeper
  * Hbase, HDFS
  * Storm
  * Linux
  * Ruby
  * Puppet/Chef
  * Git
  * Nagios/Splunk

Please contact us at hnjobsrtc@gmail.com providing a resume, explaining why you are interested, and why you think you'd be a good fit.

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

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Post by dm8 » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

AdsNative - http://adsnative.com/ - San Francisco, CA

We are building ad-server & suite of tools to fix advertising on mobile. In short, we are making digital advertising content driven and enjoyable. Like you, we also hate intrusive nature of existing display advertising.

Everyone on the team has strong technical/design background. More info on AngelList - https://angel.co/adsnative

We are hiring (full time)-

* Engineering Lead for Mobile

* Front-end Engineer

Feel free to contact me (my email is in profile) or contact@adsnative.com.

[EDIT] Here couple of problems/challenges we are solving -

* Keeping latency less than 150ms while serving millions of ads every second

* Since these ads are content driven, figuring out content virality and doing last mile tracking based on analytics/data mining

There are many such challenges that we are tackling so please feel free to get in touch with us even if it's just out of curiosity for you. We love to talk what we are building and getting feedback from startup/hacker community.

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

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Post by danadams » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

CO Everywhere (http://coeverywhere.com) - Boston, MA

CO Everywhere is connecting people and businesses with locations through social data. Come work with the founders and core product team to build a disruptive, consumer-facing company in Downtown Boston.

We are hiring our core product team that will shape this product and company. This is a rare opportunity to be one of the first product team hires and be truly challenged building a very special product. Email me (co-founder / cto) at dan@coeverywhere.com if you're interested in one of these roles:

* Rails engineer - Design, test, and build features in the product across the web, the REST API, and a massive data platform

* Data platform engineer - Work with over 1,000 data sources on a single data platform to ingest, curate, enhance, and deliver the best social, location-based content to users

* Infrastructure / OPS engineer - Scale a data platform serving users in nearly 100 countries

* iOS dev - Work across the range of iOS devices to push the limits of what can be done on mobile / tablet devices

* Android dev - Set new standards on Android for app and UI/UX quality

* GIS engineer - Create new ways of working with social data tied to location at scale

* API engineer - Create an API capable of delivering social / location content across the entire social spectrum to users in nearly 100 countries. In real-time.

* Basically, if you're awesome, I want to talk to you.

About us:

* Our product launched with rave reviews by press (TC, HuffPo, & 20+ others) and consumers.

* We have strong growth in usage, around the globe (95 countries).

* We have a highly skilled and experienced team fanatically dedicated to building something awesome.

* We have an incredible team of investors and advisors.

* We are located in the PayPal Start Tank incubator space in downtown Bostonia.

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

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Post by chuckd1356 » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

jzwinck wrote: post #128

chuckd1356 wrote: post #14

SimpleCharters, Inc. - Portsmouth, NH. (45 min from Boston, 4 hours to NYC, 1 hour to mountains, 1 min to ocean) We're a marketplace for booking private jets, instantly. Looking for front-end & back-end devs. Application written in PHP/MYSQL (CodeIgniter), small (but critical) pieces in Node.js and Python. Preferably candidates interested in aviation or luxury lifestyle. ( http://www.simplecharters.com )

There's something wrong with your website--when I first visit each of the pages, some totally other page appears first. It has a black or dark grey background with some tabs in a column along the left edge. It is quickly replaced by the proper site each time, after being visible for perhaps 200ms. I tried to find a contact address to send this to, but your site makes it really hard to contact you (except via "Live Ch…

Hey thanks for the heads up. I'll take a look.

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

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Post by aberkowitz » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

Sproutel - Providence RI and Greater Boston Area

We build interactive games for children with chronic illnesses. Our first product, Jerry the Bear[0] is a teddy bear that teaches children with Type I Diabetes their medical procedures.

We are seeking a developer proficient in Android Development. Past experience with OpenGL or LibGDX[1] are a plus, but not necessary.

Email me if you are interested: andrew@sproutel.com

[0] http://jerrythebear.com/

[1] http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/index.html

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

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Post by sgt » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

AdamN wrote: post #85

Nairobi, Kenya http://kili.io -- Launching public cloud to the African continent using OpenStack. Amazon Web Services won't come here so we're building it right now. The company is in the seed stage but you'll be working with me (former NY startup CTO), this guy James (awesome local DevOps person), and another guy Anthony (Princeton grad with a finance background). We're just getting started but have a server up alre…

Drive out of the city... if you can actually get through the traffic.

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

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Post by lutorm » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC

zura wrote: post #312

sherjilozair wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can a non-citizen apply?

Yeah, I'm interested as well. Since they are "developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization", why should the position be limited to one particular country on one particular planet...

US Government arms control laws make it very difficult to hire people who are not at least US permanent residents.

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

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Post by mdu » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC

Benbria - http://www.benbria.com/company/careers - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

We are looking for full-time Node.js full-stack developers, and a product designer. We also have several coops and internship positions available throughout the year.

Benbria is the leading provider of customer engagement solutions. We work with some of the world's largest retailers, restaurant and hotel chains. Our products help build valuable connections between businesses and their clients.

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Product Designer

  + Knowledge of core graphic design & usability principles
  + Expertise in writing cross-browser friendly HTML & CSS
  + Proficiency with your Adobe weapon of choice (Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator)
  + Good understanding of JavaScript as a programming language and experience writing it
  + Experience with designing web applications and responsive websites
  + Strong portfolio of work demonstrating the above
  + Holistic approach to design and ability to carry your own ideas through discussion, wireframing, prototyping and production
  Nice-to-haves:
  + HTML & CSS preprocessors (Jade & Stylus is a plus)
  + Ability to create great-looking UI in-browser (more CSS3, less images)
  + Experience with source control management (Git)

Full-Stack Developer - Node.js

  + We use and enjoy the following: Node.js, CoffeeScript/JavaScript, MongoDB, Backbone.js, WebSockets, Git
  + Node.js, CoffeeScript. Jade, Backbone.js
  + Strong JavaScript knowledge
  + Front-end web development knowledge (HTML5/CSS3/JQuery)
  + Preference for simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
  + A history of getting things done
  Nice-to-haves:
  + Amazon AWS experience
  + Experience building fault-tolerant systems in the cloud

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Perks:

  + We are a small company - a talented and diverse team - with big customers. 
  + We support your personal growth: buy books, lunch-and-learns, conferences, on-site gym and soccer field, etc.
  + Relaxing environment: game nights, rock climbing, cat picture spam in our chatroom
  + Competitive pay, full benefits and stock options