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

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SmarterCookie - San Francisco - Lead iOS Developer

We believe it’s possible for every student to have an excellent teacher.

SmarterCookie (www.beasmartercookie.com) empowers teachers with the support and feedback they need to be the best teachers they can be, with a direct impact on student achievement. We’re a small team solving the most important problem in education: teacher effectiveness.

We were part of ImagineK12’s summer 2012 cohort, have been recognized in Forbes’ 30 under 30, and are generating revenue from great organizations across the country (KIPP, Teach for America).

We’re hiring an iOS developer to be our second engineer / third employee and help us in this mission. If improving education excites you, we'd love to chat: jobs@beasmartercookie.com

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

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Boomrat (www.boomrat.com), fully funded by Live Nation, is hiring software engineers to continue building and scaling an EDM (music) platform. Stack: Backbone, Laravel, Redis, Mysql in a Service Oriented Architecture.

You: Curious, work smart, have a voice.

Work in a rapid development environment with engineers to implement a growing architecture on the latest cloud technology. Be directly involved in scaling the platform, building services, creating UIs. Work on any part of the stack.

Please contact michael@boomrat.com if you are seeking a challenge.

Boomrat is located in Hollywood.

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

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Boomrat (www.boomrat.com), fully funded by Live Nation, is hiring software engineers to continue building and scaling an EDM (music) platform. Stack: Backbone, Laravel, Redis, Mysql in a Service Oriented Architecture.

You: Curious, work smart, have a voice.

Work in a rapid development environment with engineers to implement a growing architecture on the latest cloud technology. Be directly involved in scaling the platform, building services, creating UIs. Work on any part of the stack.

Please contact michael@boomrat.com if you are seeking a challenge.

Boomrat is located in Hollywood.

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

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Planetary Resources - Bellevue, WA - Full time Planetary Resources, Inc (PRI), the asteroid mining company, is seeking a Flight Software and Ground Software Engineer (a combined role) for the development of innovative spaceflight products and support systems. PRI’s vision is to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals through the rapid development of innovative and cost-effec…

>> "Bottom line – we build spaceships and explore asteroids. If you need any other motivation to apply, don’t bother." Interesting message. Does that mean they only want crazy space nuts? And don't want regular engineers, who are in business of building things for money?

Basically that's the idea. If you don't have the passion, just the skill... you are not welcomed there. Makes sense, it's a small niche, I'm sure they find people easily.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "Bottom line – we build spaceships and explore asteroids. If you need any other motivation to apply, don’t bother." Interesting message. Does that mean they only want crazy space nuts? And don't want regular engineers, who are in business of building things for money?

Basically that's the idea. If you don't have the passion, just the skill... you are not welcomed there. Makes sense, it's a small niche, I'm sure they find people easily.

is it US citizens only?
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