Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

Backplane - Palo Alto, CA

== About Us ==

We are building a platform for interest-based online communities. We strive to create a platform filled with dynamic discussions. On one end, we are enabling the community leaders to start, grow, and manage their communities without any hassle; One the other end, we are providing the community participants the best experience to express themselves and connect with others.

Right now, we have 15 people in our engineering team. We encourage our engineers to explore and evaluate new technologies. We work together to create learning opportunities for everyone through code reviews, bi-weekly tech talks, algorithm lunches, and internal hackathons.

- Our site: http://thebackplane.com

- Our largest community - Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters: https://littlemonsters.com

== Technology ==

- AWS for hosting

- MongoDB for main data storage

- PHP-backed RESTful API (ZF2)

- Single page JavaScript Web client built with Backbone.js

- Native Android and iPhone apps

- Fluentd, Hadoop, MySQL, and Django are used for our data analytics portal

== Open Positions ==

- Senior Frontend Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

- DevOps Engineer

Check out http://jobs.thebackplane.com for more info. Please feel free to email me directly at chengyin [at] thebackplane.com. We do take INTERNs and we do sponsor VISA.

I sent an email asking about the crypto challenge but didn't get a reply :( My email is my username @ gmail.

Memset Hosting Ltd - http://www.memset.com/ - Dunsfold Park, Cranleigh, Surrey (UK) - Permanent

If you're an experienced Python developer willing to solve interesting problems and you're not afraid of releasing high impact code every day, then we'd like to hear from you.

Required: fluency in Python, familiarity with Subversion or any other SCM, web front-end development experience with Django and happy to work on your own without excessive supervision.

We're also looking for DevOps and system administrators.

Further details about us and the open positions: http://www.memset.com/careers/

PredPol - jobs@predpol.com

We process past crime data and try and predict where crime is going to happen tomorrow. We have an app for cops that they use to check where crime is predicted so they can stop it before it happens. Police departments using our software include Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Cruz, London, etc.

We focus on getting data in the hands of officers in the field with a simple modern UI, and that's why it works: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Cops-Credit-Predicti...

Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) is hiring Software Engineers for our Simulation team!

Palantir’s Simulation Software Engineers focus on solving some of the hardest, most interesting problems in delivering high-quality enterprise software. We are responsible for accelerating the delivery and improving the quality of Palantir’s world-class information analysis platforms. We accomplish this by designing and implementing software tools that can be used to automate the production of Palantir’s platforms. We design and develop a wide variety of tools, including automation infrastructures for various domains and distributed systems and VM cloud management tools that are capable of dynamically provisioning thousands of VMs used to perform concurrency testing. We work on a huge variety of projects in different languages, using many different software tools. This variety exposes us to a vast set of engineering challenges every day and allows us each to become masters of many different crafts. Communication is key for us; we have no problem coordinating with others on projects and making time for team game nights and happy hours. When we see opportunities, we go after them without needing an org chart to tell us what to do; this lets us choose projects that are the most interesting and impactful.

To apply: https://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m8000000...

For questions, email me at jscalisi@palantir.com