Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

jobs@tripnary.com

=== About Tripnary ===

Tripnary is a seed-funded, early stage travel startup based in Chicago. We are focused on building a disruptive mobile/web app that helps travelers save and organize the places they want to see and be ready for their next vacation. We want to eliminate the clutter of spreadsheets, bookmarks, emails, etc. that are currently used to document travel plans and provide an easy way to collect all the places you find around the web in one app and create your own itinerary with built-in travel tools. We have a slick web app (currently in private beta) with a jaw-dropping design that blows away everyone who sees it. We have validated the concept with critical feedback from travel bloggers, destination experts, and enthusiasts. We are continuously evolving the product and building the next generation of the app that can be best described as Pinterest travel boards meets Kayak. We work out of 1871, the coolest co-working space for the city’s digital startups.

=== About the role ===

Tripnary is seeking a highly motivated visionary with experience in building mobile/web apps to join the team. As a partner, you will

-- Collaborate with the founders to refine and execute on the Tripnary vision.

-- Spearhead end-to-end development and participate in planning, architecture, design and implementation of a beautiful and intuitive travel app.

-- Guide the product roadmap and help deliver features that provide maximum value to Tripnary’s users.

-- Be a team player with an open mind possessing confidence to make important product-related decisions.

=== What Tripnary offers ===

Tripnary promises a fun, energetic, and fast-paced startup environment and the opportunity to be an early member of a growing team of passionate and tight-knit group of young entrepreneurs with a vision. Because we are a startup, everyone on the team is fully involved on multiple levels. This allows you to gain a great deal of experience both within and beyond your specific area of expertise as everyone works cohesively to accomplish a greater goal. The founder brings over a decade of combined experience with software development and technology businesses delivering million-dollar software products. You will be coming into a very goal-oriented, technically grounded team. We also offer the chance to work intensely with very talented people who really want to win. We promise exciting challenges, a broad range of experiences across a variety of projects and the chance to make a difference while working in a casual but fast-paced setting.

=== What we are looking for ===

We are looking for people with:

-- Experience building web applications in Python/Django with either PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB

-- Experience with RESTful web services (Google Maps, Foursquare, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.), JSON, XML, and SQL

-- Fluency with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX

-- Knowledge of at least one client-side app frameworks such as Backbone.js, AngularJS, or Ember.js, etc.

-- Keen eye for design with demonstrated background to show

-- Enjoy creating innovative implementations that push the platform to the limit

-- Passionate about delivering a delightful experience to users

-- Experience deploying and hosting applications on Amazon Web Services, Heroku, or other cloud environments

-- Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD)

-- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming including algorithms, data structures, and design patterns

-- Creative thinker with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills

-- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, fast learner with the ability to work in a team environment

-- Ability to wear many different hats

-- Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced startup environment

We prefer people with:

-- Understanding of machine learning, Hadoop, and/or MapReduce

-- Passion and love for everything travel

-- Appreciation for design thinking

-- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science/engineering or related field

=== Compensation ===

We provide competitive packages with both a salary and generous equity. Compensation for this position will consist of a substantial company equity as we are looking for the right partner with an entrepreneurial mindset. This ensures that we all take ownership of Tripnary and have a vested personal interest in its success.

=== How to apply ===

If you are interested to be part of Tripnary please drop us an email with your resume at jobs@tripnary.com. Thanks a lot for your interest!

Note: This is NOT a remote position. All applicants MUST be able to work from our offices in Chicago.

Note 2: All applicants MUST be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Note 3: This posting is for principals ONLY. Please do NOT contact if you are a recruiter or a development agency.

http://www.getprismatic.com/jobs

== Systems Engineer at Prismatic, San Francisco ==

Prismatic is a great place to be an engineer – we analyze millions of shared web pages every day, automatically classify them into tens of thousands of topics, and serve up personalized feeds in real-time using our homegrown, lightning fast, machine learning-based relevance engine. We are looking to grow our top-notch team, with both junior and senior-level positions available.

We are looking for engineers with deep interest and knowledge in at least one area core to our business (i.e., distributed systems, ops and tooling, machine learning, designing and building new product features). We’re a small team, so you will have the opportunity to have a lot of impact, and to learn from peers who are extremely talented engineers, computer scientists, and data experts. Our backend is written entirely in Clojure, a JVM-based LISP that is a dream to work in. Almost none of us knew it before we joined, and we don’t expect you to either. We are looking for engineers who will fit well within our engineering culture: You live and die by good abstractions. You know that they can make the difference between easily understandable and maintainable code, and a spaghetti mess. You think about edge cases and performance implications, and anticipate future needs. You read and understand existing code before diving in and adding your own. You re-use existing code whenever possible, cleaning it up as needed to be more generally useful. You know when to do it fast, when to do it right, and how to find the best compromise between the two. You recognize that we are all stewards of the codebase, not owners. You leave code better than you found it, and you fix bugs without grumbling about whose they are. You are a team player who enjoys discussing ideas and implementations with other engineers.

Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as systems engineer on the Prismatic team:

- Making our crawlers and document analysis better and more comprehensive

- Building out new product features in our API

- Solving tough systems problems to help us scale reliably and robustly

- Building and improving Machine Learning systems for ranking, document analysis, and more

- Creating tools to assist development and ops

- Shipping some of the best open-source Clojure libraries out there, and working with the community to make them better

== Engineering Manager at Prismatic, San Francisco ==

Managers will be responsible for supporting a sizable engineering team, and applicants can expect to be working on the following problems:

- Writing and reviewing code in Clojure, Objective C and Android. You should have great technical depth and a passion for great code.

- Helping to manage the development roadmap for large portions of the product, and working with engineers, tech leads, designers and product managers to efficiently prioritize and execute.

- Recruiting top candidates for both generalist and specialized engineering roles

- Evangelizing our technical brand through external communication, press and speaking at events

- Understanding the growth needs of each person you manage, and helping them continually expand scope and impact within the team.

== Relevance Engineering at Prismatic, San Francisco ==

Here’s a small sampling of the things you will be working on as a relevance engineer on the Prismatic team:

- Feature engineering for improving the quality of news feeds through iterative experiments

- Building and optimizing recommendations for topics for users to follow

- Extending and improving the set of topics available to users

- Systems for quickly training, deploying and testing machine learning models in production

- Creating tools to evaluate the performance of existing machine learning systems

REMOTE: Yes, but preferably Rome, then preferably Italy, then preferably Europe.

== About the company ==

Tascout [0] wants to create a community for young football players who want to share their experiences each other and with football managers, who can use Tascout in order to spot new talents.

[0] https://www.tascout.com

== About us ==

We are young and enthusiast guys backed by some influential italian football entrepreneurs. The CEO worked for SS Lazio football team, and the CTO [1] has been working with Ruby on Rails for five years. All the other collaborators are smart and friendly people.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/users/584552/mdesantis

== About the platform ==

- Ruby on Rails - PostgreSQL - Redis - Angular - TDD (RSpec, FactoryGirl, Capybara but we want to swtich to standard Rails test platform)

== About you ==

You are a passionated Ruby on Rails developer who writes neatly and confronts with other developers in order to have consistent code, to grow together, and to develop a high quality product.

== Contact us ==

Contact us at claudio @ tascout.com :)

The agency I work for, Engage (http://enga.ge), is looking for fall developer interns. We do everything from WordPress sites to our own products to custom web and mobile apps, and most of our work relates to politics/issue advocacy. We're particularly passionate about Internet freedom issues. Right now we're gearing up to launch a new product so it's a pretty exciting time. Check out our portfolio here: http://enga.ge/work/.

Anyway, we are looking for a college student with back or front-end talent (PHP/MySQL or Javascript/HTML/CSS). Must be in the DC area or willing to relocate; foreigners welcome as long as you can secure a visa on your own (usually J-1 or F-1). Also, note that we treat our interns well and hire them. In fact, one of our current developers used to intern here, as did I. And, management doesn't really care if you have side projects, which is always nice.

To apply, please send me an email directly to michele@engagedc.com with the subject "Developer intern from Hacker News" (I'm the technical project manager). Include your resume, GitHub/portfolio link and a brief description of why you want to work with us. Hope to hear from you!

(Repost from July thread.)

At OnePlus we're trying to redefine the smartphone market with a disruptive business and marketing model. We're probably crazy taking on the industry giants but crazy is what's needed to pull something like this off - and so far it's working.

Our team of 30 people are responsible for all sales outside China. We handle everything from our e-commerce to marketing and support and often one person can be in several roles should he or she prefer - for instance help execute a marketing idea or organize a fan gathering.

We are based in Shenzhen, China, an hour north of Hong Kong. Our team is international - consisting of more than 10 different nationalities - so all work takes place in English. If you happen to know Mandarin that's a plus but most of our team members don't.

Ultimately we are well on our way to realizing our dream with mainstream media starting to take notice: http://time.com/3006267/oneplus-one-review-phone-of-dreams/

To help us get all the way we are looking to hire for multiple different roles.

PHP programmer: Chiefly Laravel and Magento programming with some XenForo inbetween. We currently build and manage our e-commerce platform, community forum and centralized account system with future plans being far more ambitious.

http://oneplus.net/careers/php-programmer

Front-end developer: Help us perfect our user experience with modern HTML and CSS, perform multi-variant testing and perform user studies. Your job is to make our platform as intuitive and frictionless as possible.

http://oneplus.net/careers/front-end-programmer

Customer support manager: Help us tackle problems in customer support and scale our customer support operations. The key to any well respected company is to treat your customers well. Your as a customer support manager is to figure out how we can meet customer support demand as efficiently as possible.

http://oneplus.net/careers/customer-support-manager

Your dream job: We want to hire smart and experienced people. If we don't have a job position that fits you perfectly but you believe we should, then apply and tell us why we're missing your contribution. If we agree we'll create a position for you to fix that mistake.

http://oneplus.net/careers/your-dream-job

We're looking for many more people for many different roles, please have a look at our full careers page and get in touch if you're what we're looking for - and we're what you're looking for.

http://oneplus.net/careers/