Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

I am a Ruby/Rails dev that switched to using Clojure and Node.js, depending on the use cases. I wouldn't want to use Ruby for anything else than static sites and tooling now. Some people think that Javascript is a gimmick, but is it vastly superior to Ruby when it comes to concurrency, ability to share back-end and front-end code, and the tools have gotten really good too.

PS: I wouldn't necessarily recommend switching from Java to Scala, the benefits may be low or negative for most people, see Yammer's experience: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/yammer-scala

i recommend providing an email address instead. more convenient and is less patronizing to the types of programmers you'd most want to hire (ie. the better kinds, in theory)

http://skookum.com/jobs/

We are currently looking to meet top talent for all our different groups (mobile developers, frontend developers, full-stack engineers, and product strategists).

We are a client services business that gets to work on extremely challenging business problems across all industries. The thing we lost most is working with really smart people to solve really hard problems.

Contact us at jobs@skookum.com want to chat about any of the posted positions.

VFiles is the hippest and foulest-mouth fashion startup around. Our shop[1] is the most relevant fashion destination in New York today, our YouTube shows[2] are insanely popular, and we want you to help us bring our social media site to life.

We are looking to add two more engineers to join our team, doubling our current two (in a company of about twenty). Every engineer here will be full-stack, though we're happy to have someone who leans to one side or the other and is eager to learn. Technologies we use include Ruby, Haskell, Angular, Coffeescript, Redis, and more. As part of our team, you will have both a strong voice in the vision and direction of our product and a good deal of autonomy and control in the specific projects you work on.

As for fringe benefits, we throw the most talked about parties in town (hosted by A$AP Mob and crashed by Kendrick Lamar), we have company trips to Montauk, we organize funky Soul Cycle rides with famous designers and models, and we're invited to pretty much everything happening, culture-wise, in New York. You'll work with a diverse group of people with a number of skillsets, all of whom - editorial, video, design - are at the very top of their game.

Candidates who live in NYC and are legally allowed to work in the US only, please.

You can write the Chief Engineer directly at tim (a) vfiles (dot) com to express your interest.

[1] https://www.vfiles.com/shop and http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/building-blocks-al... [2] https://www.vfiles.com/tv and http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/05/model-... [3] Our "user-generated" fashion show for fashion week http://www.thefader.com/2013/09/05/nyfw-vfiles-made-fashion and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJsRvjAQULc

http://spire.theresumator.com/apply/Vs2TjJ/Technology-Lead.h...

Spire is hiring a solid developer and technology big-thinker excited about working on the ground in Kenya.

We’re a small team with a big vision: reinventing higher education from scratch. What would University look like if we scrapped our current model and started over? We think it will blend incredibly high-quality offline teaching and mentoring from real teachers (think the best charter schools in the country), not professors, with free but super high-quality flipped-classroom online learning (think EdX, Coursera), and a new model of apprenticeship so students leave school ready for anything. We’re launching in Kenya early next year and aim to quickly expand across Africa.

We’re looking for a versatile team member who can lead everything from our high-level technology strategy (When do we invest in building our own platform? Do our students use tablets or laptops?) to the nuts and bolts of our hardware decisions, front-end development and basic back-end (e.g., Rails + HTML/CSS + very basic devops on top of Heroku or AWS). This hire will be the founding member of our technology team.

Our dream hire is creative and resourceful but also ambitious – we’d love this person to grow with us into a VP or CTO-type role over the next few years.

About us:

- We’re taking on what we think is one of the biggest problems in the world - We’re a social enterprise and are funded so far with $1M+ in non-dilutive seed grants with another $1M on the way - Our non-profit sister organization kepler.org, where we’re also part of the founding team, got more than 2,500 applications for our first 50 spots and has been written up in Scientific American, Fast Company, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, who thinks our work will be a model for the US. - We’re in Kenya but are open to discussing some remote work for the right candidate - Competitive salary, generous equity awards depending on experience and awesome, inspiring teammates

About you:

- At least a couple years of experience building things, ideally front-end and back-end - Agile generalist and resourceful problem solver - Excited about a tech role that goes beyond getting people to click on ads

Anything you've built or designed (Github profile, personal web apps, design portfolio, etc) that you can include in your application much appreciated!