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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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farewill | JS Engineer | London | Full-time | Onsite | farewill.com

We’re on a mission to change the way the world deals with death. We’re looking for a software engineer with experience working on an e-commerce platform at scale, to help us architect, build and operate the services and interface that powers the Farewill product. You will be a key player in a team who redefines how people deal with the one thing we all experience.

You'll work closely with our cofounder and CTO, Tom, together responsible for delivering a service that is transforming tens of thousands, then hopefully millions of people's experience of thinking about and planning for their deaths. This is no ordinary job.

We’re an agile product squad so you’ll work directly with our founders, Head of Product and Lead Designer, also working closely with our Partnerships Lead and Customer Care team. Our product, customer base, partnerships and team are all scaling fast - we're a well funded team of fast-learners looking for a talented, multi disciplinary, independently minded engineer to join our team of 5 to make our collective vision a reality.

We’re backed by world class investors - the founders of Zoopla and Wonga, M&C Saatchi and Kindred Capital - and working on a problem that’s as big as they come. This is an unusual, fascinating, sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious area to work in – if you’re up for a big challenge we would love to meet you.

For more details & to apply see here: https://farewill.workable.com/jobs/368537

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free. - The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 14 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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WaiveCar | Software Engineer | Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California | ONSITE | http://waivecar.com WaiveCar is a free-to-use advertising based on-demand all-electric car-rental service. We're looking for a senior engineer with experience in small-shop startups. The tech is javascript/mobile app/etc ... We are expanding via a partnership with Hyundai ( https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/hyundai-partners-with-waiv... )…

Maybe I can't pitch a job right, this is a great position people.

No drama, no politics, easy team, no boneheads.

I want to make sure the team is productive and get out of the way.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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REMOTE (Worldwide) - Open Source Developer on Open edX - Python/Django, Javascript (OpenCraft - Remote/worldwide company based in Berlin)

Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of nine developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia & Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )

It's a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client/server sides, etc.

Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.

Stack: Python/Django, Ansible, AWS/OpenStack, Debian/Ubuntu, JS, HTML/CSS, MySQL, MongoDB

Interview process: a 15 minutes (simple) coding exercise & a 30 minutes Hangout. If that works out, you're given a (paid) test task: a contribution to the Open edX project. The decision is taken based on how you handle the upstream contribution.

To apply, fill this form: http://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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Firepoint | Full Stack Rails Developer | Denver, CO | $80,000 - $120,000 with equity, http://firepoint.net

We're looking for a talented developer who shares a passion for writing quality software to join us in taking Firepoint to the next level. You'll be leveraging the latest technologies while working with a tight-knit team on a modern Ruby on Rails application. You'll be touching all aspects of the tech stack and will have ample opportunities to learn new skills and grow professionally while actively shaping our company's future.

Please apply at http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/130065/full-stack-rails-develo... or email phil at firepoint dot net if you have any questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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Nebulous | Software Developer - Networking | Boston, MA | ONSITE, OPEN SOURCE | https://sia.tech/jobs

Nebulous | Business Operations | Boston, MA | ONSITE, INTERNS | https://sia.tech/jobs

We're a team of decentralization enthusiasts building a decentralized cloud storage platform. We take decentralization seriously - if we were to shut down tomorrow and disappear, service on our platform would not be interrupted. Website aside, users would likely not even notice.

We use smart contracts, erasure coding, and encryption to create a secure marketplace for cloud storage. Our platform is comparable to Amazon S3, except that the user is in full control of the data, and storage + bandwidth are offered at about 1/10th the price.

We're looking to expand our team to help us grow the userbase and to help us onboard enterprises. Sia is ultimately meant to be aimed at corporations more than consumers, and we're looking to expand further in that direction. We have a bare-minimum sales pipeline built, and we're looking for someone to build that out further and to walk corporations from first call to pilot to production deployment.

We are also looking for someone who can optimize the networking done by our software. There's a lot of obvious room for improvement in how the protocol transfers data + payments. The networking is trading money with untrusted and potentially malicious parties, which means that any protocol must be robust to adversarial interference. All coding will be done in golang. All of our code is MIT licensed.

If you are passionate about decentralization, you might find a home with us.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

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Meteor | Software Developer | San Francisco | REMOTE

Work on open source software to help people build better apps. This includes the Meteor JavaScript app platform and the Apollo GraphQL client and associated tools.

We're a very small but efficient team, with good work-life balance, flexible schedule and location, and interesting and challenging work.

Learn more and apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/meteor/5e11e6cf-5303-4c12-a3e7-11e5f8d...

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