Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Seesaw | San Francisco, CA or Remote (US) | Onsite or Remote | https://web.seesaw.me

Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate, and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by millions of K-12 students in over half the schools in the U.S.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/seesaw

We're currently looking for Senior Platform Engineers (https://jobs.lever.co/seesaw/e71a2588-1907-4194-bde8-a4c4d5e...) to help us scale while serving millions of students!

Tech Stack: Backend: Python3, Deployed on AWS Lambda + ApiGateway, GraphQL endpoint. Frontend: React written in Typescript.

Torch, Chicago

- Full-time, lead principal engineer - Venture-backed company led by industry veteran

apply here: https://forms.gle/roE74wBznxkNRTKM6 or here: alex@torch3pl.com

Co—Star Astrology | Full-time | On-site | New York | $130-150k + equity

https://www.costarastrology.com

Co-Star is bringing astrology into the 21st century with a social, personalized experience that helps people reflect and connect in real, meaningful ways. We recently raised $5m from the people behind companies like Glossier, Rent the Runway, eBay, Periscope, and Everlane.

We’re looking for iOS, Android, and full-stack software developers to join our twelve-person team in Chinatown, NYC.

We want your help:

  • Transforming NASA data into astrological patterns that astrologers can write and map copy to
  • Using TB of data to define and create personalized, emotionally resonant content
  • Developing internal tools to give our writers superpowers
  • Shipping new features & A/B tests in our Apple-lauded iOS app
  • Scaling our backend infrastructure to millions of daily users

Our stack includes

  • Haskell for our backend
  • Swift and Android Native (Kotlin) for our mobile apps
  • React and TypeScript on the web (costarastrology.com + internal tools)
  • AWS to host our infrastructure
  • PostgreSQL

Competitive comp, $0 deductible fully-covered health care, unlimited vacation (min 4 weeks), conference/book/whatever budget

Read more details here -> https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs + feel free to email directly with questions -> tim (at-squiggle) costarastrology.com

@gtbcb I'd like to shoot you a note, but there is no contact info. You can reach me at seanfmcdonnell.com

Lumen5 | Frontend (React), and Javascript | Vancouver, BC | Fulltime, Onsite | https://lumen5.com

We're a startup (32 people so far) that is growing quickly! We're writing software that uses machine learning to automate the creative process of producing video content. We've found that what we're building is very attractive to marketing and communications teams from lots of different organizations and we've got tons of interesting search, NLP, artificial intelligence, video rendering, and web scaling technical challenges. Right now, we're hiring:

Frontend Engineer: Contribute to our large, beautiful single-page app, using React, Redux, ImmutableJS, and more! https://lumen5.com/careers/opportunity/?gh_jid=4040744003

Javascript Engineer: We're building a powerful javascript library that handles all of our video rendering (in webgl), and we need the testing, toolkit, architecture and data structures expertise to continue to make it awesome. Posting here: https://lumen5.com/careers/opportunity/?gh_jid=4040741003