Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

FiscalNote, Inc. - DC & NYC - Full time - Authorized to work in US only Open Positions: DevOps Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Architect, Front-End Engineer, SDET, Data Scientist, Ruby on Rails Engineer, Product Manager, QA Engineer

We just announced our Series B investment round last month ($10 million) and are looking to further build out our engineering and data science teams!

At FiscalNote, we've built and continue to develop predictive analytics platforms for open data that impact every corner of industry and society. We're penetrating sectors untouched by advanced machine learning and NLP methods. CNN called us one of the Top 10 Startups in America. The legacy competition is not pleased. We love engineering across a cutting-edge stack, we love our customers, and most importantly, we love our team (at 37 and growing!). Job descriptions and requirements can be found at fiscalnote.com/careers.

Want to be FN Awesome? Email jobs@fiscalnote.com.

Why do you think it is?

Front End Engineer

Engineering Team | HQ in Jackson, MS or REMOTE

Be a part of a small agile team that gives our engineers a ton of freedom and responsibility in developing apps, which include a messaging and a social intelligence product. EdgeTheory is an Angular.js shop and our backend runs in Ruby (Sinatra).

Skills we are looking for

* Able to construct rich HTML and CSS, with complex JavaScript interactions

* Experience using JavaScript Frameworks (E.g., Angular, Ember, Backbone, jQuery) in large applications

* Experience with Responsive Design (E.g., Twitter Bootstrap, Bourbon Neat)

Bonus Points

* Strong design sense

* CSS compiler knowledge (E.g., Sass, LESS)

* Visualization Experience (E.g., d3.js)

* Experience debugging front-ends and using UI testing tools (E.g., Karma, Jasmine)

Interested? Send us an email at jobs@edgetheory.com

This thread, and even forum, may not be the best place to get salary information first. Reason being, is this is a YC-related forum, full of early stage start ups, who are looking for core team members. A key attribute of key members is to be excited about the problem the company is solving first.

Salary is a very reasonable point of interest when it comes to new opportunities. This may not be the right place to seek those opportunities. Glassdoor, dice, craigslist may suit your needs much better.

Simply being blunt, if all you care about is a paycheck and hopefully writing great code, being Engineer #X at a start up is not for you. Every early member needs to be a natural advocate for the company.

There's also a middle ground between posting salaries on listing and going through 4 rounds of interviews. Companies don't want to waste their time either. You can also easily find out salary ranges for many of the jobs posted by looking at angellist.com.

In the end, if you and a company are a great match for each other, the compensation package will be much less of an obstacle.

Do you really want to miss the opportunity of a lifetime by skipping a company that simply doesn't post salaries?

> 1. There is always flexibility in the budget for the right people.

Nothing stopping you from tacking on that caveat after offering a range so people can grok you from a distance.

> 2. Salary is not everything. > I do believe salary is important, but not everything. There are a good number of people who are willing to take a job with less salary if they feel they can grow there more, the culture fits them better and the potential of company is bigger there.

The only people willing to take that cut are

(a) young enough not to be thinking about retirement, and

(b) people naive enough to think you having a good culture lets you off the hook for being a cheapskate.

Disclaimer: used to think salary wasn't everything after $x quality of living, now I'm a bit older, a bit wiser and looking at retirement. I now think I was a huge idiot in my younger years for not taking every advantage possible. - So take my views with a grain of disillusioned salt.