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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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Shoptiques (YC 'W12) - NYC - FULL-TIME, VISA Shoptiques.com is a fast-growing New York based start-up that is changing the way consumers shop for unique products and the way local boutiques find their next great customer. Shoptiques.com aggregates the world's best boutiques onto one ecommerce site allowing consumers to virtually jet set from a boutique in Paris to London to New York City without the cost of a plane t…

FYI, if you interview with these guys, be prepared to be left hanging. I did a coding interview with them and heard absolutely nothing back afterwards. Whether or not a company wants to hire you, it's common courtesy to at least respond with "we've decided to consider other candidates" or whatever. Saying nothing is poor form.

> We use Grails, Groovy,

> be prepared to be left hanging

If you work on these technologies, the future's a bit iffy for now whoever you work for. I'm guessing though, based on Graeme Rocher's comments a week ago [1], that he'll roll Groovy into Grails to make a single project, and get funding for both as a rump team under one project management, himself.

[1] http://jaxenter.com/grails-future-113958.html

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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Open Whisper Systems ( https://whispersystems.org ) - Bay Area - Full time - Lead iOS Developer and Lead Designer. No security or cryptography background needed. Open Whisper Systems is working to make private communication simple. Building well designed, free, and open source privacy products is the sole mission of Open Whisper Systems. We are not a business, which means we have no VC obligations, and no management…

For the uninitiated: if you land a job at this company, you're going to be working with a few of the smartest people in the security/cryptology world, and OP is a legend in that community.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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Noisli (http://www.noisli.com)

Copenhagen, Denmark - Full time - Full Stack Developer

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We are looking for a lead Full Stack Developer to join our small team.

- Full Stack Developer with at least 1 year experience

- ability to work independently

- Javascript, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, PostgreSQL/MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, AWS

More info: http://www.noisli.com/jobs or jobs[at]noisli.com

What we do: Noisli is your best productivity companion throughout the day. You can use Noisli to drown out annoying noises in order to better focus and boost productivity. You can also create a pleasant sound environment for relaxing or sleeping.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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Geckoboard(https://geckoboard.com) - Shoreditch, London, UK

We’re a growing 20-person startup based in Shoreditch, East London. Our SaaS product, Geckoboard, makes it easy for businesses to visualise their key metrics on elegant, real-time dashboards. Our customers include large and small tech companies, governmental and non-profit organisations.

We are looking for a front-end developer who can help us improve data visualisation and user experience on our product. For more details, check out https://www.geckoboard.com/careers/#op-26828-software-engine...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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GrabTaxi is a South East Asian startup that aims to transform the way 600 million people commute every day. We want to improve the safety and efficiency of our taxis by leveraging on advancements in GPS and mobile technology.

Our production scale is massive. We process hundreds of thousands of real time bookings a day, and when you push out new code, tons of people will use what you made. Operating at this level is hard but incredibly rewarding.

As a leader in an exciting and fast-paced industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented engineers to join our team. You will specialize in building elegant products that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere.

Location: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) or Singapore

Open Positions (full time):

a. iOS and Android engineers b. Backend engineers (strong understand of CS fundamentals is a must, experience in Node.js or Go is a plus but not required) c. Rails engineers d. Frontend engineers

Contact us at careers@grabtaxi.com (mention that you saw this job ad on HN)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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Altmetric - London UK, full-time, front-end developer

Our mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature. Every day, thousands of scholarly papers are being discovered, discussed and shared, and Altmetric tracks what people are saying about these papers online on behalf of publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.

We’re looking for a full-time front-end developer to join our team in London as the first dedicated front-end hire.

This will involve:

- Working to maintain and develop the user-facing components of Altmetric’s products - Taking part in peer code review with other team members in order to improve code quality and share knowledge - Being involved in and helping to shape our development process for new products and features - Helping to shape the direction of our front-end technology stack for future growth - Taking ownership of the look and feel of Altmetric products and maintaining consistent standards of all user-facing work

Have a look at our jobs page for more information - https://www.altmetric.com/jobs.php - or if you've got any questions, you can email me directly at matt@altmetric.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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eFounders (http://efounders.co) - Paris, France - Full Time - Full Stack Developers

We are a startup studio from Paris building innovative B2B SaaS products (http://efounders.co/companies). For a brand new project we are currently looking for two talented engineers. We have one senior and one junior position to fill which will be the first hires on the project.

The typical tech stack at eFounders: Angular, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Node-Webkit

You can find more details and apply via workable here: http://efounders.workable.com/jobs/34268 http://efounders.workable.com/jobs/34267

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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http://sonofatailor.com

Son of a Tailor is the world’s first online T-shirt tailor. We have recently received our first large investment and are experiencing great international growth and interest from the most influential international lifestyle media. Exciting days lay ahead.

Son of a Tailor’s vision is simple but ambitious: to be the best T-shirt maker in the world. We want to achieve this by making T-Shirts that are made to our customer’s specific measurements, one by one.

We launched our current web shop Oct 2014 and it has been well received by customers and media. But our ambitions stretch much further.

We are not like traditional clothing companies, and we are not aiming to be. In the spirit of a truly personal relationship with the end user, our business does not rely on mass production to achieve profit. It relies instead on the personal connection and continuing relationship customers have with our product. A connection that we want to establish by making something unique for them.

Your greatest responsibility as our CTO, will be to deliver a world class user experience to our customers and enable us to stand out as a truly unique brand. You will also take the lead on designing and building a solid operational foundation which will enable Son of a Tailor to continue it’s growth. Your daily work will be in close co-operation with the rest of the leadership team.

Responsibilities

- Deliver a world class user experience to our customers

- Take the lead on developing a strong technical framework and foundation

- A key player in ramping up and building our tech team

REQUIREMENTS

- Experience with building high quality webshops

- Strong understanding of what a commercial brand needs for high quality user experience

- Ability to produce first class work at all ends of the stack

- Experience in setting up analytics that deliver actionable insights about customer flow, product portfolio, pricing etc.

- A desire to innovate within your field and challenge the status quo

- Experience with creating new online concepts from the ground Interest in branding and lifestyle products

apply here

http://son-of-a-tailor-1.workable.com/jobs/36576

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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CosmoCode - Berlin, full-time/part-time, Systems Administration

We're a small software company mainly creating specialized web applications and web sites (Python Django, Typo 3, Wikis, ...) for individual customers and larger agencies.

We're looking for a Linux Administrator to help with our own as well as customer's servers.

More details at: http://www.cosmocode.de/de/ueber-uns/stellenangebote/11/sysa...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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AdPushup Inc. is hiring for JS Experts @ New Delhi, India office. Full time

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We're a disruptive AdTech company[1]. We have closed an angel round[2]. We're really cool[3].

We're on a hunt for extreme JavaScript Engineers for whom prototypes, closures, promises, MV* are the way of life. This position requires one to work on our unique (soon to be patent-pending) ad delivery and placement engine.

Check out the following link to know more: http://adpu.sh/jsguy-hn

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[1] - Who isn't? :) Seriously though, we are actually changing how ad placement & optimization works.

[2] - $630K (http://www.adpushup.com/blog/adpushup-closes-angel-round-fun...)

[3] - Just take a look at our office (http://www.adpushup.com/blog/new-adpushup-office-features-an...)

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