Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Kitchit | San Francisco, CA

The Kitchit recipe is simple: For a great night with friends, skip the restaurant and bring the chef to you.

We believe that a great meal shared with great people is a powerful and joyful experience. When that meal takes place effortlessly in the comfort of home, something downright magical happens. That’s why we’re building a platform to pioneer a new kind of dining experience—one that turns your table into the best table in town.

We’re a well-funded startup based in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. Our platform is powered by great chefs, world-class technology, and a passionate team. We’re looking for talented (and hungry) full-stack engineers with an eye for product. Currently wee use Rails + Heroku, but we’ll be diving into mobile app development soon.

Plus. our office features the biggest dinner table you’ve ever seen. Want to pull up a chair? Apply for an open job.

http://www.kitchit.com/jobs

Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers to hack education

Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 7 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-cleve...

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.

Running out of money would imply that there was, well, no money. Which was never the case. The Foundation has significant cash reserves, as you can easily verify from looking at its public accounts.

The outreach program has resulted in a significant increase in the number of developers working on the GNOME project, which improves their ability to build the GNOME platform. The charter doesn't say that they'll sponsor developer travel to conferences either, or the purchase of hardware in order to improve integration. Why are you hung up on a specific example of spending money in a way that improves the project, but not any others?

Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, CA

We're building the largest rental housing search network on the web and need to make sure it's solid. We're hiring a software engineer/SDET to lead our back-end testing efforts, building systems to test systems. You'll be an extremely important part of a smart, fast-paced team that's responsible for the data behind the best rental sites on the internet.

http://www.zillow.com/jobs/san-francisco-office/ or email me at davidpe@zillow.com

REMOTE - programming teacher for 7yo

Looking for someone who might be interested in teaching my son to code (remote, private lessons). He is 7yo and is good at Scratch but I don't know enough about programming to get him to the next level. Very flexible on how and when the lessons are conducted. Basically just need someone who knows how to code, likes teaching, has a fair amount of patience and has at least a general structure for teaching someone from the very beginning. And yes, his primary goal is to create an iPad app!

I am aware that there are many online courses, etc., but I think he'll enjoy learning more if he has an engaging teacher.

If interested, please shoot me an email: gthomps@gmail.com

Thanks, Geoff