Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

We're a team of engineers at the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Netherlands. We build (or implement) Open Source SaaS software that allows users to work their data[1][2]. We're looking for front-end / back-end engineers (we prefer people who like a little bit of both) to add features for exposing the data (search, visualisation) and for working with the data (distributes storage, reasoning/inferring knowledge).

Examples of problems we tackle:

- Given that you have about a million mentions of names in notarial archives of the 17th century, can you make an educated guess at which of those mentions are about the same person? Please note: spelling was optional back then. Birthdates were approximations as well.

- Given that you have two scanned pieces of parchment with handwritten text. Can you detect if they were written by the same author? Can you detect what constitutes the "main" writing and what are the reader's notes?

- Can you extract all mentions of places, people and events from a text. Can you do it with a lexicon that changes over time?

- Given a 12km archive of decisions of a legislative body. Can you use network analysis to find clicques based on voting patterns?

As you can see most of these problems are not "novel" per sé, but they are often made a tad more difficult by the historical aspect. And they sure are fun :)

We provide an environment where people enjoy freedom of work, where our clients understand the uncertainty of experimentation (they're researchers after all) and where all code is published under an open-source license.

We're using python and java (yes, voluntarily), react (I know, sooo 2016) and we're hosting on kubernetes. We don't really care if you've used these exact technologies before, but we do care if you have built up greenfield applications as well as to have worked on applications that have been in development for a few years.

Contract benefits: other then what you get in any Dutch company (which is pretty good, especially for US standards) we provide you with a 38 hour workweek and 30 paid holidays (outside of the national holidays such as christmas)

Interview process: you send us some examples of real applications you wrote -> phone interview -> at a later date a technical challenge (in person or screenshare) -> final interview (finalizing the agreement)

Drop me a line at jauco.noordzij . di.huc.knaw.nl!

[1] http://github.com/huygensING [2] http://github.com/knaw-huc

Our platform helps lawyers manage the complexities of large scale corporate transactions. We've built our app/service on EmberJS, Django, AWS, Hashicorp Products, Keras, and many other technologies.

We're a small team that is having fun building out our product and company culture together. We value creating things of quality, improving our craft, and offer a great salary, 4-weeks of paid vacation, personal computers, and a great work-life-balance.

Email me (email in profile) with any questions or head over to https://www.closingfolders.com/careers/.

Thanks! Emerson

Lucid is a scientific desktop tool for genomic sequencing data. It's part of a larger toolset used for sequence alignment, variant calling, and annotation. Pretty much inspired by Sublime Text, for sequence alignment maps (sam files).

Looking for someone to fix some bugs and refactor where necessary. If you have fun working on this, the larger toolset is in C++ and uses Caffe2, so you can try your hand at that once this work is completed.

If you are nearby and want to meet up, or faraway and want to chat just hop into the discord channel.

https://discord.gg/KcggEhk

Make Scientific Software Great Again!

We are hiring for a variety of development roles including: DevOps Engineer, Sr Platform Developer, Sr Android, and Full-stack Web (Python, Django, Javascript, React.js/Flux, AWS, Ansible; recently we’ve been practicing Continuous Deployment on Lambda). Salary range based on experience from $80K to $120K.

Top Hat helps professors make every lecture count by transforming mobile devices into powerful engagement tools, inside and outside the classroom. Recently, Top Hat has been building out interactive textbooks and creating a way for professors to collaborate on authoring new content and sharing it through our marketplace.

We have a great dev culture and some really cool problems to work on! https://sites.google.com/tophatmonocle.com/engineeringattoph...

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Clover is reinventing health insurance by working to keep people healthier. We're looking for seasoned engineers and data scientists to help us solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare. We're using sophisticated data analytics, custom software, and machine learning to coordinate care and build a clearer model of our member's health and risk factors. We are on a mission to help seniors and low-income members live healthier while keeping costs down. This is an opportunity for those who want to be at the intersection of health and technology and thrive in a collaborative environment as well as the freedom of self-direction.

Tech Stack: Postgres, Python, Flask/Django, Frontend: React Cloud Services: Aptible, AWS, GCP Data Stack: Airflow

If you are interested in any of the Data Science and Engineering roles: https://www.cloverhealth.com/en/about-us/careers

To learn more about working here, check out our tech blog: https://technology.cloverhealth.com/