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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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If that's a full-time gig, that pay is insulting for an experienced front-end developer. I am getting paid over twice that (yes, after the conversion) as a junior front-end dev. I don't have a degree or any significant work experience and live in Boston which I imagine has a marginally lower cost of living. I realize you probably aren't the person who sets that price but it just needed to be said - you will certainly…

To be fair, that's about right for the UK market. Mid-range developer posts across the nation pay 30k, possibly a little higher in London. It's low compared to the US, sure.

Some mid range UK developer posts pay that across the UK, but there are plenty out there that quickly pay more. London should be paying at least £6k more than that just for cost of living. London is where developers go to earn the "kick" to their salary that they can then move to the sticks on.

More important is that the pay progression is like, given the difficulty in firing people in the UK compared to the US you often find pay ramps up quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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SpaceX - Los Angeles, CA http://www.spacex.com/careers We seek to accelerate the course of human history by developing the technologies necessary for multi-planetary civilization. We build rockets and spacecraft from the ground up, utilizing much of our own electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engine systems. The Falcon launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft are among the most ambitious engineering systems in…

Can a non-citizen apply?

I was so eager to apply to spacex and so disappointed when I saw the residence requirements. I hope this changes in future

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Flurry - www.flurry.com - San Francisco, CA

Flurry is optimizing mobile experiences for people everywhere. Flurry’s market-leading analytics software is in over 350,000 smartphone and tablet apps on over 1.2 billion devices worldwide, giving the company the deepest understanding of mobile consumer behavior. Flurry has turned this insight into accelerated revenue and growth opportunities for app developers, and more effective advertising solutions for brands and marketers to engage their audiences on mobile devices. Flurry has raised over $50 million in venture funding and has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Chicago and Mumbai.

We are looking for several awesome engineers to join the team:

Android Engineer- You can assume a key role as contributor of highly valued, high-profile functionality in our SDKs, which are used on 90% of Android & iOS devices.

Sr. Software Engineer- Our Advertising team is the force behind our robust mobile ad network, AppCircle. This team is responsible for pushing the edge of mobile advertising and scaling complex machine learning algorithms. Our Ad team leverages the largest database of mobile user behavior in the world to build a platform that connects publishers and advertisers to consumers across every mobile operating system.

If interested, please feel free to email luke.beseda@flurry.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Oculus VR - http://www.oculusvr.com/careers - Irvine, CA Help us bring Virtual Reality back! Oculus is up to around 40 people (primarily engineers), and we are expanding quickly. In addition to a huge variety of positions in Irvine, CA, Oculus is now looking for software engineers in Dallas, Tx. A few of the positions that are especially important to us right now are: * Senior Android Engineer - We're looking for exp…

Nirav, could you please reply to an email? At least when it is from a HN user. Thanks. EDIT: I sent an email more than a month ago. Second one two weeks ago. No reply. So what's the problem? (asking to downvoters)

I'm not going to downvote, but I feel like your request for a response could have been handled better. Your comment sounds too hostile (to me).

I think you will get better reception if you approach the situation without assuming the worst. (e.g. "I think my emails may not be getting through/trapped in the SPAM folder/are being missed" vs. "You are purposefully ignoring me")

Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Foursquare - New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA

We're hiring across most of our teams, but here are a few that are top priority for us at the moment:

* Android Developer (NYC) * Site Reliability Engineer (NYC or SF) * Analytics Infrastructure Engineer (NYC) - expertise in Hadoop, Hive, and other Mapreduce tools required

We code mainly in Scala, and use MongoDB on the backend.

You can check out our other listings here: https://foursquare.com/jobs/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Flurry - www.flurry.com - San Francisco, CA

Flurry is optimizing mobile experiences for people everywhere. Flurry’s market-leading analytics software is in over 350,000 smartphone and tablet apps on over 1.2 billion devices worldwide, giving the company the deepest understanding of mobile consumer behavior. Flurry has turned this insight into accelerated revenue and growth opportunities for app developers, and more effective advertising solutions for brands and marketers to engage their audiences on mobile devices. Flurry has raised over $50 million in venture funding and has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Chicago and Mumbai.

We are looking for several awesome engineers to join the team:

Android Engineer- You can assume a key role as contributor of highly valued, high-profile functionality in our SDKs, which are used on 90% of Android & iOS devices.

Sr. Software Engineer- Our Advertising team is the force behind our robust mobile ad network, AppCircle. This team is responsible for pushing the edge of mobile advertising and scaling complex machine learning algorithms. Our Ad team leverages the largest database of mobile user behavior in the world to build a platform that connects publishers and advertisers to consumers across every mobile operating system.

If interested, please feel free to email luke.beseda@flurry.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Sprig - San Francisco, CA

Senior Mobile (iOS) Engineer

Sprig aims to bring personal chef-style service to the people. As soon as you're hungry, you can order a locally-sourced, well-balanced, awesome dinner directly from your smartphone. Meals cost between $10-15 and are delivered to your door in about 20 minutes. We're well-funded and driving towards an SF launch in late October.

To that end, we’re looking for a senior engineer to help us build an amazing experience for Sprig customers. You’ll be the first engineering hire outside of the co-founders, so this is a great opportunity to help define our engineering culture and product focus.

Right away you’ll be working on:

- Our customer facing iPhone app (aka our "front of the house")

- Mobile apps for our servers, helping them efficiently whisk meals from kitchen to table

- Our delivery dispatch algorithm, the key to getting food in people's hands as fast as possible

In the future you might be working on:

- Making our app ordering experience even better

- Simulating delivery routing optimizations so we can tune our dispatch

- Scaling the backend to launch new cities

Our stack includes:

- iOS, Rails, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Heroku, AWS

You should have:

- Significant iOS experience, having shipped at least one app

- Some Rails or other backend experience

- Previous startup experience

- Passion for food! You’re joining our engineering team, but we are first and foremost a food company

- A sense of humor, and/or a mild love of accidental food startup puns (too many cooks in the kitchen, let the idea simmer, put it on the back burner...list goes on)

If this whets your appetite, send an email to jobs@eatsprig.com. Let us know why you're interested in Sprig and shoot us any relevant links (github, linkedin, blogs, roomba you rigged up to open doors for guests, whatever).

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Lucidchart is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Lucid is startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more import…

Great benefits like presenting at and attending conferences, working with customers, and lots of ownership of projects.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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HelloSign - San Francisco, CA http://www.hellosign.com/info/jobs

HelloSign is building the way everyone will sign documents. Here are the positions we're looking to hire:

* Visual / UI Designer

* Web engineer

* QA Engineer

* Head of marketing

Email us at jobs at hellosign dot come or email me directly at joseph at hellosign dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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We are looking for a 'Systems Developer' – a technical generalist but developer first who enjoys writing systems administration tools and arguing the merits of their favorite languages. You need to know a lot about Linux internals, but also Windows, since one of the major projects you'll be involved in will be a gradual environment shift to Linux. You'll be diagnosing and remedying performance and availability issues. You'll be trying to wring more speed from our already very efficient cluster and add more 9’s to our availability metrics. You'll be writing code (bonus! in an exotic language!) to move data around, implement high availability and fault tolerance, to do logging and performance reporting, and who knows what else. You're going to be the person we all go to when it comes to the low-level arcana, so you're very familiar with the Way Things Work. You know who you are. Let us know too.

Please send your resume to jobs@1010data.com

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