Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Hi, I’m Andrew DeFranco, a senior engineer at Stationhead. We’re building a music-focused social network fighting back against algorithmically generated playlists and soulless corporate radio. We’re creating a democratized platform people connect with their music, their favorite artists, and each other. One of our founders is an actual rockstar, and we have artists and industry executives lauding us as the future of music streaming.

We are a small team of 5 developers working collaboratively in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and our dev team has a wide range of backgrounds—including self-taught hackers and bootcamp grads. We're looking for some passionate people to help us grow onsite at our picturesque Williamsburg, New York office. You'd be a great fit for our team as a . . .

Backend API Engineer if you:

  * have at least 1-2 years experience with at least one MVC web framework like Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Express

  * have experience integrating with third party JSON APIs

  * have at least 1-2 years experience  working with relational databases, including:

    • Writing and debugging queries, both in raw SQL and using an ORM

    • Designing schema that are idiomatic and efficient

  * write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code

iOS Developer if you:

  * have at least 2 years experience creating iOS applications in Swift
 
  * have experience digesting web services and REST APIs
 
  * have experience building UI components programmatically

  * can use iOS tooling to diagnose and fix bugs and performance issues

  * have a strong grasp of OOP fundamentals and design patterns

  * write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code

Be sure to tell us your favorite band when you send us an email :)

You can see our full job listings at https://angel.co/stationhead/jobs

Pusher makes realtime APIs that power communication and collaboration apps all over the world. Our products are supported by easy to integrate SDKs for web, mobile, as well as most popular backend stacks. We’re passionate about developer experience and making our APIs as easy to use as we can.

The current core Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver tens of billions of messages to their connected users. We’re also building a range of new products that are deployed on an entirely new infrastructure stack based on Kubernetes.

We operate at mind-boggling scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineers mainly develop and maintain our new realtime platform, and help our product teams build highly-performant APIs.

Read more and apply here: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/90375

Rocketmiles helps frequent travelers take more vacations. Our team is headquartered in Chicago's West Loop with a satellite office in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

We're currently looking for a frontend or full stack developer to help build our core web product, Rocketmiles.com

I lead our product team, so please reach out to me directly (jordan@rocketmiles.com) if you are interested, or head to rocketmiles.com/jobs for more information.

Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders and researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the research they care about.

As part of our development team, you’ll develop software that processes millions of mentions and serves over a billion API requests every month.

We're currently looking for a mid- to senior-level Ruby developer, and a front-end, UI-focused developer.

For more information see https://www.altmetric.com/jobs/software-developer/ and https://www.altmetric.com/jobs/ui-developer/ – and if you've got any questions you can reach out to me personally by email to matt@altmetric.com

We are hiring data scientists to change the way eBay does advertising. eBay's old advertising strategy was 3rd party focused (Ads that sent people off eBay). Devin our CEO said during our last earning call that strategy has changed. We need ads that keep people on eBay and offer better choices for our buyers. We are the team blowing up the old strategy and doing something better. You can move the needle when it comes to eBay's future. We are a small team in a growing remote office. This is a unique opportunity to learn search engine and recommendation technology which rank eBay's 1+ billion active items. We apply cutting edge machine learning techniques on petabytes of data and thousands of Spark/YARN nodes. This includes deep learning, XGBoost and online learning. Seeking experienced (5+ years) applied researcher. 50% coding and 50% data science. Our interview consists of two phone screens. Then you come onsite to meet the team and do a code test.

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