Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion)

Optim.al (https://www.optimalsocial.com/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics, data science and front end web applications.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great 
      programmer in at least one of Scala, Python, Java, Clojure, Haskell, 
      F#, Kotlin or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, Scala and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework

If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie@optimalsocial.com or use the following Jobvite link:

http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oYH2Wfwn&s=HackerNews

No recruiters please.

LONDON, UK.

Makers Academy is an intensive, full-time course teaching the basics of web development using Ruby (http://www.makersacademy.com/). Many people believe that it's impossible to learn the basics of web development in just ten weeks but you'd be surprised to know how much a hard-working student can achieve in those 10 weeks :)

We started Makers Academy to do two things: help tech companies hire technical talent and to help people switch careers (being a Ruby dev is awesome!). We are a young VC-backed startup looking to change the way developers are taught.

I'm looking for instructors to help people switch careers into web development. It's a full-time job that involves lots of pairing with less experienced developers. If you make someone really understand how inject() works, it counts as a day well spent :)

We're also looking for guest speakers. If you'd like to share your experience with our students by giving a one-off Ruby-related talk, drop me a line, I'll buy you a lunch.

Email me at evgeny@makersacademy.com.

Location: New York, Austin, Remote - Full Time

Position: Full Stack Rails, Front End Mobile Web, and Google Adwords/Analytics Engineers

Sport195 - Empowering and connecting people globally through sport.

About Us:

At Sport195, we are making a difference to the world and we need talented people to help us get there. We are a well funded startup with many partnerships globally. Our salaries and benefits are competitive and our culture is get it done and have fun while doing it! We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to not only get the job done but be part of a company that is changing the world.

Contact:

Derek Blaquiere

derek.blaquiere@sport195.com

(212) 392-4940

Notting Hill, London, England.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalising specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

ChannelIQ - online retail intelligence

http://www.channeliq.com/company/careers

Downtown Chicago (River north - near groupon, 1871 and numerous other startups/tech companies)

- BIG problems in data acquisition, transformation, storage and analytics

- Current technologies - storm, redis, hadoop, etc.

- Hard problems - machine learning, plenty of algorithmicly complex scenarios/challenges

- Fun environment - nerf guns, video games, happy hour, etc.

- More coding less meeting

- Growing fast

- Biggest challenge right now: keeping up with demand, one of the best problems any startup/small company could have

Interested? Feel free to contact me at dmyers a t channeliq.com