Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch (and more), is hiring for a lot of roles: https://www.elastic.co/about/careers#engineering

Location: Earth

Babylist | Oakland, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Babylist in an e-commerce platform that focuses on helping new parents and parents-to-be discover and purchase the gear they will need as they welcome a new addition to their family. In 2018 approximately $250M worth of baby products will be purchased through Babylist.

We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.

Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:

  - Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.

  - Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.

  - Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.

  - Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.

Babylist is profitable and growing quickly. We're hiring for a number of roles across the engineering and design teams including:

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Fullstack Engineers

* UX Designer

* Product/Brand Designer

For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs

If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com

Sharespace (https://joinsharespace.com) | San Francisco | ONSITE

https://www.joinsharespace.com/careers

We are a small team of engineers and operators changing how cities and homeowners think about building usage. We help build cities that are more efficient and neighborhoods that are more connected. Our engineering team builds simple and intuitive products that delight users.

Software Engineer - Frontend UI/UX

As a frontend UI/UX engineer in a small team, you’ll work with people across the company from design to backend engineering to prototype, build and optimize our mobile responsive web product. As an early engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to own and define the product and our interactions with customers.

You should be a motivated and resourceful engineer comfortable working with a modern toolchain like Javascript/Typescript, React, Webpack, NPM/Yarn and SASS. Your focus will be on building functional and beautiful components with an eye for simplicity and design.

Contributions:

- Collaborate with our Design, Product and Engineering teams to define our product

- Build beautiful cross-platform web experiences that touch our users

- Develop user-facing experiences with React, Redux and Sagas

- Optimize user signup and on-boarding flows

Skills and Experience:

- Solid engineering experience working with modern and mobile browsers

- Strong UI/UX and design sense

- Solid experience with Javascript/Typescript/ES6 and working with the DOM

Capsule8 | Backend Developer | Node, Postgres | ONSITE: Brooklyn, NY | Full Time

Capsule8 is building the industry’s only real-time attack disruption platform purpose built for the cloud-native world of Linux, containers and microservices. Capsule8 automates the detection, isolation, and shut down of attacks in the instant they happen.

The position is on the app team; we're building the business logic server and user-facing frontend. The server is Node/Postgres (REST over HTTP(2) + WS) and the frontend is Typescript/React. Ideal candidates have 5-10 years of professional experience building and maintaining web backends.

Our team interfaces with a gRPC bus (written in Go, using NATS/STAN) that connects our Linux agents (open-source, written in Go [1]) to our analytics (written in Go). The entire product is deployed on prem.

We just signed a prominent deal with Lyft that you can read about here [0] and we've got a number of other deployments underway. :)

I lead the app team; email me at phil@capsule8.com if you'd like to chat!

[0] https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/04/11/1468746/0/... [1] https://github.com/capsule8/capsule8