Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

Scrapinghub | http://scrapinghub.com | 100% remote (all timezones!) Scrapinghub Ltd. is looking for Software Engineers (Scrapy, Django), Head of Sales, Head of Finance, Senior Designer, Project Managers and more: http://scrapinghub.com/jobs

We're a fully distributed company with 130 engineers and staff. Based around open source, we maintain Scrapy, Portia, Webstruct, Frontera, and other tools made for crawling and scraping massive web datasets– everyone at SH helps makes these projects grow, and we offer to pay you to work on open source if you're good enough (though everyone inside the company is encouraged to contribute :)

You'll have the chance to work on projects that harvest and transfer datasets of thousands of millions of records, as well as build some of the systems that will deliver data to current Fortune 500 companies and the startups that are building great products on top of our stack.

We have a very engineering-driven culture (two engineer-founders) and a great place to work if you're self-directed, curious, and interested in working in open source environments.

More on Open Source at Scrapinghub: http://scrapinghub.com/opensource/

We've been growing a lot during the past two years and we're looking for great additions to our team, wherever you're located! Positions are full-time and include 20 days of paid vacations per year, your local country holidays, a hardware allowance, and an online services program intended for professional growth (Online courses, screencasts, books and more).

Transcriptic | Full Time | ONSITE (Menlo Park, CA) | www.transcriptic.com

All job listings: https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring

Transcriptic is setting new standards for basic research by making life science discoveries cheaper, faster, and more accessible than anyone thought possible. We enable scientists to run experiments on our automated work cells via our web application from anywhere in the world. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges for our web devs range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, React, and CoffeeScript today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

Our bioengineers apply math to hard biological problems, ranging from liquid handling optimization to reasoning about how "identical" reagents diverge over time to interfere with reproducibility. You'll have an opportunity to do original research with internal capacity, too.

We're a rapidly growing startup, now 30-something people, well funded ($15M) and have customers at places like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

We're looking for talented engineers and bioengineers to join our team. You'll have competitive salary and benefits, subsidized commuting, free caffeine and food, and great teammates.

Recent coverage: http://learn.transcriptic.com/press/ All job listings: https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring team at transcriptic.com

Meson Capital | Full Time | San Francisco | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship available

Meson Capital is an entrepreneurial activist hedge fund that invests in proven businesses undergoing inflection points that we identify or cause. We source ideas using proprietary software tools that map out connections between all the people, companies, funds, and industries in the US & Canadian stock market. When appropriate, we will take a hands-on, constructive approach to help companies create value for shareholders.

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to be responsible for the complete life cycle of new and existing software products, from research and design to implementation, to (initial) training and support. Come play a key strategic and tactical role in a world-class hedge fund!

Learn more at https://goo.gl/lPrqhm or email katya@mesoncapital.com

Machine Zone | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE

Machine Zone (Game of War, Mobile Strike - both top 10 grossing apps on Android/iOS) currently has many open engineering and data science roles. See http://www.machinezone.com/careers for a complete list.

I'm particularly interested in candidates for the Core Tech team. We're a small, tight-knit team focused on internal shared technology. We're responsible for optimizing server performance, designing scalable infrastructure, and improving system reliability and developer productivity. We may work in PHP, Python, Lua, C, JavaScript, Erlang, or whatever else is needed to get the job done. Our team is highly collaborative, has a lot of diverse initiatives in progress, and has a good work-life balance.

Shoot me an e-mail at bmorris@machinezone.com if you're interested or have any questions.

MINGLabs | Berlin (ONSITE) | (Senior) Backend Developer

We are MING Labs, a globally active interaction design company with offices in Shanghai, Munich and Berlin. We try to craft something magical every day by truly understanding and solving our clients’ challenges. We tackle ambitious web and mobile app projects and work with international corporate clients as well as startups, and medium-sized enterprises.

Our work is grounded in our belief that we should build something new every day. From crafting apps for the next generation of LED-lamps, helping launch a brand new category of food on the German market, designing interactive data visualizations, our creations resonate deeply with the people they touch.

As our Backend Developer you will join a young, growing company and be an integral part of our vibrant and international team, you will gain exposure to international clients and interesting projects in a collaborative and friendly environment at our Berlin studio. You will build strong back-ends to help us create services and experiences that are simple, beautiful and different.

Please bring with you skills in Django/ Phyton as well as SQL if you have some knowledge in PHP and JavaScript that is a big plus. We are looking for someone who has strong conceptual skills (software architecture, database design), and experience in server setup and Linux system administration. Your responsibility will be building up a brand new platform for our client. Being the global crew that we are, we email, slack and skype predominantly in English, but of course the more languages you can speak the better.

We look forward to hearing from you. jobs@minglabs.com