Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

For the European roles, are you guys willing to help with relocation or with work permits? I'm a US citizen looking to relocate to Europe.

Zelos.gg (YC W20) | Los Angeles, and REMOTE USA/CANADA | Frontend / Fullstack | https://zelos.gg

Zelos is a rewards program where gamers earn points and redeem in-game prizes across multiple games. When you play your favorite game, simply finish a challenge (e.g. get 3 kills) to earn points and trade in your points for a prize (e.g. a new game or a skin).

We built Zelos because games today focus on monetizing off their most dedicated players (whales). For gamers like us who play multiple games, spending money in each game quickly becomes expensive. When we move to a new game, all the money we spent in the old game is effectively lost.

So we built Zelos for the 55% of gamers who play 2 or more games and they LOVE us. Having launched only 2 months ago, we already have 50K+ weekly active users across 30+ countries.

Zelos graduated from YC W20 and just closed a heavily oversubscribed seed round. We are only a team of 3 and you will be our first frontend/fullstack hire. As such, you can expect great responsibilities, huge opportunities to learn & grow, and of course significant equity.

Being a gaming company, we have a very laid-back and open culture where people care about having fun as much as doing great work. You would be a great fit here if you enjoy playing games and building things.

If you are interested, please email us directly at founders@zelos.gg and tell us more about yourself.

BoardRE

https://board.live/

Our startup is fast-moving and high-energy, and we are looking for someone who can rise to the occasion, well beyond the typical 9-5. This is a job for the bold and daring person who can collaborate with fellow engineers to help us take BoardRE to the next level by building a modern and unprecedented kind of real estate and mortgage banking platform. Our team is very energized and is dedicated to pursuing an impressive long term vision. We’re a Silicon Valley funded startup that’s now established in Denver and we’re looking for engineers driven by quality, inspired by challenges, and rewarded by pioneering into industries fossilized by old paradigms.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer and Type-A Problem Solver

Your job will be to establish an AWS infrastructure from the ground up to support development and operations. Some of the primary components will be S3, AWS Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, and RDS so it’s very important to have significant experience in most if not all of these areas. The role will also involve being a kind of general Type-A problem solver by providing some guidance to the IT staff in areas like cybersecurity and interoperability among vendor platforms. The role will involve (and evolve into) expansion of the infrastructure as our custom platform is architected, built, and deployed. We value strong engineering skills, deliberate and robust planning skills, critical assessment of methodology, as well as open-ended creativity.

Job Type: Full-time

Java / Scala Engineer Your job will be to implement, then enhance and support, a robust implementation of the architecture following a deliberate methodology. This job requires the fairly rare skill of being able to create systems that are both functional and elegant. This is not a coding position. This is a systems development position. The languages used will be Java and Scala and you will be developing back-end, complex, and near-zero-defect software. (This is not a CRUD application, does not involve JavaBeans, is not Big Data processing, and does value quality over velocity.) You will need to be a creative engineer to understand the deepest capabilities of these languages and implement a vision that breaks the fossilized paradigms of the industries we will change.

Job Type: Full-time

Contact me at: dylan@board.live

I'm sorry that you or someone you know ended up not receiving an offer. Twitter is indeed still hiring. While admittedly Twitter does hold a high bar for hiring, we put a lot of effort into making sure that our assessments are done fairly, based on the best we can tell about the candidate's current level of technical and nontechnical skills relevant to the role. Sometimes this may mean teams continue the interview process further with candidates who seem promising but risky. When that does happen, it's not because of a number of applicants metric (this isn't a metric I've heard about internally), it's because we want to give people a fair chance. Admittedly, there is a careful balance to be made between giving people the time to demonstrate how they shine and wasting candidates' time because it's not the right role. There's also cases where someone interviews for one role, doesn't have the right skill set there, is referred to a different role, and then does very well and is hired. I don't think any interview process at any company is perfect, but we are always trying to improve.

I'd also like to add that one of the ways we offer a level playing field for candidates is by strongly supporting remote work (which started long before COVID-19). We have multiple offices both within and outside of the United States, and many people who work from home in jurisdictions where we have the ability to employ people. Unlike the team in the grandparent comment, many Twitter engineering teams are currently particularly looking to hire outside of San Francisco (both to increase our geographic diversity and to reach the best candidates wherever they may be).

So if you're looking for something new, like Twitter, and see a role on https://careers.twitter.com that you honestly feel is a good fit, please apply!

Valora Digital | Head of Engineering | Full-time | Zurich, Switzerland | ONSITE

Valora Digital is the newly founded digital unit of Valora, a European retailer with 2700 stores across 5 countries. We are tackling interesting challenges in areas such as Autonomous Stores (think Amazon Go), Ecommerce & Delivery, Loyalty, Payments and Process Improvement. For this purpose we are building up a development team from the ground up. You will be one of the first engineers and will have a big part in shaping the culture as well as choosing our stack. We are looking to bring the startup ethos to the corporate world and get to combine the best of both worlds: ample funding, a huge customer base to deploy to and lots of freedom. I'm the head of this new unit and was previously a founder, CTO and CEO.

We are looking for a Head of Engineering interested in getting their hands dirty in code on a daily basis but also able to transition and grow the organization into something much bigger.

Please apply here https://recruitingapp-2538.umantis.com/Vacancies/9277/Descri... or get in touch directly at michael.wirth@valora.com