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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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I had a quick look at your hiring process[1] (thank you for sharing this, btw). I have a few questions: * Are junior hires expected to be able to complete / pass all three challenges (pentesting, fuzzer, custom protocol analysis)? * If not - how does the hiring / challenge process differ for junior hires? * Assume good problem solving skills, effective (written and verbal) communication skills and an ability to progr…

Best answer is to apply! We do some coaching at the start of the process and work with you to figure out how to get where you need to be. Some folks get through the process in a couple weeks, some take a couple years.

Less good (but easier) answers: * Yes, everyone does all the challenges (though we've retired the fuzzer challenge, it wasn't a good predictor of consulting success). * Our most successful candidates are motivated, curious, and clever.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Full stack engineer in San Francisco

Link: https://angel.co/incloudcounsel/jobs/41520-software-engineer

We are a small team of passionate, dedicated people who love working together on growing our company and solving interesting problems. We started InCloudCounsel less than one year ago and are now profitably doing several million dollars in revenue and growing quickly. We are hiring employee #1, a versatile engineer who will work one-on-one with our CTO.

Our company is a technology-enabled legal services company dedicated to changing the way that legal services are delivered to large enterprises. We’ve got some exciting technical challenges ahead of us, and are building a platform that is changing one of the largest industries in the world. Most importantly, we are building an outstanding business with a product that creates an immense amount of value for our customers, and having a ton of fun doing it.

We are seeking a full-stack developer with experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Coffeescript, Ruby on Rails, and Ember. Opinions about JavaScript and Rails best practices are a must. Bonus points if you have experience with Heroku or AWS, a great Stack Overflow presence, or some cool projects in your Github account.

The ideal candidate will have 2-4 years of full-time development experience and would describe themselves as someone who gets sh#@ done and truly loves engineering. This is a great opportunity for someone who has earned their chops on a larger development team to join a small, fast growing startup to help build and shape a product from the early stages.

To learn more about our company and team, please visit our website at www.InCloudCounsel.com. To apply, please contact us at jobs@InCloudCounsel.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

#424
Principal Software Engineer - Data Engineering

New York, NY

Have you taken a broken system or data warehouse and made it good? Have you taken a good data warehouse and made it great? Have you taken a great system and made it purr like a baby ocelot?

ZocDoc needs a Principal Data Engineer to drive our elite dev team toward an even brighter future! This role is for an experienced engineer with a tireless devotion to good system design across the entire stack.

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What you’ll do:

- Provide guidance on systems design, architecture, and analytics infrastructure to support big data technologies and distributed architectures.

- Analyze business requirements for database design, and implement changes to databases as necessary – including database design optimization for machine learning

- Mentor your peers and be a thought leader for the whole team

- Partner with our Data Science team on metrics and insight development

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What’s required:

- Curiosity: A passion for huge, scalable systems and databases (e.g. you read HighScalability and KDNuggets for fun)

- Strong understanding of core architectural principles such as modularity, restorability, parallelization and table driven business rules

- A good understanding of information delivery architecture, including creation of abstraction layers, SQL query paths and optimization, report level calculations, and end user reporting architecture

- 2+ years of data-specific engineering experience in addition to the 3+ years of general engineering experience

- Experience with SQL Server and Data Warehousing is a plus

- Experience designing and implementing fast and efficient data processing using 'big data' processing techniques and tools (e.g. MapReduce)

- Experience implementing the latest technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, Vertica, etc.), using scripting skills (Pig, Hive), and with virtualization across platforms like AWS

- Education: A Computer Science or related degree preferred

- Focus: Be able to follow a design through implementation and release

- Insatiable attention to detail: If something works and you don’t know why, you should be A) alarmed and B) driven to investigate!

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What you’ll get:

- A home at a Best Place to Work in NYC (Crain’s, five years running!)

- Stock options

- 100% employer-covered health insurance

- An energetic and fast-paced work environment in the heart of SoHo

- Free, daily catered lunches

- An arcade game, Ping Pong, snacks, TF2 parties every Friday…

- The opportunity to build a better healthcare experience for millions of patients!

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Apply here: https://www.zocdoc.com/careers/principal-software-engineer-d...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Our company is hiring in Cape Town, South Africa.

Send me an email at eric@gradconnection.com!

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Senior Django Developer - Team Lead

We're a site for university graduates to find graduate positions.

GradConnection is expanding fast as a ambitious, profitable and easy-going company. In Australia, over 70% of graduates employed in graduate positions found their graduate position from gradconnection.com.au.

We're also busy expanding to South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong.

At the same time we've been learning more about our clients, constantly performing customer development work and are currently developing two new products that are independent of our GradConnection website.

We use Django, Django REST framework, AngularJS/React, Socket.IO, Gerrit/Jenkins, Gulp/Grunt, Postgres.

We value work-life balance and very strongly discourage working outside normal working hours more than a couple of days a month.

-- What you'll be doing with us --

Our company's goal is to connect graduates with work opportunities with different employers on a global basis. This is something that no other company in the world is currently doing in the online campus recruitment space.

We have been re-structuring our software development processes over the past year, moving from the ad-hoc processes that helped this company achieve market dominance in Australia.

As a senior software engineer, you'll be responsible for contributing to the development of our upcoming projects such as the next generation of HR and recruitment products as well as improvements on our existing flagship website.

You'll be working with a company with a presence in South Africa, Asia, and Australia.

-- What we expect from you --

- Excellent coding skills and a track record of getting stuff done. - Several years of full-stack web development, frontend, backend, database. - Previous experience in leading and mentoring less experienced developers. - Have strong opinions on projects you are developing. - Eager to influence the software development process as well as product design and UX experience.

You will be a core pillar in our software development team, and you will be required to lead as we expand our South African office. You will advance our in-house software engineering processes and expertise.

-- How to apply --

Email your resume as well as URL to your personal website, github repository and/or other projects you may have done before to eric@gradconnection.com.

Optionally, also feed us our own dogfood and enter your application for this role at

http://pushapply.com/gradconnection/xyzbsyd, using an Application Tracking System we have currently in development.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

#426
Company: Postmates

Location: San Francisco

Visa: offer visa transfers and green card sponsorships

Roles: Software Engineers (backend, front-end, Android, iOS, data, generalist)

Job Descriptions: check out our website at https://postmates.com/jobs

About the company: Founded in 2011 and located in San Francisco right next to Caltrain, Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Our revolutionary urban logistics and on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city. With the largest on-demand delivery fleet in the country, we currently operate in 16 cities across the country and continue to expand each month. We are well-funded by Spark Capital, Founders Fund, and Matrix Partners (full list below), and our Series B was raised earlier this year.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

#427
castAR is looking for looking for hot MEs, EEs, robot / vision and gaming hackers in Mountain View.

We are a small, dedicated team of 10 hackers with experience in building hardware, software and successful companies. If you're a GNU hacker you might know me, or you may know one of our founders, Jeri Ellsworth, renowned hacker and maker. We are building a fun, no bull, buzzword-free business.

We make amazing AR glasses that make a 3D, holographic world that springs from your table, wall or other objects. Unlike VR, these images are part of your world: you see them mixed in with real objects and other people so you can work or play together. You can move around freely and look at virtual objects from all sides. Since you look at a normal distance, we don't have the near eye issues (distortion, nausea etc) of VR and since our glasses are open and light you can wear them and play for hours. (You can also play VR games as well). Our focus is not only the big "AAA" games -- it's in our DNA to support social, user-generated content and make it possible for hackers to do things we can't imagine ourselves.  We have a lot of fun things in our pipeline.

We make and are shipping real hardware (yes, to paying customers). To date we're funded by our kickstarter (2.5X subscribed -- one of the first to exceed a million) and three large angels (so no high-priced, VC-diluted options yet).

If you enjoy hard work on fun engineering problems, come join us on the ground floor as we build the next great user experience.

Check out our web site http://technicalillusions.com or our kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/cast...

You can write to us at jobs[at]technicalillusions.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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San Francisco, CA - Full-Time Tripping.com Full Stack Engineer ---About Us--- Tripping is the world's largest site for vacation rentals. We work with top sites to offer 1.5 million vacation homes in 50,000 cities worldwide. We’re venture-backed, growing FAST, and having fun playing in a $100B market. And we’re looking for Backend Engineers right now, so apply today.

---About You--- You’re smart, driven by logic, and passionate about finding creative solutions to complex problems. You love data and you’re obsessed with using it to make the world more efficient. You’ve always set high standards for yourself and you want to be surrounded by smart people who challenge and inspire you to play at the top of your game. We are looking for talented Full Stack Engineers to start ASAP. Tripping is a tech-focused startup, so you will have the freedom to try new things and influence the design and technical direction of the site.

---Requirements--- Strong knowledge of a modern language - PHP, Python, Ruby, Go * Strong understanding of MVC and frameworks * Strong knowledge of big data, database design, and/or search algorithms * Experience with NoSQL and/or RDBMS * Demonstrated ability to write clean, light code * Experience working with Javascript, HTML, and CSS * Experience working with XML, JSON, and REST * Experience working with queueing systems such as RabbitMQ and Beanstalk * http://www.tripping.com/about/jobs/fullstack-engineer

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Knack - http://knackhq.com - REMOTE Knack makes it easy for anyone to build online database apps.

We're growing rapidly and looking for software (node.js) engineers, AWS systems engineers, front end designer/developers, and marketing/growth hackers: http://knackhq.com/jobs

We're focused on building a profitable long-term business with a product our customers love.

We can’t compete with Google on start-up perks, but we can more than compete if you’re looking to sink you teeth in and make a difference:

* Impact: we’re expecting anyone that joins to come in and have a major impact. We’re small enough that every customer interaction, every marketing spend, every line of code has an over-sized impact.

* Equity: we don’t need hired-guns, we need team members. We want to share our long-term vision and success, and make sure you have equity in that journey.

* Autonomy: we don’t look for specific roles, we look for good fits. You’ll be able to contribute with your strengths and determine the projects you want to drive forward.

* Flexibility: supporting our chosen lifestyles is major part of our success equation. Join a remote team and create your own hours. Work how and where you want to.

* Culture: we work hard, but also don’t take ourselves too seriously and make sure we have a great time along the way.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

#430
octavius labs : Los Angeles : Tech Lead : http://bit.ly/1GBhnwm : Ruby on Rails/Node.js/Ember Founded: 2014

Funding: Profitable

Website: http://octaviuslabs.com

Company Focus: A product studio based on LA.

Compensation: Salary with equity

#### About Us:

At octavius we build SaaS products and assemble teams to support the products as they grow.

Businesses fail because they run out of cash, yet many companies are still founded without thinking about how, or if, the business will make money. These types of companies push forward in hope of getting acquired but this strategy isn’t sustainable. Businesses are not lottery tickets.

At octavius we are more interested in building sustainable businesses. We incubate ideas that can generate cash from day one, and our process of systematically approaching product development allows us to better understand risk. Once we have an accurate understanding of a market, products that have the best opportunity to succeed are spun out into their own companies to grow. The partners of octavius are founders who have bootstrapped to sustainability or sold businesses in the marketing tech space. We are currently based in a beautifully restored brick warehouse located in El Segundo’s just south of LAX.

#### Tech Lead Responsibilities:

The tech lead should think of development as a craft and see themselves as master craftsmen. They are primarily responsible for the development and maintenance of the products that we are incubating. Ideal candidates are full of ideas and are constantly looking for ways to improve themselves and the world around them. Candidates should also be able to lead a team of developers.

#### General Requirements:

* The belief that the only limitation on what is possible is ones imagination

* Open mind

* Self motivated

* A passion for learning

* The ability to “think on your feet”

* A willingness to solve problems with the best technology available

* Enjoys working on various projects

* Must operate effectively on a team

* Hustle

#### Specific Requirements:

* Clear written and oral communications skills

* 5+ Years experience writing production quality code

* Demonstrated experience working in multiple tech stacks ie Rails/Node/Ember

* Experience launching and managing AWS instances

* Experience recruiting and leading a team

* A CS degree or equivalent work experience

* SaaS experience is a plus

Email recruiting {at} octaviuslabs.com if interested

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