Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)

You and Buffer continue to be awesome. If I ever shut down my startup and work for somebody, I'd first apply to you. Is that a good enough compliment? :-)

- Manu

Mission Statement: Help Silent Spring Institute make our science intelligible to everyone through interactive web and mobile applications.

Details: We’re looking for a developer to lead our efforts to communicate our findings.

We’re relentlessly asking tough questions about the chemicals that are increasingly a part of the products we buy -- see http://bit.ly/RIcdra, http://nyti.ms/U8YrxF. You’ll be there with us, helping us communicate our findings to make healthier homes, more informed consumers, and cleaner communities. This means data wrangling, automated reporting, and interactive visualization using web-based technologies (and eventually mobile). You would initially work on some of our ongoing projects, but will contribute to the development of new projects in the future.

For one of our scientific studies, we took readings of chemical levels in people’s environments and their bodies. For your first project, you’ll help us turn numbers into messages that the people themselves can understand in an interactive, web-based visualization.

Additional opportunities include working with R or ArcGIS (and learning them if you don’t already know them) to finish development of an R package for environmental health data, creating computational systems to assess privacy risks in environmental health data, and leading further development of our MassHEIS site. You could also contribute to the ongoing development of a mobile app to help people make informed decisions about reducing toxics in their homes.

You • web app development. You can implement a design using web technologies (CSS, HTML, and Javascript), ideally both desktop and mobile. • data visualization. You can make intelligible custom graphs and charts, using tools like d3. • client and server: You know or are learning your technology options (Rails, Django, node.js, PHP, etc., Bootstrap, Stylus, Backbone, etc.), and can make informed decisions. • data management and statistical analyses: Ideally, you’ll be familiar with R or a similar tool, or be willing to learn. • experience with interaction design is a definite plus. • good software engineering habits: source control, testing, reusability, documentation, etc.

You’ll need to be able to work with diverse technical and non-technical colleagues. As the primary software person on our team, you’ll need to demonstrate considerable autonomy and versatility.

More about us Our 16-person multi-disciplinary team includes expertise in toxicology, exposure science, epidemiology, and community-based participatory research. We collaborate with computer scientists and other scientists at Harvard, UC Berkeley, US Centers for Disease Control and elsewhere. We publish in peer-reviewed journals and are often in the news (http://bit.ly/RIcdra,http://nyti.ms/U8YrxF). We are celebrating our 20th anniversary year!

Compensation: This is a full time position. We offer competitive salaries, 4 weeks vacation to start plus holidays, health insurance, and other benefits.

To apply: Send a cover letter and resume to careers@silentspring.org. If you don’t have significant work experience yet, please also include a copy of your academic transcript (photocopy is fine).

Silent Spring Institute is a non-profit research organization dedicated to identifying—and changing—the links between environmental chemicals and women’s health. We work with collaborating investigators at Harvard, UC Berkeley, CDC etc., and activists at Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and nationally. Research focuses on breast cancer and environmental pollutants, especially endocrine disrupting compounds and animal mammary gland carcinogens, and path-breaking studies of household exposures. This is an opportunity to be part of a nationally recognized, innovative, mission-driven team. www.silentspring.org

If...

- you like to build and ship; - you value freedom, flexibility, and empowerment; - you love working with the best tools; - it's important to you to work alongside supportive people who care about and respect you; - you get jazzed by the notion that your work will have an immediate, visible, and significant impact on the health of the business; - you long for an opportunity to be a part of an award-winning work environment where friendliness is a core requirement for every role, and everyone is focused on measurable results; and - you are awesome;

...then we would like to speak with you about joining our team.

Desired Skills & Experience The ideal candidate will have 10,000+ hours of PHP, PHP frameworks, and high-performance web applications; a friendly disposition, a love of learning, and an interest in building great products for real customers; and a readiness to immediately begin building cool new stuff from the ground up.

About GuildQuality: GuildQuality is a profitable, fast-growing SaaS business that helps the very best homebuilders, remodelers, and home improvement contractors in North America deliver an exceptional customer experience. Our clients (we call them "Guildmembers") are small and mid-sized companies, representing a “best of the best” in the residential real estate and construction industry.

Ours is a big market and it’s getting bigger: we're squarely at the intersection of reputation management, real estate, and home improvement. We're doing tons of great stuff in this space, and we'd like to have more wonderful people on the team to help us accelerate our pace of innovation.

Work environment, culture, and benefits: - We have 24 full-time, committed, friendly, and resourceful people on our team. - Most of our team works here in our Midtown Atlanta office, and about 10 people work remotely. - We're profitable and growing rapidly. - We dig things like craftsmanship, design, and data. - We have a Results Oriented Work Environment (ROWE). - We don't monitor sick days or vacation days. When someone needs time off, they take it. - We have very few meetings, but lots of communication. - People work from wherever and whenever they're most productive. - We're open-book. That means everyone has a clear understanding of how the business is performing. - Employment benefits include great health insurance, long term disability insurance, and life insurance. - The company matches SIMPLE IRA contributions, up to 3% of salary. - We have excellent retreats, where we roll up our sleeves and everyone digs into strategizing about the future of the company, and then we throw down and have a great time. - Every single person in the company moves our needle. We have no dead weight getting in the way, no negative attitudes bringing people down, and no bureaucracy dragging on our progress. - Regardless of the job description and requisite skills, we only hire folks who are friendly, committed, and resourceful. No prima donnas, no personal agendas, no politics – just a focus on doing great work. - In September, the Atlanta Business Chronicle rated GuildQuality among the Top 5 Best Places to Work in Atlanta.

Here's a brief talk from our founder about how we work at GuildQuality: http://geoffreygraham.com/2013/12/29/empowerment-trust-and-f...

If you think you might be a fit, we would like to speak with you. Visit http://bit.ly/P9quhN to apply, and include whatever details you think convey a good picture of who you are and what you’ve done.

Join the team that scales Uber supply globally! Our supply engineering team is responsible for prototyping, building, and maintaining the partner-facing platform. We're looking for experienced back-end developers who care about developing highly scalable services.

Apply at https://www.uber.com/jobs/4810.

We are looking to add new members to the NYTimes mobile team to help bring our award-winning media to new platforms and technologies. Both our iOS and Android teams are looking for amazing developers to push the envelope of technical innovation within our mobile products, and take a leading role in helping to shape the future of The New York Times.

We are looking for engineers who take pride in writing reusable code with an emphasis on quality over quantity. The ideal candidate will be innovative — interested in applying new techniques and design patterns, but also fluent in current best practices and standards. We embrace the best open source, commercial and custom built software to help our development teams flourish.

As a part of our team, you will enjoy a vibrant culture that promotes innovation nestled within an established and respected institution. Inside our midtown building, you will find floor-to-ceiling windows, plenty of whiteboards, a sushi chef and a staff with a sense of humor and a passion for beautiful software.

If you are interested, please submit your resume below:

http://jobs.nytco.com/job/New-York-Android-Developer-Job-NY/....

http://jobs.nytco.com/job/New-York-iOS-Developer-Job-NY-1000....