Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Looking for an aspiring developer for a paid internship. Normally it's 20 hours a week during school and then 40 hours when school's out and you're available. Local candidates only, you'll be expected to come to our office in Brentwood once or twice a week.

We are .Net shop, you'll be writing software for internal use, some web-based, some desktop. You'll get guidance/mentoring from a senior developer. We provide a CRM solution for the Residential Mortgage industry.

Interested? Send an email to itmanager at mortgagereturns dot com.

Shoe Lovers is hiring a Lead Architect to join it's growing team of 8!

Shoe Lovers is the world’s largest online community for shoe fashionistas, curated with love. We offer a unique mobile social commerce platform to help passionate women who love shoes to find offers, discover trends around the world, and share their passion with others. We have added 20+M fans in a year, and we are scaling the company to meet demand and offer a continuing array of exciting additional products.

We are a small team who are as passionate about our market as our fans are, tackling the challenges of creating a large-scale platform that handles millions of customer interactions daily. We have raised $650k of seed funding and are now looking for key team members who are excited by this challenge of creating the world’s largest fashion social market, initially in Spanish-speaking geographies and later the world.

Shoe Lovers is looking for a highly motivated lead architect and developer interested in revolutionizing the social shopping experience. As a key member of the founding team, this individual will design and lead the development of the next generation of our social commerce platform and will work closely with the CTO, Product Manager, and the other software engineers in the analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of the platform. The ideal candidate will have experience with highly scalable commerce systems, be able to demonstrate logical thinking and good organizational skills as it applies to decomposing complex software systems, and devising clean and robust solutions to technical problems.



Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the next generation of social commerce platform • Develop and implement the underlying data model to support innovative and flexible social shopping experience • Ensure code quality with thorough unit and integration tests, and participation in code reviews • Promote and advocate best practice development methodologies and help facilitate an Agile development process

Requirements:

• 5+ years professional hands-on software development experience • Direct experience with ecommerce systems and integration with a range of payment systems • Experience with highly-available systems • Experience developing enterprise-scale applications • Logical, organized approach to system analysis and technical design • Proficient in multiple programming languages and frameworks • Strong relational database skills • A history of productive, collaborative development • Startup experience preferred • Effective oral and written communication, and listening skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

About Shoe Lovers:

Shoe Lovers is the world’s largest online community for shoe fashionistas, curated with love. We have grown to 20+M Facebook fans in a little over a year by offering a unique mobile social commerce platform to help passionate women who love shoes to find offers, discover trends around the world, and share their passion with others.

Our initial market is Spanish-speaking women in the US, Latin America, and Spain, but we have fans in 45 countries worldwide. Our users are highly engaged and passionate about our community, with an average 3M DAU. Our vision is to expand our community on a global basis and enable women across the world to find shoes that they love.

The power of social commerce resides in the network effect of recommendations, and Shoe Lovers was built to maximize the utilization of the network of community interactions to create maximum engagement. By utilizing big data analysis of the social network and a combination of curated content and internet-generated content, we automatically capture the fans’ preferences with unprecedented accuracy to provide an outstanding user experience.

Our technology provides an integrated platform supporting visual search, automated preference tracking, and personal recommendation systems across Facebook, our mobile app, and mobile web. The user experience is integrated through a fine-grained data acquisition platform and preference profiling service as well as content creation and curation processes which enable our bloggers, curators, and fashion content creators to contribute to and interact with the community.

Shoe Lovers is funded by Tandem Capital, which has backed such successful companies as Bash Gaming, PagerDuty, Tile, Upsight and UpOut.

Shoe Lovers is based in downtown Burlingame, CA.

Website: www.shoelovers.co

AngelList: https://angel.co/shoe-lovers

Tandem Capital: www.tandemcap.com

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume to: jobs@shoelovers.co

Interact is a quiz builder application. We help marketing teams create quizzes for their websites. Customers include Forbes, The Red Cross, Unbounce, The Red Lobster, The United Nations and about 3500 others.

We are looking for a backend engineer to help with some tricky scaling issues.

http://interact.workable.com/jobs/22123

Job Title: CTO

This is an opportunity for an experienced developer to help lead one of the world’s most innovative media startups through the next major stage of its evolution.

In the two years since launch, Aeon Media has established an international reputation for high quality digital publishing and big ideas in Aeon Magazine. Now we are taking a major step forward, actively developing an entirely new platform: a hub for expert conversation around the big defining questions of our age. Aeon Ideas is currently in private beta and due for launch early 2015.

We are looking for a dynamic, creative CTO to drive the development of Aeon Ideas and to direct Aeon’s overall digital strategy. Aeon has offices in London, San Francisco and Melbourne. This role will be based either in San Francisco or Melbourne.

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Responsibilities:

* direct our current tech team located in London, who are contracted to continue developing Aeon Ideas from prototype towards launch

* recruit and manage a new in-house tech team hands-on development of features for the new site and our existing sites

* work with the directors to devise and implement a long-term plan for Aeon’s digital strategy and development

*liaise with editors on content and designers and developers on UX/UI challenges across our sites

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You will have a minimum of 4 years commercial development experience, including a demonstrated engagement with innovations in digital publishing and social networking. You will be excited by the potential of new collaborative digital tools to help people connect and create the best content on the web. You will be intrigued by the success of Wikipedia, Reddit, Quora and Medium, and you will be prepared to challenge the digital landscape with a whole new approach to collaborative knowledge-making.

A competitive salary will be offered along with opportunities for international travel and an incentive/equity scheme to participate in the growth of Aeon.

http://aeon.co/magazine/fast-growing-digital-media-start-up-...

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TO APPLY: Please email jobs@aeonmagazine.com with a cover letter and resume.