Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Interested in working on crawlers and distributed systems? Interested in functional languages like Clojure and Scala? Gracenote is hiring a senior software engineer.

Gracenote is the top provider of entertainment information, creating industry-leading databases of TV, movie, and music metadata for entertainment guides and applications. Our technology serves billions of requests daily to hundreds of millions of devices around the world. You’ll be working a set of crawlers responsible for discovering, acquiring and storing data and applications that make use of that data.

If interested email me at this username at gracenote. No 3rd parties, no recruiters please.

Responsibilities: - Write well-designed, well-tested code that performs well

- Design, implement, and own new systems – from design to operations

- Occasional on-call operations / support - Reduce technical debt in existing systems (refactoring, testing…etc)

- Proactively look for ways to make our software more scalable, reliable and fun

- Help change the way we think about solving problems

Requirements: - Strong background in Java, Ruby, Python or another OO language (our current stack)

- Solid understanding of the full web technology stack

- Familiarity with a variety of (relational and non-relational) databases/data stores

- Experience with AWS (or another infrastructure platform)

Pluses: - Experience with web crawling, scraping

- Experience with Clojure, Scala, Hive, or Go

- Experience with functional programming, functional architectures

- Experience with data processing architectures with Kafka, Storm, or Spark.

- Experience with ZooKeeper, etcd or similar

- Experience with Chef

- GitHub repo / Open Source

PayPal is looking for JavaScript engineers who want to work both in the browser and on the server-side in Node.js. Come help us as we continue to completely re-engineer the entire tech stack and innovate on how people exchange money and pay both online and offline.

I am on of the hiring managers, you can reach out to me directly at my HN username at paypal.com or nodejs@paypal.com. We're looking for talented JavaScript developers. Experience with Backbone, React, and Flux would be hugely helpful while experience with other frameworks like Ember and Angular would also be quite useful. We've got some amazing teams of JS engineers and we'd love to have you join!

We've got openings in various areas including online checkout, account servicing, p2p money, etc.

At the present time due to paperwork deadlines, you must be currently legally authorized to work in the USA. We are able to sponsor current VISA; however, we cannot apply for new VISA.

Here at YPlan we uncover the best events every day so you can get out and Live Your City!

We are looking for smart, talented people to join our growing team. We're agile, pragmatic and curious. We see what works and keep doing it, if it doesn't work we change it, be it tools, process, management or code. We prefer small steps over big launches. We focus on the outcome, not the rigid plan and like smart people over heavy processes.

Our stack: Python, Django, React.js, Flux, Swift (iOS), Java (Android)

Why we believe you would love working with us?

- People. We've got a very strong and skilled team with a wide mix of backgrounds and experience.

- Teams. We work in cross-functional teams, each fully responsible for a specific product.

- Culture. No BS culture focused on helping each other out, valuing each others ideas and bringing out the best in the team.

We're currently hiring for several positions including:

  - Backend / Full-stack Developers - https://boards.greenhouse.io/yplan/jobs/27465
  - Junior/Graduate Developers - https://boards.greenhouse.io/yplan/jobs/45388
  - Front-End Developers - https://boards.greenhouse.io/yplan/jobs/36793
  - iOS Developers - https://boards.greenhouse.io/yplan/jobs/20297
  - Android Developers - https://boards.greenhouse.io/yplan/jobs/47542

For more information, including the perks we offer, please visit https://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/yplan and if you have any questions, feel free to contact our head of talent at becs@yplanapp.com :)

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