Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

Akvo | Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm | Full time | Platform Engineer | REMOTE | http://akvo.org/about-us/

Akvo is a non profit foundation, creating open source software and sensors. We focus on making international development and country governance more effective, transparent and collaborative. Our Development team is a diverse and distributed group across EU with clusters in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Barcelona.

    == Main tasks and responsibilities
    * Develop common/shared platform services in Akvo
    * Together with the team lead, coordinate architecture concerns between products
    * Provide technical direction to the rest of teams
    * Research existing FOSS components and assess the trade-offs (build vs buy)
    * Collaborate with QA and Ops teams to make better and more reliable software.
    
    == Requirements and competencies
    * “Strong opinions, weakly held”
    * You have developed complex systems under organizational constraints
    * You like mentoring developers and you're advocating good programming practices
    * You have JVM and Linux experience (performance and memory troubleshooting)
    * You have experience from fast growing organizations and/or Lean startup methodology
    
    == Interview process
    You'll have interviews via Skype/video, with Platform team lead, Head of Development and your potential 
    colleagues. Please send motivation letter and resume to Iván Perdomo 

More details at https://goo.gl/ZLnWwc

Benchprep | Senior Engineer | Chicago | ONSITE

Company: We are a small group of driven, ambitious individuals committed to changing the landscape of education. We work hard, eat well, and have lots of fun. We work at BenchPrep because we love it (plus benefits, competitive salary, perks etc).

We are looking for talented and motivated professionals who are excited about the chance to leverage technology in order to impact the lives of millions of students. Our clients include ACT®, HRCI, Hobsons and many other educational companies. Check out job description http://www.builtinchicago.org/job/senior-engineer-6 and shoot email to techjobs@benchprep.com

Aurora Solar | Senior Frontend & Backend Engineers | Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto) | Full-time, Onsite | aurorasolar.com

Aurora is a SaSS company and the one-stop solution for solar installers. We help them streamline their entire solar sales and design process. Think CAD for solar. You input the address and your energy consumption, we output an accurate solar design and sales proposal.

We are venture-backed and have won several engineering grants from the US Department of Energy and Stanford University. If you care about applying your talents towards building something that truly makes a difference, we would love to hear from you!

Interview Process: 30min phone screen, 3-4 hour take home coding task, 1 day onsite interview.

Apply here: http://www.aurorasolar.com/careers

Saylent | UI Developer | Boston | FULLTIME | ONSITE Contact us at careers@saylent.com

We are a venture funded, fintech company. We are redefining the B2B banking marketplace through cutting edge user interfaces that deliver a world class user experience. Our mission is to help redefine customer engagement for Banks and Credit Unions. You will join a small and motivated team that is on the ground floor of building a platform with access to the largest channel partners and over 4,000 financial institutions. We are looking for a new team member with UI experience who will be part of a new platform. And the frosting on the cake is that we are moving to a brand new office in Downtown Boston (116 Huntington Ave, to be exact!).

Tech Stack: Angular JS 2, D3.js, Pentaho BI, Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Restful APIs and data manipulation with JSON, Node.js, Jasmin, Sinon, Protractor, Git, Aws

Interview process: technical phone screen, followed by a half day on-site with emphasis on problem-solving / colloboration /team-work

Rideways is a new ground transportation service launched by Rentalcars.com, and is rapidly growing to be a significant B2B and B2C player in this space.

Rentalcars.com is part of the Priceline Group, the third largest e-commerce company in the world and the world's largest car hire booking service, arranging over 7 million rentals a year in 46,000 locations in 167 countries across 40 different languages.

Our mission as part of Rentalcars.com is Helping people experience the world and our business and market sector are seeing substantial growth.

We are looking for a Tech Lead (http://grnh.se/5y7due1) and a Software Engineer (http://grnh.se/cfar7j1)