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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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California - Fulltime. Seed funded, generating revenue. Comp salary + benefits PredPol - Our software processes crime data through a model that allows us to predict where crime will happen. Then we give police officers access to this data through a web app and they stop crime before it happens. We need Ruby guys, iOS guys, web guys. jobs@predpol.com

California is big - can you be more specific as to your location? Or is all your work via telecommute?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Boston, MA - full time, internship - engineers

Smarterer http://smarterer.com/

Make a difference, change the world, have fun, do something important.

We're looking for creative hackers and programmers to join our dev team.

Smarterer is doing something unique and important. We're approaching a point where traditional university credentialing isn't enough, skills are changing too quickly and what makes someone effective in a role or job is evolving. New roles appear daily that no (or few) traditional universities have courses for: e.g. growth hacker, social media evangelist, CNC machinist / programmer. People are acquiring more and more skills through non-traditional means. Nascent "education 2.0" initiaitives are exciting, but they still face the problem of measuring and credentialing, especially those that learn online.

How do you show what you know?

Smarterer has created an innovative crowd-sourced testing system and scoring algorithm that allows rapid evolution of content, skill measurment, and question characterization. We've made it fun as well as rigorous, based on modern testing theories.

Putting my money where my mouth is, I've created a software concepts test:

http://smarterer.com/tests/software-concepts

Give it a spin and see how you do. This is the debut of this test so the first few test takers will likely have an advantage. The more people that take the test, the more accurate it becomes. Leave feedback, add questions, share your score!

Smarterer is helping enable a revolution: in the changing job marketplace, in education and learning, and in the way people measure their own skills and share that knowledge.

Our mission: Measure the world's skills

We're funded by Google, True Ventures, as well as some amazing angel investors.

Interested? Contact me at mikepk@smarterer.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had the same experience - spent time understanding the role, researching, and reached out. Not even an acknowledgement.

Sorry about that awful experience we caused there. We definitely had a period where we simply struggled to respond to everyone. We honestly get about 100 emails from this HN listing. When we were just a few people, it was hard to keep on top of. It's a poor excuse, and we're fixing it now (we genuinely get back to everyone now). We didn't handle this well for quite some time, though.

Use resumator or one of the other cheap apps for handling this. For most people a canned response is absolutely fine, it's the no-response that ticks people off.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

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Merchantry - New York, NY.

    Front End Lead Engineer
    Senior Engineer (Java / Groovy / Grails)
Well-funded eCommerce startup backed by great VCs, building the nucleus of a growing dev team in New York.

For UI Engineering Lead, we are looking for an experienced engineer to own user interface development and help scale the team as we grow. The senior engineer will also be a core founding member of our tech team and will work on product and our APIs.

Merchantry is a growing, fast-paced SaaS company with customers across the globe. In May, we raised our B round, and are funded by top NYC and Silicon Valley VCs (Greycroft, Kite and e.ventures). We were rated by Crain’s as one of the best places to work in New York in 2012.

Our Tech Team

* We are committed to doing things the right way, using the best technology available, and we want talented engineers who can bring these ideas to the browser. * We started out as a Java shop, and are now adding other languages such as Groovy / Grails and others. * On the front end, we are moving to Single Page Apps and are considering Dart and TypeScript. You will help make some of these choices. * We are agile and continuously integrated. We want to be continuously deployed when we grow up, and also service-oriented. * We use Puppet for our DevOps, TeamCity for Continuous Integration, Zabbix for monitoring, Solr for search, and many other technologies.

Our Product

We connect product and fulfillment data between online retailers and their vendors. The product has several APIs for integration, and two user interfaces, one for vendors, another for online retailers. Our professional services team is responsible for integrating product with high-volume clients. To give you a sense of scale, we are currently hosted on 20 servers in a premium data center and we are just getting started.

Please email resume to: jobs@merchantry.com. If you have some publicly accessible work (github, portfolio, photos of drawings you did as a child), please include links…..

More info here: http://goo.gl/uVZP9U

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#465
TeamPages.com - Vancouver, Canada.

TeamPages is a web and mobile app that helps over 100,000 teams and leagues stay organized.

We're looking for an outgoing Customer Success Advocate in Vancouver to help our customers adopt and use TeamPages.

We offer a flexible work schedule and the option to work off site from time to time too. Employees get 3 weeks vacation per year and we offer health benefits as well.

Head here to learn more: http://ow.ly/poldp.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#467
Snowplow Analytics - London/Remote, INTERN.

Snowplow Analytics is looking for 1-2 open source software interns this Winter (December through February), for 3-6 week paid internships. Our winterns will work directly on and contribute to projects within the Snowplow open source stack (https://github.com/snowplow). A Snowplow wintern loves coding, enjoys experimenting with new technologies and is happiest working "in the open" on community/team projects.

These are paid internships; we will consider candidates who can work from our London office and additionally remote candidates who are UTC +/- 5 hours maximum. Interested? Please email wintern@snowplowanalytics.com, and tell us about a piece of software you are proud to have written. (And don't be afraid to suggest specific projects/initiatives/features that you would like to work on in your internship.)

We will be blogging with more information about our winternship program later this week.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#468
LiveRamp | Multiple Engineering Positions Available | www.LiveRamp.com/careers | San Francisco, CA | H1B, INTERN

About us: LiveRamp’s leading data onboarding solution empowers marketers to activate their CRM data in their choice of online advertising platform for targeting, attribution, content optimization and more. We see relevancy as the world's largest optimization problem, and are excited to contribute to building a future where marketing is predominantly informative, engaging, and even appreciated for their usefulness to consumers through the use of data. Imagine that!

We're well funded, and steadily growing. Our employees enjoy weekly yoga, catered lunches, and unlimited PTO. But the best job perk is our awesome team - we’ve got a staff of amazing people who just happen to be great engineers as well.

About you: Type S(tartup) personality is a must: smart, ethical, friendly, hard-working and proactive. You’re comfortable in multiple languages, frameworks, and environments. We are looking for full-time engineers and interns (summer or any time of year). If you think you’d be a good fit, consider joining our team!

We’re looking for smart and talented engineers for the following positions:

* I’ll Be Back-End Engineer

* Glass-Half-Full-Stack Engineer

* Maximum Security DevOps Engineer

* Statistically Significant Data Scientist

And for new grads and interns:

* Four Star Generalist Software Engineer

* public static final intern softwareEngineer = fall/winter/spring/summer;

To apply: Visit http://www.liveramp.com/careers or send your resume to recruiting@liveramp.com. Tell us in three sentences why you'd like to join our team and what makes you a great fit, and show us what you’ve got. We’d love to see links to sites you have worked on or screenshots of your work.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#470
Timetric - London, UK

Data visualization engineer (Python/Django/JS)

Contact jobs@timetric.com

Timetric is looking for software engineers to join our small London-based team, and help us build great data visualization products.

We build software around economic data. We collect it, analyze it and visualize it; we provide tools for our users to explore, use and reuse it. We want you to help us bring our tools to a wider audience.

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The Timetric platform was built from the ground up on Python (Django) and Javascript, with a Postgres/Solr backend. We try to stay close to the cutting edge of new technologies, and we're always open to new ideas.

You'll be joining a small team, with a minimum of process. Code is deployed continuously and we can provision a server with one click.

We don't expect you to know everything you need to do before you start - but you'll learn fast.

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Required:

* Good level of expertise in either Python or Javascript (or both!)

* Comfortable working knowledge of Linux

* Used to working with git (or mercurial/bzr)

Bonus points for any of:

* Interest in data visualization

* Numerical/scientific/mathematical background

* Understanding of AI/ML techniques

* Interest in economics

and if you've published or contributed to any open-source software, then tell us about it.

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