Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Vandebron (https://vandebron.nl) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full time ONSITE

We are a young Dutch renewable energy company making a big impact in the market here in the Netherlands. What makes us unique is we are a platform for buying and selling energy, connecting customers with energy producers for a flat monthly fee. Both our customers and producers win because we don't take a percentage of the profits like traditional energy companies.

Our IT department is diverse, creative and driven. We use a combination of AngularJS, Scala, Salesforce and Rails to power Vandebron's public and internal applications. We are looking for excellent candidates for the following positions:

* Software Developer with passion for sustainability - we are looking for both back end (Apex/Scala) and front end (AngularJS) developers.

Check out our website for more information on each role and who to apply to: https://vandebron.nl/vacancies

HERE North Amer | Berkeley, Chicago, Colorado | Full time and interns onsite | Highly autonomous driving group seeks programmers and computer vision / deep learning algorithm developers. Many positions open: cloud, embedded, GPU, real-time video processing, 3D localization, caffe, detection, segmentation, etc.

RealScout | Ruby/Python Software Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists | Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] - http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] - https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] - https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Element Analytics | San Francisco, CA, US

-- Who we are --

We're a small startup (To that end we're applying machine learning techniques to sensor data in industries from energy, transportation, and manufacturing, to mining and more. We're solving hard problems for our customers by putting their data to work for them.

-- Hiring process --

You will do a phone screens (about an hour) to make sure there's a good fit, then and 1/2 day onsite where we talk about engineering problems and make sure you know what kind of problems you’d be working on with us. Offers will be extended within 1 day of the onsite interview.

-- Our stack --

We run on linux in Azure, our APIs are primarily implemented using Scala (on Spray), the frontend is written with React.js, and we use python in some machine learning applications as well as for systems programming. Our data processing/machine learning is done in either Scala or python on Spark. Our service infrastructure is docker containers running on DCOS across multiple tenants (both our customers' and our own).

-- What you would do --

We are currently hiring tech leads in both systems, front-end, and backend engineering. If you are at the top of your game and want to work on a small team solving hard problems, send me an email - sean at elementanalytics dot com

We’re an ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become strong writers! Our team may be small, but NoRedInk is used by 1 in 3 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 1 billion questions on our platform.

We’re a group of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other. We discuss past mistakes openly so we can adapt our processes to the challenges that come with progress. Puns flow freely across our San Francisco office as well as on Slack, and we have remote engineers spanning six different time zones.

Our engineering team [1] prides itself on code quality and innovation. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our new front-end code, and have been migrating legacy React code to Elm as well. We started with Ruby on Rails on our backend, and have lately been working to introduce Elixir to our stack. You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog! [2]

In addition to spending work hours open-sourcing useful libraries we develop [3], we also invest financially in open source. We hired the creator of Elm, Evan Czaplicki, to develop Elm full time. [4] Evan discusses his plans for the language with the team every week, periodically pairs with other engineers on Elm, and cracks up members of the sales team with his lunchtime jokes.

We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure and automate all of our deployments using OpsWorks and Chef. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. Our process for new features begins with our product team and in-house visual designer, continues with a GitHub pull request from a feature branch into master, and ends with our in-house QA specialist trying to break it before it reaches production.

We’re hiring both Senior Engineers who have been around the block many times, as well as Junior Engineers who are just getting started. We’re looking for Junior Engineers who are eager to learn, who thrive on great mentorship, and who want to work on a mission that makes a difference. We’re looking for Senior Engineers who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness, over convincing the group they’re right.

You can learn more about what it’s like working here through Hardy’s on-boarding blog post. [5]

You can learn more about our interview process through Dui’s hiring blog post: http://tech.noredink.com/post/145260396603/our-engineering-h...

If you’re interested, please apply through our jobs page! https://www.noredink.com/jobs

[1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team

[2] http://tech.noredink.com/

[3] https://github.com/NoRedInk/

[4] http://tech.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan

[5] http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...