Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over seven million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We are looking for an UX designer with a product-driven background and a keen interest in user research. You will help us improve Overleaf by discovering opportunities and pain-points through research and analytics, by crafting user experiences that help our users get their work done and by continuously assessing and iterating Overleaf.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- We’re very much user-centric. We use mixed-methods research to inform our product decisions, assess our solutions and, in general, to keep in touch with our user base

- You will have autonomy whilst being part of a cross-functional team of product managers and developers, with whom you will work closely to bring your designs to life

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Please see https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/4EBD7770B6/ for more information and how to apply.

We're a startup (40 people so far) that is growing quickly! We're writing software that uses machine learning to automate the creative process of producing video content. We've found that what we're building is very attractive to marketing and communications teams from lots of different organizations and we've got tons of interesting search, NLP, artificial intelligence, video rendering, and web scaling technical challenges. Right now, we're hiring:

Sr Frontend Developer: Contribute to our large, beautiful single-page app, using React, Redux, pixijs (webgl) and more! This position is contributing to our javascript-based video rendering engine. https://lumen5.com/careers/opportunity/?gh_jid=4212180003

Fullstack Developer: End-to-end responsibility on projects upgrading our video-creation web app. Using tools like react, redux, javascript/typescript, django, python, celery, elasticsearch, postgres, docker, kubernetes, etc. https://lumen5.com/careers/opportunity/?gh_jid=4360293003

Salaries are on the postings!

We're a non-profit organization working to provide tooling for community health projects. Our team focuses on development of the Community Health Toolkit, which is a suite of open source components, but primarily an offline-first web application.

Here’s a quick list of some of the interesting aspects of our work:

- An offline-first mobile-first webapp. A lot of healthcare workers we serve may go multiple weeks without a network connection.

- Our software needs to be usable on underpowered hardware, which is common for those using it. Client-side performance improvements can make a big impact.

- We provide a platform that locally-customizable apps are built with. Backwards compatibility is critical as is careful thought for new capabilities.

As for the technical parts, almost all development is done in JavaScript and TypeScript. We’re using Angular 10 on the client and node on the server with Pouch/CouchDB for data storage and syncing.

If that all sounds like fun stuff to you, please read the full job description and apply! https://medic.pinpointhq.com/en/jobs/10055

Optable is building a decentralized data management and connectivity platform designed for online advertising. Our goal is to enable advertisers to leverage publisher's first-party data in a world where third-party cookies and globally shared identifiers will disappear. We operate private instances of our software on behalf of our customers. We use modern, secure multiparty computation and cryptographic techniques to allow matching of data while protecting privacy. We are looking for full-stack engineers who are comfortable working on complex backend features but won't shy away from front-end development. We are also looking for a cryptography engineer to help us build cryptography software and protocols.

Please apply by writing to careers -at- optable.co and mention hackernews.

https://www.optable.co/jobs/software-eng-full-stack-dev https://www.optable.co/jobs/cryptography-engineer

ActiveState Platform - made by developers for developers! We are reinventing build engineering with an on-demand SaaS Platform and CLI tool that lets developers automate the building of any runtime environment using any open source language ecosystem on any platform. Right now we support Python and Perl and we're hiring to add more languages and packages! We’re building an ambitious language distribution platform so that no engineer ever has to suffer dependency hell again, and we need your help to build it.

The Build Engineer positions are coding positions where you work on tools that do distributed builds. We're also looking for some engineers in the Sales department.

I'm a Team Lead here at ActiveState, though none of the open positions are on my team right now. Please email me at autarch@urth.org if you have any questions.