Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Roundtown (http://roundtown.com) is a Web site that lists events (e.g. concerts, films, basketball games, classes) happening in cities and towns throughout the U.S. and Canada. Our goal is to have the most comprehensive list of events available anywhere and to present it in a way that's fast, slick and fun to use. We want to be be the first name people think of when they want to know what they can do tonight, this weekend or any time.

We launched our beta site in May 2014 and our traffic is growing steadily. We have lots of cool features in the works including machine learning-based recommendations, social network integration and more. Most of our server-side code is in Scala, a language we love. We're also using Play, Slick, Postgres, Angular and scikit-learn.

Currently we have a team of 5. We're looking to hire two more people now: a UI/UX designer and a software engineer. You must be able to work with us every day in our office in Cambridge, MA. Here's a bit more about each of those roles:

=== UI/UX Design Lead ===

Are you creative and resourceful? Interested in joining a startup doing something truly unique as the Design Lead? We’re gearing up for a major refresh of our user interface and would like you to hit the ground running!

= Opportunities Offered =

- Ownership of the look and feel of roundtown.com - Creative freedom and the opportunity to execute your point of view on what a modern web interface should look like - Potential to design something that shakes up our market space

= Experience Desired =

- Modern mobile and desktop web design skills - The usual HTML/CSS/etc. - Experience in interaction design, human factors, and visual/graphic design - A portfolio of previous web work

=== Software Engineer ===

We're using Scala, Play, Postgres, Angular and scikit-learn to build a very cool site. Do you know some or all of those technologies? Want to help execute a big idea? Then come join us at Roundtown and help.

= Opportunities Offered =

- Ownership of projects and tasks with low-key management - Develop using cool technologies on both mobile and web platforms - Be a part of a small, friendly, experienced team - Be a part of the solution to a large, unsolved problem

= Experience Desired =

- Scala, Play, Postgres, scikit-learn and/or Angular - Machine learning experience is helpful but not required - Linux/Unix software development environment

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For both positions we offer early-stage stock options, health and dental insurance and 6 flexible weeks of vacation per year, plus a great culture of transparency, fun and weirdness. Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@roundtown.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

VP OF ENGINEERING

DESCRIPTION Strap is looking for a VP of Engineering to join our team in Cincinnati, Ohio's historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The VP of Engineering is an experienced software developer who has 10+ years of experience in building or leading teams to build scalable solutions. You have great technical chops, but prefer not to be in the code on a daily basis. Ideally, you've managed teams of 5 or more developers who respect your ability to get things done in a timely manner while also communicating advanced technical concepts efficiently. Our stack consists of iOS, Android, Node.js, MongoDB, and Meteor, along with multiple wearable frameworks. Experience hacking on any part of this stack is highly preferred. Sound like something you might be interested in? Sweet! Let's connect. The following paragraph is borrowed from Mark Suster's well written article about CTO vs VP Engineering. It effectively sums up what we are looking for. I highly recommend reading the whole article! http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/want-to-know-difference-b... The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. They feel comfortable with C++ but also have a black-belt in Excel. They are sticklers about managing unit tests, system tests and regression tests. In fact, they are passionate about automating testing overall. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. VP’s of Engineering are essential to making sure the trains run on time. The VP of Engineering is also your primary interface to your head of product management and often the VP of Engineering is somebody you would drag in front of clients to win big deals.

SKILLS Android, MongoDB, Node.js, iOS Development, Leadership, Kanban, Git, SCRUM, Jira, Mobile Application Development, Agile, Bug Tracking, Tizen, Pebble, Android Wear

COMPENSATION Full Time $70K – $120K Salary 2.0% – 4.0% Equity

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MOBILE DEVELOPER

DESCRIPTION Strap is looking for a Lead Mobile Developer to join our growing team in Cincinnati, Ohio’s historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The mobile developer has 5+ years of experience with native and hybrid development on both Android and iOS. You will be responsible for successful execution of all of the developer facing Strap SDKs for both mobile and wearable platforms. Day-to-day, you will work closely with the CTO to ensure that your team is on track to meet the goals of the sprint. A high degree of comfort with both Java and Objective-C is required. The expectation is that you are the resident expert in all things mobile related. Experience with one or more wearable platforms (Android Wear, Google Glass, Pebble, Tizen) is strongly preferred. Ideally, you've built and documented API's and shipped products that are built for developers. At Strap, we follow a fairly rigorous agile development process. You are expected to communicate your progress “stand-up” style daily while maintaining your work in feature branches with frequent commits. The goal is not to add meaningless processes to your plate; rather, we believe that communication and transparency are two extremely important factors in a successful development team.

SKILLS Community Evangelism, Android, iOS Development, Developer Tools, Google Glass, Tizen, SDK, Pebble, Android Wear

COMPENSATION Full Time $50K – $70K Salary 0.25% – 1.5% Equity

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FULL STACK DEVELOPER

DESCRIPTION Strap is looking for a Full Stack Developer to join our growing team in Cincinnati, Ohio’s historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The Full Stack Developer has 2+ years of experience developing end to end web and mobile applications in some form. Day to day, you will work closely with the CTO, creative director, mobile developers, and back-end developers to build beautiful and highly scalable applications for a variety of platforms. Because you have a working understanding of all aspects of the architecture, you will be tasked with developing individual components of the product in different arenas as needed. For example, in one sprint you may be working on a new set of endpoints in a Node.js API, and the next may code a developer-facing component using accelerometer data in C. You are the “slash” on our team; you’re the unfair advantage, someone that likes to work on a lot of different things and is always up for a challenge. You take pride in being a jack-of-all-trades, and are up for mastering a few along the way. At Strap, we follow a fairly rigorous agile development process. You are expected to communicate your progress “stand-up” style daily while maintaining your work in feature branches with frequent commits. The goal is not to add meaningless processes to your plate; rather, we believe that communication and transparency are two extremely important factors in a successful development team.

SKILLS Python, Javascript, Android, MongoDB, Node.js, iOS Development, Amazon Web Services, Meteor

COMPENSATION Full Time $50K – $70K Salary 0.25% – 1.0% Equity

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DATA SCIENTIST

DESCRIPTION Strap is looking for a Data Scientist to join our growing team in Cincinnati, Ohio’s historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The Data Scientist has a minimum of 5 years experience with statistical analysis in a real-world setting. The focus of the position is to discover hidden insights from a variety of problems. These insights will be derived from the billions of data points streamed from fragmented wearable sensors on our platform. Given the nature of our data, experience with motion classification algorithms is strongly preferred. You are a very strong technologist, and this gives you the skills needed to answer a variety of questions about the data we have today. However, your business acumen and creative nature give you the ability to derive your own questions and insights about the data as you analyze it. You may develop ad-hoc reports, or create recurring batch jobs using tools like Python and MATLAB. Strong technical writing skills are a must, and you’ll have opportunities to publish your knowledge and findings via blogs, journals, and conferences.

SKILLS Python, Big Data, Statistics, MongoDB, Algorithms, Classification, Mathematical Algorithms/Data Analysis, Accelerometer

COMPENSATION Full Time $70K – $90K Salary 0.25% – 1.5% Equity

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BACK END DEVELOPER

DESCRIPTION Strap is looking for a Backend Developer to join our growing team in Cincinnati, Ohio’s historic Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The Backend Developer has 2+ years of experience developing scalable and secure solutions on the server side using Node.js and MongoDB. Experience with Python and MapReduce is a plus. You’ll be responsible for developing a wide variety of APIs to support all of our web and mobile-based products. Experience with OAuth workflows is strongly desired. You’ll work closely with our CTO to ensure that your logic and architecture decisions support the wider mission of the Strap family of products. At Strap, we follow a fairly rigorous agile development process. You are expected to communicate your progress “stand-up” style daily while maintaining your work in feature branches with frequent commits. The goal is not to add meaningless processes to your plate; rather, we believe that communication and transparency are two extremely important factors in a successful development team.

SKILLS Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Node.js, Mapreduce, Amazon Web Services, Security, OAuth

COMPENSATION Full Time $40K – $70K Salary 0.25% – 1.5% Equity

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All employees are expected to also be evangelists for Strap, so you’ll spend 10-15% of your week (NTE 6 hours) being extroverted in some form. Examples include blogging, spending time on Stack Overflow answering questions, or contributing to open source projects. These activities may or may not be directly related to content marketing, but being in the community as a representative of Strap helps our street cred tremendously. You may be asked to travel periodically for conferences, hackathons, or other professional engagements. Travel is not expected to exceed 10% annually.

FULL TIME - Birmingham, AL or REMOTE

=== US ===

Fleetio is changing the way companies manage their vehicles and equipment. We're a growing, bootstrapped & profitable SaaS company with hundreds of paying customers and thousands of users around the world.

We're a small team of 4 at the moment. When we say you'll have significant & meaningful impact on the product and company, we mean it.

We're based in Birmingham, AL but you can work remotely full time (we already have one full time remote team member). We use some great tools to make remote collaboration easy.

=== YOU ===

- You have deep knowledge of Ruby, Rails and other Web technologies

- You understand the balance between scrappiness and long-term code maintainability

- You feel compelled to make things look beautiful and work flawlessly

- You are organized, and take pride in abstracting and refactoring

- You are creative, ambitious and you get things done

Would be great if you also...

- Know a thing or two about cars and engines

- Have used a variety of frameworks (server side, browser side, or for desktop software)

- Have a technical background: a degree in CS, EE, math, physics, etc.

=== SKILLS ===

- Master of frontend web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

- Know extension languages like HAML, SASS, CoffeeScript

- Framework proficiency: Ruby/Rails, Bootstrap

- User experience (UX) prowess

=== COMPENSATION ===

$70K – $100K Salary; 0.25% – 1.0% Equity

=== GET IN TOUCH ===

Email me at tsummerville@fleetio.com and let me know why you're an amazing fit.