Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after four years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (20M kids), and 53,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily integrate, manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 110 (40 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Node and React. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone. In particular, we’re looking for senior engineers and engineering managers: empathetic leaders who are excited about teaching, coaching and professional development.

Check us out at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out our newest product release here: https://clever.com/products/badges

ALICE is bringing AI and Optimization to construction engineering, management and scheduling. We are a well funded early stage company founded out of Stanford.

The problems we solve are real and technically challenging. Our demos raise excitement at industry gatherings, which have lead to collaborations with 7 major US construction companies. Our team gladly welcomes talented individuals who can help bring our prototype to market.

In addition to competitive salary and equity, we offer the opportunity to break into the ripe-for-disruption construction industry. You will also learn the art and science behind our algorithms.

  Frontend or Fullstack Engineer - a good fit if you:
  - enjoy implementing technically complex, yet user friendly interfaces.
  - are self driven and can own responsibility for large parts of a project.
  - have a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures (especially graphs).

  Bonus points if you have experience with:
  - WebGL, Angular, Scala or another JVM language, PlayFramework, AWS