Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Outschool (YC W16) is the marketplace of small-group online classes for kids, K-12. Our live video chat format makes awesome learning experiences available to kids around the world. They love it!

Already, hundreds of independent teachers are offering thousands of classes in every subject: forensic science, competitive math, storytelling, art, and many more. We’re growing 8x year-over-year, and just raised more funds to expand the team. We want to be every kid’s second school.

We are a product-focused team of 6 in SF, with experience in education, marketplaces, software, and operating online services at Udemy, Amazon, Airbnb, YC, Square, Google, and several startups. We have an exceptionally sane work culture for our early stage: no egos, boondoggles or fake urgency. We pay attention to our users and prioritize carefully, start simple, run experiments, then iterate.

We're now looking for a senior software engineer. It’s an amazing time to join! You would build a new kind of educational service from an early stage, learn and grow with us, and significantly contribute to our success. Everything about our product will evolve, so you'll work on a variety of large-scope projects: in-class interactions, teacher tools, messaging, marketplace discovery, metrics, internal process, infrastructure, and more. You’ll contribute to every product area at every layer of the stack. We use modern ES6+ JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Node, and Postgres.

We think that the best candidates:

* care about learning and education

* have been programming professionally and challenging themselves for at least 5 years

* prefer to focus on user experience over infrastructure complexity

* need a mature perspective on engineering tradeoffs, product decisions, and teamwork

* can be effective with minimal process at first, and adopt more structure as the team grows

* communicate clearly

* have something to teach us

If you’re interested and available, please reach out to work@outschool.com

BlueLabs helps organizations personalize their engagements with individuals, optimize communications, and achieve their strategic goals through data science. Our team of more than 40 data scientists, engineers, and strategists come from diverse backgrounds but share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Our clients range from political campaigns and advocacy organizations, to government agencies, to startups and fortune 500 companies in a range of industries. Through our work, we’ve directly and measurably improved the health and financial security of millions of Americans.

We are hiring Software and DevOps Engineers to work across a range of projects including developing the data science platform we deploy internally and for our clients, and building and managing complex data pipelines for our clients. We're looking for engineers who want to work collaboratively, learn new things, and take projects from conception to production. We're excited to work with any engineer who is curious and committed, regardless of specific experience-- but we're particularly interested in folks with several years of experience with Python, Kubernetes, Airflow, Spark, React+Javascript, Terraform, or Ansible.

Apply at http://www.bluelabs.com/jobs/

# Who we are

We’re a cross-disciplinary team who believe in the transformative power of learning. Our software is open-source, our org is not-for-profit, and our primary users are in underserved communities such as rural schools and refugee camps.

We’re building Kolibri [1], an offline-first application that makes high-quality education tools and content available in low-resource contexts. We're also building a supporting ecosystem of tools and training materials. This all builds on previous work which now reaches millions of learners in hundreds of countries [2].

In the past two years we’ve: received substantial funding, e.g. from Google.org; doubled our team size with a focus on pedagogy and training; added dozens of languages and thousands of openly-licensed resources; begun deployments with partners around the world, including UNETE, the MFE Nalanda project, Vodafone Foundation and UNICEF Uganda

# Who you are

You are an experienced full-stack developer who is comfortable with ORMs, relational databases, API design, modern JS web frameworks, build tooling, and automated testing.

You want to use your skills to have a positive impact on the world, and our core values [3] resonate with you. You take pride in your craft and think carefully about the needs of your users.

# Links and references

Apply here: http://grnh.se/4t6yqj1

[1] https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri [2] https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/ [3] https://learningequality.org/about/values/

Feel free to email with questions: 'devon' at our domain name

Software services for robots.

We're applying modern web technology and data infrastructure to robotics. Our product suite provides data services (log ingestion, analytics, tracing) and human-in-the-loop services (teleoperation, manual intervention, labeling) for robots and other machines with visual and geometric sensor data.

Our technology stack includes Typescript, Golang, C++, NodeJS, React, React-Native, AWS, ROS, industrial automation, and robot hardware.

Please apply at https://angel.co/figure-works or with an email to people@figure.works.

We pay for coaching for all employees. We want you to grow into a great engineer (or great engineering leader).

We strongly value personal growth, and help people join organizations where they will grow and learn. We're a (human-assisted) AI sourcing platform that delivers great results (customer quote: "I'd have a panic attack if you guys stopped existing"). We worth with some of the most exciting companies in tech, focusing on diversity and finding overlooked candidates

Qualifications:

- Are you empathetic, driven, and intellectually curious? See our values here [1]

- Do you understand the value of shipping quickly and of software craftsmanship, and have the judgment to know when to apply each?

- Do you enjoy collaborating with other developers and helping them grow?

Stack:

Python (Django, nltk), AWS PostgreSQL, Javascript (React)

About:

We raised $3.5M from OpenAI researchers and Lightspeed [2] at one of the highest ever valuations coming out of YC. Our team has previously sold companies, published machine learning research, and has the former Chief of Staff at Dropbox, and previously worked at Google, Airbnb, McKinsey, etc

We have machine learning problems that are core to our product, data infrastructure and scaling problems to tackle, and interesting product work as well.

To Apply:

email me at josh@sourceress.com

[1] https://www.sourceress.com/jobs

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/sourceress-raises-3-5m-to-...