Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

Addepar is Hiring - Engineers - Mountain View, Ca

Who we are: Engineers rebuilding the infrastructure that powers global finance. Current technology in the space is so broken and opaque, it empowers scandals like Bernie Madoff to go on for a decade while $64 billion vanishes from the economy effecting, endowments, institutions, and notable individuals.

Our platform provides increased transparency-- allowing for better decisions and furthering meritocracy in the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry. We free data from disparate silos and build tools for advanced analysis and decision making.

Addepar is an engineering lead company that’s designed our perks around enabling great technologist to build.

Join us: Careers.addepar.com

Or email R2 [at] Addepar [dot] com

ClassDojo (http://www.classdojo.com) - FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is an education technology company being used by over 7 million teachers and students to build positive behaviors like creativity, curiosity and persistence in the classroom, using real time feedback. We're a small team of 7, with $1.6mm in funding from some of the best investors in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. Paul Graham invested in us, but we didn't do YC.

In our first year, we've built a product that makes a real difference to the world, and is used by millions of teachers and students every day. We're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board! 2 key people we're looking for:

  - Full-stack engineer: we use node.js/MongoDB - there are some really interesting challenges to solve as we scale to millions more users every month!
  
  - Front-end engineer: you'll use JavaScript and Backbone.js to lead development of a webapp that is already seen and used in more than 100 countries.  

You can find out more about our work and our culture (and all the perks!) here: http://www.classdojo.com/jobs. If you're a strong hacker who wants to join a strong technical team at the earliest stages of a high-growth startup - and use JavaScript to improve education - you should join us :) you can apply here:

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Or just drop me an email directly, and we can chat! I'm Sam, one of the co-founders, and its sam@classdojo.com. Looking forward to it :)

FinFolio - C#/WPF, HTML/JavaScript - Denver Tech Center - Local Only

I'm a serial entrepreneur in the financial services space and FinFolio is my 3rd company. We're always looking for skilled Microsoft-stack developers, both entry-level and advanced positions.

About us:

FinFolio is a boutique technology company that makes software for professional financial advisers. Expert skills in C# and related technologies are needed and past experience in finance would be a big plus . We're seeking long-term employees who want to help grow our company over a period of years.

Our development environment uses the Microsoft technology stack (C#, WPF, WCF, nHibernate, SQL). You will be responsible for assisting in the development of our flagship WPF product, as well as leading the way in new product development (SharePoint, WinRT, iOS). We expect you to take ownership of the product(s) and care about them as much as you care about being a great developer.

The environment is loose and agile; we are constantly refactoring and are big believers in test driven development. You will have interaction with other developers, members of the support team and our founder/CEO who also writes code.

For more info:

http://www.finfolio.com/Pages/Careers.aspx

Please submit a cover letter indicating position applied for, resume, and salary requirements to careers@finfolio.com. No recruiters please.

WebAction (http://www.webaction.com) - Full time or intern in Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto). Seeking Front-end developers and Platform Engineers.

WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between Big Data and transaction data. We have just closed our Series A round and we are getting ready to launch our product. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today. We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

Front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. You should be interested in Data Visualization libraries such as D3 or processing. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus. Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.

For the Platform Engineer position, you should have or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested, email us at jobs@webaction.com. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thomson Reuters - St. Paul, MN - .Net Software Engineer / FT

We are a 40+ developer group working in downtown St. Paul, MN to deliver market data to customers. The larger team produces an easy to consume REST/SOAP API for customers to interface/integrate with.

The primary focus for this position is enhancing and maintaining a web-based document workflow and permissioning management system. The application manages the creation and approval of contracts for customers to gain access to the API. The system also integrates with other internal applications via queuing and OData APIs.

We are a small team of 2 looking to add a highly motivated engineer. We work in a rapid delivery product cycle. The idea person would love the latest web technologies and able to pragmatically apply them to our application.

Our technology stack is: ASP .NET MVC4 jQuery/Knockout/CoffeeScript OData ZeroMQ AutoFac

I am the hiring manager so feel free to contact me with any questions about the position: jason[dot]motylinski[at]thomsonreuters[dot]com

Official job posting: http://jobs.thomsonreuters.com/job/Senior-Software-Engineer-...