Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

MakeLeaps - Cloud Invoicing for Japan - REMOTE

Hi there - we're a startup based in Tokyo and we're looking for a developer with Python/Django experience to join us as a full-time remote staff member, with the possibility of coming to live in Tokyo to work near/in the office.

We have a strong team consisting of 6 developers, a designer, and a bunch of great customer support staff. We're getting some exciting growth, traction, and users love our service.

We have a huge whiteboard full of exciting features we can't wait to get started on, and we need your help to turn them into a reality, and to help continue to delight our existing and future users.

We're mainly looking for Python/Django experience to start, but if you've got a wide variety of skills, it always helps to be a generalist in a startup.

To apply, can you please send me some information about some business apps you've worked on in the past. Ideally anything relating to business processes/quotes/invoices/accounting is great, but is not necessary, since we believe that a cultural fit is just as important as technical skill.

We'd offer a trial to start with, and then if we're both happy with how we work together, we'd offer you a full-time position.

Please send me an email directly at jay@makeleaps.com - I'm one of the founders. Looking forward to chatting with you!

(We also organise the Hacker News community meetups in Tokyo, so if you're planning on traveling to Japan and want to get a feel for the startup community here, see if there's a meetup going on at hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp)

Detroit MI

My name is Jake and I am the Lead Developer at a start up in Detroit. We are a for profit company that is absolutely committed to growing and benefiting local communities and are currently looking for a skilled web developer to join our team full time as we accelerate toward Beta and Launch, which we expect to achieve by late fall. You will be paid competitively. Because we are striving to be first to market in a rapidly growing niche, I have intentionally disclosed very little information. Our stack includes: Ruby/Rails, Javascript html/haml, css/sass, Postgres, and Heorku.

Please let me know if you are interested in learning more about us or applying by emailing me at Jake.Wesorick@gmail.com with Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, or anything else that showcases your skills and experience.

exactEarth Ltd. - http://www.exactearth.com - Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge Area, Canada

exactEarth is a data services company leading the way in delivering global maritime vessel information. We use data from a constellation of satellites to gather information on ship traffic, which is used to protect the environment, aid in search and rescue efforts as well as transport cargo more efficiently.

---------- What We Offer ----------

  * Competitive salary and benefits
  * Free snacks and drinks
  * The flexibility to setup your development environment with your preferred
    software tools and operating system
  * Annual “Hack Week” to explore cutting edge ideas that might open up new
    opportunities for exactEarth
  * Occasional paid travel to technical conferences

---------- Web Developer ----------

  * Our web technologies: HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Javascript, Node.js/Express,
    Backbone (MVC), Bootstrap, jQuery, Dojo, and Underscore
  * Other desired qualifications: Git, Geospatial Information
    Systems, Geospatial Web Services, Geoserver, ESRI Web Toolkit

---------- Software Developer ----------

  * Our back-end technologies: C, C++, Python, Scala, Akka, PostgreSQL, Redis
  * Other desired qualifications: Git, Geospatial Information Systems, Hadoop,
    Spark, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition

---------- Contact Us ----------

For a quick response to any questions, e-mail me at brad.smith [AT] exactearth.com. We also have more detailed job postings available here:

https://www.waterlootechjobs.com/jobs/view/web-developer-19/

https://www.waterlootechjobs.com/jobs/view/senior-software-d...

PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES (http://PSYT.co.uk) — London, UK

* We're looking for an experienced Android and/or full stack engineer

WHAT WE DO. We’re a tech startup creating corporate and consumer products to measure and enhance wellbeing and productivity. There are two strands to what we do. First, we quantify cognitive and psychological states, such as attention or happiness. Second, we deliver interventions, such as mindfulness, to boost cognitive and psychological skills. Web and mobile apps are key to both these strands.

WHO WE ARE. Our backgrounds span finance, psychology, technology, and design. CTO George leads on the measurement side, having mapped the nation’s wellbeing with the Mappiness app (http://mappiness.org.uk). CEO Nick leads on interventions, as the former Head of Research for successful mindfulness app Headspace (http://www.getsomeheadspace.com).

WHAT WE USE. We love CoffeeScript, both in the browser and for our internal app logic. Our back-end is largely Postgres and Ruby. We could imagine using Node, Python, Go and/or R at some point; maybe other things too. Our iOS apps are Objective-C, of course, with liberal use of SpriteKit and Accelerate (we’ve tried RubyMotion — impressive, but probably not for us — and we’re playing with Swift). Our Android apps don’t exist yet, and that might be where you come in.

WHO YOU MIGHT BE. We’re looking for someone smart, opinionated, and enthusiastic (in the face of interesting work). Someone with solid experience in web, Android (especially) and/or iOS app development, who likes learning, and who agrees that UX is the most important — and usually the hardest — thing to get right. Bonus points for any of: user testing, sysadmin or database expertise; an interesting technical blog or Github/BitBucket profile; and an interest in mindfulness or subjective wellbeing.

WHERE WE’RE AT. We've just completed our first investment round. Currently our CTO does all development, so you’d be our first developer hire. That means we can be flexible about the work you take on, playing to your strengths and your preferences. That also means you can expect to help guide our development and share in our success.

Contact george(at)PSYT.co.uk

PACKETZOOM ENGINEERING Burlingame, CA (just south of San Francisco in the bay area) FULL TIME H1B VISA Transfer ok TN VISA ok. REMOTE considered for the perfect candidate

Mobile Networks are different. And yet we continue using the same legacy protocol stack (TCP/HTTP/SSL) to connect mobile devices to the cloud. If you want to help change that, come join us.

Packetzoom is rethinking the whole stack from the ground up. You get to hack network and/or security protocols, innards of mobile operating systems and build a global distributed system around brand new protocols.

We're currently looking for

- ANDROID PLATFORM LEVEL ENGINEER

You'd be responsible for our Android platform SDK (so you'd be writing some combination of Java and C++ code). In the process, you'd get to learn all about vagaries of mobile platforms and mobile networks at the global scale. In addition, you'll have your pick of dozens of delicious, hard problems to solve in the realm of distributed systems, unix'y things, iOS stuff (to be compatible on both platforms), security etc.

I'm Founder/CEO/CTO. You will work directly with me. We're well funded but still a very small team (< 10 people) So you get to enjoy an early stage team environment but not so much the high financial risk that goes with such things. Contact me directly at chetan at packetzoom.com