Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

St. Louis, MO Front-End Web Developer Answers.com Meaghan.Cale@Answers.com

Answers is seeking a Front-End Web Developer with a deep knowledge of — and experience with — HTML5, CSS3, and Sass; a very keen awareness of good UX; and a dedication to best practices and working successfully in an agile team environment. The successful candidate will be focused on implementing optimal and reusable elements in a fast-paced, rewarding, and goal-oriented environment. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO, office.

Responsibilities: * Writing semantic HTML for back-end developers to implement * Writing Sass-based CSS for multiple mobile and desktop platforms and browsers (IE8+) * Involvement in multi-team project planning, bringing sound UX practices to projects

Requirements: * Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and Sass * Understanding and knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery * Ability to collaborate effectively with other UX team members, back-end developers, business team stakeholders, and product managers * Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, moving from planning to a first iteration/MVP quickly

Required Personal Skills: * Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills * Ability to work in a team setting * Strong initiative, capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement * Self-management, capable of prioritizing and executing multiple tasks and projects * Problem solving, ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues

Preferred: * 2+ years experience in front-end development * Experience with Sass * Experience with/enjoyment for creating and using reusable web component systems, as well as atomic/OO CSS systems * Experience with MVC frameworks * Experience with git or other version control system in a team environment * Experience with Scrum/Agile development

Job Benefits: * Develop technology that reaches millions * Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded

Compensation: Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)

More reasons to join Answers: • Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones • Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance • Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits • Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry • 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options! • Company paid group dental and vision insurance • Company paid life and disability insurance • Liberal employee performance bonuses • Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start • 10 holidays company paid • 401k savings plan

Conductor- NYC, Full Time Dev Ops or Systems Engineer

Conductor, ranked on Crains 'Best Place to Work in New York City' for the past 5 years, is growing our Dev Ops Team. If you are a systems engineer or dev ops engineer who likes to work on a small, polyglot team that moves quickly and follows a "no big egos allowed" approach, you should definitely check us out.

Our product is a distributed web analytics technology used by enterprise marketing teams. We collect upwards of 5.5 TB of data each week and then process this data for use by our multi-tenant web application. Tech stack includes: Java, Hadoop, Kafka, Redis and other enterprise development technology like Spring. Web app is built with Javascript and other front end tech.

The purpose of Development Operations at Conductor is to monitor and improve the reliability of Conductor’s applications and design the systems that run Conductor’s stack to scale on demand. This team does standard web operations (you should understand what MTTR means) and also writes a lot of code for programs that monitor our system. Knowledge of JVM internals, Hadoop, Tomcat and MySQL are musts for the team. Huge plus if you are a Linux guru or if you have worked extensively with Python or Go.

If you are interested you can apply directly to the role here: http://grnh.se/as0fqk

Our tech recruiter reads every application that comes in and, if your background is a fit, she will reach out.

DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA). If you're a DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring In particular, we're looking right now for:

-1 or 2 Back-end (Perl) engineers.

-1 Front-end (JavaScript/CSS) engineer.

-1 Operations (Chef/Site-reliability) engineer.

-1 Desktop/mobile Web designer.

Cambridge MA - Sysadmin in a DevOps world

Smartleaf is a small, profitable, and privately held company which helps some of the largest firms in finance manage portfolios for their clients. More details can, of course, be found in the obvious place: http://www.smartleaf.com.

We are looking for an experienced general sysadmin to join the IT/Ops team. This is a full-time, on-site position with shared on-call responsibility.

This team handles everything that could possibly fall under the IT/Operations umbrella in a small company. On the operations side, we keep the company delivering the service our customers are paying for. Linux servers (mostly Debian, a few Red Hat-ish Oracle servers) at colo data centers run our software. If it's mission critical, we manage it ourselves, from DNS through load balancing to web servers, databases and storage. We've been committed to reducing workload via automated configuration management for a long time -- so long, in fact, that we wrote our own deployment system and GPL'd it. Now we've moved systems automation over to Chef.

The system runs 24/7, but we have an available maintenance window every weekend. Every night is a fresh re-deployment. The monitoring system is in charge of waking one of us up, if need be. Long term, we need to wake up about once a month.

We make sure that everyone can telecommute; it beats going in on a snow day.

Our technology stack includes Debian Linux, Chef, Oracle, Ruby on Rails, C++, Perl, git. We use RequestTracker for ticketing. Routers and firewalls are from Juniper. Our employees mostly use Macs, with a bare handful of Windows desktops to support. There are no Microsoft servers at all. We are interested in teaching you what you need to know and learning new things from you.

You must have:

* significant Linux/UNIX systems administration experience - 6 years or longer

* preferably with Debian or Ubuntu and a Red Hat-style Linux distribution

* the ability and desire to track down problems and solve them

* solid organizational skills and time management

* a desire to learn

* and the ability to teach

* good shell scripting and one or more of Perl, Python, or Ruby

* strengths in several areas that complement our other team members

* excellent written English

* an existing legal right to work in the USA

You must be:

* clever, competent, and kind.

We offer a competitive salary, fully paid healthcare premiums and three weeks of vacation plus holidays. Office hours are flexible and partial work-from-home can be arranged. We are nice people.

Please send cover letters and resumes to future@smartleaf.com in plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about an interesting technical problem that you have solved, in a way which makes us excited to learn more. If you ask questions, we will answer.

Help.com - http://help.com - Software Engineer - Austin, TX

Backed by $6 million in seed funding, Help.com's team of customer service and technology experts is setting out to build the next generation of customer service software. Our goal is to give companies the tools they need to delight their customers at enterprise scale. We want to disrupt the customer service software market by providing companies (and their customers) with tools that are powerful and simple to use.

At its core, Help.com is a technology company and we are looking for talented engineers at all levels to join our growing technical team in Austin. Our technical stack consists of Node.js on the backend and Backbone on the front-end.

Skills we like to see:

* Proficiency in JavaScript and familiarity with common libraries * Hands on Node.js experience is highly preferred * Skilled in front-end development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. * Unix/Linux basics * Experience working through cross-browser compatibility issues * Strong problem solving skills * Experience working with Git

All of our positions are based in our office in downtown Austin. We offer competitive compensation (both cash and equity), an unlimited vacation policy, as well as fully paid medical benefits for eligible employees.

If you're interested, check out http://help.com/jobs. More about what it's like to work with us can be found at http://help.com/#were-hiring. We've hired people from HN before, so mention how you found out about us.

Feel free to email recruiting {at} help {dot} com with any questions.