Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

FirstJob.com - San Francisco, CA

We're looking for inspired and versatile web developers to join our team of seven and our mission to redefine career search and skill development for the 77 million millennials that will soon represent the majority of the workforce.

Frontend Developer (Full-Time)

You'll translate Photoshop/Illustrator mockups into functional web pages. We need people who know HTML, CSS and JavaScript - especially those familiar with Bootstrap and responsive design.

Full-Stack/Backend Developer (Full-Time)

We need a Python/Django developer to aid in feature development, site reliability, performance improvement, etc. As the first programmer outside our founding team, your work will be an integral component in ensuring we achieve our technical vision.

We're offering a competitive salary and early-stage equity, health + dental and flexible paid time off. You'll work on a tight-knit team in San Francisco's Financial District.

If you're interested in applying, please contact me directly via email at james@firstjob. Thanks!

Location: Durham, NC - https://plotwatt.com

PlotWatt helps reduce humanity's energy consumption. We do this by monitoring the energy that a building is using in real-time, analyzing the results, and messaging our customers about exactly how to save money and understand the operations of the building. We can detect sick appliances and warn you before they break. We can help you understand how your building is being used. We can help you reduce your energy bill.

We're all very excited that we get to reduce humanity's energy consumption every day.

We use Rails for all of our customer facing web services. We use python for all of our analytics and machine learning. We're hosted on AWS and do continuous deployment for most of our code base.

We're looking for a Lead Backend Web Engineer. You will be lead architect of our Rails app. We have a residential dashboard, a restaurant dashboard and internal analytics and tools for our customer experience team. You'll make client side/front end changes to our mobile app and backbone desktop app. No graphics design experience necessary, though it definitely doesn't hurt.

We're also interested in junior developers looking to learn about any/all of our stack. You'll have the opportunity to learn client-side rich web app architecture, back-end web architecture, cutting edge machine learning and cloud infrastructure.

If you're interested get a hold of me at zdwiel@plotwatt.com

Atomic Object - Developers and Designers - Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids MI (atomicobject.com) The Right Fit: We don't care so much about your specific technology background. We're much more interested to know that you learn quickly, are disciplined in your work, and have already demonstrated interest and aptitude by having become proficient in a variety of languages and tools. We look for people who are passionate about development, who program in their free time, who are continually uncovering new things, and who enjoy sharing them.

A Variety of Technologies: At Atomic, it's not uncommon for someone to move from developing a new web site in Ruby to creating an internal application in .NET to building a mobile application in Objective-C or Java. We're passionate about quality and owning our clients' mission, so we select the best tools for the job.

A Broader Mindset: Atomic is a consultancy. As such, you'll be empowered and expected to interact directly with clients every day. You'll need to become comfortable and effective at understanding and discussing business goals, budgets, and timelines with clients. Additionally, you'll help market our services in a variety of ways including presenting at conferences, contributing to our shared company blog, networking within our client's organizations and among your peers, and expending your creative energies in ways we will not attempt to predict.

Interested in working for us? Send us an email to get the conversation started. We'd love to talk with you. jobs@atomicobject.com

Pubfront - Copenhagen, Denmark

We develop a white-label platform for purchasing and reading/listening to ebooks and audiobooks. Currently licensed to clients in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, we're planning on expanding the platform to more countries.

Right now, we're looking for a Junior Web Developer with Python/Django and frontend experience to keep our platform rock-solid.

You will be responsible for tackling issues as they arise, including:

  - fixing issues reported in our bug queue
  - communicating with our clients and investigating issues reported by them
  - developing features and tweaks that help our clients scale sales and support

You'll be working with our small team of developers and sales-people in the exciting Founders House workspace on Islands Brygge in Copenhagen, where food and drink are provided to fuel Pubfront and the 20+ other startups hacking away there.

Skillwise, we're looking for people who know

  - Python (must-have)
  - Django (ideally, but experience with other web frameworks is also relevant)
  - HTML, CSS & Javascript (must-have, but no ninja-level skills required)
  - SASS & CoffeeScript/Backbone.js (ideally, but easy enough to get into)

Want to work for an expanding startup in one of Copenhagen’s hippest workspaces? Eager to help deliver the smoothest ebook-reading experience to users around the world? Get in touch here: http://www.pubfront.com/jobs/

Factual - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai

Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience . If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

If interested, email me (my username here at factual.com).

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