Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

Fort Worth, Texas (ONSITE, Full Time) Koddi (http://koddi.com or https://twitter.com/koddiyak) PHP Developer / Engineer (Hiring 2-3)

Koddi is a bidding platform for vertical-specific ads on Google, Facebook, TripAdvisor, Trivago, Facebook, Kayak, and other metasearch sites. We manipulate huge data sets to make buying search ads easier and more revenue productive for our clients. We work with great partners and clients (like some of the top travel brands in the world.) Must have strong experience with:

  - Object-oriented basics and principles
  - Modern PHP (5.4+) development and best practices
  - MySQL and relational database design
  - JavaScript
  - git

That said, capability, outputs, and results matter much more than specific experience. We'll give passionate developers that want to learn the opportunity to do so if they are a great match for the team and have a positive attitude.

Bonuses:

  - AJAX, jQuery, HTML/CSS
  - Symfony / Silex
  - JSON, XML
  - Google APIs, OAuth 2.0
  - MySQL performance optimization, big datasets, BigQuery
  - Basic Linux administration
  - Bootstrap
  - Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Redshift)

careers@koddi.com if interested

Scribd | Senior Recommendations/Search Engineer | San Francisco | VISA | ONSITE

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads.

Our team is looking for smart engineers to work on our recommendation and search systems. You should have a strong machine learning background with experience in search or recommendations with a production system or a MS/PHD in a related field. Scala/Spark and SQL experience is a plus. We are also looking for senior Rails engineers.

We are a small team which means you can have a ton of impact and bring in your own ideas. We work on an ambitious project to organize all the books in the world and use it to take book discovery to the next level.

Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture, is profitable, and well funded. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance. Stack: Ruby on Rails (we are one of the largest Rails sites), Go, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Spark (Scala). But we care way more about your personality and hacking skills than what languages you've used so far.

If you have questions you can reach me at toby at scribd.com. I am happy to answer any question related to this role. Please apply directly via https://boards.greenhouse.io/scribd/jobs/76773. NB, we are also hiring for a lot of other positions: https://www.scribd.com/about/jobs.

Thinknum | New York | Backend Engineer | On-site - Full-time | $90k-$140k + equity

=== Who We Are ===

Thinknum is a Fintech company that organizes the Internet’s commercial activity into data models. Thinknum provides real time granular data (e.g., the average discount for Michael Kors handbags vs Coach handbags across retailers). We have hundreds of clients across major financial institutions and corporations. We're a profitable company that is growing quickly.

=== Who We Are Looking For ===

We're looking for back-end engineers that can streamline our data collection process. You will design and implement systems that collect data from websites and make it available to our customers on our platform. Looking for engineers with experience in Python and familiarity with the DOM and tools for parsing the DOM like Selenium and BeautifulSoup.

=== Interested? ===

Interested? Drop me a note at jzhen@thinknum.com

Learn more about us: https://www.thinknum.com/

Thanks, Justin

Square | Appointments, San Francisco | Full Time | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship | https://squareup.com/appointments

Fullstack Engineers - come help define and build software that is the backbone of Services businesses (largest sector of the US Economy). We have fun technical problems to solve on the front-end as well as backend as we scale-up to serve the millions of small businesses across countries served by Square

Apply today: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/112674544

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite, then offer (competitive cash + equity that's liquid since we are public!).

Customer reviews: "Square appointments has CHANGED MY LIFE" | "I love it , I can enjoy more out of my days now . I don't have to keep my book with me 24 hours a day . Give me a lot of freedom."

I live in Montreal and had an initial interview with the Montreal office several months ago. I was looking for flexible work, specifically the ability to work remotely. I was told it was not really an option, and that I would be required to work in the office most of the time. As a result, it didn't work out for me. I see that you are listing remote work as a possibility. Has your policy changed in that regard?