Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Underdog.io | New York, NY | https://underdog.io | Full-Time | ONSITE

We’re looking to hire two full-stack engineers. Ideally, one would be a Javascript/Node.js Engineer, and the other would be a Python Engineer.

Today, Underdog.io is a curated marketplace for talent. We connect amazing people with founders, hiring managers, and recruiters at top technology companies.

We’re building technology to reduce the noise of the job search and match. We started Underdog.io because we experienced the pains associated with (1) hiring while working at top startups and (2) looking for new opportunities.

Our platform is currently live in SF, NYC, and LA. We work with over 275 awesome companies. Quality is key to our model -- we turn away one of every two companies that have tried to join the network. We've proudly bootstrapped and profitable.

As we scale, we’ll focus on building tools for candidates to organize, search, and discover new job opportunities. In our view of the future, job candidates don’t receive as much unsolicited outreach from recruiters. Job search is organized, and talented candidates have more high-quality options.

We use Python/Flask, Javascript/Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, AWS. We're also working on a project in Ruby/Sinatra. And we're big supporters of open source.

Link to Github: https://github.com/underdogio

Link to recent Medium post: https://medium.com/@cmuir/lessons-from-sixteen-months-of-boo...

Email chris@underdog.io to apply.

Because we're still a small team, we're not able to accommodate recent bootcamp graduates. No recruiters or dev shops, please. =/

Keywords: New York City, Brooklyn, Developer, Dev, Engineer, Python, Flask, Node.js, Ruby, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, Open Source, https://underdog.io/, Los Angeles, San Francisco

As someone who works remotely in a company that does take location into account, I can understand their perspective. I think there's a base value for work and then depending on the power of each dollar earned, there are multipliers to that that eventually give you your final salary. So it's "value of work" * location based spending power differences. Value of work stays constant.

That said I do think the factors used to calculate the salary can improve. In general, I love the idea of thinking of quality of life. Can a person in Sri Lanka enjoy a similar quality of life as a person in SF at least in terms of factors that can be controlled (a company can't control the quality of public transport or municipalities for example in a given location but can provide me the opportunity to purchase experiences or work around those matters).

And that matters because although rent in Sri Lanka is lower than Brisbane, buying groceries is actually more expensive. Buying electronics is certainly more expensive because of the enormous markups and taxes. Compared to a location in the US, I pay nearly triple the value of a given electronics item at times just for the cost of shipping it and then paying customs. Even travel becomes more expensive since I have much more lengthy Visa processes to go through. These numbers eventually add up and while I can save huge amounts of money by living frugally, if I wanted to live a good life supporting my wife and child, the number should be ideally 60k USD and above rather than 38k.

Should mention that Software engineers are considered to be some of the lowest level fodder in Sri Lanka and our good salaries can be something like 12-15k per year. Starting salaries would be something ridiculous like 3k USD per year (that was mine). But that's also why so many people are migrating to australia, US, and canada asap if they can.

Peloton Technology | Research engineer (2 types) | Mountain View, CA, ONSITE | Full-time

At Peloton Technology, we are bringing groundbreaking safety, efficiency, and autonomy to class 8 trucks. http://peloton-tech.com

The Research Group at Peloton is hiring for two job descriptions:

  1) Research engineer: Server side
  2) Research engineer: Vehicle side

Must-have for both job descriptions:

  - Strong background in C/C++ and Python on Linux

Must-haves for "Server side":

  - Experience in handling large (~ petabyte) datasets
  - Experience in computer vision & machine learning
  - Knowledge of statistics and experimental design

Must-haves for "Vehicle side":

  - Hands-on experience with robotics / mechatronics / control
  - Experience with embedded systems, and real-time systems
  - Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing

Nice-to-haves for either job description:

  - Experience in safety critical, or high reliability systems
  - Experience with software simulation of physical systems
  - Prior scientific publications

Please send your cover letter and resume to research@peloton-tech.com. Include your github / stackoverflow. Thanks!

P.S. If automating cars is cool, then automating tractor-trailers is freaking awesome.

Unidata (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/) | Boulder, CO USA | Onsite | Full-time | Software Engineer / Scientific Programmer

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/unidata-is-look...

We are looking for a scientific programmer to work with researchers that are tackling vital research areas such as climate change, meteorology, and ocean science. Please submit your CV with a solid cover letter describing your qualifications and why you want to work with us. (In the past, we have hired international applicants so foreign nationals can apply too, I believe.)

Capsule Pharmacy | New York City, NY NYC | ONSITE INTERNS | fulltime

http://capsulecares.com

Capsule is a healthcare technology company on a mission to elevate and simplify the consumer pharmacy experience. We believe in improving health outcomes through innovative design, mobile technology, logistics, and predictive analytics.

We are seeking a Software Engineer with a generalist/fullstack orientation to join our development team in New York City.

At Capsule you will:

- Work at all levels of our stack. Key technologies: React, Swift, Django/Python, Postgres, Go, Node

- Influence architecture, tooling, process, and culture at a small but growing engineering shop

- Contribute daily to the product dialogue

- Build things that meaningfully improve peoples’ wellbeing

You should have:

- Breadth in many different skill areas (Maybe you’ve written APIs and some front-ends and done some light devops and know a bit of Photoshop and have coded in a functional language … the more the merrier)

- Depth in one area that you can really school us on (Perhaps you’ve written a pubsub framework as a sideproject?)

- Experience writing code as part of a (preferably large) team

Bonus points if you have:

- Built db-backed RESTful APIs for commercial projects (Python/Django = awesome, but also relevant if it was in Java, Scala, Ruby, Go, etc.)

- Working fluency in technologies like ES6/ES2015, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Sass, Less - Knowledge of and/or interest in React

- Experience setting up a web development environment & architecting a web app from scratch (e.g. first person on a web app team or led a web app team)

- Good grasp of TDD & CI principles

- Contributed to the development of a native mobile app

- Facility with design tools like Sketch, Illustrator, or Photoshop

- Led an engineering team

https://jobs.lever.co/capsulecares