Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE (UK-only)

https://www.freeagent.com

At FreeAgent we help freelancers and micro-businesses be more successful by putting them in control of their company finances.

We have built an award-winning online accounting product that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 65,000 paying customers and strong YoY growth. Our NPS is off the charts (71!) - customers love what we do!

We're a growing team of over 140 people and the majority of our team are based in Edinburgh, but we have staff distributed across the UK. If you want to help us make small businesses awesome at doing their finances, we have great opportunities in our product and engineering team. Our stack is currently Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, React.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, SmartOS.

We currently have senior full-stack and front-end vacancies available. Senior engineers at FreeAgent have the opportunity to provide technical leadership and help to grow their teams. We are also looking for engineering managers and a Head of Product Engineering to help us support and coach our engineering teams.

We like to work with people who show initiative and continually seek to improve themselves, their teammates, and our codebase. Our engineering teams are small and cross functional, enjoying a great degree of responsibility. We invest in our platform (code health, scalability, security) as well as working on improving and adding new features that help our customers.

You can apply directly via the website – https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers – or feel free to get in touch with me directly: maria [at] freeagent [dot] com.

(We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now)

Thumbtack | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.thumbtack.com

Thumbtack is a local services marketplace that connects customers who need to get things done with skilled professionals who can help. We hope to fundamentally change the way customers identify and connect with local services professionals, a market estimated to be $700B in the US alone. We currently have over 260,000 paying pros per quarter on our platform and $250M in funding to enable growth. We’re currently focused on scaling our product even further.

Thumbtack has a strong commitment to transparency, diversity and work / life balance. Having been at a number of companies of all sizes in the Bay, I can say that the people at Thumbtack are some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and genuinely kind that I have worked with. Both from a learning perspective and an overall well-being perspective, this is one of the best places I have ever worked.

We’re hiring for the following roles in SF (3+ years experience minimum):

- Full Stack Engineer

- Front End Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Android Engineer

- Site Reliability Engineer

- Security Engineer

- Data Scientist

We also have a Front End engineering role open in Salt Lake City.

Technologies: React, Redux, ES6, Go, Scala, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, AWS, Postgres, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Puppet, Terraform, Python, R

More job details here: https://www.thumbtack.com/careers/#jobs-Engineering

If this sounds interesting to you or you have any questions, drop me a line at rich+hn@thumbtack.com

BuildZoom (YC W13) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite Only | https://www.buildzoom.com

BuildZoom simplifies the process of selecting a general contractor and improving the outcomes of remodeling and construction projects. By gathering and analyzing information on 3.5 million licensed contractors and 100 million improvement projects, we bring new levels of transparency and accountability to a notoriously difficult industry.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/buildzoom

Here are our open roles:

- Backend Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildzoom/ec706cb2-dd89-4e57-8815-1dd7...

- Full-Stack Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildzoom/de320f7b-65b9-492a-b1fe-bb51...

TN Visa friendly or remote Outside the US? Looking for the Android engineer position but it doesn't seem to be listed on you website yet. Is it still open? Thanks.

Fluent City | New York City, NY | Full-time | Onsite | Junior/Senior Full Stack Developer | https://www.fluentcity.com

Fluent City is an EdTech startup looking for a Full Time Developer(s) to join our engineering team. Our consumer product is a React/Django app that facilitates online/offline foreign language learning. Our enterprise product is called the Language Genome Project, and uses the latest and greatest in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning tech to extract insight from pragmatic domain specific spoken language. Our company also offers a collaborative team focused on professional development and many other benefits including health insurance, weekly work from home days, free foreign language classes, and unlimited vacation (yes, we mean it). Best of all, we actually build products that improve the lives of real people! So if you are tired of wasting your life on the creation of another soulless finance/advertising/marketing app then we are the place for you!

Tech Stack:

- AWS (EC2, S3, RedShift, EMR, Lambda)

- Heroku, Postgres, Redis, Neo4J, ElasticSearch, SQLite

- Python 3.6, Django 2.0, ES6, React, Webpack, CSS Grid/Flexbox

- SpaCy, Pandas, D3.js, Docker, TensorFlow, Apache Spark

Apply here: https://fluent-city.workable.com/jobs/746443