Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

We are currently looking for the right person to lead our team of makers and tinkerers and to help and support our users in creating their own projects.

The Mission:

- Build useful, meaningful, practical or just fun projects using the WunderBar - Help WunderBar users to build useful, meaningful, practical or just fun projects - Present the WunderBar and projects at Makerfaires, Hackerspaces, etc - Scout for useful, meaningful, practical or just fun projects and products that use the WunderBar - Plan the WunderBar educational program including written, photo and video content - Lead our team of trained monkeys in building useful, meaningful, practical or just fun projects using the WunderBar

Your Skills:

- A master of soldering irons and hot glue guns - Basic to intermediate programming skills (JS, python or otherweb technologies…) - Interest in creating meaningful, productive experiences for people - A strong interest in developing and building a community - Excellent presentation skills are a must - Electronics skills are a must. Circuit design is a plus - Good understanding of IoT projects components and challenges - Articulate and friendly - Experience with Arduino and Raspberry Pi - Experience with using digital fabrication equipment (3D printing / lasercutting, etc…) - Experience in using or, even better, in managing a fablab, workshop or maker space

We Will:

- Listen to and value your opinion - Value and respect you as a person - Make small iterations and push things fast - Make mistakes, break stuff, learn and move on - Supply you with the technology you need to be productive - Operate in a non-hierarchical open fashion - Ask you to work on latest technologies - A small and growing team where your influence and skills will be needed, recognized and rewarded - Send you to visit beautiful cities and meet great, creative people

As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the future (and present) have onboard computers, tons of sensors, and internet connections over the cell network. If you could hook that up to our map data, you could do some really cool things.

To see what we’re up to, check out http://360.here.com/tag/connected-driving/

We’re looking for strong Java developers to make this happen. Experience with AWS, apache storm, stream processing or high volume, low-latency applications are all plusses.

We're also looking for strong SDETs.

The things I’ve enjoyed most since starting here a few months ago:

- Interesting problem space

- Interesting tech stack

- I get to wear sandals to work

- Team running group that goes for a run together every Wednesday morning before lunch (weather permitting)

- Company gym

- Quickly-growing team

- Good medical insurance coverage

- Starting a lunch time study group (with lunch provided by the company!)

Interested? Questions? Email me at roman.zabicki@here.com I'd love to talk to you.

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Here's what you'll do as part of our team: ____________________________________

-be part of a small, close-knit team

-work for a profitable company that is making the world better

-build and scale our core services used by people all over the world

-work in all layers of the web stack, from javascript to linux configuration

-create tools that turn abstract ideas into something visual teach, learn, and document

And here are the skills & experience we hope you have: _____________________________________

-properly size-up a situation to understand the potential risk versus gain

-put in place tools to ensure the reliability, availability and serviceability of a service

-identify and analyze issues across the entire stack

-be able to learn new skills quickly as the need arises

-built that cool service or tool your peers used and then wonder how they ever worked without

-sound understanding of Linux, process management, networking and network protocols

-familiarity working with data (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)

-working knowledge of graphite, collected, logster, and StatsD

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