Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

ShopPad Inc. | Oakland, CA (Uptown near BART) | Full-stack Developer

ShopPad develops award-winning, eCommerce applications for Shopify's App Store. We have nine different SaaS apps, used by over 50,000 online merchants, making us the largest developer on the platform. Now we need your help to build apps that are going to meet the needs of our next 50,000 customers.

We work with exciting companies like Tesla Automotive, General Electric, Sundance Film Festival, Acer Computers, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Nine West, 5-Hour Energy Drink and many more to deliver eCommerce experiences that perform and delight. Our founders are experienced entrepreneurs and we're backed by some of the best angels in the Bay. Our office is located in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood — just a few blocks from 19th Street BART.

About You: You'll be working with PHP 5.6, JavaScript (Angular & Vue.js), HTML5, CSS3, Git, the Linux command line, MongoDB, with some Node mixed in. Familiarity with eCommerce, Shopify, 3rd-party API's or AWS is a plus, so be sure to mention if you have a background in any of those. Experience comes in many forms and passion goes a long way, so please consider applying even if you aren't intimate with our entire stack.

About The Role: As a full-stack developer on our apps team, you'll work with a small, close-knit team to create beautiful products at scale. You'll be empowered with the authority to make decisions that materially affect the company's future. This is a great place for builders, makers, and hackers who want to create something great. Every day you'll get to work on some of Shopify's most popular apps and help us to create new ones. You will own everything you build, being responsible for architecture decisions and scaling your solution to meet customer demand.

Compensation includes: competitive salary, equity, medical/dental/vision/commuter benefits. PTO with 15 paid holidays (incl. some fun ones like your birthday, Valentine's day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, etc). Flexible hours where everyone works from home / remote once a week. Plus a fully-stocked kitchen with snacks & beverages.

If you're excited about having a big influence on software used by millions every day, then we'd love to hear from you! Please send your resume and cover letter to careers-417@theshoppad.com

Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 14 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu

Cryptography Services @ NCC Group (formerly Matasano Security, iSEC Partners, and Intrepidus Group) - Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Sunnyvale, CA

INTERNS / VISA

The Cryptography Services team of NCC Group is looking for a summer 2017 intern!

We are looking for you if you’re into cryptography and security! The internship would allow you to follow consultants on the job as well as lead your own research project.

Who are we? We are consultants! Big companies come to us and ask us to hack their stuff (legally), review their code and advise on their design. If we’re not doing that, we spend our time reading papers, researching, attending conferences, giving talks and teaching classes, ... whatever floats our boat. Not one week is like the other! If you’ve spent some time doing cryptopals challenges you will probably like what we are doing.

We can’t say much about who are the clients we work for, except for the public audits we sometimes do. For example we’ve performed public audits for TrueCrypt, OpenSSL, Let’s Encrypt, Docker and more recently Zcash.

I was myself the first intern of Cryptography Services and I’d be happy to answer any question you might have =)

If you're interested, take a look at the challenges we have in place: http://cryptoservices.github.io/challenges/

You can also directly contact me here: david.wong@nccgroup.trust !

Student Loan Hero - https://studentloanhero.com/ - Austin, TX - Full Time - Remote

Founded in 2012, Student Loan Hero is on a mission to help 44 million Americans manage and repay over $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. Student Loan Hero combines financial education with easy-to-use tools, unbiased personalized advice and repayment plans to help people become financially healthy.

Our student loan tools include student loan data aggregation and analysis, consolidation and refinancing analysis, budgeting tools, and student loan repayment suggestions.

Student Loan Hero is the smartest way for student loan borrowers to repay their student loans, saving time, money and frustration.

Current Openings:

* Digital Product Manager: https://student-loan-hero.workable.com/jobs/325519

* Conversion Copywriter: https://student-loan-hero.workable.com/jobs/365958

More jobs: https://studentloanhero.com/careers/

littleBits | NYC | Software Developers | Full Time | littlebits.cc

littleBits is a company aiming to get the world inventing. We make an award-winning system of modular electronics. Our kits have been integrated heavily in STEAM education programs and we are dedicated members of the maker movement. We aim to teach kids of all ages about systems thinking, empathy, and curiousity.

Our roots have been in hardware, but we are starting to rely more and more on software to enhance the system. We recently launched an iOS and Android app to allow you to control our Bluetooth LTE bits wirelessly. We also make a small internet-connected bit and run our own internet-of-things cloud to back it. Right now we are working on a programming-based kit that runs on top of our Arduino bit.

As a small team of software developers, we choose sharp tools and aim to keep our stack small. We enjoy a services layer written in Scala with Akka as guiding framework. Our main client is a Rails application that powers our community invention platform. Most UI work is done in React. A lot of our embedded systems work is C.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, don't hesitate to get in touch at [adrian.schaedle@littlebits.cc]. There's a tremendous amount to do; ideally you have experience. Most of all though, we hope you're warm, understanding, funny, and committed to the cause.