Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Noun Project is looking for a frontend engineer to help us build the Noun Project website.

Qualifications:

1+ years of professional experience working as a Frontend Engineer

Building applications using a client-side framework such as React, AngularJS, or Ember.js

Translating mockups and comps into working client-side single-page responsive web applications in HTML, CSS/SASS, and JavaScript

Nice to have:

Experience with React and Redux

Familiarity with Django (or other MVC web framework)

Connecting front-end applications to back-end services with JavaScript and JSON

Optimizing client-side web applications for speed and performance

Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jasmine, Mocha, or Selenium WebDriver

Experience with agile development and common tools, such as Git

Apply here: https://nounproject.workable.com/j/64E2E7BA35

AQUAOSO is building a water risk research platform for California Agriculture. We are looking for a friendly and ambitious ESRI ArcGIS developer to help us scale our initial platform. Extra points if you have experience with React, Node, Go, API design, message queues, or the basics of machine learning (neural networks, random forest). We're a small, laid back team experienced in cloud software and water law, with an office in the heart of old town Folsom. Contact info in my HN profile.

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.

- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.

It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic 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”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.

We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. 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, product managers, and data scientists. 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 me, Yuri Niyazov (Director of Infrastructure Engineering) at yuri [at] academia.edu

Ideamotive - a dev shop specializing business process automation for startups and growing companies is looking for a React Developer. We are located in Warsaw, Zoliborz at a start-up accelerator mansion called ReactorWarsaw.

Our stack consists of Ruby on Rails and/or Node on backend and React on a frontend, usually Postgres as a main database and Redis + Sidekiq for queues.

You, as a candidate, should be a computer science graduate (or has equivalent knowledge) with a solid background in front-end and previous experience in React or similar framework. We also expect you to have understanding of a current trends and state-of-the-art solutions.

Our original job offer (in polish): https://ideamotive.co/careers/frontend-react-dev/

Apply at: https://ideamotive.recruitee.com/o/regular-react-developer

Pixlee helps brands market and sell using the voice of their own customers by leveraging user generated photos and videos. Today, one in four Americans interact with Pixlee-managed content before making online purchase decisions. Pixlee offers a unique opportunity to thrive and grow rapidly at a global scale in a small-team startup environment. Our customers are some of the largest brands in the world and everything you do here affects millions of consumers.

We are looking for passionate back-end focused developers to help continue to scale our product, and work closely with customers to integrate their eCommerce stores with the Pixlee platform. You'll get a chance to work on a wide range of problems in big data analytics, eCommerce integration, and API development just to name a few. You'll have a chance to explore brand new areas of interest while leveraging your experience to create robust and optimized data pipelines and third-party integrations.

We love product focused engineers with excellent communication skills, the ability to work with a multitude of languages, and a desire to continually step out of their comfort zone.

Here are our open roles:

- App & Partner Platform Engineer (SF): https://www.pixlee.com/careers?gh_jid=1267300

- App & Partner Platform Engineer (Toronto): https://www.pixlee.com/careers?gh_jid=1267422

- Senior QA Engineer (Toronto): https://www.pixlee.com/careers?gh_jid=1209290

If you'd like to learn more, I'm always available at awad@pixleeteam.com