Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

We're building a communication hub for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers that allows them to easily exchange information about the goods being sold. This hub is gradually replacing current communication methods such as Excel/FTP/Email/Dropbox, and we're in the process of scaling our product to handle 100K+ manufacturers. We're looking for a mobile developer to help us take our iOS app to the next level. Ideally this is someone who has 7+ years of experience, but we are open to adjusting the role for candidates with less experience.

Our product backlog looks a bit like:

  - E-Commerce integration
  - EDI integration
  - iOS mobile development
  - UX/UI design
  - Generating print material
  - Payment processing
  - User analytics (for our customers to track *their* customers)
  - Email campaign orchestration and tracking (ditto)
  - Data visualization (ditto)
  - Logging
  - C# business logic
  - Modern web front-end, greenfield, likely React or Vue.js

  - Family-friendly: Sane hours and a generous vacation policy
  - Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, etc
  - Financial security: Enough pay so you don't have to worry about it
  - A stake in success: Meaningful stock option grant
  - Profitable

Based on NodeJS and Angular we are building a CRM system for wealth management companies. The product is rather young and the codebase small. Remote work is okay. We have employees in Switzerland, the US and Slovenia.

Our hiring process:

1) Resume / code-check

2) Phone call (getting to know each other, technical interview)

3) Onsite (half a day)

Send a mail with a short intro about yourself (video or written) OR a Github-link OR a resume to:

hiring+hn@nectar-financials.tech

Jovio is a new real estate company on a mission to build a platform to modernize the way homes are sold. Using an interactive AI-driven interface, an innovative home valuation model and a library of refreshingly simple forms, we're redefining homeownership and inventing a few words along the way.

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer, one of the first to join the Jovio engineering team in Austin, TX. As a necessarily impactful contributor to the successful launch of the MVP, ideal candidates will have at least a few years’ professional experience developing responsive, end-to-end web applications with Ruby on Rails, using a relational database like MySQL or PostgreSQL, and exposure to front-end JavaScript web technology like React (what we’re using). We integrate with various RESTful APIs and plan to augment our data with bulk data delivery from industry partners.

You’ll collaborate with the founding CEO, our Technical Lead, and an accomplished technical advisor with 30+ years’ experience. We have been working with a software development firm to build out the MVP (they’ve done this for other successful venture-backed US companies), and you will collaborate with them as we transition ownership of the code to you and the in-house team in Austin.

In sum, this is a unique opportunity to join an early stage, well-funded tech-centric company and learn a massive amount while accelerating your career in a high-stakes industry where you are directly participating in ensuring the rewards outweigh the risks.

Contact: devin@jovio.com

We’re looking for a senior developer with 3+ years working with Javascript, and experience with singe-page apps. A good understanding of React is also suggested, although if you’re a proven fast learner that might work. We use a very modern stack (Node, React, Postgres) and have a small team of outstanding developers. If you like technical challenges, working with smart people, having significant input at all stages of the process, and no committees to get in the way, you should take a quick look at our jobs page at: https://angel.co/listium/jobs. We are funded, and offer generous equity packages.

https://listium.com

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 19 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