Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

eBay | www.ebay.com | New York | NYC | Full Time | ONSITE | jobs@ebaynyc.com | VISA ok We are hiring

Is it hard to build a business on eBay? Is it easy to promote your products on eBay? How will advanced in machine learning change the way people sell online? We’re looking for someone who likes to explore unknown areas with huge potential. It’s hard to divert a moving freight train. We need someone with the grit to fight through building technology solutions that customers didn’t yet know they needed. If we get it right we can change eBay for the next 20 years. 5+ years experience of software development with experience leading small teams. You will also be a scrum master.

jobs@ebaynyc.com | Ask for Adam

Just applied, this is an amazing endeavor. Thank you all for what you do.

Tyro (www.tyro.com) | DevOps/SRE | Sydney, Australia | Full-time | Onsite, Visa

Tyro delivers next generation cloud-based, integrated and mobile payments, deposits and lending banking solutions to Australia’s small and medium enterprises. In November 2015 we raised $100 million to grow and keep building for our 25,000+ customers. We're the first technology company to become a banking institution in Australia and our environment is changing constantly as we grow.

My tribe is looking for people with DevOps/SRE skillsets to join cross-functional teams and help evolve core technology offerings. You will be helping to build and run secure cloud-native application/data platforms centered around technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Service Mesh and Serverless. Your belief and dedication to an 'automate everything' approach combined with your outgoing consultative nature will be invaluable in managing the journey of on-boarding our product engineering teams to these platforms efficiently.

We're open to sponsoring visas for exceptional candidates.

Why not take our fun Docker-based challenge if you're interested (or just want a challenge)? It's themed on classical capture the flag hacker games and will exercise some of your Docker, Linux and web debugging skills, as well as a fair mount of lateral thinking! There's a webform at the end where you can leave your details and we won't contact you unless you tell us to.

$ docker run tyro/challenge

I just want to chime in here and say that David Foster is an amazing engineer and a wonderful person to work with. If I weren't at the beginning of a set of golden handcuffs I'd have made sure one of these jobs wasn't available to be posted here.

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.

- 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. 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 the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu