Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Who we are: OrderPay is a fully funded start-up, founded by seasoned entrepreneurs from Retail & Hospitality consumer facing industries, so we understand both the technological and operational requirements and impacts for those businesses. In plain English, we make it easier for users of our app to interact with our customer’s pre, during and post purchase and we are rolling out throughout 2021 to over 6,000 Hospitality venues.

What we’re building: Consumer and merchant focused ordering solutions for restaurants and pubs. We’ve built mobile ordering and payment apps and a number of React based webapps enabling customers to order and pay and merchants to sign up, get setup and manage orders.

Who we’re looking for: A smart, enthusiastic, and experienced front-end developer. You’ll work with members of our engineering and product teams, bringing new features and improvements to our existing products and building new products from scratch.

Find out more and apply via our HR portal: https://recruit.smb.co.uk/vacancy.aspx?id=wPQnbfX3SGhd3lJW or reach our directly to me: james [at] orderpay.com

About Academia.edu

Despite Covid-19, we had no layoffs, are private and profitable, and still growing. This is a great time to join us!

Life is short - do something that matters! Our mission is to accelerate research, which will change the world for the better.

Academia's platform has more than 150 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), and has over 65 million unique visitors every month. We have over 280,000 paying premium subscribers, and our revenue has grown 50-60% YoY for the past 2-years.

Full Stack Engineers:

Must have:

* Strong Computer Science fundamentals; i.e. data structures, algorithms, system design, web architecture.

* Ability and willingness to learn and apply new languages and technologies quickly.

* Good coding and debugging habits.

* Analytical and problem solving skills.

Nice to have: We use: Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with AWS, EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.

Sr. Mobile Engineer - iOS: We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”. We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, in order to build a high-quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.

Reserve Trust is the first fintech trust company with direct access to the Federal Reserve central banking infrastructure, and we’re building the next generation of B2B platforms for domestic and international customers in the $22T global payments market.

We’re hiring software engineers to build out and operate this new banking software stack. We work in Go, SQL, and AWS, and strongly consider any past experience in fintech or with event sourced messaging systems.

Apply https://jobs.lever.co/reservetrust/368f138e-ad97-403e-95dc-2...