Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

Magic | http://getmagicnow.com/ | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-stack & Back-end Engineers

Magic is building the future of human-computer interaction: natural language chat that is capable of handling all possible human requests. Our users interact with us 24/7 over SMS. We have no user-facing software. Our back-end is a hybrid of human and machine intelligence. We are growing rapidly and our product is in high demand.

We are looking for engineers that understand practical business problems and can deploy code to production on a rapid cycle and see measurable impact. Magic’s engineering task is to use software as a weapon to tame a staggering level of real-world complexity. We test our code on live firehose of real data every day.

We stay up late coding and we love it. We like to use the latest and greatest technologies but we also know when a quick bash script is the right solution. We are highly iterative. We are relentless. We don’t stop until the job is done.

To apply, email jobs@getmagicnow.com.

Do you need to hire somebody for this? It frankly doesn't seem like a hideously difficult problem and probably doesn't require a backend of any sort, except maybe to store logs for developing better recognition.

Amida | http://amida-tech.com | multiple dev positions | Washington, DC | ONSITE | Full Time Amida is an open-source company focused on data and data security. Our core values are Joy, Impact, Profit (in that order). The technologies we are developing will improve patient outcomes, protect personal privacy, enhance public services, and increase the impact of investments in global development. We are bootstrapped and profitable – our open-source (https://github.com/amida-tech) solutions are supported by our contracts in professional services. We are 20+ people strong, with an office in downtown DC. Our employees have flexible hours, health/life insurance, 401K matching, a tech budget, access to a fully stocked kitchen, and a choice of open, private, or shared offices. We’re looking for software engineers; our current projects use the MEAN/Java stack but our philosophy is to use the right tools for the job. Apply at https://angel.co/amida/jobs

Locus | Full Time | ONSITE, VISA (Bangalore, India) | http://locus.sh/

Locus is hiring Engineers and Data Scientists. At Locus we have an ambitious goal of Scheduling & Tracking the World transport movement. We are aware of how audacious the goal is, but we have made our initial strong footholds and have the path to move forward. Founded by a team of ex-AWS engineers, comprising of graduates from premier Indian Tech/Science Institutes (IIT/BITS-Pilani/TIFR), Locus is funded & mentored by the most respected investors and ex-entrepreneurs and have product validation with actual paying customers.

Engineers: We have always maintained a small, but high-caliber engineering team, and we are now looking to make a couple of additions to the same. We are hiring for mobile, backend & front-end. We are tech stack agnostic. We would prefer to have a look at your GitHub repo or a mobile app that you have built, over your academic/educational qualification. We are a founding team of engineers, and understand that good engineering is part science part art, we would like to provide you the tools for the science and the time for the art. We are expanding the team to build the next version of our true multi-tenant platform with a few thousand events happening per second.

Data Scientists: We wish to push to edge of what is possible, and advance the field of routing problems itself. If Travelling thief, Knapsack, Capacity planning and other optimisation problem excite you, we are looking for you. We are team of PhD scientists and engineers with background in stats, working on building faster & more scalable implementation of NP-hard problems, or even a combination of a few NP-Hard problems.

While we have pizza, beer, whisky, drones, oculus rifts, raspberry PIs on the house, the biggest perk we provide you is a remarkable team. We would love to spend our most productive years, around people with great intellect and unbridled enthusiasm. In the spirit of keeping you at your productive best, we give you free fully furnished housing with internet, food & laundry taken care of, and your choice of tech gear. Read more about what we value and our work culture at http://locus.sh/careers

Issuer Direct | Full Stack Engineer | Raleigh / RTP NC | Full-Time ONSITE

We are a small micro-cap public company (NYSE: ISDR) and have been growing steadily since 2006. We specialize in helping other public companies with their compliance and communication needs. As a full stack engineer, you will be writing web applications that affect how thousands of public companies get their work done and how millions of shareholders interact with those companies.

Our software development team consists of 8 experienced developers working in an open, collaborative workspace. We pride ourselves on staying on the edge of technology, constantly tinkering with new software and commonly integrating it into production (most of our sites are already served using HTTP/2). We have fully embraced the Docker / containerization approach to software development and run all of our micro services through Kubernetes.

Motivation to work hard, learn, and share what you know are our most important values. Our newest project involves building a real-time web application. Experience with PHP, Python, Go, MySQL, Redis, and HTML / JS / CSS are a plus. Please include links or descriptions of projects you have worked on in the past. Send applications to me directly at caleb.lloyd@issuerdirect.com