Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

San Francisco, CA (25 Kearny St) - MindTribe Product Engineering, Inc.

Hi, I’m MindTribe’s director of Software Engineering. I’m searching for people who enjoy learning and making. We’re a small company, and I’m looking for people with whom I would personally like to work and who want to work with me.

Here are the tools I use regularly: The C programming language (specifically ISO/IEC 9899:1990); Eclipse, Make, Subversion, Git, Python; Linux, Embedded Linux, Android, iOS; ARM processors (TI OMAP, TI Stellaris, NXP LPC); Atmel AVR/AVR32, Microchip PIC, TI MSP430, Cypress PSoC

Here is what I enjoy doing at work: Writing embedded software that runs on cool hardware; Figuring out how to apply agile techniques such as test-driven development to embedded product development; Reducing regressions and supporting customer development with agile techniques; Developing embedded libraries for things like USB, TCP/IP, graphics displays, sprites, fonts, encryption, etc.; Having long, dorky conversations with coworkers about programming languages, physics, estimating Facebook’s relative revenue distribution between advertising and games, etc.

Here is what I enjoy doing outside of work: Hiking, walking around San Francisco; Pseudonymous humor blogging; Cooking and baking; Photography; Reading. Recently: “Test Driven Development for Embedded C”, “The Clean Coder”, “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”, “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, “Norwegian Wood”, and "The Mind's Eye".

You can see examples of how I’ve applied my tools and passion here: http://mindtribe.com/portfolio/

You don’t have to use the same tools and you don’t have to enjoy the same things. But if you’re excited about similar stuff, drop me a line at hn@mindtribe.com to let me know.

We're also hiring Electrical and Mechanical engineers!

San Francisco, CA Visual.ly

We are small and nimble team building a consumer-friendly data visualization tool and are looking for few front-end hackers with demonstrated expertise in all or many of the following and a passion for data visualization to round out our core engineering team.

* Javascript, Backbone.js & jQuery * CSS3 * HTML5 * SVG

Learn more: http://visual.ly/about/jobs

We hack all day on AdGear (www.adgear.com), a modern ad platform for publishers, agencies, networks, and bid/exchange optimizers.

We're based in Montreal, Canada, right beside Sq Victoria metro downtown (Red Bull is upstairs). We're privately funded, revenue generating, and profitable.

I'm looking to get in touch with devs working with and interested in one or more of the following:

- Erlang - node.js - Cassandra in multi-data-center environments - Rails, and ruby in general - C, especially high performance http server hacking - xp and interest in building high performance real-time analytics systems

And if you are:

- Someone who "loves the problem" and gets off on solving it, even/especially if it hasn't already been solved - Someone not afraid to be scrappy to get things done, but who can balance that well with doing things properly

Please: not looking for freelancers nor freelancing shops. We want someone willing to join our small but growing engineering team full-time. Ideally located in MTL or surrounding regions, but if the above is right up your alley and you're not here, get in touch with me anyway, maybe it'll make sense to work with you anyway. :-)

You can reach me at bosko@bloom-hq.com if you're still reading. :-)

Cambridge and Brighton (UK) - Aptivate

We build websites, web services and run in-country training programmes for the international development sector. We are looking for smart software developers to join our team.

As well as writing code, our developers get to work on the ground in developing countries on projects ranging from delivering technical training, to building and deploying resilient hardware systems for power and communications. Each team member has a voice in strategy and policy of the organisation.

For details see http://www.aptivate.org/job-web-developer