Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Seeking experienced Java developers & project managers w/ scrum experience.

- Work from ANYWHERE, virtually alongside many of the best developers in the industry.

- Develop cutting-edge solutions for brands like Under Armour & Victoria's Secret.

Learn more: http://www.twintechs.com

Drop us a line: careers@twintechs.com

Top Hat builds software for modern educators to help them make every lecture count. We have over 350 universities and colleges using our software with over 100K active students. This is high impact stuff! You excited yet? Good, keep reading...

We are looking for a Test Engineer!

Why: Because we are a rapidly growing dev team / company and are looking to make sure that our QA team has the proper resources to keep the app running without bugs and showstoppers.

- We are looking for a smart, motivated person that can learn and adapt quickly (Obviously)

- We are all about automation, so you need to have at least a few years of automated testing experience (through work or personal projects.)

- You will need to wear your management hat to manage the testing team to produce superior automated tests

- Write and maintain integration tests in Python using Lettuce

- Write and maintain a load testing framework.

- Manage the complexity of testing infrastructure and focus your efforts on the important things

- Evolve our current Continuous Integration system to be more robust

- Gather data from production systems to diagnose undiscovered problems

- Be really passionate about testing and know how important it is! We are looking for someone pro-active not re-active

What's cool is that our client side app is built on a fairly sophisticated JavaScript framework and makes use of JQuery, backbone.js, and all the usual suspects. The server side is written in Python on Django, with a MySQL database. In addition we use Node.js and SockJS for our real time components. Our systems all run on Amazon web services. We have a lot of moving pieces! Hence, why we need YOU!

We think the best sign of a good Test Engineer is interesting projects they've done on their own time, not just things they were assigned by their boss or in university. So please showcase any cool side projects, open source contributions or community involvement.

Some cool things make that Top Hat pretty awesome:

- Outstanding company culture, with a team that is super smart, highly motivated & stoked to be a part of a company that is changing the face of education.

- Our investors' portfolio companies include Salesforce, Yammer & box.net. We're in good hands and in good company. - Competitive health and dental benefits

- We are looking for people who want to grow with us and are in it for the long haul.

- We are one of the top education technology companies in North America (named one of the Top 50 Companies to Watch by Deloitte Consulting)

We also have a Top Hat! Yes! A real one that you can wear. I know... we think it's pretty special too.

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Send your applications to matt (at) tophat dot com

Hit us up on Twitter too @tophat

Full-time devs. Frontend Backbone.js / jquery. Backend Python work, would likely be working with Django. Looking for more senior people, as well as a tech lead for the team.

We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/a-very-harry-potter-pro... Or and r2d2 engagement ring: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/r2d2-engagement-ring/ Or a portal one: http://blog.custommade.com/portfolio/not-your-typical-engage... We're a small, tightly knit eng team. Boilerplate about stack / team here: http://engineering.custommade.com Various Engineering Positions open: http://www.custommade.com/careers/

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We're funded by Google Ventures and a ton of others: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/custommade-ventures so paying you well is not an issue. We recently raised an 18 million series B! We're growing, and with that comes scaling challenges. But it's all part of the fun. We have a great team and a great environment that focuses on customers and product development. When I'm working on product stuff, I get to collaborate with product / UX / support people day to day to build a product that meets a real business need, and makes everyone happy. But when I just need to bang out some code, people leave me alone. When I'm working on platform or architectural stuff, I get great advice and feedback from my coworkers. Expressing opinions and having discussion is encouraged. Friday afternoons are refactoring / innovation day to scratch your good code itch. Work / life balance is great. Bureaucracy is at a minimum.

Devs get a macbook pro, a huge thunderbolt display, and an Aeron chair.

We love contributing to Open Source, here is a list of what we've released so far, with more to come: https://github.com/SawdustSoftware We also regularly participate in and sponsor the Boston Python group, which is the largest python user group in the world. I've spoken there twice so far. We also often help stream the event for them, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/bostonpython/ Tech blog here: http://engineering.custommade.com/sawdustsoftware/

You're a low-ego programmer who is always learning, has pushed code to production innumerable times, and doesn't cringe at the prospect of collaborating with a team of non-techies every so often. You know the modern web stack well, and specialize in at least one part of it. Get in touch with our hiring person at ellen -at- custommade-dot-kom. Let her know that "Mali" sent you.

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If you have any eng-related questions, you can guess my work email.

FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by over 15mm teachers and students to manage behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup with funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. We're the only non-YC company that Paul Graham has ever invested in.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. We have a strong team, an extremely comfortable and relaxed environment and great salary + benefits. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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  https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/    

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We're particularly looking for:

  * Frontend Engineer

What's the role?

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At the core of ClassDojo is a node.JSON API built on node.js which makes use of multiple services and handles hundreds of requests per second. The frontend web application talks to this API, and it's a single page app that uses our own (soon to be open-sourced) JS framework - mojo.js - which combines the best bits of Backbone, Ember and Angular. That means great templating with powerful and efficient data-binding, but plenty of flexibility to build apps quickly. You'll work on this and other awesome tools, and you'll build a lot of user-facing features that go out to millions of kids around the world every day. It's pretty rare to have impact like this, and as much freedom as we'll give you. Everyone on our team agrees that this is the most exciting phase of the company that we've seen, and we're growing so quickly that we're all very eager to meet and work with you!

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What skills are we looking for?

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* This is primarily an engineering role, rather than being design or CSS focused. We'd like you to be really strong on JavaScript fundamentals, up-to-date with modern JS engineering, and familiar with advanced DOM manipulation.

* Having said that, some minimal design chops would be cool...

* ...but not essential. We do have designers.

* A good sense of product and a desire to have a creative role in designing product features is important to us.

* You love building things well and building them quickly - like us!

The best way to show this off is to point to things you've built. We'd love to see personal projects which demonstrate the above.

Is this you? Apply here: https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/