Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by SpikeGronim » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

Etsy.com! We're hiring, and we're turning a great many creative people into small business owners.https://www.etsy.com/careers

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by nry » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

Yoric wrote: post #59

Hey, Mozilla! We're fighting the good fight! http://careers.mozilla.com Edit: Fixed the link

Pretty sure the URL should be: http://careers.mozilla.com

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by lencioni » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

I work at Causes. It sounds like it might fit your criteria. https://www.causes.com/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by rmchugh » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

Yoric wrote: post #59

Hey, Mozilla! We're fighting the good fight! http://careers.mozilla.com Edit: Fixed the link

http://careers.mozilla.org/ you mean...

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by a3n » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:20 PM UTC

Work for a medical device manufacturer, or something similar in health care.

I have a BSCS and I work in SWQA for a medical device manufacturer. Most of us carry around patient testimonials in our badge pouches that were given to us when we hired in. The testimonials can be overwhelming when you really think about them.

If you were going to code here, you'd want to be good at C++ on embedded systems. There are probably other technologies at other places.

Peoples' lives are often literally saved by what I work on, and at least vastly improved. It feels pretty good, and helps keep my head straight when I have the inevitable encounter with BigCo administrative nonsense that goes with the territory.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by johnamccarthy » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:20 PM UTC

We're hiring at Purpose! Open source rails platform: https://careers-purpose.icims.com/jobs/1057/lead-architect%2...

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by johnamccarthy » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

johnamccarthy wrote: post #66

We're hiring at Purpose! Open source rails platform: https://careers-purpose.icims.com/jobs/1057/lead-architect%2...

https://github.com/PurposeOpen/Platform

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by contingencies » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:31 PM UTC

gmisra wrote: post #35

Pretty sure each answer reveals a bit about each of our value functions (and what we read on-line). Here goes: ProPublica http://www.propublica.org/about/jobs Maplight http://maplight.org/content/jobs-at-maplight Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/jobs/ Rootstrikers http://www.rootstrikers.org/ resource.org https://public.resource.org/ Code for America http://codeforamerica.org/ Engineers Without Borde…

Wikimedia https://www.wikimedia.org/

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by hkdobrev » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

http://www.charitywater.org/about/jobs/ Charity Water is helping people in Asia and Africa to have access to clean water.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?

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Post by spicyj » Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 10:43 PM UTC

I don't have any advice about how to find such jobs in general, but at Khan Academy we're changing education for the better. We need designers, devs, community managers, anybody who lives to create a great product. Full-time and interns hired year-round.

http://www.khanacademy.org/careers or email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org if you have any questions.