Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

PINATA

We're building a marketplace for field marketing. What's that? Ever notice the people working a booth at Comic Con, or demoing an app at SXSW, or pouring a sample of whisky, and wonder, "what is that job and how did they get it?" That job is "field marketing", and how they got it: craigslist.

Almost a third of all marketing dollars go into field marketing, and it's managed with broken spreadsheets and scribbled down phone numbers. We're fixing it. We launched only a few months ago and just signed some major Fortune 500 clients. We push them live in a few weeks, and we've just finished raising our seed round. The runway looks great, and our team has a lot of experience in this field. It's a great time to join!

TECHNOLOGY

We like Facebook's OSS. It's well grounded in solid computer science fundamentals, and we feel those qualities will allow their frameworks to persist longer than most, so we're happily using React / React Native, GraphQL and Relay.

We also like the impact functional programming is having on JavaScript, and very happy to have Facebook's Flow for static type annotations. We're over-the-moon with ES6 (or whatever you want to call it) and looking forward to the new stuff in ES2017.

We like functional programming. We also like type systems. We're not quite advocates for Haskell, but we see it becoming more viable with each passing year, and while we wait for its eventual viability we're quite happy with Scala.

Our GraphQL API is backed by Scala, and we've bought into the ethos that GraphQL subtly preaches: CQRS/EventSourcing. We've built this largely with the Typelevel stack (cats/fs2/http4s/circe/eff/shapeless/doobie), and it's running on top of AWS Lambda and Kinesis.

CULTURE

We all attend and run meetups, organize conferences (http://www.nescala.org/) and read lots of papers, so this intellectual churn is constant within our tech community, and we are constantly looking for new people to bring something we haven't seen before.

INTERESTED?

Send me an email at dustin@gopinata.com

Blue Mesa Health is preventing type 2 diabetes by delivering a behavioral intervention program that helps at-risk individuals add healthier decisions and habits into their every day life. This is on the forefront of the digital therapeutics space with a clinically grounded program that's already showing strong results.

Our product team supports the human relationship between program participants and their dedicated health coach. Projects include:

* a multi-platform smartphone app designed to drive behavior change through education, rich communication, and habit trigger push notifications;

* backend data integration and analysis of activity tracker and weight scale data for outcome focused decision making; and

* rapid iteration towards human-computer hybrid communication with both the low hanging fruit of supportive information design and also application of machine learning for real-time chat response.

We're a small dev team using a Javascript everywhere stack (Express.js on Node.js for RESTful backend, Angular2 web app, Ionic2 mobile app) for maximum efficiency and collaboration. The next hires will be a major part of defining our technical culture.

It's my experience that strong developers can pick up almost any language and libraries with some time and support. I'd love to hear from anyone with grounding in web technologies, object-oriented domain modeling, and functional programming who has an interest in fostering effective team communication.

Email Evan.Willms at BlueMesaHealth com

We build tools that enable sustainable and liveable cities, from planning and development through to operational tracking and optimisation of existing infrastructure.

We’re looking for a mid-senior generalist web developers who can move between back and front of the stack, ideally with experience in either (or even better, both) Django and Rails.

Current stack/technologies: Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, JavaScript/Ember.js, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, AWS.

If you’re interested email me at chris at kinesis dot org for more info.

At Pagedip, we are creating next-generation documentation tools for medium and large businesses. We are using web technology to bring several of the world's largest and oldest businesses to the modern era when it comes to manuals, product guides, textbooks and more. Our current clients include several fortune 500 companies and we are growing rapidly!

We are currently a small team looking for talent to fill a few engineering roles. Everyday brings something new and you will be challenged every moment. Our current stack is comprised on Golang, Node.js and CouchDB, but we care more about you and less about your background.

Email our Director of Engineering - tyler AT pagedip DOT com