Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

PrepScholar’s mission is to improve education at scale through technology. Our flagship product is an SAT/ACT prep program that automatically learns the strengths and weaknesses of each student and creates an individualized learning program through machine learning. You can think of it as an automated tutor that provides a compelling learning experience at scale. We also have a large web presence with over two million monthly visitors to our free tools and articles.

We believe we have a major advantage over other companies in our space because of our technology-centered and analytical approach to education. We're profitable and bootstrapped, and you'll join as an early engineer working on products that impact millions of students worldwide.

Our stack: * Sass, JQuery, Backbone

* Django/Python

* MySQL

* AWS/Linux

Requirements:

* Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering, including competencies in data structures, algorithms, databases, software design and dev ops.

* Strong hands-on experience with our core technologies is a big plus. In particular:

----Python and Django

----JavaScript and JavaScript MV* frameworks like AngularJS, Ember, Knockout, or Backbone

Email us at job.engineer@prepscholar.com, and read more at http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/careers.

Ritual’s mission is to digitize local commerce. We are a two-sided marketplace connecting consumers to their local merchants to make the purchasing of goods and service more efficient. Our initial product focuses on creating a social food ordering experience that allows users to pre-order take-out at their local restaurants. We make it easy to place group orders and have a coworker deliver your lunch or coffee right to your desk. Our value-add for merchants is to increase their order volume and repeat business. Additionally we provide merchants with valuable insights into their local customer behaviour, allowing for highly targeted local marketing campaigns.

We recently announced our international expansion plans (https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/bu...) and are looking to double our Engineering team to support our growing business (from 50 to 100 engineers). We are mostly focusing on intermediate and senior talent. Come help us digitize local commerce!

Our glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Ritual-Reviews-E1195050.htm

You can apply at https://ritual.co/careers or email madeline@ritual.co

Our mission is to reduce loneliness by bringing people together to engage in meaningful and fun experiences.

We are a distributed team with a hub in San Francisco. You’ll be implementing fun and engaging features to delight our growing user base. You will be deeply involved in the design process, and own features from conception to roll out.

- Android: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/squadappio/view/P_AA....

- iOS: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/squadappio/view/P_AA....

We’re a creative, diverse and fast-moving team that’s passionate about building the future of social communication. If you are driven by ownership and impact, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to ping me directly with any questions at esther@squadapp.io

Whether it’s working out the odds on the winners of the Kentucky Derby or the Super Bowl, our work has a direct impact on every customer who places a bet. And putting that experience front and center of everything we do has helped us become a real betting powerhouse in the UK and Nevada – and now we’re bringing that expertise to New Jersey. William Hill is America’s largest Sports Book operator and our award-winning sports betting app allows you to instantly place bets in the palm of your hand, and all of that is completely legal here in New Jersey!

We code the platform which our odds traders use to update the prices on live events. Making sure our customers have up to the minute in-play chances right there and then. And we really do mean that our teams process 464 bets every single second. Our platforms have to reflect millions of real-time, In-Play sports events, so developing systems that are designed for low latency and high throughput is critical.

Currently hiring:

- Senior Software Engineer, Scala/Akka

- Functional Programmer, Clojure/Haskell/Erlang

- Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS/Docker

Email us at hiring@williamhill.us or if you have questions, feel free to send a note to me personally. Contact info in profile. I’m an engineer here by the way.

Reasi is revolutionizing real estate with a modern, secure, and convenient transaction platform. We're early stage but have already received backing by big players, such as renowned proptech accelerator MetaProp. Compensation is a healthy mix of cash and equity (up to 3%) - ideal for the senior developer tired of building other people's ideas without sharing in the potential for profits.

Imaginary "ideal candidate" laundry list - you don't need all to apply if you're an aggressive learner:

• 5+ years tech leadership on nontrivial projects (that were not necessarily all successful)

• Expertise in most of: PostgreSQL, Node.js, React, TypeScript / modern JavaScript, Solidity, Jest, Docker, networking / HTTP, OOP / FP / infrastructure patterns and practices

• Expertise in one of: real estate domain, blockchain development, DevOps / site reliability, UX / UI design

• Multidisciplinary interest beyond coding, e.g. focusing on product, improving the business, and devising solutions to real estate problems

We focus on results, continuously improve ourselves, and derive strength from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Drop us a line at jobs@reasi.com!