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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Nominum, located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City, CA), is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer

Nominum helps over 500 million people stay connected every day. Our applications improve people's experiences with their Internet service providers, our security solutions protect customers around the globe, and our on-premise software improves Internet connectivity for millions of people. We handle over 1.5 T queries a day, and that number is growing.

We're hiring a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to join our growing Applications Team. We're building a new customer-facing UI for scale, showing 1M impressions per hour (grown from 100K per hour) for our customers and we're surfacing that data back to them in a meaningful way.

Here's what we can offer you: * Competitive salary and generous stock options * Health, vision, dental insurance for you and your family * 401K to help you save for the future * Commuter benefits and free shuttle from CalTrain * Flexible work schedule at our company headquarters on the shores of the bay in Redwood City and a downtown San Francisco satellite office. * Fully covered membership to our on campus health club with a swimming pool, rock climbing wall, exercise equipment and access to a wide variety of classes and a day spa. * Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks, and an on campus cafeteria. * We fully support our team members attending and speaking at industry-related conferences.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/871

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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BeRecruited, located in the San Francisco, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer

BeRecruited is on a mission to improve people's lives through youth athletics. Founded in 2005 by a former college swimmer, we've helped millions of high school students connect with colleges and universities and earn scholarships to a better college education.

We're hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to make an immediate impact on our products that help students get in to and afford a higher education. Our engineering team is small, our company is successful (no flash in the pan here) and you can expect to join a team where your contributions will matter.

Here's what we can offer you: We believe that work should be enjoyable. We want you to be yourself, love what you're doing, and be your most productive.

* Competitive salary, medical and dental insurance, and 401K. * Wellness reimbursement program. * Personal laptop reimbursement program. * Flexible work from home policy. * Hack days and monthly company events. * Sunny dog-friendly office in SOMA with a fully stocked kitchen.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/889

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Course Hero, located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City, CA), is looking for a Systems Engineer

Course Hero is creating a platform where students and experts can share and access great academic content they need to succeed at any time, from anywhere. Today, millions of students take advantage of our educational resources including study guides, flashcards and tutors.

Course Hero is looking for a Systems Engineer to help us scale our infrastructure as we help even more students. You'll join our CTO and a small team of engineers to solve these challenges hands-on. As we grow, you'll have the opportunity to architect our new production environments and build out an Operations Engineering team.

Here's what we're offering you: * Industry competitive salary and stock options. * Full medical coverage (medical, dental, vision). * Retirement plan to help you save for the future. * Regularly planned team events and outings. * Free Friday lunches and an endless snack and drink supply. * Commuter transportation benefits. * On-site amenities including a day spa, gourmet cafe, 3 miles of nature trails along the bay, and free membership to a 7500 sq. ft. fitness center.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/837

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Coin, located in San Francisco, is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer

Coin is a consumer electronics company focused on creating things to make life better. Our flagship product is a connected device that pairs with our mobile app to hold and swipe like all of your credit, debit, gift, loyalty and membership cards. With Coin you'll carry fewer cards in your wallet with security and utility beyond what a plastic card can offer. With proven market fit in an industry ripe for innovation, we're moving full-speed ahead towards our Spring launch. Join us at the intersection of hardware and software as we make people's lives (and wallets) a little simpler.

We're growing and we're hiring an Embedded Software Engineer. As one of our first hires in this team you'll develop and improve firmware for our Coin device.

What's in it for you? * Competitive salary and equity. * Health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family. * Commuter benefits. * Collaborative San Francisco office close to CalTrain and Muni stations. * Fully stocked kitchen and daily catered lunch. * In-office wellness programs including weekly yoga, massage and Pilates sessions. * Get involved with our community! Employees are highly encouraged to attend and speak at relevant conferences. * Grow your career with us! We're always looking for people who want to take on additional responsibility as we scale.

For more information, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/850

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

#645
Good Eggs - San Francisco, CA, Full Stack Engineers

http://www.goodeggs.com

=== About us ===

Good Eggs brings local, farm-fresh groceries right to your door! We are a technology focused company with a CTO who previously founded Carbon Five, an exceptional agile development shop. See our Engineering Blog and Github account:

http://bites.goodeggs.com

https://github.com/goodeggs/

We have a great mission (https://www.goodeggs.com/philosophy) - to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide - and everyone here is deeply committed to it. We have expanded to 4 cities - New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco - and our investors include Sequoia Capital, Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Westly Group, among others.

There are ~20 of us on the engineering team and we’re actively growing. We’re building next-generation web and mobile applications with JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, Backbone, and CoffeeScript. The team has been built from the ground up with practices around test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous deployment.

== About you ===

Ideal Candidates Will Have:

* 3-5+ years full-stack web application development in Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript

* TDD experience / experience with pairing / Continuous Deployment

* Domain expertise in: e-commerce, billing, payments, or warehouse distribution software

======

I’m happy to field any questions - feel free to e-mail me: kevin(at)goodeggs.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Software Engineer (Fullstack) | ATTN: | NYC | Node.js, Javascript | 70k - 100k + equity

ATTN: creates content that breaks down complex issues, makes politics interesting, and analyzes the world from the perspective of the social media generation. In lieu of passivity, we prefer to give our followers vehicles to take action.

We are looking to bring on a engineer to help us build our content publishing and distribution platform.

Experience in node.js and mongodb is desired. Experience with React is a plus.

The position is full-time and we are open to local or remote candidates.

Apply here: http://bit.ly/1w7mpP6

http://www.attn.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

#647
Starbucks - Seattle, WA FULL TIME Lead Application Developer

Interested in innovative, exciting digital technology that impacts millions of Starbucks customers across the globe? We are looking for a talented & experienced lead engineer who can drive the development of the next generation of our world-class digital products… Message me if you are interested: cneves (at) starbucks

https://starbucks.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Software Engineer - REMOTE position (but HQ in San Francisco), Salary: $70k - $110k Come help change the world by improving how people share and find useful information. We at Inscoop are an interesting startup doing social list sharing, reputation analysis, and social graph search algorithms, and we're looking for enthusiastic people to join the team. There are many projects here where you can make a real impact, fr…

Thank you to the HN community. Although we've just filled this position, I wanted to say thanks for all your interest. You are a very impressive group of people, and I enjoyed getting to know some of you during the hiring process.

Best of luck to you,

Jonathan

Cofounder, Inscoop

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also signalling. Higher salary both means the company can afford it (i.e. is stronger, healthier, a safer long term bet) and that the position is valued (as the company is willing to invest more in it).

Couldn't agree with you more. Higher salaries very much represent a company's ability and desire to pay top dollar. I do caution on the long term bet. It's not as solid as may seem. I've come across many companies who throw money at the problem of not being able to attract/retain talent with market rate range salaries. Could be a number of reasons, including politics, lack of interesting projects, unsustainable cultu…

Really? Don't go for the maximum salary because you might be disappointed in future raises?

Do you know why companies discourage job hopping and sharing your salary with coworkers (even though just mentioning a bias against sharing that information is illegal)? Because it costs them money if employees do it (i.e. it's good for employees)!

Sure, throwing money at a problem isn't a way to solve it and companies that think it is are bad news, but the rest of your advise is horrible.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

#650
Web Engineer - Versailles, France - VISA - Blizzard Entertainment

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/careers/posting.html?id...

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented web engineer to join its digital marketing team in Europe. This person will have experience creating animated, interactive web designs using HTML and CSS, and is an expert in both JavaScript and one or more server-side languages. The ideal candidate will have a well-rounded background in web and mobile and a good understanding of integration and design. They can efficiently integrate the graphical layouts created by the web designers into our websites used my millions of players worldwide while still keeping an eye towards aesthetics.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Web development: coding and optimizing Blizzard Entertainment websites, social media apps, animated experiences, and web-based applications.

- Responsible for the architecture of large scale web projects both on a European and Global scale.

- Responsible for meeting and contributing to key web project milestones.

- Participate in the deployment of technical updates and upgrades in cooperation with quality assurance, web administrators, and the US-based web development team.

- Coach and mentor fellow web engineers.

REQUIREMENTS

- A minimum of 5 years’ work experience in web engineering or other relevant fields

- Strong skills in creating websites using HTML and CSS with a focus on aesthetics

- Solid understanding of JavaScript and related frameworks, and / or libraries

- Solid understanding of one or more server-side languages and related frameworks, and / or libraries

- Strong communication skills

- Fluent in English

PLUSES

- Passion for gaming and in-depth knowledge of Blizzard Entertainment games

- Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

- Knowledge of project management software such as Jira or equivalent

- Experience working and communicating within international teams

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