Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

Slim.AI | Fullstack/Frontend/Backend Engineers | REMOTE, international or Seattle/Bellevue/WA | Full-time | Golang, Node.js, Vue.js/Nuxt.js

I'm the founder and CTO at Slim.AI. I created DockerSlim as a hackathon project and it turned into a journey to redefine how DevOps is done for devs building cloudnative apps. We are still early stage, but we are fortunate enough to have 40M+ to support our mission.

Right now we are focusing on simplifying and accelerating the containerized app delivery (it's too hard, too complicated and with too much manual work). We are about to transition to the next phase and we are expanding our engineering team.

Our engineering team is the innovation engine for our product because we are building a solution to solve our own problems creating and running containerized cloud-native applications.

We use Golang, Node.js Serverless/Lambda and containers. We have technical writer, frontend, backend and fullstack roles ( https://github.com/slim-ai/engineering ).

Our engineering principles:

* We use what we build.

* We share a common cloud-native mindset and a platform thinking DNA.

* We create stage appropriate designs that can evolve and that can be thrown away when necessary.

* We optimize for evolvable architecture building an extensible and composable system with disposable components using an API first approach.

* We optimize our designs for people first and machines second.

* We care about the entire system we are building considering the needs of our teammates and the impact of the design decisions we make.

* We learn together.

* We share knowledge and give back to the tech community.

* We have a written down and transparent culture that enables our remote first asynchronous approach to engineering.

* We have a lightweight engineering process based on trust, self-alignment and visibility.

Email me at cto@slim.ai if you'd like to learn more.

Platform.sh | REMOTE | Full-Time | https://platform.sh

Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling fleets of websites and applications.

We serve thousands of customers worldwide including The Financial Times, Gap, Adobe/Magento Commerce, Orange, Hachette, Ikea, Stanford University, Harvard University and The British Council.

We are the amongst the momentum leaders in Cloud PaaS according to G2 https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-pa...

Here's how it works (get a free trial and go crazy):

Pick a template from https://github.com/platformsh-templates and customize it (add your assets, specify infra) as per https://docs.platform.sh/overview/structure.html

Then push to your Platform.sh repo, BOOM! magic happens and you have a working site that you can branch, test, customize, go-live. Dead simple, you don't need Kubernetes, just basic git knowledge.

Tech stack is LXC with some Python awesomeness, Ceph and GlusterFS. Tooling is in Python and Go. Yep, we are multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, ...).

What I love:

• Lots of smart people from around the world

• Work on interesting stuff

• Great work-life balance (remote only company, you work on a contract, but get 20+ days paid vacation incl. your national holidays)

• Good comp package, pick your HW (Apple or Lenovo), get reimbursed for trainings and other stuff

Join us https://platform.sh/company/careers/

SPARETECH | Stuttgart, Germany | Software Engineers | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE |

At SPARETECH we're building the number one availability platform for industrial spare parts. Our SaaS-enabled marketplace allows top industry players including Porsche, VW and Bosch to identify, optimize and procure industrial spare parts. Customers rely on our services to lessen their inventory cost and operate their machines without downtime.

Stack: Kotlin, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, AWS

We're hiring for multiple roles in both software teams as well as other positions, details available at https://sparetech.io/en/career/ and https://angel.co/company/sparetech

Vinted | Multiple Positions | Berlin / Vilnius / Utrecht / Amsterdam | ONSITE, VISA + Assistance

Vinted is an online marketplace for second-hand items and is changing the way people consume to be more sustainable.

Looking for: Engineering Managers | Product Managers | Data Analysts | Data Scientists | Front-end Engineers | Back-End Engineers | Android Engineers | Q/A Engineers | SRE | Security Engineers

Find more about us and the job openings on our career page https://grnh.se/8b9a8702teu, or contact me via the URL on my profile if you have any questions.

  * Competitive salary + stock options
  * Hybrid working - 3 days whatever suits you + 2 days office per week
  * Learning budget (10% from gross yearly salary [13.2% for Vilnus])
  * 30 working days of holiday [25 for Vilnus]
  * Remote workout classes
  * Mental and emotional-health support from Mindletic
  * A daily allowance for ordering lunch
  * Monthly team-building events
  * A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
  * Work anywhere in the EU for 90 days out of the year
  * Work anywhere outside the EU for 21 days of the year
  * Dog friendly offices
  * Home office support (IT workstation equipment provided + a personal budget of up to 540 € for home workplace furniture)

Our tech blog: https://vinted.engineering/

Some of our OSS contributions: https://vinted.engineering/open-source/

Help make second-hand the first choice worldwide!

Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible

## Roles we are hiring for

- Business Analysts: business analysis, documentation, team and tool design

- Native Code Developers: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D. Our experience has been that strong C and C++ developers can learn D quite quickly.

- Functional programmers to work with practitioners in delivering value to the business using Symmetry Integration Language.

- Documentation: At Symmetry we recognise the value of writing and have for example a Pulitzer prize-winning former WSJ journalist and a maintainer of Linux Kernel Newbies documentation. We are looking for people to write technical documentation and to document data structures and processes (open to varying range of technical ability depending on the project).

- Front end design: designers - ideally with some ability to program - to work on usability and aesthetics for our applications and other information-presenting systems, on both web and desktop

- Designers for documentation: Now that non-programming internal work is moving to markdown in git, we are hiring designers to work on templates and mini-logos for documentation and other work.

- Data Science: time series analysis in particular, including high frequency data sets that are too big for simple tools

- Information Security: incident response, threat intelligence, vuln management

- Platform: Platform as Code, Site Reliability Engineers, Windows desktop support; frontline server support and administration; application support

- Legal and Compliance: #lawyerswhocode or who are very comfortable working with markdown in git

- Accounting: are you the sort of person who would use #ledger-cli ? If so, we would like to hear from you.

- Business: risk, operations, administrative, organisational design and business strategy, investor relations processes, talent acquisition

- Investment: Economics, Quant, Portfolio Research, Investment Research, Portfolio Management and Trading

- Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning, alternative data research and management

Location: Remote or sponsorship for a visa in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey

Term: full-time permanent, fixed-term contract, flexible hours.

## Languages

- Dlang (D)

- Typescript

- Kotlin

- we do not use but value experience in modern C++, beautiful C, Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Elm

## Qualities and traits we value

- Courage and daring

- Phronesis (practical wisdom), common sense and commercial orientation

- Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be

- Highly individual people oriented to promoting survival and flourishing of the group

- Inclination and ability to notice and understand links between seemingly-unrelated things

- Curiosity

- Extreme motivation

- Mechanical sympathy

- Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities

- A love of tinkering

- Resourcefulness

- Good taste and love of beauty

## About Us

Symmetry Investments is a post startup USD 9+ billion alternative asset management company with around 250 people across multiple time zones and locations.

Our core technology team has been remote-first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, accelerated by the pandemic.

I'm co-CEO and co-COO, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm.

We are five years into a period of transformation from what was initially a fairly standard enterprise finance technology approach to something new that recognises the importance of both the humane and the technical for discretionary portfolio management and for the business of running an alternative investment manager. [Amaury Sechet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR4PSExnqk), [Andrei Alexandrescu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ) and [Atila Neves](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/) have been working with us as long-term consultants and we have many other talented people with lower public profiles.

It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming, but are oriented towards solving business problems, with developers who are specialists in programming. To achieve this, we wrote a little functional DSL that's now in production. Type inference of returns and parameters using inequality constraints is in a feature branch and there is plenty more to do on the language itself as well as the ecosystem around it. SIL can compile and call C++, D, and C# at runtime and interoperate with Python and R. What might be a project in itself elsewhere can be just a set of functions in Symmetry Integration Language.

The language is written in D and we have a close involvement with the D Foundation and community, hosting DConf in London. So we are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners writing Symmetry Integration Language. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.

It's quite a creative place where we encourage a degree of courage amidst practical constraints, and we are open to doing things a different way if it's commercially sound and in the interests of our investors.

We look for virtues and capabilities over only experience and credentials although those things aren't a disadvantage. Do not let a lack of credentials or qualifications prevent you from applying. We've recently hired experts with C++, Common Lisp, D, Haxe, Haskell, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with the tools we use.

Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards but is generous to very generous over time by broad technology industry standards. We recognise and reward technical accomplishment and have a very flat structure - don't be surprised if our founder and Chief Investment Officer starts asking you questions about your work.

## Symmetry Talks

- Presenting SIL-cling to Compiler Research Group at Princeton (https://youtu.be/7teqrCNzrD8)

- Symmetry Internship Project - calling C++ from SIL (http://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#alexandru)

- All Spreadsheets Must Die (https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk)

- Lessons from a DSL where all you have is Ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuzSlKRmzA)

- Alternative Investment Management (https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis)

## Links

- Symmetry GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments)

# Contact

- Please apply using this link (https://jobs.lever.co/symmetryinvestments/c8a9b95e-bdf0-459c...).