Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Bridj | Boston | Onsite http://www.bridj.com/jobs

Bridj is your everyday transportation system that adapts in real-time to where you live, work, and play. Powered by data, we use a network of express shuttles that offer efficient and flexible trips that are as dynamic as the city you call home. We’re revolutionizing mass transit by connecting travelers directly with their destinations. We’re live in Boston and Washington, D.C. so far, bringing joy to hundreds of people’s commutes each day. And we’re just getting started.

We are looking for developers who will be excited to put their skills to work solving some of the most difficult and important transportation problems, helping people travel through their cities more easily.

We are hiring for a couple positions now:

1) iOS developer: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Bridj/84143330-mobile-engine.... You’ll be driving development of the iOS app that our passengers use to book travel. We expect you to be a mobile-first thinker, with up-to-date knowledge of the iOS development world (including things like Swift and ReactiveCocoa).

2) full stack / backend developer: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Bridj/84142588-full-stack-ru.... You’ll touch all of our systems: mobile apps, client-side javascript and HTML, server-side APIs (building ours and consuming others), back-end data processing — you name it. Our stack today includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Redis, but we’re growing fast and building new things, and will expect you to help us shape the stack of the future.

3) backend tech lead / architect: No official job posting yet. You'll help us build out the technology stack we want and need as we grow. Do you have production experience with multiple tech stacks? Have an opinion on whether Rails is a good choice for a high-performance API backend? How we should store real-time data about the locations of buses? How we should be versioning our services? If you want to dig in, write a lot of code, and make things the way you think they should be, we want to hear from you.

We're also looking for an NLP Engineer!

WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. | SF | Remote (US Timezones) | 1HB VISA

You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a personal level. Walmart's mobile apps are highly rated and the services we write to support them are the base of that success. We started from a small company acquisition with a single product. Today, we power a platform and a suite of products running on mobile devices and systems in retail stores.

We're still a small, flat team of engineers. We work with our own tools and make our own build-or-borrow decisions. Our culture is a healthy mix of sharing and pushing each other to be better at our craft. For example, we use pull requests & code reviews liberally. We make refactoring time. We deploy often, with a single line of code run from a REPL. Engineers on our team are challenged to work through our full software stack and be part of our product management. We believe that people are more engaged, fulfilled and happy when they feel responsible for actually shipping their work.

The environment at WalmartLabs balances moving fast and breaking shit, with the knowledge that we could break shit for 150+ million people every week. It's a tough balance but we've found the payoff to be worth the challenge and responsibility.

Some aspects of our work that are important to us:

  - high performance distributed systems
  - robust & well-factored codebases
  - simple & fast deployments
  - automating the hell out of operations
  - thorough system test coverage
  - managing our own development process and work backlog
  - pair programming when it makes sense (locally and remotely)
  - contributing back to the clojure & open source community

What we do:

  - write all our production systems & tools in Clojure
  - create and orchestrate massive distributed systems
  - spin up RESTful web services for consuming & ingesting large volumes of data

For a glimpse behind the scenes, check out a talk I gave at Clojure/West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9Xi6CNqq4.

Does this sound like something you're into? Shoot me an email at amarcar@walmartlabs.com

I submitted an application last month and heard nothing back.. not even a "no thanks"