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

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Post by aui-hn »

AmazonUI (AUI) team at Amazon | Seattle or San Francisco | Full time | Non-remote only, full relocation packages available

AUI is the Front-end platform being adopted on Amazon.com. We are modernizing the company's front end code base, while diving deep on latency, performance, API design, user experience, and cross browser/device compatibility. Basically, we need people who can build libraries, not just use them.

Our team is incredibly customer centric. For any given situation, we have to make the right choice on behalf of the folks using our platform -- and we have to do it at scale. That may sound cliche, but within the next hour AUI will be used to generate tens of millions of page views. And that's just in the US. Worldwide, we're used on about 90% of requests across all device categories.

It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of opportunity. For example, we can run experiments that change almost every page on Amazon.com. We can also impact the page load time for the entire site. Have you ever tried to figure out why your site is 6ms slower? We have.

We use these tools (but don't expect you to know all of them): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Perl, Git, and a bunch of internal systems

Join our team to help launch the next-gen redesign and create an even better user experience for Amazon customers!

If you're interested, drop us an email at aui-hn@amazon.com

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

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Post by rdl »

k__ wrote: post #673
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always follow up if that happens. Things get lost and forgotten, and people sometimes forget who's side of the court the ball was in. It happens.

Sad but true. I got a few interviews and the recruiters used special web-apps for the process and even then they didn't think about getting back and tell me it's done. And why should they? They get paid for good hires, not for telling the bad ones they aren't needed. We probably need more comments like the one of devnull42 to raise awareness.

This wasn't "not telling the bad one that wasn't needed" -- it was "reviewer (who is our engineering manager for that department) liked him, and put notes to that effect in his file, and the next step is supposed to be in-house recruiter following up to do the next interviews". The in-house recruiter didn't get the note, and there was no internal feedback loop to say it had been stalled. We actually hired a (great) engineer on the data team after he followed up on a post like this months ago; I'm aware the process is broken, and we're trying to improve it.)

We use jobscore. I really wish we used lever.co to track this stuff instead.

On the teams where I am more involved in hiring (i.e. not SRE), we separately track candidates after initial screening using Jira (which we use for everything else), so people don't get dropped.

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

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Post by lucasgonze »

OpenAura | http://openaura.com | San Francisco | Ruby on Rails Developer

We provide data services for music apps.

We're looking for a person with strong skills in the Rails ecosystem to work on our music API. You need at least two years experience, and might well have much more than that. The ideal candidate can do system architecture. The minimum candidate is already an effective Rails dev.

We're small, but we're funded and we have traction. We work on interesting problems. Our code goes live every day. We get to live music.

Your work would be in the context of back end data ingestion and in public APIs to access the data. You would work on headless components of our music API, including:

● Creating public web APIs ● Search our data store using Elastic Search and/or Postgres ● Calling various social media APIs ● Crawling the social web and ingesting data ● Optimizing performance ● Increasing scalability

Email join@openaura.net. Mention HN for sure.

Or use the AngelList page if that works better for you: https://angel.co/openaura-2/jobs/56990-ruby-on-rails-music-a...

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

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Post by bostik »

Smarkets, London. Sorry, no remote.

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. A small, agile, and fast-growing team, who just broke £1 billion in lifetime trades on our platform.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around version control, configuration management and automated testing. We can, and do, deploy to production several times a day.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/

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

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Post by vtuulos »

AdRoll - San Francisco

If you like Python, JS, C, D, Lua or Erlang, and petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team.

Analytics is so critical to us that a large part of the stack, including our high-performance, in-memory data backend, is developed in-house in Python (Numba), Erlang, and C. Read more here

http://tuulos.github.io/pydata-2014/

http://tuulos.github.io/sf-python-meetup-sep-2013/

I'm happy to tell you more by email (ville@adroll.com) or over coffee in SF.

PS. Btw, we write our own convex optimizers, if machine learning is close to your heart - ping me for more info.

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

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Post by aswath87 »

Opower - http://www.opower.com/careers - San Francisco, CA and Arlington, VA (or DC) is hiring Software Engineers, Software Engineers in Test, Process Engineers and Product Managers.

We are building a SAAS solution for utilities to better engage and serve their customers; we help people understand and reduce their energy use through behavioral and data science.

If you are interested in joining a mission-driven company with good tech. and fun culture, drop me a note.

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

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Post by reinhardt »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #217

Parse.ly ( http://parse.ly ) - Fully Remote - Full-Time Parse.ly has built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Parse.ly's analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Next Web, and many more. In total, our analytics backend system needs to handle over 10 billion monthly page views from 400 million monthly unique…

Remote anywhere or US only?

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

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Post by bcx »

Olark | http:/www.olark.com Customer Support Champions | Part-time | Remote | Anywhere, USA

== About Us ==

Olark was founded with the goal of helping small businesses create deeper (and more human!) connections with their customers. Since our initial funding from Y Combinator in 2009, we have bootstrapped a profitable company centered around a simple, powerful, and beautiful chat product that 9000+ businesses use every day to talk to customers. With two major offices and remote teammates across the world, our small 30-person organization is tight-knit and collaborative despite the distance between us. We believe our positive, participatory, and peer-driven team culture plays a big part in driving our growing success. Come chat with us about it!

https://www.olark.com/about

== Positions ==

Are you fanatical about providing great customer support and have meticulous attention to detail?

We are looking for a new member to join our crack support team, doing front line chat, email and occasional phone support!

Please apply online: https://www.olark.com/jobs

(NOTE: We'll have a bunch of additional positions opening soon)

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

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Post by robg »

Neumitra - physiology of daily brain health - Boston, MA at South Station/Leather District

Full-time for embedded, mobile (iOS and Android), and full stack applications from physiological data.

At Neumitra we're building medical electronics to measure and manage you and your world. We're data scientists by training in neuroscience, aerospace, and genomic engineering. We're focused on physiological data toward continuous brain health for optimizing our lives.

We're hiring data-driven engineers including embedded firmware, mobile, and web applications, back-end and front-end technologies. Our stack runs from the body to servers. We use machine learning and statistical learning techniques to build personalized and population health technologies for daily brain health.

We're also hiring mechanical and research engineers who love to iterate on technologies based on user interactions and feedback. We appreciate experiences and enthusiasm for building unique tools that have a meaningful impact. Our mission is to solve global questions of brain health and performance.

We've had great luck finding amazing people here. Please say hello@neumitra.com!

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

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Post by webmaven »

0xa wrote: post #209

Kensho, Boston, MA (Cambridge), Stamford, CT, New York, NY: FULL TIME Software Engineers, UX or UI Designer Kensho is a small engineering team[0] headquartered in Harvard Sq. We are making financial analysis more accessible, intuitive and beautiful through our recent partnerships with Goldman Sachs[1] and CNBC[2] Software Engineers We're hiring fun-loving nerds at every experience level. We look for people who a hung…

You forgot to actually include the hop-ons joke from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9128405
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