Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

We are looking for a few experienced software engineers to join our small but growing R&D team in downtown Austin. Within engineering we are a passionate group of people who are extremely interested in building the software that helps our customers around the country thrive in their local communities. We’re a pretty small team (currently 14 people) so you’ll have plenty of say around how we develop software going forward.

We are currently in the process of modernizing our software platform to be more modular and truly data driven. Our goal is to use data to make sure that we provide the right content to the right consumer at the right time. We’re building our internal API using REST based services implemented in Java, and while our front end is currently implemented in PHP, we are migrating away from that. Some of the technologies that we’re using: Dropwizard, Swagger, Flyway, AngularJS, Bootstrap, CloudFormation, Troposphere, and Ansible. All new engineers get company provided downtown parking, flexible work hours, 100% of their health insurance premiums paid for by the company, the ability to build their own work computer, and access to our kitchen with plenty of drinks and snacks. We’re looking for individuals only so please NO RECRUITERS OR AGENCIES (seriously, your emails will just go into the trash folder so let's save each other's time). In addition we’re looking for full-time employees who are already in Austin, TX or willing to relocate.

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Founded in 2010, Main Street Hub is the CRM for Local. We offer an integrated social, web, and email marketing solution designed to help merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging the Main Street Hub’s merchant network. Main Street Hub was recently named #73 on the Inc. 500 list (http://www.inc.com/profile/main-street-hub) of America’s fastest growing companies and the 2nd fastest growing company in Austin. Please see our website (http://www.mainstreethub.com) for more information.

We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team)

* Data science / data analysis (using big data tools like hive to analyze an amazing proprietary dataset)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (in-office go-karts!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service here http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. Last month we launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jaredf at scribd.com.

JD: Node.js Platform Engineer

Us

As a top US internet site, Ask.com’s mission is to get our millions of users across the globe the answers they need. We’ve been in the Q&A business for more than 17 years, and although Jeeves has since retired, we carry on his passion for serving our 100 million users with answers they can trust. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.

The Role

As a member of the Application Platform Team, you will oversee the web application architecture for the Ask.com family of websites, and help design and develop the services, platforms, and frameworks that enable our front-end teams to build awesome experiences at scale.

What you will do •Design and build Ask.com’s next-generation web application platform •Obsess over performance and scalability across our tech stack •Advance Ask.com’s technical culture through presentations, meet-ups, conferences, etc. •Work closely with front-end developers to understand their needs and explore technology trade-offs •Help define architecture and technology choices through research and prototyping •Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code •Thrive in a highly collaborative team and engineering organization

Your Skills •Passion for high performance and scalability •Solid understanding of software architecture best practices •Experience building frameworks and APIs that enable maintainable and reusable application development •Advanced JavaScript skills (OO, functional, Node.js) •Extensive experience with another language is a big plus •Solid CS fundamentals in Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Networking, etc. •Solid web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, HTTP, Cookies, Redirects, etc.) •BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

We are hiring software engineers to our Framework Team: http://famous.org/framework/

We are hiring WebGL, 3D and graphics engineers to our Engine team: http://famous.org/

We are hiring devops, QA, frontend, backend and full stack engineers: famo.us/jobs

We are hiring a Corporate Controller and Office Manager as well. Shoot me an email with any questions m@famo(dot)us

https://jobs.lever.co/famo.us

Thanks!