Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there and relocated over there about a year ago and have been very happy with it. We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation / visa issues.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at. We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers. Everything we do is aimed at solving problems for our customers, if it doesn't help our customers we're not interested in doing it.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

(This is a repeat of my January post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413911) since it still applies, including the keyword "H1B" because while it's not in the US we'll similarly assist with the Dutch equivalent if relocation is needed)

Software Engineer, Front-end Developer

Thumbtack is hiring awesome software engineers to transform the way services are bought and sold online. We're Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.

Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering. We have extensive benefits, including a in-house chef, a gorgeous office in SOMA, and money to spend on Thumbtack services every month.

Our delicious food culture was recently the top story on Inc.com.

Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

Or email chris at thumbtack with any questions.

We are building a web based CMS for creating and managing cross-platform mobile apps targeted towards athletes, teams, musicians, artists, venues, events, etc. We are coming fresh out of the gate with users including Bubba Watson (top 10 PGA golfer) and the Los Angeles Clippers.

We are looking for our first technical hire. You will work with the CTO on application development across the stack (both backend and frontend, server and client). Must haves: strong Ruby & Rails experience, great with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and friends, comfortable coding across the stack. Bonus: native iOS/Android development experience, experience building real-time JavaScript web apps, experience working with JavaScript MVC frameworks (such as Backbone and Spine).

Email us if you are interested - jobs@lucidappeal.com

Experience iOS Developer

Ready to do top-notch iOS development? Appreciate visual design? Code in your sleep?

Good. Bring your skills to us. Help build our new generation of solid & functional apps, to be used by hundreds of thousands of people. You will help:

  - Design and implement fun, useful and beautiful user interfaces
  - Architect sophisticated multi-threaded apps
  - Write organized and structured code
  - Find and fix performance problems
  - Debug hard problems

Senior Web Developer, with a strong grasp of web technologies (Javascript, CSS, HTML5, ASP.NET MVC or Ruby on Rails), as well as an understanding of database architecture and design. This position will be responsible for building our analytics dashboard, taking large amounts of customer data and determining the appropriate method to deliver the data in an informative an interactive manner (charts, tables, etc.).

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. We believe that faster sharing of research will lead to an acceleration in research innovation: faster innovation in medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and other fields. Faster sharing in biology and medicine, for example, could lead to cancer being solved 12 months before it otherwise would have been, which would lead to millions of lives being saved.

Academia.edu has over 1.1 million registered users, and over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,000 academics join each day.

We need talented engineers to come and help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that there is a chance to make a big impact.

We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We have a strong engineering culture. We're a 10 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.

The kinds of things you would be working on include:

★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)

★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)

★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site

What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering

All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture. There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring.

H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu