Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by nkohari » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

Adzerk - Durham, NC (also Raleigh/Chapel Hill)

Senior Software Engineer

Ready to put all those ideas about scalability into practice in a situation where you really need it? We’re helping Stack Overflow, Reddit, and other sites that you’ve probably heard of serve billions of ads per month. At that scale, things get very interesting.

Adzerk engineers are responsible for working on all parts of the system. This includes the front-end web application, back-end services, and the ad delivery engines. Our platform is built using Node.js with Coffeescript, Mono, JQuery, MongoDB and Hadoop, with a whole lot of AWS and Chef. We’re currently serving over 10,000 req/sec (and growing fast), so you’ll get to work on some real scalability challenges.

Performance and scalability are our two primary concerns, and with the traffic and growth rates that we’re experiencing, lots of the lessons that you’ve learned start to break down. Because of that, it’s not as important what you know right now – what matters is how quickly you can learn and adapt.

- Your work will have an immediate and profound impact on our product and business.

- We ship code dozens of times a week, and you will write code and push to production on your first day.

- You will be responsible for making important decisions about what tools and libraries we use.

- You will have a direct role in building the team, helping us choose additional team members as we grow in size.

- We test and review our code. All changes come through pull requests.

- We prize open source contribution. You should have a GitHub account already.

- Everyone gets equity. We want a team of partners.

- Unlimited vacation. We work hard, but at a sustainable pace.

- Flexible work schedule, including working at home part-time if you want.

If you think you might be a great fit, drop us a line at jobs@adzerk.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by ryguytilidie » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

San Francisco, CA. Full time.

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

Many people think that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we are trying to re-shape and accelerate science:

- Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal, and the paper being published. We need to remove that time-lag and introduce instant distribution of scientific ideas.

- Better peer review. Right now the peer review process takes 12 months to complete, and only surfaces the opinions of two academics - academics who may be biased, uninformed about the subject area, or just in a bad mood when writing the review. 2 people is too small a sample size. We need a faster and more robust peer review system, one that surfaces the opinions of the entire scientific community, across a variety of dimensions, and in real-time.

- Multi-media. Right now, scientists only share papers in PDF form. We need to bring about a science where scientists are incentivized to share data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, and comments on all these media. Right now 50% or more of the world’s scientific output does not get shared, because the system of credibility metrics only rewards one kind of format, the paper. We need to change this.

- Open access. We need to bring about a world where a villager in India has the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor in Harvard. When you open up access to the world’s scientific literature to the 2.5 billion people who are online right now, magical things may happen.

It's an exciting time for science. Science is transitioning from a 17th century way of sharing ideas, based on the journal system, to a faster system of sharing ideas on the web. Science is a foundational part of global growth: almost every innovation in medicine and technology has its roots in a science paper.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accelerate science. We have made a good start: 1.9 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 4,000 join each day.

We're a 12 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. Technologies we use include Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.

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. We are looking to hire a range of positions:

* full stack engineers * growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels)

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/ (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/ (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. Remote work is fine. We will handle re-location, including visas, if you would like to re-locate, but re-location is not necessary.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by ericbogs » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

Stereotypes - New York City

iOS architect & UX designer

http://stereotypes.fm & http://angel.co/stereotypes

Stereotypes is a new group messaging app that uses music as a message, a reminder, a gift, and a hug, so you never lose touch with the friends you love. It helps you relive past memories as well as create new ones using music, and it gives you the feeling of being together with your friends—even when they are not around.

We have two technical co-founders (ex-Shazam/Google/Etsy) plus one awesome iOS dev. We launched in the App Store 5 weeks ago, and are coming out of the Dreamit incubator, which has put us on a great trajectory.

We're looking for one music-loving iOS architect, and one music-loving mobile UX designer to join our team in NYC. Both positions are fulltime and local in NYC. Must be: awesome, startup-minded, experienced, music-loving. Deep music, iOS, mobile, social experience a plus.

Interested? Email eric@stereotypes.fm with your details, best time for a 15-minute Skype chat, and your favorite song-of-the-moment.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by jcberk » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

edo Interactive (http://www.edointeractive.com/) in Chicago and Nashville. Full time & possibly intern.

http://edo.theresumator.com/ lists open positions.

Focused on hiring:

  * data analysts (junior and more senior)
  * software & QA engineers
  * junior ad operations person (QA Operations Associate)

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 140 banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals.

Our data analysts are building our reporting/insights/modeling infrastructure as fast as we can. We currently spend our time in SQL, Excel, R, and Pentaho reporting - new tools welcome.

From an engineering perspective, we value well-designed, test-driven, service-oriented code. We're looking for people who can act decisively on the challenges they're tackling. Our process is small-a agile; we value both usability and technical design, and technical itches do get scratched here. If you have problem solving skills and an interest in working with rich data, we'd love to hear from you.

We use Java, Grails, and JavaScript; Postgres and Hadoop; DevOps and automated testing.

Apply at the website above or email michael.doran at edointeractive.com - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com .

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by squirrel » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

Notting Hill, London, England.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases - but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalising specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by matttah » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

Boston - Setfive Consulting

We're looking for a Junior-Mid level PHP developer. We're located in Central Square. All of our current developers are full stack developers, we do everything but design the webpages.

Our clients range from small start-ups to mid size companies. We aren't in a single industry, we work in everything from forex trading to market research to ad serving.

We've been around for 5 years. Ideally you have 2 or so years of web development experience, experience using frameworks and are easy to get along with.

If you're interested in more check out our site at http://setfive.com and shoot us an email.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by illamint » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:24 PM UTC

New York, NY (Manhattan) - DevOps Engineer - Full Time, remote possible

What We Do: We're Voxy, a startup working on building a personalized, machine-learning-driven English language learning experience for learners around the globe. Users use our software (web, mobile) to learn English with resources and activities tailored to their individual learning needs. We're building a globally distributed architecture with endpoints in multiple AWS regions to serve our customers around the globe. We are looking for an experienced SysOp or Engineer to automate, monitor and tune our infrastructure. You will work as a member of the engineering team to ensure our architecture is highly available, fast, and easily expandable.

Who We Are Looking For: You'd be our first actual operations person, responsible for our infrastructure. Definitely need to be a self-starter and should be very comfortable deploying all kinds of apps (but our main one is Python/Django with uwsgi) to Linux systems running on various cloud providers.

Job Details: Instrument logging, measurement and monitoring systems to quantify performance and service availability. Work with engineering to build systems that are more available, robust and efficient. Automate the following areas: Configuration and package management with Chef Common tasks in a scripting language of your choice (we Why would you want to work here? We're building something cool in a very big market with some very smart people (not just in engineering, either). You'll have a lot of opportunity to grow.

Get in touch with me: wyatt at voxy dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by dansnetwork » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

Chicago, IL USA - Full Time - Front End Engineer / Platform Engineer http://sproutsocial.com

-Stock Options

-Apple Equipment

-FREE Daily Lunch

-Fully Stocked Kitchen

-Casual Dress

-Happy Hours

-Company Outings

-Conferences

Apply: https://www.facebook.com/SproutSocialInc?sk=app_236245706502...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by balanceiskey15 » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:30 PM UTC

Sprout Social is looking for both Front End and Platform Engineers to join their team in Chicago:

http://sproutsocial.com/careers

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

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Post by jordanlewis » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

NYC (Union Square) - Knewton. Full time.

http://www.knewton.com/jobs/

Knewton is hiring software engineers, data scientists, content curators, product managers, marketing managers, and more.

About Knewton: The world’s leading digital education products use Knewton to improve learning outcomes.

The Knewton Adaptive Learning Platform analyzes data about the performance of every student and similar students using Knewton-powered courses, as well as the relevance of the educational content itself, in order to personalize the experience for each student in real-time. Knewton creates tools that help learning companies, universities, and other educational content providers make personalized learning available to everyone worldwide. In 2012, Fast Company named Knewton one of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.