Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Game Closure is building the world’s most advanced javascript game technologies, including an engine, server infrastructure, analytics and marketing, among other cool products. We are hiring senior engineers who can tackle architecture and APIs for our game technology on small teams of 3-4 folks. Game Closure has raised more then $30M, and has more than 100M users supported by a small team of engineers For flavor: our last project was to use redux as a server state timeline for 100M+ players; before that we used code mods to port it from our propriety module and class system to es6. There are numerous projects coming up, such as first class typescript support to facilitate better tooling and API documentation, a facial tracking/AR engine, and a react-powered webgl-based UI system.

We have projects for hosted real-time multiplayer gaming, social gaming, cross-compilation to native platforms, and many other core infrastructure tools that we would welcome your support on defining and creating.

Our technologies engine have already been in front of tens of millions of users, and we’re adding millions of new users monthly. This is a high leverage position, and very senior. We welcome remote for certain folks, because we’re looking to build the best small engineering team in the world, but we prefer to hire in Tokyo and Mountain View.

We are also actively looking for folks across range of leadership roles in product, engineering, and operations.

Please email linda@gameclosure.com

Subject: Game Closure Engineering: YOUR NAME HERE

Please include a personal note about your background and interests so we can prioritize your application!

Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service within the Rakuten's services group family, offering thousands of hours of high quality movies and TV series for subscription, rental and purchase.

We are looking for software engineers specialized in video encoding for design and improve of our internal tools to generate media optimized for video streaming:

- Knowledge of codecs, containers and formats of video/audio/subs: h264/h265/EC-3/MP4/VP9/CMAF/IMF.

- Encoding/packaging with open source tools: ffmpeg/bento, etc

- Streaming protocols: DASH, Smooth Streaming, HLS etc

- DRM: PlayReady, Modular Widevine

- HDR formats: HDR10, Dolby Vision

Our stack is based in Rails, AWS, Docker, MySQL, Redis. But for us is more important if you have knowledge in video encoding

If interested, please write me miquel {dot} barba {at} rakuten {dot} com

Deedmob is a platform for charities, companies and governments to collaborate around around doing good. We started two years ago and have been growing rapidly, becoming the largest volunteering platform in the Netherlands. We're on a mission to make volunteering more effective, fun and impactful, and engage everyone with the causes they care about. We are a social enterprise and have chosen not to charge charities for the collaboration and coordination software we build for them, so we make money through a company volunteering product where we work with companies like Microsoft, Atlassian and Red bull.

We are looking for software developers to join us in building our core platform (React/Redux/Node/TypeScript) as well as develop other volunteering products we are developing for partners and governments. We're a young and hungry team of learners who are driven by a shared mission to make the world a better place.

If that sounds like a place you'd like to work, shoot me an email me at david@deedmob.com (We're also hiring for other positions)

MessageBird is a Cloud Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) company for SMS, Voice and Chat communications that connects businesses to 7 billion phones worldwide. We’re one of the fastest growing software companies in the world and we’re looking to expand our best-in-class Engineering Team with an experienced Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer.

Data engineering at MessageBird is programming-heavy, so we're looking for people who like to code and have significant software engineering experience. On the ML front we're looking for engineers experienced in delivering products more than purely research-oriented folk, but if you've a solid research background and want to try moving to the private sector, give us a shout too.

Tech stack: Go, gRPC, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Java, Apache Beam (Google Dataflow), GCP, k8s.

Our data team is currently 8 engineers and 8 nationalities. We have a very well stocked kitchen and a roof terrace in our brand new Rivierenbuurt office.

Apply at https://www.messagebird.com/en/careers and feel free to contact me at piotr@messagebird.com in case you have any questions.

About Zattoo: At Zattoo we want to create a new TV experience, independent from location, time and device. Since our start in 2006, we bring a huge selection of sport events, movies and TV series to the favourite devices of our users. In addition, our B2B team delivers TV and VOD solutions to cable operators, internet service providers and many others, thus positioning Zattoo as a top notch technology partner.

The Role: We are looking for a Video Encoding and Streaming Engineer. As a member of the video team you are keeping our video backend up to date by maintaining existing components and implementing improvements. There are lots of exciting topics on the horizon (UHD/HDR, low latency streaming, HTTP/2, content aware encoding, AV1, etc) which will be part of your work. You should bring your own ideas on how to further optimize the architecture and help extending the capabilities of our system every day. You should be curious about the inner works of video encoding and streaming and be able to think and operate at scale.

Apply through: https://zattoo.com/company/en/jobs/#job-161264