Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Covrd is a growing, well-funded financial technology company that helps freelancers in the sharing economy access their earnings faster. Our vision is to use technology to help people achieve greater financial freedom with their own income. Learn more at ww.covrd.co.

Covrd is looking for a full-stack engineer to be our first employee and engineering lead. You'll be our first technical partner, a key member of our founding team, and will take ownership of our mobile app and website.

With a full-stack background, you have deep experience building and launching web and/or mobile products with an eye toward usability, maintainability, and robustness. You'll define and prioritize product development, build new features, fix problems, and test/deploy releases. As part of our executive team, you'll also recruit and develop a 1st class technical team from scratch and grow this team's culture, devising and reporting metrics to the CEO.

Requirements: - prior start-up experience - exceptional communicator - min 2 years experience as a full-stack developer - fluent in ruby, javascript (particularly angular.js), html, css, sql, unix

Nice to have: - management or mentoring experience - iOS and/or Android development - experience with chef and deploying into AWS

Compensation: Competitive base compensation and equity If this position interests you, or if you have any questions feel free to reach out to us at varun@covrd.co

We're a small team of engineers from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix Healthcare.gov. It turns out there’s a lot more to fix. And it’s surprising how much can be fixed by a small group of resourceful people with a Silicon Valley mindset, deep technical experience, working closely with dedicated civil servants in government.

Our revamped Healthcare.gov application has been used by millions, converts 35% better, and halves the completion time. The login system we rebuilt is about two orders of magnitude more reliable and two orders of magnitude less expensive; for example, it’s about $70M less per year to operate.

People die because the Veteran's Administration is months behind in processing claims. The Social Security Administration pays benefits to millions of deceased Americans. $80 billion is spent every year on federal IT contracting, and 96% of projects are deemed failures. [0]

That’s not because there’s some conspiracy or because government is inherently incapable of doing it right. These are complicated legacy systems and processes, and there are very few people with modern tech industry experience who are aware of these problems and willing to help fix them. You can help change that.

Our team is 10 people (Stanford, Google, YC alums), and we plan to bring on a few people every month through 2015.

We’re looking for:

* experienced full-stack engineers

* experienced devops engineers

* a product manager with a technical background

* a hyper-resourceful operations person

We have a social mission (we just incorporated as a public benefit corporation), but we pay market compensation (above market, for DC) and equity (above market).

If you'd like to build software and infrastructure that radically improves how our government serves people, we’d love to hear from you at jobs@navahq.com

^Not in DC / able to relocate, but intrigued and in SF? Talk to us!

For more info, google "nava startup" (our SEO, not strong)

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/22/th...

At Voxel8 we are currently developing the world's first 3D electronics printer. We launched out of a Harvard University materials science lab a year ago, and just closed a $12M Series-A. We are actively seeking full time junior and senior software developers.

I am hiring developers interested in 3D printing who have experience with web technologies like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and WebGL. We are also looking for embedded software developers to work on our printer firmware, and anyone interested in computational geometry.

And finally one role that may be a little different than what is out there is someone to manage "DevOps" on our printer. Our device runs linux on an internal single board computer. If you have experience managing linux systems on machines with limited resources then this job is for you. We need to ensure the machine is up and operating with high reliability.

If any of the above sounds interesting shoot me an email at jack@voxel8.co